Posted on 12/14/2005 7:41:04 AM PST by SmithL
Clarence Ray Allen, the next inmate scheduled to die in San Quentin State Prison's execution chamber, may pose a quandary as vexing for Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger as Stanley Tookie Williams.
Allen, who has spent more than a quarter-century on Death Row, is slated to die by lethal injection Jan. 17. He would be the oldest and most infirm prisoner executed in the United States since the death penalty was restored in 1977, according to his lawyers.
Allen, who turns 76 on Jan. 16, uses a wheelchair. An advanced case of diabetes has left him legally blind. He suffered a heart attack Sept. 2.
His lawyers filed a 33-page petition for clemency Tuesday with the governor's office in Sacramento.
"He's the oldest inmate on California's Death Row. ... He's enfeebled," Michael Satris, one of Allen's lawyers, said in an interview. "No prisoner in the state of California has ever been executed at that age.
"It's almost unprecedented worldwide," Satris said. "There hasn't been an execution in this country for more than 50 years of someone as old as Ray Allen."
Several condemned inmates at San Quentin are in their 70s, and more than two dozen are in their 60s.
The state says Allen's deteriorating health is irrelevant.
"He was tried, convicted and sentenced to death, and the law requires that his sentence be carried out regardless of his age or health,"
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It reminds me of the old joke about the kid who murders his parents and then asks the judge for mercy because he's an orphan.
It's perfect liberal logic: keep a murderous scumbag alive for an extra 2+ decades, however long it takes until he becomes sick or enfeebled, then say it's too late to allow justice to be served........ wait 'till the Mumia-scum starts claiming he's ill after being on death row for 20+ years............
As a California taxpayer, I want this cold blooded killer executed. If it had been done 25 years ago, when he first landed on death row we could have saved hundreds of thousands of dollard on appeals, and upkeep.
What does his condition have to do with anything?
Gee whiz. Biased title, much?
So, what's the quandry?
I remember reading in the late 70s about the Crips and how they had become more than an LA gang. It seems that they had begun to deal in drugs big time and there reach extended to the Plains States and possibley even further east!
There is no doubt that his legacy is far reaching and maybe his books and preaching to kids had some effect but his victims cried for justice and it was meted out on Tuesday!
Someone please alert the Good Reverend so he can mark his calendar, and will Joan Baez be available as well?
LOL!
I've felt like that a few times after a particularly hearty party.
The alcohol is rubbed not so much for disinfecting as it is for making the veins rise to the surface and make them better visible.
The libnuts are constantly screaming about equality...so what's the big deal? Fry him too! Why would his illnesses have anything to do with his scheduled LAWFUL execution?
This manufactured garbage from the leftwing anti-death penalty freaks makes as much sense as cleaning Tookie's arm with an alcohol prep prior to starting his IV. We just wouldn't want him get an infection, would we?
LOL.
They should have executed him 25 years ago and he wouldn't be sick and frail today!
"It reminds me of the old joke about the kid who murders his parents and then asks the judge for mercy because he's an orphan."
That's no joke. That happened in the Menendez brothers case. It was Leslie Abramson's argument in the penalty phase.
If it can be confirmed that he is suffering, let him live.
LMAO! You nailed it. How about we help 'em out and stop the aging process?
Is this the libs new tactic? Delay and stall till a Death Row inmate is old and feeble, and thus not eligible to be executed?
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