LA District Attorney Gascón Removes Death Penalty for Couple Charged With Murdering 10-Year-Old Boy

10-year-old Lancaster boy, Anthony Avalos, in a file photo. (Screenshot via Fox News).

The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office announced Friday that District Attorney George Gascón, a Democrat, decided not to seek the death penalty in the case of a couple allegedly murdering and torturing a 10-year-old boy.