How much was spent trying to keep him alive?
Correction: How much money was WASTED trying to keep the waste of skin sucking down oxygen?
Garceau, a Hells Angel biker, was sentenced to death for the 1984 murders of his girlfriend, Maureen Bautista, and her 14-year-old son, Telesforo, in Bakersfield. The California Supreme Court in 1994 upheld the convictions, even though it ruled that the trial judge had erred in allowing testimony that Garceau was a drug dealer who had murdered before.
Three years ago, the 9th Circuit in a split vote threw out the conviction, saying that the Antiterrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act of 1996 -- which requires federal courts to uphold convictions if the state court reasonably applied existing law -- did not apply to Garceau because he had requested a stay of execution and appointment of counsel before the act was signed. The ruling not only overturned the California Supreme Court, but also U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger in Sacramento, who had upheld the conviction.
The 9th Circuit denied rehearing en banc in 2002.