Why California Needs to Speed Up That Execution Schedule

Anaheim Boy's Killer Dies in Prison - Los Angeles Times

It's a shame he couldn't have been cornered by an angry mob and slowly tortured to death.

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>>Robert Jackson Thompson, a death row inmate convicted of the brutal murder of an Anaheim boy in 1981, died of a heart attack Saturday, leaving his victim's mother still crying for justice.

"I'm angry and feel like I got robbed because he never got executed," said Kay Brenneman, whose son, Benjamin, was sodomized and strangled by Thompson when the boy knocked on his apartment door to sell him a newspaper subscription.
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Thompson admitted kidnapping and sexually abusing Benjamin, but never admitted killing him. At the time of the killing, he had been out of prison three months after serving a three-year term for child molestation.
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Thompson was arrested Aug. 27, 1981. He was on parole at the time for a 1978 conviction for the oral copulation and sodomy of a 14-year-old San Bernardino boy. He had previously been convicted in 1967 of a sex crime involving two boys in Long Beach.<<

And some people whine that lethal injection may cause pain? Yeah, I'm sure the people who wrote the Constitution would have thought that lethal injection was way too brutal... right... sure...