Posted on 08/17/2009 9:50:54 PM PDT by artichokegrower
DELANO, Calif.—Authorities say an inmate convicted of killing four California Highway Patrol officers died over the weekend at Kern Valley State Prison in an apparent suicide.
Sixty-seven-year-old Bobby Augusta Davis was pronounced dead early Sunday morning after correctional officers found him unresponsive in his maximum-security single cell.
Davis was serving four consecutive life sentences for the April 6, 1970 murders of George Alleyn, Walt Frago, Roger Gore and James Pence. The "Newhall Incident" had been the deadliest for California law enforcement until the fatal shooting of four Oakland police officers in March.
Davis originally received the death penalty, but his sentence was commuted when the state's highest court banned capital punishment in 1972. Autopsy results are pending.
Ah, the ole single cell anemia finally got to him.
Rest in hell, Bobby.
In 2009, it was a blip in the news cycle.
California (where I was born and raised) shoule have NEVER messed with the Death Penalty. And even since they did, they should have reinstituted it. Example - Manson and his followers should have ALL been launched.
These four heroes deaths counted, there is no way to ever know how many police officers owe their lives to these four men. God bless them, may they continue to rest in peace and I hope that the fact that this scumbag is now standing before God and is answering for his actions will bring some peace to the families whose fathers, husbands, sons and brothers were stolen from them.
That bastard who killed Walt Frago is dead. Walt was a good friend of mine thru high school.
Good! I wish I cd have done it myself.
You can thank the Warren Court.
California later reinstated the death penalty at the first opportunity, but then Rose Bird overturned every death penalty that came before her and then California just forgot how to execute these vermin.
But it was Earl Warren who kept us from gassing this punk. I guess we owe it all to Ike.
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