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,"
(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...
Put him out of his pain and suffering, he'll be happier for it and so will the tax payers of California.
'He's a white guy. Nobody cares.'
You got that one right... No one cares about the white folk as long as they pay the bills for all the black folk and others...(illegal aliens esp.)
"...save on the medical bills we would have to pay to keep him alive...
Why do we give health care to people on death row, anyway? It seems to be counter-productive, to me."
Yeah, kind of like an oxymoron...
Only if Schiavo has a financial interest will this happen.
Yet if this crook were out of prison, and his spouse wanted to pull a Michael Schiavo on him, the libs would be wanting to hasten his death.
The left will want this guy euthanized because his life isn't worth living.
No controversy.
well, according to these stupid libs, at least they agree that this guy hasn't written enough children's books to qualify for clemency.
Fire up the Chair!!
When did we become Europe?
"because this guy looks white."
Kinda, he looks more like white sh-t.
"So he spikes the black prisoner and spares the white prisoner? I don't see that happening."
When you cut through the rhetoric, your conclusion is absolutely dead on. Unfortunately, this is the basis these kinds of decisions get made.
From the article:
"Allen, who ran a security company in Fresno, was linked by prosecutors to a series of armed robberies in the Central Valley. He was sentenced to life in prison for ordering the murder in 1974 of his son's girlfriend. From behind bars at Folsom Prison, prosecutors said, he masterminded the murders in 1980 of three witnesses from his previous trial and conspired to kill four other witnesses."
GET ON WITH IT!
We're executing a 77 year old convicted murderer for hire here in Mississippi tonight. A man by the name of Nixon. Good riddance to him too.
He is not white...he has a headband on
my new CP rule: 3 appeals in 5 years max.( my fair,lengthy,arbitrary number) then you're done.
I often wonder why new DNA testing is good enough to free people wrongly on death row within a week, but not good enough to kill anyone rightly on death row in 10 years.
he's blind? so that ol' liberal adage about 'an eye for an eye leaving everyone blind' really is true?
If he would have been done away with him 20 years ago...we wouldn't be at this point.
There wouldn't be all these geezers on death row if they'd been executed in a reasonable amount of time after their sentencing. And who is to blame for that? Why the same slime suckers, fees paid by the taxpayers in most cases, who are now decrying the situation. A pox on them.
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