Editing Richard Allen Davis (section)

{{short description|American murderer}}
{{about|the American convicted murderer|other people with the same name|Richard Davis (disambiguation){{!}}Richard Davis}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=March 2021}}
{{Infobox criminal
| name              = Richard Allen Davis
| image_name        = Richard Allen Davis 2023 Mugshot.jpg
| image_size        = 
| image_caption     = Davis in 2023
| birth_date        = {{Birth date and age|1954|6|2}}
| birth_place       = [[San Francisco|San Francisco, California]], U.S.
| alias             = 
| charge            = 
| conviction        = [[Murder in California law|First-degree murder]]
 with [[Special circumstances (criminal law)|special circumstances]] (committed during a [[burglary]], a [[robbery]], a [[kidnapping]], and the attempted commission of a [[Child sexual abuse|lewd act upon a child]] under the age of 14)
| conviction_penalty = [[Capital punishment in California|Death]]
| conviction_status = On death row
}}

'''Richard Allen Davis''' (born June 2, 1954) is an American convicted murderer whose criminal record fueled support for the passage of [[California]]'s "[[three-strikes law]]" for repeat offenders and the involuntary civil commitment act for sex offenders and predators. He was convicted in 1996 of first-degree murder with special circumstances (burglary, robbery, kidnapping, and an attempted lewd act upon a child under the age of 14) of 12-year-old [[Murder of Polly Klaas|Polly Klaas]]. As of January 2024, Davis remains on California's [[death row]] in the Adjustment Center at [[San Quentin State Prison]].