Kristofer
Garrett was sentenced to death in Columbus, Ohio on September 11, 2019. He was convicted
of fatally stabbing his 4-year-old daughter and her mother outside their Ohio
home on January 5, 2018.
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A jury recommended the
death penalty for Kristofer Garrett, 26 last month after also finding Garrett
guilty of murdering his ex-girlfriend, Nicole Duckson, and their 4-year-old
daughter, Christina, in Jan. 2018. (WSYX/WTTE)
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Man gets death sentence for killing daughter and her mom
By
Associated Press
September
12, 2019 | 7:51am
COLUMBUS,
Ohio — A man convicted of fatally stabbing his 4-year-old daughter and her
mother outside their Ohio home has been sentenced to death.
Twenty-six-year-old
Kristofer Garrett was sentenced Wednesday in Columbus on aggravated
murder charges in the January 2018 deaths of his daughter, Kristina
Duckson, and her mother, Nicole Duckson.
Their
bodies were found in the backyard by a co-worker who became concerned when
Nicole Duckson didn’t pick her up.
A
message seeking comment was left Wednesday for Garrett’s lawyer.
A
jury had recommended the death penalty for Garrett, but the judge also had the
option to impose a life sentence.
The
Columbus Dispatch reports a Franklin County jury hadn’t recommended a death
sentence since 2003, though judges have imposed such sentences since then.
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SOURCE: https://nypost.com/2019/09/12/man-gets-death-sentence-for-killing-daughter-and-her-mom/
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34-year-old Nicole and
her 4-year-old Kristina.
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Columbus man sentenced to death for killing 4-year-old
daughter, child's mother
Published:
09/11/19 10:36 am EDT
Updated:
09/11/19 06:17 pm EDT
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Franklin County man who stabbed to death his four-year daughter and her mother
has been sentenced to die.
Wednesday
a judge sentenced Kristofer Garrett to die for the vicious killings.
Clifton
Duckson's life changed forever on January 5th, 2018, the day he learned his
daughter Nicole Duckson, and granddaughter Kristina Duckson, had been stabbed
to death.
"Nicole
was my oldest daughter," he said
in court Wednesday. "(She) was also my nurse, my
cook, and I probably shouldn't say this because I've
got more kids back there, but my most loving child. Kristina would walk in the
room and light up a room. I couldn't wait to get off work because I would pick
her up from the daycare and I could not wait to hear those words, 'Hi Paw Paw.
Are we going to McDonald's for a Happy Meal?' Some say she was spoiled. If she
was, it was my fault. Even now, Judge, as I stand here, I can't understand why
she had to die."
Duckson
attended every court hearing over the next 20 months and learned in horrifying
detail what happened that day.
Kristofer
Garrett, his daughter's ex-boyfriend, waited outside her home before attacking
her.
Then he
chased down and stabbed their 4-year-old daughter to death, he told detectives,
because she witnessed him kill her mother.
"Now
having sat here and heard the evidence of the 49 stab wounds Nicole suffered
while she hollered 'I'm sorry,' and the
33 stab wounds that Kristina also endured for just saying, 'Daddy,' no one deserves that much anger and rage, especially
not your 4-year-old daughter. Today I stand before you and I ask for justice.
Not revenge."
Before learning his sentence, Garrett said little: "I just have it on my heart again to say to the family that I'm sorry," he said.
He showed
no reaction as the judge sentenced him to die.
"The
court hereby imposes the sentence of death," said Judge Chris Brown.
Clifton
Duckson calls it justice and the start of healing.
"I'm
never gonna get over the fact that they're gone," he said. "I live in
the same residence they were killed in. So their memory is all around me. I
still have bikes, I still have toys, I still have things of Kristina's. I sleep
with her blanket under my pillow every night. So for me, it doesn't end. It
makes it a little easier, but no, it's never going to end."
The judge
set Garrett's execution for October 10, 2019, but any death sentence carries an
automatic appeal.
The court
appointed an attorney to represent Garrett in that appeal.
No one
from Garrett's family spoke in court Wednesday.
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SOURCE: https://www.10tv.com/article/kristofer-garrett-sentenced-death-killing-4-year-old-daughter-childs-mother-2019-sep
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