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On November 17 1991, Benavides baby sat his girlfriend's (Estella Medina) daughter while she was at work. When his girlfriend came home her daughter was coughing and throwing up. Her daughter was brought to the Delano Regional Medical Center they found that her stomach began to distend and her condition deteriorated . She was then transfered to the Kern Medical Center were they discovered she had "Blown Pupils" (formed from blunt forced trauma).  Within 20 minutes of her arrival the Diagnostic surgery revealed her bowel, duodenum, and pancreas were “cracked in half”. A pediatrician Dr.Jess Diamond found a tear in her hymen and bruises around her "area". The doctored believed that she was not hit or ran into a door but was sodomized. Bernavides was convicted of rape, sodomy, first-degree murder and lewd conduct with infliction of great bodily injury. He has spent 25 years on death row.

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Benavides has been on death row since 1993 and was released on April 19, 2018 after the Supreme Court overturned Benavides conviction on March 12, 2018 and ruled a false medical testimony. Experts released evidence that the little girl was not raped or sodomized and the medical evidence was wrong. Quoted from the Kern County District Attorney's Office “Our professional and ethical standards require us to decline to re-try the case when, upon an objective review of the facts, there is insufficient evidence to establish guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.”

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Benavides was represented by  the attorney Cristina Borde of the Habeas Corpus Resource Center. The Habeas Corpus center mission is "provide timely, high-quality legal representation for indigent petitioners in death penalty habeas corpus proceedings before the California state courts and the federal courts."

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San Quentin Prison.

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Video of the release of Vicente Benavides

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Video of the release of Vicente Benavides

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California inmate released after 25 years on death row

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On April 6, 2008, there was a birthday party for a 9 year old. At 8:00 PM a black Mazda drove by slowly, inside the car was a man holding a gun with a laser light. The car stopped a couple of blocks away. Davila got out of the car with the loaded weapon and walked down the trail between one house and another building that was across the street from the Stevenson's House. Davila stood next to the A/C and took aim toward the Stevenson's House. He fired multiple times in that position and ran toward the house in the middle of the street and shot a couple of more times. The Mazda drove up to where Davila was, Davila hopped back into the car and drove away.

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Annette Stevenson 47 years old.
Found dead in back bedroom

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Queshawn, 5 years old dead at the couch in the living room.

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The house of Annette Stevenson. A eyewitness Kent Reed (was attending another birthday party in the area)  saw Davila exit the car with the weapon in his hand. Reed gave a description of the car and the gunman. The following day from the descriptions Reed had gave Davila's photo line-up came up. Another witness at the party that Reed was at said he saw the gunman  point the laser at Jerry Stevenson, when he failed to shoot Jerry the gunman got frustrated. Nichcole Blackwell called the police saying that her car might have been involved with the murderers. She stated that she lived with Davila. Detective Brent Johnson arrested Davila in the afternoon of April 8. Davila gave four statements in seven hours. In the fourth statement Davila stated that he was trying to shoot Jerry Stevenson ( who was his rival ) not the two other victims who were shot. He committed aggravated robbery, a murder before the birthday shooting, burglary, felony and misdemeanor conviction of  marijuana possession.

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Davila was found guilty of Capital murder by the jury in February 2009 and was sentenced to death. The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals affirmed the conviction and sentence in January 2011 but was denied.

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Injected with a lethal dose of pentobarbital and was pronounced dead at 6:31 p.m.

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Executed on April 25, 2018. Last words "You know, I might have lost the fight, but I’m still a soldier. I still love you all. To my supporters and family, y’all hold it down. Ten Toes down right. That’s all."

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Gang member Erick Davila set to be executed in hours over killing of young girl and grandmother at