The Sentence

Grim Sleeper Story

It took 3.4 months long trial and 1 day of jury deliberation before Franklin was finally pronounced guilty on all charges and was sentenced to death. “This is not a sentence of vengeance,” Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy told the 63-year-old as she sentenced him to the death for each murder. “It’s justice.”

Justice

Grim Sleeper Story

“The defendant took my daughter, murdered her, put her in a plastic bag — a trash bag — like she was trash,” said Laverne Peters, whose daughter was discovered in a garbage bin in 2007. “My hope is that he spends the rest of his glory days in his jail cell, which will become his trash bag.”