PORT ORCHARD -- A Kitsap County jury deliberated five hours Tuesday before sentencing to death Jonathan Gentry, 34, for the first-degree aggravated murder of 12-year-old Cassie Holden.
Cassie Holden was killed June 13, 1988, in East Bremerton. She had gone for a walk to pick flowers for her mother near her mother's home. Cassie was visiting her mother for the summer from her home in Idaho, where she lived with her father and stepmother.
She was found bludgeoned to death on a path behind a wooded area near Rolling Hills Golf Course.
Gentry was convicted of first degree aggravated murder last week. The jury had reassembled Monday to decide whether Gentry should face the gallows or be locked away in prison for life with no possibility of parole. The jury agreed Gentry killed the girl to prevent her from being able to identify him. That is considered an aggravating circumstance and allowed the jurors to consider the death penalty.
She had been struck in the head with a huge rock 15 times killing her.
The man who was convicted of bludgeoning Cassie to death with a two-pound rock, Jonathan Lee Gentry, was sentenced to death in 1991. Today Gentry is the longest-sitting death row inmate in Washington. Gentry was due to be executed.
Just one year into his first term, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he was suspending the death penalty in Washington stating that capital punishment is unequally applied.
Cassie Holden was killed June 13, 1988, in East Bremerton. She had gone for a walk to pick flowers for her mother near her mother's home. Cassie was visiting her mother for the summer from her home in Idaho, where she lived with her father and stepmother.
She was found bludgeoned to death on a path behind a wooded area near Rolling Hills Golf Course.
Gentry was convicted of first degree aggravated murder last week. The jury had reassembled Monday to decide whether Gentry should face the gallows or be locked away in prison for life with no possibility of parole. The jury agreed Gentry killed the girl to prevent her from being able to identify him. That is considered an aggravating circumstance and allowed the jurors to consider the death penalty.
She had been struck in the head with a huge rock 15 times killing her.
The man who was convicted of bludgeoning Cassie to death with a two-pound rock, Jonathan Lee Gentry, was sentenced to death in 1991. Today Gentry is the longest-sitting death row inmate in Washington. Gentry was due to be executed.
Just one year into his first term, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he was suspending the death penalty in Washington stating that capital punishment is unequally applied.
PORT ORCHARD -- A Kitsap County jury deliberated five hours Tuesday before sentencing to death Jonathan Gentry, 34, for the first-degree aggravated murder of 12-year-old Cassie Holden.
Cassie Holden was killed June 13, 1988, in East Bremerton. She had gone for a walk to pick flowers for her mother near her mother's home. Cassie was visiting her mother for the summer from her home in Idaho, where she lived with her father and stepmother.
She was found bludgeoned to death on a path behind a wooded area near Rolling Hills Golf Course.
Gentry was convicted of first degree aggravated murder last week. The jury had reassembled Monday to decide whether Gentry should face the gallows or be locked away in prison for life with no possibility of parole. The jury agreed Gentry killed the girl to prevent her from being able to identify him. That is considered an aggravating circumstance and allowed the jurors to consider the death penalty.
She had been struck in the head with a huge rock 15 times killing her.
The man who was convicted of bludgeoning Cassie to death with a two-pound rock, Jonathan Lee Gentry, was sentenced to death in 1991. Today Gentry is the longest-sitting death row inmate in Washington. Gentry was due to be executed.
Just one year into his first term, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he was suspending the death penalty in Washington stating that capital punishment is unequally applied.
Cassie Holden was killed June 13, 1988, in East Bremerton. She had gone for a walk to pick flowers for her mother near her mother's home. Cassie was visiting her mother for the summer from her home in Idaho, where she lived with her father and stepmother.
She was found bludgeoned to death on a path behind a wooded area near Rolling Hills Golf Course.
Gentry was convicted of first degree aggravated murder last week. The jury had reassembled Monday to decide whether Gentry should face the gallows or be locked away in prison for life with no possibility of parole. The jury agreed Gentry killed the girl to prevent her from being able to identify him. That is considered an aggravating circumstance and allowed the jurors to consider the death penalty.
She had been struck in the head with a huge rock 15 times killing her.
The man who was convicted of bludgeoning Cassie to death with a two-pound rock, Jonathan Lee Gentry, was sentenced to death in 1991. Today Gentry is the longest-sitting death row inmate in Washington. Gentry was due to be executed.
Just one year into his first term, Democratic Gov. Jay Inslee announced that he was suspending the death penalty in Washington stating that capital punishment is unequally applied.
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