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FRESNO, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Nearly 3 decades later, justness is served successful the 1996 execution of Fresno State pupil Debbie Dorian.
Her killer, Nickey Duane Stane, was sentenced to beingness successful situation without the anticipation of parole by a Fresno County justice Thursday.
In May, Stane pled blameworthy to 12 charges, including raping and murdering Dorian astatine her Fresno flat successful 1996, arsenic good arsenic others relating to the intersexual battle of 4 women successful Tulare County from 1999 to 2002.
A acceptable of cases successful which helium would evade custody until 2019, erstwhile his DNA was linked to each crime.
The parent of Debbie Dorian, Sara Loven, took the basal to talk wrong the courtroom, conscionable feet distant from Stane.
"He cruelly extinguished my daughter's beingness and brought heartbreak to maine and my family. Though helium took my precious Deb, helium did not instrumentality my soul," she said to the court. "He has the remainder of his beingness to wage for what helium did, and helium volition wage for his evil actions."
It was an eternity of waiting for justness for the victims, their families, and instrumentality enforcement unit successful some Fresno and Tulare counties.
"I planted a histrion the Christmas aft Deborah was killed, and that histrion is 50 feet gangly and 3 feet around. That's a agelong clip to grow. It reminds maine of however agelong it's been that we've been moving connected this case," said Loven, at a property league held aft the sentencing wrong the Fresno County District Attorney's Office.
"After decades of pain, perseverance, and unwavering determination, we tin yet accidental that justice, astatine slightest immoderate benignant of justice, has been served for Debbie Dorian and her household and the different survivors of the monster that is Nicky Stane," added Fresno County District Attorney Lisa Smittcamp.
Stane cannot entreaty his condemnation successful this case, arsenic helium antecedently waived his close to bash so.
He is presently successful the custody of the Fresno County Sheriff's Office and volition beryllium transferred to a installation wrong the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
