Who needs the death penalty anyway? Certainly not California. Just lock the murderers up at a modest cost of buying a nice house a year and everything is fine. Of course, you can’t keep them in solitary or deny them visitations because that would be inhumane.
So let’s take a look at how that’s working out.
The family of a woman who died of strangulation during an overnight visit with her husband at a California prison is questioning why a man convicted of murdering four people was allowed to have family visits.
Stephanie Diane Dowells, 62, who also went by the name Stephanie Brinson, was killed in November, making her the second person in a year to die at Mule Creek State Prison in Ione during a family visit, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.
The other victim, Tania Thomas, 47, was also strangled during a family visit, Amador County District Attorney Todd Riebe said in an interview Monday. The man she was visiting has been charged with murder in connection with her killing, Riebe said.
Good thing, California doesn’t have the death penalty. Now two murderers managed to kill two more people in a year. And a man who already murdered four people managed to add another to his total. And what’s the state going to do? Lock him up longer for life? Send him to bed without his supper?
At least a jury of moral morons and a prosecutor trying ‘to save money’ in 1994 gave us this latest murder.
A 23-year-old man was sentenced Monday to four consecutive life terms without the possibility of parole for the execution-style murders of four men during a robbery in which he netted virtually nothing.
David Brinson was convicted in October of shooting Robert Marks, a 59-year-old retired tavern owner, and three other men on June 12, 1990, in Marks’ garage apartment on South Burnside Avenue in the Mid-Wilshire district.
Brinson faced the death penalty, but the jury could not agree on the sentence.
The prosecution agreed not to retry the penalty phase in exchange for Brinson’s promise not to appeal his case. Superior Court Judge George Trammell sentenced Brinson on Monday.
“That will save the taxpayers a lot of money” that otherwise would have to be spent on impaneling a new jury, Deputy Dist. Atty. Teri Schwartz said.
There was a simple solution to this problem. The failure to apply it, compassion to the cruel, did not lead to anything except more horror and death.
Whether it’s terrorists or killers, either you kill them or they go on killing.
