more than a decade after the kidnap, rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl...

more than a decade after the kidnap, rape and murder of a 9-year-old girl, Superior Court Judge Michael Smith ordered Dean Eric Dunlap to die by lethal injection.
Dunlap, 47, abducted Sandra Astorga while she walked to school on the morning of Jan. 10, 1992. Her body was discovered 20 days later, naked except for her shoes and socks.
8 months after Sandra's death, Dunlap was convicted of molesting another child, his girlfriend's 12-year-old daughter. He spent 4 years in state prison until he was released in 1996. He then was required to submit a DNA sample into a statewide database, which later led authorities to link him to Sandra's murder. Dunlap was arrested in 2000 when DNA taken from semen in Sandra's underwear matched Dunlap's genetic profile. On Oct. 25, a jury convicted Dunlap of murder in the first degree, and on Dec. 9 the same jury sentenced him to death.