Posted on 02/28/2011 4:34:15 PM PST by SmithL
Prison officials say an inmate at San Quentin State Prison has died of natural causes while awaiting execution for a 1994 slaying in Sacramento County.
The state corrections department says Richard Ray Parson died at an outside hospital Monday. He was 67.
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Not really newsworthy. Natural causes are how most inmates on California’s Death Row meet their fate.
It always speeds things up when they use the ‘self-service’ line.
She was the mother of an inmate Parson had met in prison.
=awesome
If only this could happen to Wesley Cook AKA Mumia Abu Jamal.
The article says that 53 California death row inmates have died of natural causes, while 13 have been executed.
Let's get to know Richard Ray a little better:
Killed a Sacramento nurse, who he knew, in her apartment, where had gone to steal money to feed his drug habit. Parson had 10 prior felony convictions for crimes including conspiring to bring drugs into a prison, receiving stolen property; forgery, bank robbery, passing a forged check; and interstate transportation of a stolen vehicle.Source.
Should've been "whom," but hey, the person who wrote it's probably only being paid $175K/yr.
It’s still nice to get notice when justice has finally been served.
How much did taxpayers have to spend for medical expenses to extend the life of Parsons who was condemned to death?
Mistah Parson...he daid....
The state cancels the execution and spends a ton of money to save the bad guy's life . . . and they nurse him back to health so they can then KILL him? Duh? What am I missing here . . . the state could have let nature do the job, saved time and effort, but no-o-o-o.
Well, you know what they say... you can’t live forever.
I believe that’s called “cheating the hangman.” And it is a system fail.
Lucky stiff.
Well, this bastard lived on the California taxpayers nickel for 17 years. The good news is that evidently the doctors could not “save him.”
1 down, hundreds to go.
It may be Clarence Ray Allen. He had a heart attack about 6 months or so before he was executed. But I don’t think they did anything heroic to extend his life. I think he needed bypass surgery, which the state wisely (for once!) denied.
I don’t remember his name and you may be correct.
But, someone explain the logic: “We can’t let this condemned guy die from natural causes. We have to save his life so the State of XXXX can kill him according to the law!”
Huh? How screwy is that?
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