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    Timothy Rodriguez - California




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    Convicted and to death for the brutal, baseball bat bludgeoning death of a 90-year-old woman and the near death of the woman's 60-year-old daughter.

    Rodriguez was convicted of first-degree murder, attempted murder, robbery, burglary and cutting a phone line in the the May 2, 2007 killing of Thelma Long and the near killing of her daughter, Cathryn Reeves, at Long's home in the 3100 block of Bucknell Street near Bakersfield College.

    Rodriguez was sentenced to death in Kern County on January 6, 2010.

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    January 6, 2010

    Bakersfield Man Sentenced To Death For Killing 90-Year-Old

    BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A Bakersfield man has been sentenced to death for killing a 90-year-old woman and he admitted to committing the crime in court Wednesday morning.

    Timothy Rodriguez, 41, said in court Wednesday during his sentencing, "I apologize. And if there is a God, He will send me to Hell for what I've done."

    Rodriguez beat Thelma Long to death with a baseball bat during a home invasion robbery back in 2007.

    He was also accused of severely beating Long's granddaughter, Cathryn Reeves, 59.

    Both Rodriguez and his girlfriend, Chenoa Martinez, worked for the elderly woman.

    http://www.turnto23.com/news/22150658/detail.html

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    Calif. death row inmate dies of liver disease

    California prison officials say a 44-year-old death row inmate convicted of beating a 90-year-old woman to death with a baseball bat has died from liver disease.

    The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said in a statement Monday that Timothy Rodriguez died June 6 at the hospital at Corcoran State Prison.

    He was sentenced to death in 2010 for the killing of 90-year-old Thelma Long in Bakersfield.

    Rodriguez had done odd jobs and yard work for Long and in 2007 entered her house through an unlocked door demanding payment.

    The statement says when Long and daughter Catherine Reeves asked him to leave, Rodriguez attacked them both with an aluminum baseball bat.

    Long died at the scene, but Reeves survive and identified Rodriguez. He was arrested later the same day.

    http://www.sfgate.com/news/science/a...#ixzz2VrnvKf3Z
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    More inmates die of natural causes in California and Florida than from the executioner.

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    Prison's deadliest inmate, hepatitis C, escaping

    The most dangerous thing coming out of prison these days may be something most convicts don’t even know they have: hepatitis C.

    Nobody knows how many inmates have the disease; by some estimates, around 40 percent of the 2.2 million in jail and prison are infected, compared with just 2 percent of the general population.

    Eventually, when they are released, medical experts predict they will be a crushing burden on the health care system, perhaps killing as many people as AIDS in years to come. At the same time, they will be carriers, spreading the disease.

    Hepatitis C can be treated, but many prisons do not test for it. Among the reasons: Budgets are tight, and treatment is expensive. So prison officials close their eyes to the gathering emergency and pass it along to the outside world.

    “Right now there’s a golden opportunity to bring solutions to this problem before it hits,” said Dr. John Ward, director of viral hepatitis at the National Center for HIV/AIDS at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta.

    Hepatitis C is already the most common disease of its sort in the United States — a chronic, life-threatening, blood-borne infection. It is most commonly linked to infected needles used for drugs, though prison tattoos and body piercing with non-sterile equipment are also risky.

    What makes this virus particularly insidious is that as many as half of the people who have hepatitis C don’t even know they have it. The “silent killer,” already considered epidemic by the World Health Organization, often remains dormant for decades.

    Some of the infected are lucky: One in five people who get hepatitis C will clear it out of their system naturally. But without treatment, one in four will suffer liver failure or develop liver cancer. Last year liver cancer was the only one of the top 10 fatal cancers in this country to increase, in large part because of hepatitis C.

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    I guess needles are hazardous to the inmates' health on both ways.

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    It's nice to see that the karma in California is doing the job the legal system apparently can't do!

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    Excellent! Cali death row inmate photos are hard to come by!
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