Posted on 02/23/2020 11:23:04 AM PST by tuffydoodle
CORCORAN, Calif. (AP) — A California prison inmate confessed in a letter that he beat two child molesters to death with a cane while behind bars just hours after his urgent warning to a counselor that he might become violent was ignored, a newspaper chain reported Thursday.
Jonathan Watson, 41, confessed in the letter to the Bay Area News Group in Northern California that he clubbed both men in the head on Jan. 16 at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran.
Prisoner David Bobb, 48, died that day. Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, died three days later at a hospital. Both were serving life sentences for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14.
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Give the man a medal.
A far better solution would be to offer him work-release, but only if he promises to do it again and again.
I consider it a favor. Some people just need killin'.
Can we send him more from other states? david keen RAPED/Killed 8 yr old ASHLEY NICHOLE READ in 1990, just finished his state appeals a decade of Fed appeals t go.
I wish I knew how to contribute $50 to his prison canteen account.
Just when he was within 95-years(?) of going free, he screwed things up...
I believe he found the cure for pedophilia.
Is he getting time off for good behavior ?
At least give him an extra helping of meatloaf.
NAMBLA be warned: a lukewarm response from prison officials signals a green light and your membership on the inside is next.
I can't disagree. Others just need to die younger. We all die, so what? I've never bought into the idea of not talking bad about the dead. If they were dirtbags in their life, why should I not say so once planted? Frig the bad guys.
The felon child molesters arguably "needed killin'" as some say --- but what happened to them could happen to any incarcerated person. Most incarcerated persons were not convicted of capital crimes, and none are deserving of being beaten to death by a well-spoken freelance maniac.
We're not North Korea, Turkey or Somalia.
Rather amazing that Free Republic is supposed to be pro-U.S. Constitution; but some will wink at murderous thuggery when it suits them.
Well; if the state would do their job and “legally execute” murderers, child molesters, rapists, drug dealers, traitors, and others deserving the death penalty for their crimes, we wouldn’t need the help of other inmates.
70 years worth of appeals and legal maneuvers just allows these ratbastards to die of old age on the taxpayers dime.
Under the current conditions (particularly here in California) I am willing to accept all the help we can get.
One of my jobs when I dropped out of college was at a construction job building swimming pools. The owner of the company had no problem hiring ex-convicts but no thieves. He hired murderers like he was running an alumni's club.
The biggest job I was on was building an olympic sized pool. One day we were taking a lunch break in the shade and one of guys asked another one why he killed a guy in a bar. His answer was, the man needed killing. I realized then that some people were not like us and we needed to adjust our understanding about a few things.
The killer (alleged) should be dealt with as the law prescribes - and prison officials should be taking reasonable measures to prevent this sort of thing.
The felon child molesters arguably "needed killin'" as some say ---
That's all I was saying (at least somewhat tongue in cheek).
but what happened to them could happen to any incarcerated person.
Yes and no. People do get killed in prison for inarguably bad reasons - but the only winking going on here was for killings narrowly targeted based on criteria that do NOT apply to the vast majority of inmates.
That's as it may be. But it probably does apply to the majority of freelance maniacs: that is, a psychotic or sadistic inmate who takes it upon himself to mete out rough justice in the pod, is as likely to target an annoying Trumpster as an annoying pedo.
This perp, ironically enough, was right to begin with: he should have been frogmarched out of the lower-security dormitory pod and put back in his single-person cell muy pronto. The moral, and maybe legal, liability here is largely on the correctional officers who basically let it happen. Maybe wanted it to happen. We do know they were warned.
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