What was the hold-up here? Why didn’t they just execute him?
“You can’t die here! This is Death Row!”
Thirty-odd years on death row. Ridiculous. Thirty months between conviction and sentence would still be too long.
I was living in CA at that time and I remember this case. 1978...that means it took them more than 30 years to put this piece of slime to death?
His victims were dead in no time at all. I guess we’re just lucky that he and his buddy didn’t have time to torture them.
Oh, I forget, in 1978, when CA had a lenient policy where anybody could do anything, a Florida trucker named Lawrence Singleton raped a teenage girl, chopped her arms off and left her to die in the desert...and got 14 years. After he was released (serving only 6 or 8 years, I don’t recall the number) he went back to Florida and was finally caught after strangling and killing another woman.
If they’d put him to death the first time, that would never have happened. Nothing cures a homicidal maniac like his own death.
Executions in CA are as rare as hen’s teeth.
thank-you.
33 years too late and at taxpayer expense.
Think of all the money that could have been saved or put to far, far better use, by just a good rope and a chair.
“Without warning, Murtishaw opened fire on the group with a rifle.”
Why, for crying out loud? For not giving him a ride? That’s stupid even for a criminal.
What a joke!