Judge Joan Weber today sentenced cop-killer Adrian Camacho to death today. You can read two articles here and here. The North County Times article (the first link) is the more complete of the two -- and I encourage you to read it and pray for Jamie Zeppetella. I caught two of the local 11 p.m. […]
The other day Clarence Ray Allen, a convicted murderer who ordered the deaths of four people who had testified him at trial was executed early Tuesday morning. Allen was 76 when he went to meet his maker, 59 years older than one of his murder victims, Josephine Rocha. As his scheduled execution neared, his lawyers […]
Death penalty opponents had held out hope that DNA testing would prove that the state of Virginia executed an innocent man more than a decade ago. They were wrong. The case reminded me this three-year-old item I wrote about the late Ann Landers and her opposition to the death penalty. For the record: She never […]
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has finally done something right -- he's refused to bow to Hollywood pressure and grant clemency to unrepentant multiple-murderer Stanley "Tookie" Williams. The basis of Williams' clemency request is not innocence. Rather, the basis of the request is the "personal redemption Stanley Williams has experienced and the positive impact of the message […]
So Crips gang co-founder Stanley "Tookie" Williams should be executed next week for the brutal shotgun-slayings of four people. Williams' supporters claim that he has changed and point to a series of childrens' books he has authored as evidence that he can do more good for society alive and behind bars than six feet under. […]
It's almost assured that Adrian Comacho will spend the rest of his too-long life on death row after a jury yesterday recommended the death penalty. Judges rarely depart from the jury's recommendation on life in prison or death, and this isn't a case where that's likely to occur. Full disclosure: I knew Officer Tony Zeppetella. […]
A Vista jury found Adrian Camacho guilty yesterday of the premeditated murder of Tony Zeppetella. I'm relieved and happy that justice was done. The jury will now decide whether to sentence Camacho to death -- a fate he richly deserves. Pray for Zeppetella's widow, Jamie, as she will be testifying in the penalty phase of […]
If the facts of the case are as presented here, and I have no reason to believe they are not, then I just went from calm to very angry. In a situation recalling the recent death of Terri Schiavo in Florida, an 81-year-old widow, denied nourishment and fluids for nearly two weeks, is clinging to […]
Terri Schiavo died today from acute dehydration. Many bloggers, out of respect, are refusing further comment today. I wish George Felos felt the same.