The California Supreme Court today upheld the death sentence of an Oakland man for the kidnapping, robbery, rape and murder of an East Bay woman 20 years ago.

Keith Thomas, 39, was convicted in Alameda County Superior Court in 1997 and sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of Francia Young, 25, of Oakland.

The penalty was unanimously upheld by the state high court in a decision issued in San Francisco.

Young, who worked as a market analyst for a computer company in San Francisco, was abducted and forced into the trunk of her car near the MacArthur BART station as she returned home from work early in the evening of Dec. 8, 1992.

Her bound and partially nude body was found in a park at Point Richmond the next day. She had been raped and shot in the head.

A witness reported t

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