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.
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Isn’t it strange that we cannot execute a sick person?
It might have been worth it if they had made
him walk the last mile everyday.
No doubt his relatives and the ACLU will sue the state for providing inadaquate health care.
Take a guess as too how much it costs to keep an inmate alive on death row.
Shame it took so long.
Now that he is dead, he is finally saving us money.
AND how does a 55 year old person die from “natural causes”??
Isn’t it about $40,000 a year, give or take a couple thousand?
“AND how does a 55 year old person die from “natural causes”??”
Diabetes?
either way, the POS is dead. The devil welcomed again new comer to hell today.
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.
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
How many of them die of heart failure from the sheer dread that it might be their day to die?
Don’t know, good question!
If Cal. used the electric chair a few jolts might’ve brought him back to life. Frankencon.
Oh...wait...
Well, he got almost 30 years of free room, board, and medical care.
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.”
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