California serial killer dies of old age 37 years after being sentenced to death. This is pathetic. California’s “death penalty” is a joke.
https://ktla.com/news/california/california-serial-killer-death-row-inmate-anthony-sully-dies-at-79/
California serial killer, death row inmate Anthony Sully dies at 79
By Amy Larson
A San Francisco Bay Area serial killer died from natural causes after spending the last four decades of his life on San Quentin prison’s death row, state officials said.
Anthony J. Sully was sentenced to death on June 3, 1986, for murdering six victims. Sully was a former Millbrae, California police officer who beat, raped, and killed prostitutes.
“Anthony J. Sully, housed at San Quentin Rehabilitation Center on condemned status, died of natural causes Sept. 8,” California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation officials wrote.
Sully, 79, was pronounced deceased at 2:21 a.m. Friday at an outside medical facility. A Marin County Sheriff’s coroner will conduct an autopsy.
The policeman-turned-serial killer had been locked in San Quentin since June 15, 1986. Sully was convicted by a San Mateo County jury of murdering Kathryn Barrett, 24; Barbara Searcy, 22; Gloria Jean Fravel, 24, Brendan Oakden, 19; Michael Thomas 24, and Phyllis Melendez, 20.
After leaving the police force in Millbrae, Sully set up an electrical contracting business at a warehouse in Burlingame. Inside the warehouse, Sully tied up, beat, and brutally raped prostitutes, according to court records filed in 1991 in response to one of his appeals. Some of the women were killed during the beatings.
A witness said Sully told her that the only difference between “killing someone now, and killing someone as a policeman,” was that police had permission to do it, court records state.
He murdered five women and one man “in bizarre episodes. He freebased cocaine and had sex with prostitutes at the warehouse, subjecting the prostitutes to rape, beatings, and other forms of violence. Although he denied committing any of the murders, extensive circumstantial and physical evidence, as well as accomplice testimony, supported his conviction on each count,” court records state.
A second former San Quentin prison death row inmate, 71-year-old Ronald L. Sanders, died on Tuesday from natural causes, CDCR officials said. Sanders was pronounced deceased at 10:02 a.m. at California Medical Facility in Vacaville.
Sanders was sentenced to death in Kern County on March 3, 1982 for the murder of Janice Dishroon Allen, 29. He was admitted to San Quentin’s death row on June 13, 1984.
There are currently 654 condemned inmates in CDCR prisons. California has not carried out a death row execution in 17 years. The last execution was that of Clarence Ray Allen held on Jan. 17, 2006, prison officials said. In 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed Executive Order N-09-19, instituting a moratorium on the death penalty in California.
San Quentin State Prison was once home to America’s largest death row. Earlier this year, Governor Newsom announced plans to transform and renamed the notorious lockup to “San Quentin Rehabilitation Center.”
A question for everyone: What punishment would you give for each of the first 10 times that an adult with no weapon steals a parked car?
By Daniel Alman (aka Dan from Squirrel Hill)
August 10, 2023
A question for everyone: What punishment would you give for each of the first 10 times that an adult with no weapon steals a parked car? In each case, the owner is not present during the theft. In each case, there is video proof of the theft, and thief’s face is clearly visible and identifiable.
My answer:
First conviction: 10 years in prison.
Second conviction: 20 years in prison.
Third conviction: Death by this method of assisted suicide, which is painless, quick, effective, and cheap: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarco_pod
Therefore, for my answer, convictions 4 through 10 will never happen.
The news often reports on “botched executions,” but they never report on “botched euthanasia.” Why is that?
The news often reports on “botched executions,” but they never report on “botched euthanasia.” Why is that?
Are most “botched executions” caused by malice, or incompetence?
Here’s the latest example of a “botched execution” in the news:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/botched-execution-lasted-90-minutes-174449159.html
‘Botched execution’ lasted 90 minutes as Alabama inmate survived ‘torture,’ lawsuit says
By Julia Marnin
October 11, 2022
An Alabama inmate on death row survived a “botched execution” lasting 90 minutes as prison workers unsuccessfully searched for his veins, according to a federal lawsuit.
In late September, a knock on the window bordering the execution chamber ended the lethal injection attempt before Alan Miller was left alone for 20 minutes hanging vertically on a gurney with needle puncture wounds — wondering if he was to die that day, court documents state.
The event was described as “torture” after the U.S. Supreme Court allowed the execution to proceed.
Now attorneys representing Miller say he is “the only living execution survivor in the United States.”
