[SmithL]

I've got a simple solution. Let him share a cell with Dorthea Puente, and send him a Social Security check.

[mnehring]

Just an update, 1 1/2 days after Tookie died, he still hasn't committed another crime. Seems the death penalty has worked to deter him from committing more crimes as of now.. will keep everyone posted if anything changes.

[sittnick]

Gee, if he was in the Netherlands, the same people who hold vigils would applaud his euthanization!

[ikka]

SO because he is near death, it is especially cruel to execute him? Is that an example of liberal "logic"?

[Rio]

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.

[pgyanke]

He's too sick to die!

[Rodney King]

"He's the oldest inmate on California's Death Row. ... He's enfeebled,"

So? What does that have to do with anything?

[nuconvert]

"The state says Allen's deteriorating health is irrelevant."

Yes, it is.
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[GVnana]

What dilemma?

[SoFloFreeper]

I guess we ought to quit letting these guys sit on death row for decades. Execution should be within three years of sentencing. Sounds pretty fair to me.

[KC_Conspirator]

I am going to predict something; there will be no liberal protest because this guy is white.

[econjack]

If you read the rest of the article, you learn that he was serving time for murder and then he thought it would be a good idea to murder three more people while he was in jail. Seems to me his current age has little import as a defense.

[TheBigB]

Hmmm...well, this really wouldn't be an issue if we didn't keep these pieces of trash alive on death row for 20, 30, or 40 years through endless appeals!!!

Just my opinion, of course.

[One Proud Dad]

I say fry him and save on the medical bills we would have to pay to keep him alive. In his present state shouldn't take much in the way of chemicals used for lethal injection to finish the job so he can fifnsh his trip to Hades.

[dead]

Another media-manufactured "dilemma" for a Republican.

The man is sentenced to die. For once, it looks like they'd be doing the condemned a favor.

[horse_doc]

He was clearly capable of ordering murders from his cell. So why did they let him continue to stay in a cell for a quarter of a century?

[Tax-chick]

Stupid liberal tricks. Delay the execution for almost 30 years, and then claim the person shouldn't be executed because he's old now. Sorry, not falling for it.

[gridlock]

Allen arranged to have 4 witnesses to his original crime killed. Three of the murders he arranged from prison.

This guy is the Poster Child for the Death Penalty.

[Steely Tom]

I guess the names and stories of those he murdered are not worth mentioning. After all, it was a long time ago, so F 'em.

[AmishDude]

Well, he wouldn't have to be executed as an ill and blind man if California had done its job before.

What offends me most is the dumb "reasons" these people have for opposition to the death penalty in any given case.

[thoughtomator]

The only thing unfair about his upcoming execution is the delay in the administration of justice. Death penalty sentences should carry an obligation by the state to carry out the sentence as soon as possible.