After Williams, a new dilemma for governor - Next: Gravely ill and blind man, 75, scheduled to die

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 12/14/5 | Jim Doyle

[manwiththehands]

Don't execute him. "Euthanize" him.

[Tax-chick]

Good approach ... "Yeah, it's sad that he's so old and sick, but we promise he won't get a day older!"

[goldstategop]

There's no dilemma. There should be no respecting age in a murderer any more than one respects fame. DUH. Stupid liberals - they still don't get it.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[kentj]

He better hurry - his only hope is to marry a Kennedy - hey maybe Teddy is up for the job - he likes the press so much he could cover several of his favorite poster children in one move; 1. The death penalty, 2. Gay marriage 3. Unrepentant murder 5. New partner (yahoo) 6. Estate planning
7. prison reform.

Now that is a lot of press for old lard ass wouldn't you say?

[goldstategop]

This concern for an ill and blind cold-blooded murderer is from the same liberals who support the euthanization of brain-dead healthy people. Spare me.

(Denny Crane: "I Don't Want To Socialize With A Pinko Liberal Democrat Commie.Say What You Like About Republicans. We Stick To Our Convictions. Even When We Know We're Dead Wrong.")

[KC_Conspirator]

So this guy is the 'Ward Churchill' of death row inmates? A fake indian?

[TChris]

Note to Governor Schwarzenegger: A jury has already heard the evidence and sentenced this man to die. Don't re-try the case. Don't subvert the justice system. Allow the legally binding sentence to be carried out.

The only travesties in this case are the crimes committed by this killer, and the fact that it has taken over twenty years for his sentence to be carried out.

[Chode]

does that POS Rag ever get around to telling you what murder he was convicted of??? i don't want to give them the hit.

[Procyon]

Send him to a hospital in the Netherlands. There the staff would quickly determine that a 75-year old blind, diabetic should be euthanized forthwith as a drag on society.

[GOP_1900AD]

He looks drug and alcohol ravaged. Sad to say it, but execution will end his (self induced) state of pain.

[NathanR]

Probably. However, I just heard about him a few days ago, so I don't know.

One thing I "like" about this guy, is that he originally got life for his original crime, but organized hits on witnesses at his original trial, from behind bars. Like Tookie he should have been executed years ago.

[6SJ7]

Allen was guilty of commissioning three murders in Fresno from his prison cell in 1980 ...

Ten paragraphs into the story, the SFGate reporter finally gets around to mentioning the crimes this POS committed.

Using Liberal 'logic' anyone who is blind, in a wheel chair, or writes children's books has a license to kill. Watch out for that Steven Hawking character!

[ErnBatavia]

Mike Farrell might as well just go ahead and buy a condo in the San Quentin neighborhood...Jesse needn't bother, because this guy looks white.

[Busywhiskers]

This is starting to sound like the kid who was arguing for leniency in his sentence for murdering his parents on the basis that he was an orphan.

[popdonnelly]

There's no hype to the Allen case. Asner, Farrell, and Jackson won't show up. Lack of television cameras and microphones.

[CharacterCounts]

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.

Hmmm, I guess it will be difficult for him to get stated writing childrens books.

[Oatka]

I guess we ought to quit letting these guys sit on death row for decades.

My sentiments exactly. When I read "Allen, who has spent more than a quarter-century on Death Row . . ." my first thought was if he was executed sooner he wouldn't have come down with all these infirmities.

Anyway, as others have mentioned, he is white and if sentence is commuted, the usual cast of professional victims will be screaming "RACISM!". The guy is toast, and evidently well deserves it.

[kylaka]

Yeah, but Tookie's son is due to hit the streets again soon.

[HamiltonJay]

So, he gets to grow old and die, unlike his victims...and not face his punishment?

Unless there is significant reason to believe this man did not commit the crime he was accused of, the sentence needs to be carried out.

No, "wait out the clock" nonsense.

[Theodore R.]

I didn't follow this case. When did CA reinstate capital punishment? Wasn't the death penalty blocked by the popular former Governor "Jerry" Brown? Gee, it's hard to believe that it has been nearly a quarter century since Brown ruled in Sacramento. Isn't Brown giving up the city hall in Oakland too?