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.
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?