otra ejecución...

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...No tan famoso;pero, tiene algunos "ingredientes" similares...vean~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~>

Pugna por inminente ejecución

Róger Lindo
roger.lindo@laopinion.com
29 de diciembre de 2005

Otro reo, esta vez un aborigen americano (es miembro de la tribu choctaw), se encuentra en el umbral de la pena de muerte en California, pero su caso no ha suscitado ni de lejos la atención que atrajo el de William “Tookie” Williams.
Si el gobernador Schwarzenegger no le perdona la vida, Clarence Ray Allen se convertirá en el primer reo mayor de 75 años en ser ajusticiado en Estados Unidos en más de 60 años: cumplirá 76 el 16 de febrero, un día antes del designado para su ejecución. Se encuentra, además, postrado en una silla de ruedas y sufre de varios quebrantos, entre ellos problemas cardiovasculares y diabetes, que lo tienen al borde de la ceguera total.
“En una sociedad civilizada es inhumano quitarle la vida a una persona. Es inaceptable que una persona le quite la vida a otro, pero es igualmente inaceptable que un gobierno o el estado de California ejecute a alguien de una manera premeditada”, comentó el reverendo Fredric D. Shaw Jr., presidente del capítulo de Compton de la Asociación Nacional para la Defensa de la Gente de Color (NAACP), quien también estuvo comprometido en los esfuerzos para salvar al ex cofundador de los Crips, Stanley “Tookie” Williams, ejecutado el 13 de diciembre.
“Esto es ridículo, el hombre está muriéndose. Es hora de empezar a mostrar un poco de compasión. Señor gobernador… ya mató usted a “Tookie”, por qué no salvar a Ray Allen, a quien el Señor está llamando a su lado”, dijo por su parte Eddie Jones, un activista de derechos humanos de Los Ángeles.
La Suprema Corte de Justicia de California ordenó el lunes a los fiscales correspondientes que respondan a los alegatos de los abogados de Ray Allen en el sentido de que su edad, así como su estado de salud, harían de su ejecución un castigo cruel e inusual.
Sin embargo, la Procuraduría de San Francisco se pronunció la semana pasada en contra de que se le otorgue clemencia al reo, cuyos crímenes considera “monstruosos”: fue acusado de ordenar la muerte de tres personas desde prisión, donde ya se encontraba purgando una pena por asesinato.
Mantenerlo vivo en tales circunstancias, según los fiscales, sería tan peligroso como que anduviera suelto.
Death Penalty Focus, una organización de San Francisco que se opone a la pena capital, dice que Ray Allen fue condenado usando el testimonio de informantes El uso de informantes ya fue cuestionado por quienes se opusieron a la ejecución de “Tookie” Williams, el cofundador de los Crips ajusticiado el 13 de diciembre. Williams negó hasta el final ser responsable de los crímenes por los que fue condenado.
Ray Allen, igual que Williams, proviene de las minorías, un factor que los detractores de la pena de muerte como Death Penaly Focus citan siempre en sus alegados contra esta práctica.
Lo mismo podría decirse de Michael Angelo Morales, otro reo en el corredor de la muerte cuya ejecución está programada para el 21 de febrero.
De concretizarse ésta, sería el primer caso en California de un latino al que se aplica la pena capital después que ésta fue reactivada en los años 80.

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que casualidad...

[Jarocho_Malo]

Clarence Ray Allen committed murder in 1974 and was convicted in 1977. He was sentenced to life in prison. From within prison, he ordered the murder of the witnesses to the first murder. In September 1980, his assassin shotgunned three people to death and gravely wounded a fourth.

[Jarocho_Malo]

ATTENTION PARENTS:

The following crime summary contains a graphic description of one or more murders and may not be suitable for all ages.

Name: Clarence Ray Allen CDC#: B-91240
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Sex: M
Alias: Clarence Ray, Jr., Junebug
Race White
Date Received: 12/02/1982
DOB: 01/16/1930
Education: 8<SUP>th Grade
Location: San Quentin-East Block
Married: No

Sentence: Three counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances and one count of conspiracy
County of Trial: Glenn (change of venue from Fresno County)
County of Residence: Unknown
Offense Date: 09/05/1980
Court Date: 12/31/1986

Sentence Date: 11/22/1980
County of Offense: Fresno
Court Action: Affirmed
Case #: 18240

Victims:

Bryon Schletewitz (male)
Douglas Scott White (male)
Josephine Linda Rocha (female)

Summary:
In 1974, Clarence Ray Allen planned a burglary of Fran’s Market in Fresno, California and solicited the involvement of two men who worked for him at his security guard business. Allen also arranged the help of a young woman to get the keys to the store and its burglar alarm from Bryon Schletewitz, son of the market owner.
Following the burglary and after stolen money orders were cashed, the young woman told Schletewitz it was Allen who had robbed the market. Schletewitz confronted Allen’s son, who denied it, and Allen himself also denied it. Allen said that something would have to be done to the young woman and he arranged her death. Allen was arrested. He was convicted of burglary, first-degree murder and conspiracy and sent to prison to serve a life sentence on March 16, 1978.
He was incarcerated at Folsom State Prison and knew Billie Ray Hamilton in prison. While in prison, Allen plotted to kill the people who had informed on him and gotten him prison time.
Three days after Hamilton was paroled, he was picked up by Allen’s son at the bus station where he also asked for weapons to carry out the crimes.
On Sept. 4, 1980, Hamilton and his girlfriend, Connie Barbow, went to Fran’s Market and purchased some meat from Joe Rias. Rias went into the storeroom with Douglas White. Since it was after the market’s closing time, the front door was locked. Bryon Schletewitz and Josephine Rocha came into the storeroom followed by Hamilton who was holding a sawed-off shotgun. Barbow followed behind. Hamilton ordered them to lie down. They all sat down. He asked Schletewitz for the keys to the safe, ordered him out, and told Barbow to watch the others. She pulled out a handgun. They went to the safe. Schletewitz told Hamilton he would give him all the money. Rias later testified that when Schletewitz and Hamilton went to the safe area, he heard shuffling and a bang. It was later learned that Hamilton shot Schletewitz at close range with the shotgun.

Hamilton went back to the room and asked Douglas White where the safes were kept; White did not know and Hamilton shot him at close range in the chest and stomach.
Another shot was heard and it was later learned that a shotgun blast at close range killed Josephine Rocha.
Hamilton attempted to kill Rias, but Rias covered his face with his left arm. The blast hit his arm, blowing off most of the tissue and shattering his elbow. Hamilton and Barbow checked on the other three victims to make sure they were dead.
Hamilton was later arrested as a suspect in a Modesto robbery and assault with a deadly weapon. Among his possessions was an address book with the name of Clarence Ray Allen. Because of the listing of Fran’s Market and the names of some of the victims, investigators believed there was a connection with the murders and the Fran’s Market burglary for which Allen had been convicted. The investigation of this matter led to the arrest of inmate Clarence Ray Allen. Allen was convicted of three counts of first-degree murder with special circumstances and was received onto California’s death row at San Quentin State Prison on December 2, 1982.

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