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Death row inmate dies of natural causes
AP via SFGate ^ | 7/17/9

Posted on 07/17/2009 11:34:08 PM PDT by SmithL

SAN QUENTIN STATE PRISON, Calif. (AP) -- An inmate who was sentenced to death in 1980 for the kidnapping and killing of two Southern California girls has died of natural causes.

Officials at San Quentin State Prison say 55-year-old Michael Dee Mattison died in an outside hospital facility early Friday morning.

(Excerpt) Read more at sfgate.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Government; US: California
KEYWORDS: deathrow; goldenstate; naturalcauses; yourtaxdollarsatwork
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Your tax dollars at work.
1 posted on 07/17/2009 11:34:09 PM PDT by SmithL
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To: SmithL

Isn’t it strange that we cannot execute a sick person?


2 posted on 07/17/2009 11:37:14 PM PDT by LukeL (Yasser Arafat: "I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize")
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To: SmithL

It might have been worth it if they had made
him walk the last mile everyday.


3 posted on 07/17/2009 11:37:24 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: SmithL

No doubt his relatives and the ACLU will sue the state for providing inadaquate health care.


4 posted on 07/17/2009 11:39:42 PM PDT by Hugin (Sarah Palin: accept no substitutes!)
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To: SmithL

Take a guess as too how much it costs to keep an inmate alive on death row.


5 posted on 07/17/2009 11:40:04 PM PDT by NoLibZone (North Korea? The only buildings in Hawaii at risk of destruction are those housing ObamaÂ’s records!)
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To: SmithL

Shame it took so long.


6 posted on 07/17/2009 11:40:45 PM PDT by Luke21
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To: SmithL

Now that he is dead, he is finally saving us money.

AND how does a 55 year old person die from “natural causes”??


7 posted on 07/17/2009 11:53:09 PM PDT by antiunion person (PALIN/JINDAL 2012)
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To: NoLibZone

Isn’t it about $40,000 a year, give or take a couple thousand?


8 posted on 07/17/2009 11:54:07 PM PDT by antiunion person (PALIN/JINDAL 2012)
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“AND how does a 55 year old person die from “natural causes”??”

Diabetes?


9 posted on 07/17/2009 11:59:05 PM PDT by Birdsbane ("Onward through the fog!" ... Oat Willie)
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To: Birdsbane

either way, the POS is dead. The devil welcomed again new comer to hell today.


10 posted on 07/18/2009 12:00:27 AM PDT by antiunion person (PALIN/JINDAL 2012)
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To: antiunion person

Any number of ways, bad heart, cancer, diabetes, or one of the other numerous illnesses which can take a person off the earth at a fairly young age. I only hope it was painful and long lasting.


11 posted on 07/18/2009 12:04:43 AM PDT by calex59 (I, me, myself, am actually Jim Thompson)
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90K which and does not include the non stop legal fees.

Or Medical fees as they age.

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-ed-inmate23-2009feb23,0,6473095.story


12 posted on 07/18/2009 12:16:19 AM PDT by NoLibZone (North Korea? The only buildings in Hawaii at risk of destruction are those housing ObamaÂ’s records!)
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To: tet68
I think the way they do it in Japan is cool. The Warden walks past the condemned’s cell every day, sometimes for years. Then, one day he says “Today”. BOOM. That's it!
13 posted on 07/18/2009 12:17:10 AM PDT by jttpwalsh
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How many of them die of heart failure from the sheer dread that it might be their day to die?


14 posted on 07/18/2009 12:23:50 AM PDT by guitarplayer1953
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To: guitarplayer1953

Don’t know, good question!


15 posted on 07/18/2009 12:28:29 AM PDT by jttpwalsh
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To: SmithL

If Cal. used the electric chair a few jolts might’ve brought him back to life. Frankencon.


16 posted on 07/18/2009 12:39:43 AM PDT by count-your-change (You don't have be brilliant, not being stupid is enough.)
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AND how does a 55 year old person die from “natural causes”??

Ask this guy

Oh...wait...

17 posted on 07/18/2009 12:55:41 AM PDT by South40 (Islam has a proud tradition of tolerance. ~Hussein Obama, Cairo, Egypt, June 4, 2009)
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To: SmithL

Well, he got almost 30 years of free room, board, and medical care.


18 posted on 07/18/2009 1:08:45 AM PDT by ozzymandus
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To: SmithL
Tookie Williams
19 posted on 07/18/2009 1:47:19 AM PDT by Dallas59 ("You know the one with the big ears? He might be yours, but he ain't my president.")
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To: SmithL

He had raped before, just before his 18th birthday, in 1978. The first rape was committed in Oregon. The victim ID’ed him, and he went to prison for four years.

He moved to California after he was released, and he had decided he wouldn’t leave a live victim next time. He iidnapped, raped and murdered a 9-year-old and a 16-year-old. He was a one-man crime wave.

Some attorney wrote a book about his valient attempts to “save him.” You can google it.

It looks like his name is misspelled in this article. It’s actually “Mattson.”


20 posted on 07/18/2009 2:05:53 AM PDT by Steely Tom (RKBA: last line of defense against vote fraud)
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