Posted on 01/13/2006 1:52:47 PM PST by Aggie Dad
California's oldest death row inmate _ a 75-year-old who is legally blind and nearly deaf _ is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to do something it has never done before: block an execution because of the condemned man's advanced age and infirmity.
Clarence Ray Allen's attorneys contend that executing a feeble old man amounts to cruel and unusual punishment banned by the U.S. Constitution.
Allen is set to die by injection Tuesday for ordering three slayings while behind bars for another murder. He has been on death row for more than 23 years.
Allen, who turns 76 on the eve of his execution, would be the second- oldest person executed in the United States since the Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976. He often uses a wheelchair and had to be resuscitated after suffering a heart attack last year at San Quentin Prison.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
We should hurry and do him now before he gets to be another year older.
Gee, 25 year of appeals and now he's too old to execute? No thanks. Even the CA Supreme court said No way. The SCOTUS will not touch this and on Mon. night CA will inject this scum. IMO of course.
Resuscitation should NOT be allowed for those on death row!!!
His lawyer was on KFI the other day and stated that he has a DNR put on AFTER that last stroke/heart attack/siezure/et. al.
He obviously wasn't too old for the crime, but now he wants the senior discount when it's time to pay for the crimes.
I say no bankruptcy in his case.
Inmate Says He's Too Old for Execution
Let’s just try it to see if he’s right.
the great thing about execution is YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD
Too young to live, too old to die.
He was sentenced to life in prison for commissioning the murder of his son's girlfriend in 1974. Then, in 1980, he was convicted and sentenced to death for ordering the murders of eight witnesses of the first murder from his cell. While killing the first of these targets, his hit man also killed two unconnected teenagers on the scene.
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At the time of the Fran’s Market murders, Allen already was serving a life sentence in Folsom Prison for orchestrating the 1974 murder of Mary Sue Kitts. He murdered her because she revealed a burglary he had committed to police. Bryan Schletewitz testified against Allen at the Kitts murder trial. While in Folsom Prison, Allen conspired with fellow inmate Billy Ray Hamilton to murder witnesses who had testified against him, including Schletewitz. When Hamilton was paroled from Folsom Prison, he went to Fran’s Market where Schletewitz worked. He murdered Schletewitz and fellow employees Rocha and White with a sawed-off shotgun and wounded two other people, Joe Rios and Jack Abbott. Hamilton shot Schletewitz at near point-blank range in the forehead and executed Rocha and White after forcing them to lay on the ground within the store. When Hamilton was arrested five days later he carried a “hit list” with the names and addresses of witnesses who testified against Allen at the Kitts trial, including Bryan Schletewitz.
And he's played the system for 25 years?
Oh, stop being a big baby. It'll only take a minute.
Was this before FOMOCO, MOPAR, GM, IBM, DOT, HUD, DoE, DoD, USMC, USAF, AM and FM seized his AC or DC?
Eye guess eye'm just two kunfuzzed.
It appears so. Taxpayer's expense at about 50 k per year.
Could just let him die peacefully by witholding food and water.
It's about 23 years too late already.
"He often uses a wheelchair and had to be resuscitated after suffering a heart attack last year at San Quentin Prison. "
A death-row inmate...Ahh... the irony...
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