Posted on 07/03/2020 10:49:08 PM PDT by KingofZion
Two San Quentin Prison death row inmates died Friday from what appear to be complications related to the COVID-19 coronavirus, according to a statement from the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation. There have been at least three death row inmates at the prison who have died of the virus since June 24.
Scott Thomas Erskine, 57, had been on California's death row since 2004, and Manuel Machado Alvarez, 59, had been on death row since 1989, both died on July 3, 2020, at outside hospitals.
A third death row inmate at San Quentin, Richard Stitely, 71, died June 24 of COVID-19, while the cause of death of a fourth condemned man, Joseph S. Cordova, 75, is unknown.
Erskine was sentenced to death in San Diego County on Sept. 1, 2004, for the first-degree murders of 13-year-old Charles Keever and 9-year-old Jonathon Sellers in San Diego in 1993 and was admitted onto death row on Dec. 27, 2004.
Alvarez was sentenced to death in Sacramento County on Sept. 14, 1989, for first-degree murder, vehicle theft, forcible rape and first-degree robbery committed over a four-day period in 1987 in Sacramento. He has been death row since Sept. 20, 1989.
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I’m not seeing any downside to this. On death row since 1989 and 2004?
Nope. Saved the taxpayers some money and room and board for these clowns—and freed up space for the next clowns.
My reaction was simply “So?”
......”I’m not seeing any downside to this. On death row since 1989 and 2004?”......
Neither do I......death sentences should be carried out swiftly in my opinion.
Death Row inmates dying!
Unimaginable
A justice system without a death penalty is just barbaric.
Trying to find my “I care” wand...
Death Row lawyers are not too happy about all these COVID-19 deaths.
They make some decent money running the endless appeals for these murderers. Once they die their income goes down.
I’m real broken up.
Well...bye.
Prob the plan for Maxwell. That’s why it is in the news
Probably true!
Dang! I was hoping to see my cousin murderer name but nope. I can still wish. =)
Hmmmm
And unless they had comorbid problems they are kind of on the young side to die from this. Nothing is impossible anymore.
Wuhan: doing the job the state of California has failed to do
There you go!
“....death sentences should be carried out swiftly in my opinion.”
Agreed; Yet Timothy McVey was executed at blinding speed by comparison. This fed the conspiracy theories.
Take your Vitamin D; death row prisoners probably don’t get much sun:)
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