Posted on 12/07/2005 10:15:04 PM PST by calcowgirl
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) - Lawyers for Clarence Ray Allen, the oldest man on California's death row, asked a federal judge here late Wednesday to block his scheduled Jan. 17 execution.
Allen, 75, recently suffered a heart attack, is blind, has diabetes and frequently uses a wheelchair. His attorneys in a lawsuit say poor medical care from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation is hampering Allen from assisting them in preparing a clemency petition, which is due to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by Dec. 13.
His attorneys say Allen is brain damaged, but his poor health condition and lack of medical care is hampering his attorneys and doctors from properly diagnosing him. The lawsuit seeks to block the execution.
"Knowing that Mr. Allen is facing an imminent execution date, after Mr. Allen's heart attack, defendants simply patched up Mr. Allen enough to execute him and have denied him the medical care to which he is entitled," attorney Annette Carnegie wrote.
The lawsuit against the prison department alleges that since Allen's heart attack in September, he has been denied proper medications or they have been administered sporadically, and he has not been provided bypass surgery as recommended.
The state Attorney General's office, which defends the Corrections Department, declined to comment late Wednesday, saying it had not yet seen the lawsuit.
Allen was sentenced to death for hiring a hit man who murdered three people at a Fresno market. Allen, who was already in prison for murder, had the trio killed because he feared their testimony would hurt his chances of prevailing on appeal.
The convicted hit man, Billy Ray Hamilton, also is on death row. Prosecutors said Hamilton was following Allen's orders when he killed Bryon Schletewitz, Douglas Scott White and Josephine Rocha in 1980.
The case is Allen v. Hickman, 05-5051.
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Bypass surgery for a 75 year old awaiting execution?
No mercy. Execute him.
"His attorneys say Allen is brain damaged..."
THIS feeding tube I'd be OK with pulling....
Sure, where is your humanity, but leave the I V's in him so they can hook him up to the needle quicker. Why not let some pre med student practice on him. Just explain to him that cardiac rehab will not be required.
Well go ahead and execute and his medical problems will be solved.
Less the Taxpayers have to spend on this waste of good oxygen
Now if this were an innocent person whose next-of-kin were trying to have him put down, the libs would be shilling for him to die.
Sounds to me like he should be ready to go out. I know I would be if I was a mess like that!
=o)
Is this guy's nickname "Lucky?"
How come no one is standing up for this fine citizen like they are for Tookie? After he only killed 3 people, one less than Tookie and is in bad health.(/sarcasm)
Allen was sentenced to death for hiring a hit man who murdered three people at a Fresno market. Allen, who was already in prison for murder...
At least 4, but who's counting? As long as they are sick, disabled, or write children's books, let them all live! Heck, imprisonment is cruel and usual imprisonment. Let's just let them all out and give them welfare for life. After all, they have been deprived all this time of developing marketable skills to find a job.
Well there went his Tookie killed more than me defense.;)
What a sad spectacle we have become. Our murderers are dying of old age on death row.
"....and he has not been provided bypass surgery as recommended."
Well that's just an outrage I tell you!!!!
I hereby offer to perform a heart transplant (using tookies' preserved heart of course) for this fine gentleman utilizing my vast skills as an Electrical Engineer and my having watched one being done on Discovery Channel.
Free of charge.
ROFL!
Time to insert the needle and get it over with.
Well if your too busy to perform the operation I could take your place. I am not a electrical engineer and I haven't seen one done on the Discovery Channel. But I did stay in a Holliday Inn Express last night.
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