Posted on 01/17/2006 9:28:37 AM PST by KingofZion
The oldest man to ever enter California's execution chamber met his doom Tuesday the way he'd wanted to: With the faint lilt of Native American chants ringing in the air around him, and loved ones mouthing "I love you" to him as his damaged vision slowly faded to black.
A symbolic Indian feather lay on quadruple murderer Clarence Ray Allen's chest for the entire 33-minute execution, rising and falling until the lethal poisons piped into his veins through intravenous tubes stopped his breathing and he at last lay completely still.
"Hoka Hey, (an Indian saying meaning) it's a good day to die," Allen, who turned 76 on Monday, wrote in his last statement.
Those whose lives he savaged by ordering up the shotgun deaths of their loved ones in Fresno in 1980 looked as if they couldn't have agreed more.
Patricia Pendergrass, whose 27-year-old brother Bryon Schletewitz died when Allen's hitman blasted him in the head, kept her hands clenched together and her lips pursed tightly from start to finish -- and then, as the official notice of his death was read off, she allowed herself the slightest hint of a smile. Five chairs to her right in the ring of witnesses sitting at a railing alongside the death chamber, prosecutor Ward Campbell lifted his chin as if in victory.
"Mr. Allen finally received the justice he deserved tonight," Campbell said a half-hour after the execution. "I was always confident this day would come. I am just very glad to have it finally be done."
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Sometimes the condemned don't get a last meal...they just unceremoniously remove their feeding tubes.
I think it is outrageous that they took this old man in a wheelchair to the death chamber. It would have been much more appropriate to drag his carcass to where he would assume room temperature.
Good...the land of the fruits and nuts executes another killer/murderer....
It sounds like he wasn't perhaps as incapacitated as it seemed ... and that his "Indian" attributes were picked up while in prison.
NEXT !
Needs repeating.
Another one bites the dust...another one bites the dust...for some odd reason want to sing that old but popular song...oh yea
Sorry, but this guy was missing certain characteristics that inspire that gang. For instance, melanin deficiency syndrome. But at least they are consistent in their inconsistency.
I guess the USSC was right. He wasn't too old or sick to die.
great song but they are pikers.....
Hunstville Texas ROCKS......We need to limit the appeals and start catching up with Huntsville.....5 years and you're out.
33 min?????
[sigh] All this costly drug induced execution.... pfffft. Nitrogen narcosis is far cheaper, painless, effective and much quicker.
Obviously, Allen was a member of the Indian Tribe known as the Frend-Lee nation who dance to the chant of ......
"Hey-Hah-Wah-Yah, Hey-Hah-Wah-Yah!
I knew that sounded familiar:
"Meka Leka Hi Meka Hiney Ho" - Magical incantation used by Jambi the Genie (John Paragon) on the Saturday morning children's program PEE WEE'S PLAYHOUSE/CBS/1986-91. Jambi lived in a purple box with two jewel studded doors that sat on a tabletop inside Pee Wee Herman's playhouse. He had blue skin and wore a red turban but all the audience ever saw was his head which floated inside the box bathed in a glow of blue light. Once a jabbering green monster came into the playhouse. "What's he saying Pee Wee?" said Chairy (a talking chair). "I wish I knew" replied Pee Wee. Suddenly the doors of Jambi's jewel covered box opened. "Wish? Did somebody say wish?" Jambi then said "Monster, Monster, I command, Speak so we can understand. Now everyone repeat after me. Meka leka hi, meka hiney ho!" Suddenly, a halo of light filled the room and everyone could understand the monster's language. The deed done, Jambi said "The wish is granted. Long live Jambi." and the doors to his box closed. source
Sounds like more Ward Churchill Sittingbullscheiss
I will never understand this sickness that some FReepers bring to these execution threads. I find it disturbing when the good guys are as depraved as the bad guys.
If you read the part that I was forced to excerpt, you'll discover some nice info that was never previously reported, to wit:
(1) HE WAS NOT BLIND AND INFIRM! He got up out of his chair, looked over at the "audience", waved goodbye, etc.
The whole wheelchair bit was just a ploy and no doubt egged on by his lawyers, who knew he didn't have an iota of a chance on his "I didn't do it" appeal.
(2) HE WAS NOT AN INDIAN. His intake form said "white" - the whole native american routine was again concocted years later by his lawyers. No doubt he had some choctow blood, but he didn't discover his "heritage" until late in the game.
I'm completely disgusted that there were 200 people protesting this thing's execution but 2000 protesting "Tookie's". Why were people upset over "Tookie" and not over this creep?
When I have the answer to that, I'll finally understand liberals.
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