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Monday, January 16, 2006
Dr. Kevorkian, your office is calling...
California is set to execute Clarence Ray Allen tonight for a whole slew of murders (firsthand and ordered while imprisoned for the first one) he performed/ordered back in the 70's/80's. His attorneys say that it's cruel and unusual to execute someone that old. Regardless of where one stands on the death penalty issue, though, you have to wonder. The man is legally blind, deaf, and confined to a wheelchair. This isn't an execution -- it's assisted suicide.
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He sounds like a real bastard though, ordering the death of witnesses so they couldn't testify. And before his imprisonment he was a strike breaker.
But in the San Joaquin Valley, Allen founded a private security firm and one photograph from those days shows him brandishing a machine gun, which he used to threaten workers during grape strikes organized by Cesar Chavez.
He owned an airplane, luxury cars and horse stables -- a lifestyle authorities have said was supported largely through criminal activity by his family and employees.
Market burglary in 1974
Prosecutors say he arranged a burglary of Fran's Market in 1974.
When his son's girlfriend, 17-year-old Mary Sue Kitts, told Bryon Schletewitz what had happened, Allen had her strangled, her weighted body dumped in a canal. Bryon Schletewitz and his father, Raymond, were among the witnesses at Allen's trial.
What a dick. Good riddance.
1:56 PM, January 16, 2006
Shitty guy, yeah. But in this case, it seems like california might be doing this guy a favor.
3:29 PM, January 16, 2006
It begs the question, why do they resuscitate death row inmates? After all his heart stopped in September. Bringing him back was kind of messed up.
Being on death row should be like having a DNR order.
3:31 PM, January 16, 2006
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