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America's Night Stalker Is Dead
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:24 pm
by Oscar Namechange
Night Stalker serial killer who terrorized California with a spree of Satanic murders dies in hospital after 24 years on death row | Mail Online
America's Night Stalker Is Dead
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:44 pm
by Snooz
24 years on death (from old age) row. Yeah, I know he was only 53 years old but still...
America's Night Stalker Is Dead
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 2:53 pm
by Oscar Namechange
SnoozeAgain;1429126 wrote: 24 years on death (from old age) row. Yeah, I know he was only 53 years old but still...
I don't know why but I thought he'd already been executed. Why did It take 24 years on death row ? Why the wait ?
America's Night Stalker Is Dead
Posted: Fri Jun 07, 2013 5:16 pm
by Snooz
They probably filed a bunch of appeals over the years telling about his mother's exposure to chemicals while he was in vitro, his head injury as a child, blah blah...
America's Night Stalker Is Dead
Posted: Sat Jun 08, 2013 5:49 am
by tude dog
oscar;1429129 wrote: I don't know why but I thought he'd already been executed. Why did It take 24 years on death row ? Why the wait ?
There have been many reasons over the years, the latest outrage:
LETHAL INJECTION: Latest Court Ruling Continues Suspension of Executions in California
There are 680 inmates on California's death row. It's the largest in the nation. So far, of all the inmates who have died on death row, only 18% were executed. Far more -- 82 percent -- died from natural or other causes.
10News Examines California's Death Row Policies