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    Dennis Duane Webb - California

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    Facts of the Crime:

    Devout Christians and young parents, John Rainwater, 25, and wife Lori, 22, were managing a 14-unit lodge in Atascadero when a parolee from the Utah prison system broke into their home. He had been at the door of the Rainwater apartment a few days before pretending to be interested in a rental. Now it was late on February 4, 1987 and rent money was due to come in. On parole for attempted murder, robbery and kidnapping the convict had been out for two months. Before driving to the lodge on El Camino Real he had bought duct tape at Kmart. He was armed with a .38 caliber pistol and likely had an accomplice.

    Over the last hours of their lives the couple were tied up, savagely beaten and raped. Naked, screaming and trailing blood, the Rainwaters somehow escaped into the pre-dawn fog with their infant children just before six a.m. Both parents were murdered in the motel parking lot. Residents awoke to gunshots, screams and the sound of a truck driving off. The two children were found alive under their mother’s body. Dennis Duane Webb, then 35, was arrested for dealing marijuana in Paso Robles within days. Evidence was accumulated linking Webb to the murders including a fingerprint on duct tape at the crime scene.

    Webb was sentenced to death in San Luis Obispo County on August 15, 1988.

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    On December 7, 1993, the California Supreme Court affirmed Webb's sentence on direct appeal.

    http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-webb-31113

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    After the denial of his first three habeas petitions, Webb filed a fourth habeas petition before the California Supreme Court on January 25, 2011.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S190098

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    On October 15, 2014, Webb's fourth habeas petition was DENIED by the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S190098

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    California Inmate On Death Row Since 1988 Dies In The Hospital

    SAN QUENTIN (CBS13) – A death row inmate died in the hospital, prison officials say.

    Dennis Duane Webb had been on death row since August 1988 for the murder of San Luis Obispo couple John and Lori Rainwater. Webb was convicted of breaking into the couple’s home, raping and killing the couple.

    Tuesday, Webb was transported to the hospital from San Quentin Prison and was pronounced dead. He was 65-years-old.

    No details about what led up to Webb dying have been released. Investigators are waiting on an autopsy report to find out his exact cause of death.

    http://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2016/...-the-hospital/
    "There is a point in the history of a society when it becomes so pathologically soft and tender that among other things it sides even with those who harm it, criminals, and does this quite seriously and honestly. Punishing somehow seems unfair to it, and it is certain that imagining ‘punishment’ and ‘being supposed to punish’ hurts it, arouses fear in it." Friedrich Nietzsche

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    4 habeas state petitions! No wonder California has 90 percent of its death row inmates die before they are executed. California sort of has a functional death penalty. The reason for that is that they have very violent prisons where murderers serving life sentences kill each other. Their prisons are so violent that in a way, I’m glad the death row prisoners get a chance to transfer out to other prisons to earn money.
    Last edited by Neil; 02-19-2020 at 08:39 PM.

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