Top California Court Denies Cary Stayner’s Death Penalty Appeal in Yosemite Murders

Top California Court Denies Cary Stayner’s Death Penalty Appeal in Yosemite Murders

California’s highest court on May 1 denied Cary Stayner’s death penalty appeal in the notorious serial murder case that made national headlines. By Elizabeth Wilson The Merced FOCUS Stayner, a Merced native, was convicted for murdering three people in Yosemite in 1999. In his death penalty appeal, he argued that his confession to authorities was coerced and judicial bias violated his rights during the trial process. Justices from the Supreme Co…

Top California court denies Cary Stayner’s death penalty appeal, decades after murders

California’s highest court on Thursday denied Cary Stayner’s death penalty appeal in a murder case that made national headlines and reverberated in Merced and the rest of the Central Valley.