Dallas Ray Stevens
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- Gender
- male
- Country
- USA
- Location
- Linn County, Oregon, USA
- Date of birth
- October 31, 1952
- Age at first offence
- 36
- Characteristics
- kidnapping, rape, child molester
- Victim profile
- Nicole Lynae Edwards, 5 ( his niece )
- Method of murder
- Strangulation
- Date(s) of murder
- February 16, 1988
- Years active
- 1988
- Date of arrest
- —
- Status
-
Life imprisonment
Sentenced to death on January 18, 1989; resentenced to life in prison in 1998
Background
Dallas Ray Stevens was convicted in 1988 of aggravated murder in the slaying of his 5-year-old niece, Nicole Edwards, after kidnapping her and her 2 sisters.
The offence
Stevens kidnapped Nicole Edwards and her 2 sisters. Nicole Edwards was killed. The other 2 girls were molested but were found alive.
Trial
Stevens was convicted in 1988 of aggravated murder in the slaying of his 5-year-old niece, Nicole Edwards.
Sentencing
Stevens was sentenced to death on January 18, 1989.
Stevens was later resentenced to life in prison in 1998.
Stevens twice was sentenced to death, and the Supreme Court overturned the sentences. The case had been in the court system for 10 years, and the Supreme Court set aside two previous death sentences on grounds that mitigating evidence was not adequately considered.
Appeals
The Oregon Supreme Court cleared the way for a jury to consider the option of sentencing Linn County child killer Dallas Ray Stevens to life without parole instead of death.
The Supreme Court’s decision addressed procedural motions prior to a planned 3rd sentencing hearing.
One of the motions was by the state seeking to overturn a Linn County Circuit Court ruling that the life without parole alternative could be weighed by the sentencing jury.
Under Oregon’s capital punishment law, juries decided sentencing in separate proceedings from the trials on murder charges.
Outcome
The Supreme Court cleared the way for a jury to consider life without parole instead of death for Dallas Ray Stevens.
Other details
Stevens was described as a Linn County child killer. Nicole Edwards was 5 years old. The victims included Nicole Edwards and her 2 sisters. The other 2 girls were molested and were found alive.
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