Miller has awaited his execution after a judge sentenced him to death after two workplace shootings in 1999 that left three men dead in Alabama, according to the Montgomery Advertiser.
A month before his execution date, Miller filed a complaint against John Q. Hamm, the commissioner of the Alabama Department of Corrections, Terry Raybon, the warden of Holman Correctional Facility in Atmore and state Attorney General Steve Marshall on Aug. 22, alleging he faced “constitutionally inadequate treatment” in prison, court records show.
Since the “botched execution,” Miller filed a new complaint on Oct. 6 to include claims related to his failed lethal injection at Holman Correctional Facility after Hamm, Raybon and Marshall sought to have his lawsuit dismissed, according to court filings.
The Alabama Attorney General’s Office declined McClatchy News’ request for comment on Miller’s lawsuit on Oct. 11. Attorneys from the office are representing Hamm, Raybon and Marshall. McClatchy News contacted Miller’s attorneys for comment on Oct. 11 and was awaiting a response.
Miller’s new complaint says officials are rushing to have him executed by lethal injection again — even though he initially opted for a different execution method — to end his lawsuit and avoid facing his claims. On Oct. 4, the defendants asked the state Supreme Court for permission to execute Miller “as soon as possible.”
“Defendants are well aware that if they kill Mr. Miller, this litigation—and all judicial scrutiny of their constitutional violations against Mr. Miller — becomes moot,” the new complaint states.
The case
In 2018, Miller selected nitrogen hypoxia as his execution method on an election form, the lawsuit says.
With this method, an inmate inhales nitrogen, eventually resulting in asphyxiation and death, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.
However, Miller’s lawsuit accuses officials of losing his nitrogen hypoxia election form, as well as other inmates’ election forms. State officials claimed there was no record of Miller’s form, according to the complaint, and it was ultimately decided that Miller was to be executed by lethal injection.
Previously, medical professionals have had trouble finding Miller’s veins, and the lawsuit accuses officials of having this knowledge and knowing “Miller would suffer greatly from their attempts to set an IV in his veins.”
On Sept. 1, Miller submitted a motion for a preliminary injunction to prevent him from being executed by a method other than nitrogen hypoxia, the complaint says.
On Sept. 22, Hamm, Raybon and Marshall filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to have Miller’s preliminary injunction vacated, according to the complaint. Hours later, the Supreme Court granted the defendants’ request, allowing for Miller’s execution to proceed by lethal injection that evening.
“It is difficult to overstate the mental — and eventually physical — anguish that Mr. Miller experienced on the night of September 22 into the early morning hours of September 23,” the complaint states.
The day of Sept. 22, Miller visited his family before learning he was to be executed that night due to the Supreme Court’s decision, according to the lawsuit. Then, he said his final goodbyes to his attorneys.
After Miller laid down and officials strapped him to the execution gurney, he was repeatedly slapped as prison workers tried to find his veins and made puncture wounds in a process described as “painful and traumatic,” according to the complaint.
Miller’s upper body was punctured in a number of places as he experienced excruciating pain before they tried puncturing his foot, where he says they hit a nerve, creating more pain, the complaint states.
After roughly 90 minutes, the process was abandoned entirely and Miller was left alone hanging on the gurney, according to the lawsuit.
“Mr. Miller felt nauseous, disoriented, confused, and fearful about whether he was about to be killed, and was deeply disturbed by his view of state employees silently staring at him from the observation room while he was hanging vertically from the gurney,” the complaint states. “Blood was leaking from some of Mr. Miller’s wounds.”
Eventually, Miller heard a prison worker tell him “your execution has been postponed” and he was sent back to his death row cell on Sept. 23 with no explanation, according to the complaint.
Miller’s lawsuit argues he has suffered post-traumatic stress and physical pain since the “botched execution.”
“Defendants’ insistence on continuing to execute Mr. Miller via lethal injection can only be considered intent to inflict unnecessary pain and suffering on him,” the complaint states.
The lawsuit seeks to prevent Miller’s execution by lethal injection and to recover monetary damages for him in connection with his failed execution, according to the complaint.
Atmore is about 120 miles southwest of Montgomery near the Alabama-Florida border.
Why does it take decades to execute someone when there is video evidence that they are guilty?
My biggest objection to the death penalty has always been that the person might be innocent.
But here’s a video, from Tupelo, Mississippi, that shows a robber shooting a store employee in the head, after the employee had already handed over the money:
Here’s an article explaining that the guy has been arrested, and charged with capital murder. He could face the death penalty:
I hope this guy gets executed.
And I hope it doesn’t take decades.
I hope his execution happens before the end of this year.
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