a Caddo Parish jury took 90 minutes to convict Richard Davis of aggravated rape...

a Caddo Parish jury took 90 minutes to convict Richard Davis of aggravated rape, and then took 5 hours for Wednesday's decision between life in prison and death by injection.
Prosecutors say Davis, 35, white, used the girl, who is now eight years old and testified against him, a sex toy for him and his girlfriend from October 2004 to January 2005. The girl told her parents, who then contacted the Caddo Parish Sheriff's Office.
Davis is the 2nd person in Louisiana to be sentenced to death for raping a child. He was convicted Monday under a 1995 law that allows capital punishment for raping a child less than 12 years old.
Judge Scott Crichton must formally sentence Davis before he is transferred to the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola.
Earlier this year, on May 22, the Louisiana Supreme Court upheld the death sentence given to Patrick Kennedy, 42, for raping an 8-year-old girl in 1998. (see also September 11, 2007)
Defense attorneys said he was then the only person on a U.S. death row for rape without murder, and would be the test case for whether the U.S. Supreme Court will uphold the death penalty for someone who rapes a child.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1977 that Georgia's death penalty for rape violated the Eighth Amendment protection against cruel and unusual punishment. But the high court said repeatedly that its ruling applied only to adult victims.