CA: Ailing killer executed at age 76

San Francisco Chronicle ^ | 17 January 2006 | Jim Doyle, Bob Egelko and Stacy Finz

[CounterCounterCulture]

Allen's last meal: KFC and pecan pie

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Allen asked for buffalo steak and white-meat chicken from KFC, according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation spokeswoman Elaine Jennings. He was to drink whole milk. For dessert, Allen, who is diabetic, ordered sugar-free pecan pie and black walnut ice cream.

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[blondee123]

Heh, heh, he should have had the sugar!!!!

[Petronski]

He sure had plenty of time to make his peace with God and repent.

[CounterCounterCulture]

A quieter protest outside San Quentin this time
About 150 people, some of them kin, in the glare of TV

With no celebrity inmate in the execution chamber this time, the ranks of death penalty protesters were considerably thinner Monday night outside San Quentin State Prison.

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The scene was familiar: TV lights blazing, people shivering in the night air and waves lapping on the shoreline of the bay. But Allen's scheduled execution did not draw the oratory of the Rev. Jesse Jackson or the folk-singing of Joan Baez, both of whom were among the 2,000 people outside San Quentin's walls the night Stanley Tookie Williams was put to death last month.

Joss Eldredge, 55, a San Francisco dog walker who showed up to protest Monday night, said the turnout was "hypocritical" compared with the showing for Williams, a former gang leader who had claimed redemption through his subsequent antiviolence writings. He was executed Dec. 13.

"Clearly, a number of people were here last time because of Williams' celebrity,'' Eldredge said. "It bothers me quite a bit that not as many people are here today, but it's the same death penalty.''

[CounterCounterCulture]

Indeed.

[nopardons]

GOOD!

[lunarbicep]

Exactly 29 years to the day after the execution of Gary Gilmore

[carumba]

Back in the day of the electric chair Jolt Cola would have been an ironic last meal request. All the sugar and twice the caffeine.

[dighton]

For dessert, Allen, who is diabetic, ordered sugar-free pecan pie and black walnut ice cream.

Which should have kept him healthy 'til the crack of doom.

[Petronski]

Sugar-free pecan pie?

Now THAT is cruel and unusual . . . just like non-fat gravy or unsalted potato chips: WTF is the point?

[CounterCounterCulture]

He was worried it might kill him? ;-)

[WestVirginiaRebel]

Do they have senior citizen discounts in Hell?

[Petronski]

That's weird.



But weirder still, Pecan Pie is filled with a sugar-and-syrup goo. So WTF is in sugar-free pecan pie? It ain't natural.

It's like a low-fiber bran muffin, or decaffeinated coffee, or powdered milk. It just doesn't make sense.

[Lurker]

Society has rid itself of another miscreant who felt that he had the right to take innocent lives.

I say this is a good thing.

L

[Petronski]

Do they have senior citizen discounts in Hell?

Well, they have them at the Old Country Buffet, and that's as close to hell as I ever care to come.

[beaversmom]

ping

[kublia khan]

It tastes like lard flavored jello

[blondee123]

Well, they have them at the Old Country Buffet, and that's as close to hell as I ever care to come.

Good one!

[beaversmom]

My dad calls them the blue haired commandos and my brother refers to them as silverbacks.