Posted on 09/06/2009 8:39:12 AM PDT by gunnyg
With the family trying for a compassionate discharge that would give their patriarch a brief stay at home, the ad sought letters of support from readers.
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Posted: 09/05/2009 08:45:30 PM PDT Updated: 09/05/2009 09:14:49 PM PDT
Prisoner Richard Keech, shown during his 1997 trial, should be allowed to go home to die with his family. (Press-Telegram file photo)
Nearing his 90th birthday, Richard Keech is confined to a medical unit at the High Desert State Prison in Susanville.
His family says he stays alive on Ensure, a nutritional drink, and on weekly letters sent from Long Beach by his wife, Kay. Prison staffers read the letters to her husband, whose sight is failing.
The 1997 trial of Keech made area headlines. A prisoner-of-war during World War II, the one-time Marine defended the murder of his son-in-law, calling it a consequence of post-traumatic stress syndrome brought on by his incarceration in a Japanese prison camp.
“My father is in prison because he killed my abusive husband to protect my son, my mother, and me,” his daughter Nancy said in a recent advertisement she ran in the Press-Telegram.
With the family trying for a compassionate discharge that would give their patriarch a brief stay at home, the ad sought letters of support from readers.
In response, says Nancy, “Our family received 43 letters and 32 e-mails of support for my dad.” In the ad, she had also said, “My father is in prison, because he killed my abusive husband (Nicholas Candy) to protect my son, my mother, and me.”
After Candy’s death, Nancy went back to her maiden name.
Dying behind bars
As an aging prisoner, Keech has suffered from a number of ailments, including bone deterioration, skin cancer, spinal stenosis, a torn retina and damage to a femur that has been broken twice. Advertisement His family worries that Susanville’s correctional treatment center is not equipped to deal surgically with Keech. Read the rest of this entry »
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Now if he had bombed a plane killing hundreds of people it would have been a done deal.
At least in the UK you can forgive blood if you can get some oil.
So was he a victim of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder from stress received 44 years earlier, or was he defending his daughter from a vicious spouse abuser. Two defenses are not better than one.
Richard Keech.......the ultimate restraining order......1000 times as effective as some judges signature
The point is not discussion on points of law, personal opinions, etc.
This Marine has maybe 60 days to keep breathing.
His family has requested assistance by way of letters supporting his release to go home to die.
Time is short, letters are needed now.
That’s the point.
So far, marines have demonstrated only semper fi, Marines (Semper Fidelis Marines) have supported this old China Marine/POW!
Semper Fidelis
Dick Gaines
“On May 21, 1996, when Mr. Candy came to the house to pick up his son, Mr. Keech had a 9-millimeter pistol in his waistband, under his shirt. The two began arguing at the curb. Mr. Keech pulled the gun, shot his son-in-law in the side and then followed him down the sidewalk, shooting him four more times after he fell face first on a neighbor’s lawn.”
“Nicholas’ sister, Jocelyn Candy Bunyan, also a U.S. permanent resident, bitterly opposed the petitions and pleas for clemency for the man who was convicted of murdering her brother (she referred to Richard Keech as Satan on earth).”
I honor the Marines. I dishonor cold blooded murderers.
I knew there had to be more to it - one of my cousins shot the son-in-law who was beating his pregnant daughter WHILE THE BEATING WAS GOING ON. Coz wasn’t even charged, but he had a very difficult time living with having taken anyone’s life, even that scum’s.
One of the sadder experiences I had was knowing a young woman who was masochistic to the point of suicidal. Several people had tried interventions with her and failed. She sought out progressively more violent and sadistic boyfriends, until she found one finally willing to murder her.
But fate intervened, as the psychopath had previously raped and murdered the daughter of a Sikh soldier, who tracked him down and rather impressively ended his career before he could kill again.
She had to be institutionalized after discovering her late boyfriend, not because of the trauma of finding him, but because he got what she wanted. Eventually she was “just murdered”, that for those who knew of her mental illness, said she must have been very disappointed.
Judge orders killer released on compassionate grounds
Richard Keech, 89, was serving a life term for shooting his son-in-law to death in Long Beach in 1996. He suffers from dementia. The judge says theres no obvious benefit to his further imprisonment.
By Victoria Kim
10:06 PM PDT, October 5, 2009
In a quiet residential neighborhood in Long Beach 13 years ago, Dick Keech fired four shots at his son-in-law, who lay face-down on a neighbors lawn, bleeding from an earlier gunshot wound.
Its all over, he said later to a neighbor who ran out at the sound. He wont bother anyone anymore.
On Monday, a Long Beach judge said he would grant Keech, 89, the compassion he did not show his 47-year-old son-in-law, Nick Candy, at the time of the killing in 1996. Judge William T. Garner ordered Keech, who was serving a life term for murder, released on grounds that he is medically incapacitated. The World War II veteran suffers from progressive dementia and an accompanying sundowning syndrome causing severe confusion, depression and terror, according to a California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation report recommending his release. He has difficulty swallowing, spends most of his days confined to his bed or his geriatric chair, and is unable to do anything on his own, the report said.
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