David Allen Raley

David Allen Raley is a convicted murderer and currently on San Quentin's death row. He was convicted of first-degree murder in the death of Jeanine Grinsell on February 2, 1985, in San Mateo County. The jury also found Raley guilty of attempted murder of a second girl who survived the ordeal, Laurie McKenna, then 17. Raley, who worked as a security guard at the Carolands mansion in Hillsborough, stabbed both girls dozens of times, then locked them in the trunk of his car and went home to play Monopoly with his family. Later, thinking they were both dead, he dumped both girls in a nearby ravine. McKenna, bloodied and battered, pulled herself out the next morning and flagged down a passing car. At the time both girls were still alive but Grinsell was later pronounced dead in a hospital.

Raley currently has an appeal pending in the Supreme Court of California and waits for U.S. District Judge Jeremy D. Fogel's decision on whether California's new and untested execution chamber is ready to resume lethal injections.