By Bob Walsh
Bernard L. Hamilton, 64, shuffled off this mortal coil on Death Row in California this week, of natural causes.
Bernie had been on death row since March of 1981. He murdered and dismembered a woman who discovered him burglarizing her van.
Since 1978, when the death penalty was, at least in theory, reactivated in the People’s Republic of California, 79 condemned inmates have died of natural causes. Another 25 self-rehabilitated. A total of 13 have actually been executed in that time but none for many, many years. There are now 747 guests of the state on death row in the formerly great state of California.
It seems that California wants to HAVE a death penalty as long as they don’t actually have to USE it.
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