Calif. Governor shows same measure of mercy to CONVICTED MURDER as he showed his INNOCENT VICTIMS!!! there... that's better.
In 1974, Clarence Ray Allen planned a burglary of Fran’s Market in Fresno, California and solicited the involvement of two men who worked for him at his security guard business. Allen also arranged the help of a young woman to get the keys to the store and its burglar alarm from Bryon Schletewitz, son of the market owner.
Following the burglary and after stolen money orders were cashed, the young woman told Schletewitz it was Allen who had robbed the market. Schletewitz confronted Allen’s son, who denied it, and Allen himself also denied it. Allen said that something would have to be done to the young woman and he arranged her death. Allen was arrested. He was convicted of burglary, first-degree murder and conspiracy and sent to prison to serve a life sentence on March 16, 1978.
He was incarcerated at Folsom State Prison and knew Billie Ray Hamilton in prison. While in prison, Allen plotted to kill the people who had informed on him and gotten him prison time.
Three days after Hamilton was paroled, he was picked up by Allen’s son at the bus station where he also asked for weapons to carry out the crimes.
On Sept. 4, 1980, Hamilton and his girlfriend, Connie Barbow, went to Fran’s Market and purchased some meat from Joe Rias. Rias went into the storeroom with Douglas White. Since it was after the market’s closing time, the front door was locked. Bryon Schletewitz and Josephine Rocha came into the storeroom followed by Hamilton who was holding a sawed-off shotgun. Barbow followed behind. Hamilton ordered them to lie down. They all sat down. He asked Schletewitz for the keys to the safe, ordered him out, and told Barbow to watch the others. She pulled out a handgun. They went to the safe. Schletewitz told Hamilton he would give him all the money. Rias later testified that when Schletewitz and Hamilton went to the safe area, he heard shuffling and a bang. It was later learned that Hamilton shot Schletewitz at close range with the shotgun.
Hamilton went back to the room and asked Douglas White where the safes were kept; White did not know and Hamilton shot him at close range in the chest and stomach.
Another shot was heard and it was later learned that a shotgun blast at close range killed Josephine Rocha.
Hamilton attempted to kill Rias, but Rias covered his face with his left arm. The blast hit his arm, blowing off most of the tissue and shattering his elbow. Hamilton and Barbow checked on the other three victims to make sure they were dead.
Hamilton was later arrested as a suspect in a Modesto robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Among his possessions was an address book with the name of Clarence Ray Allen. Because of the listing of Fran’s Market and the names of some of the victims, investigators believed there was a connection with the murders and the Fran’s Market burglary for which Allen had been convicted. The investigation of this matter led to the arrest of inmate Clarence Ray Allen. Allen was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances and was received onto California’s death row at San Quentin State Prison on December 2, 1982.
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Fry him.
This animal took away his victims' chance for a long life.
When was he put on death row? At age 27?
When are we going to start hitting these people up with the same ruling? Clarence Allen ordered the murdered of Schletewitz and Rocha which amounts to cruel and unusal punishment. It's what we call an eye for an eye.
I say this to his attorney, Annette Carnegie. I volunteer to push his wheelchair into the chamber and being he can't see me, I'll talk to him all the way. However, he might not want to hear what I would say.
Good riddance to bad rubbish. Buh-bye!
No, he didn't.
Second, let this be a lesson to all those who think that as long as murderers are put away for life, we are safe.
If this man had been executed after one appeal, three other people would be alive right now.
No one is safe until a murderer is dead.
I love the death penalty. NOT ONE person who has been executed has ever been proven innocent.
And the recidivism rate for executed felons is zero.
Lemme see, now.
I'm 74, will be 75 in December. Does this mean I can wait until December, go to CA, kill somebody and NOT be considered for the death penalty? Where do we draw the line?
Maybe they will drop the "age limit" to 70. Then my wife (71) can go with me and SHE can smoke some poor soul and not worry about the death penalty.
What the hell is going on in the State of Fruits, Nuts and Flakes?
Sure, leave this one alive in jail. Maybe he'll order some more killings from his cell.
There should be no resuscitation for those on death row.
Tick-tock, Clarence. Don't start any long novels.
My solution: Execute her, also.
I hope Tookie saved him a seat in hell.
He plots to have people killed while he's in prison, he's awaiting execution, but due to his age and 'infirmity' we're supposed to be lenient on him?
What a freaking coward he is!
If he's so 'infirm', execution is the least of his worries.
*sheesh!*
Calif. Governor shows same measure of mercy to CONVICTED MURDER as he showed his INNOCENT VICTIMS!!! there... that's better.