The legislation, introduced by Rep. Zachary Mako (R-Lehigh/Northampton), was named “Jessica’s Law,” after Jessica Padgett, who was shot in the back of her head by her step-father, Gregory Graf in 2014. He then sexually abused her corpse while using two video cameras to record his actions, according to the bill.
Graf was sentenced to the maximum punishment under Pennsylvania law, life in prison without the possibility of parole. In order to pursue the death penalty, prosecutors would have needed to find an “aggravating factor” in addition to the murder itself. Now, Graf resides in the state prison in Fayette County.
Mako’s legislation would amend the Pennsylvania Consolidated Statutes to include the desecration or mutilation of a corpse as an aggravating circumstance that, in turn, may qualify a defendant for the death penalty in the Commonwealth.
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