Posted on 07/27/2022 12:35:16 PM PDT by grundle
LOS ANGELES — The office of embattled Los Angeles County District Attorney George Gascón has asked a judge to lift the sentence of a man condemned to die for killing two college students during a 1994 carjacking, according to court documents obtained by NBC News.
The 264-page resentencing recommendation, filed July 11 in Los Angeles County Superior Court by Deputy District Attorney Shelan Joseph, seeks to change Raymond Oscar Butler’s death sentence to life without the possibility of parole.
The filing argues that Butler, now 47, committed the murders of the two college students when he was 18 years old after having endured violence and trauma throughout his childhood. As a result, he suffered mental illness and cognitive impairment before and at the time of the killings, according to the petition.
“The defendant today is not the same, cognitively immature teen-ager who murdered two innocent victims in this case. … the interests are best served by resentencing the defendant,” the petition reads.
The petition goes on to add that a hearing is not necessary if all parties agree to the resentencing.
Butler was convicted in 1996 of shooting Takuma Ito and Go Matsuura, both 19-year-old film students at Marymount College, in the backs of their heads in a Southern California grocery store parking lot. The case drew international outrage and prompted the U.S. ambassador to Japan to issue a televised apology, The New York Times reported in 1994.
Butler was later found guilty, after a trial and a retrial, of taking part in the 1995 fatal stabbing and beating of a fellow inmate. He was again sentenced to death.
The recent filing does not seek to lift the capital sentence for the 1995 inmate attack.
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And to to think that one judge would even have that much power to do this all on their own. That is not right.
I guess Mas Max wasn’t a movie after all.
In a perfect world, George Gascón would have been the driver and only occupant of the car that Butler carjacked.
Or so they tell us.
[Asian Lives Don’t Matter.]
[Asian Lives Don’t Matter.]
A 2017 poll study found younger Mexicans are more likely to support capital punishment.[10] ]
LA County is imploding as the psychotic, white, racist BLM in the county government turns its attention away from bashing Mexicans to pissing off Asians.
And those psychopaths are just getting warmed up. Wait till these morons demand that Mexicans and Asians pay reparations to the criminal BLM. Instant recall and removal of Newsome from the governor’s chair. Bye-bye, Newsome. Hello, Mexican governor and Asian Lt. Governor.
Asians make up nearly 15% of the LA County population, while Latinos make up 50%. Bye-bye, BLM.
“In a perfect world, George Gascón would have been the driver and only occupant of the car that Butler carjacked.”
Agreed.
I’d go so far as to grant the motion if Gascon was sentenced to spend the rest of his life in prison as Butler’s cellmate. The bonus for Gascon is that “rest of his life” might be a short sentence.
Hell, when was the last time California executed someone on “Death Row”?
Where is Paladin when you need him? Or Charles Bronson.
EXACTLY WHEN was the last execution in Calif?
Jerry Brown spent over a million $$$ to update the ‘gas chamber’..NOT used.
Pretty sure “Hillside Strangler” has been on Death ow over 35 years. At around $100,000 per year.
That’s even better!
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