Family of slain teen demands death penalty for D4vd in murder trial

On what would have been Celeste Rivas Hernandez's sixteenth birthday, her parents called for the execution of the man accused of ending her life at fourteen — a demand that collides with California's current moratorium on capital punishment and reminds us how grief, justice, and the law do not always move in the same direction. David Anthony Burke, a recording artist, faces criminal murder charges and a civil lawsuit alleging he groomed, controlled, and ultimately killed the teenager to silence her. The case unfolds at the intersection of celebrity, exploitation, and institutional accountabili