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California death row inmate dies of natural causesSF Gate ^ February 17, 2009 AP
Posted on 18 February 2009 08:01:56 by americanophile
A California inmate condemned to die more than 22 years ago for murder and attempted murder has died of natural causes. The state department of corrections said Tuesday 65-year-old Thomas Francis Edwards died Saturday at a medical facility. He came to San Quentin State Prison in 1986 for the 1981 murder of a 12-year-old girl and...
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: CaliforniaKEYWORDS: california; deathrow; inmate
Justice delayed is justice denied. That's what the libs do, they just find other ways of accomplishing their goals...bureaucratic inertia is one of their favorites.
1 posted on 18 February 2009 08:01:56 by americanophile
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What a crying shame. Especially for the murder of a 12 yr old girl. This jerk should have been done in 20 years ago.
2 posted on 18 February 2009 08:09:16 by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment))
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The bastard may have cheated the hangman (or gas-man or lethal injector) in this world, but he is surely burning in hell.
3 posted on 18 February 2009 08:14:21 by Rummyfan (Iraq: it's not about Iraq anymore, it's about the USA!)
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If there were any doubt that the value of an proved to be adult is overvalued in comparison with that of innocent children off on a picnic.
A little off the point, is Richardson going to go along with eliminating the NM death penalty?? How about current death row residents?
4 posted on 18 February 2009 08:25:05 by JimSEA
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Dunno.
5 posted on 18 February 2009 08:27:41 by americanophile
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money saved. Need all we can get.
6 posted on 18 February 2009 08:30:30 by GOP Poet
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"...He came to San Quentin State Prison..."
He turned himself in?
Not the way I would have expressed it...
:-\
7 posted on 18 February 2009 08:55:32 by Does so (White House uncomfortable? Sleeplessness? The 0bama will quit before 6 months are up.)
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I guess the sentence got commuted to life.
8 posted on 18 February 2009 09:44:53 by ketelone
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Well, it was a life sentence but it was too long. Life sentences for certain crimes should be short, no more than 30 days. Then it should end.
9 posted on 18 February 2009 09:46:30 by arthurus ( H.L. Mencken said, "Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods.")
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“Since California reinstated capital punishment in 1978, the department of corrections says 43 inmates condemned to die have passed away of natural causes.”
Sounds to me like that number is probably more than they’ve juiced. How pathetic. I’d venture to guess that this is the norm in most parts of the country with the notable exceptions of some southern states and Texas.
10 posted on 18 February 2009 11:58:08 by RU88 (The false messiah can not change water into wine any more than he can get unity from diversity.)
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I guess God got tired of waiting to send this bastard to hell and took matters in his own hands.
11 posted on 18 February 2009 12:28:00 by Wpin (I do not regret my admiration for W)
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A California inmate condemned to die more than 22 years ago for murder and attempted murder has died of natural causes. The state department of corrections said Tuesday 65-year-old Thomas Francis Edwards died Saturday at a medical facility. He came to San Quentin State Prison in 1986 for the 1981 murder of a 12-year-old girl and...
If he had died from a bullet, strangulation, or any of a broad range of options available to the father, I would have considered that natural causes too. Sad for liberals that they lost this symbol of the only kind of life they value. At least they still have Obama.
12 posted on 18 February 2009 12:32:28 by TurtleUp
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why is this guy in the medical wing? this is one reason for our $42 billion deficit - idiot liberal judges who order medical treatment for death row inmates.
let them all starve, that will save some $$
13 posted on 19 February 2009 00:36:20 by KingofZion
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