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Missouri Man in Videotaped Sex Slaying Sentenced to Death

Monday, October 13, 2008

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. —  A suburban Kansas City man who videotaped the death of a woman he suffocated during sex has been sentenced to death.

Richard Davis was sentenced Friday for killing 41-year-old Marsha Spicer in May 2006. A jury convicted the 44-year-old Davis of first-degree murder in July after deliberating for less than four hours .

Davis received life sentences on more than 20 other charges.

He was also previously found guilty in the sexual attack of a 36-year-old Michelle Huff-Ricci in April 2006 and is charged with capital murder in her death.