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    Pedro Arias - California





    Summary of Offense:

    Convicted of the stabbing death on May 23, 1987 of Herbert J. John Waltrip, Jr., 22, during a minimart robbery, and the kidnapping, sexual assault and robbery two weeks later of a woman motorist he forced off the road. There were three witnesses in the store and it was caught on camera. Prior to the murder, Arias had a long criminal history. Arias disrupted his trial by tearing off his shirt and pants in front of the jury.

    Arias was sentenced to death in Sacramento County on February 22, 1990.

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    On April 11, 1996, the California Supreme Court upheld Arias' death sentence on direct appeal.

    http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-arias-31292

    On June 2, 1997, the US Supreme Court denied his certiorari petition.

    On March 29, 1999, Arias filed a habeas petition, which is still pending, in Federal District Court.

    http://dockets.justia.com/docket/cal...v00627/122423/

    On March 17, 2003, he filed a state habeas petition.

    http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/people-v-arias-31292

    On September 7, 2008, his state habeas petition was denied by the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...doc_no=S114347

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    Arias filed another habeas petition on August 23, 2017 before the California Supreme Court.

    http://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca.g...lRMCAgCg%3D%3D

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    San Quentin death-row inmate Arias dies in hospital

    Coroner will determine cause of death, COVID-19 status

    By George Kelly
    The Mercury News

    SAN QUENTIN — A 58-year-old man convicted of murder who was also serving a life sentence without parole died Sunday of apparent COVID-19 complications, state prison officials said.

    In a statement Sunday evening, state prison officials said death-row inmate Pedro Arias had been receiving treatment at an outside hospital, and that a coroner will pronounce an exact cause of death for Romero, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation said.

    Arias had been on death row since March 5, 1990, nearly two weeks after his Sacramento County sentencing for first-degree murder and second-degree robbery while armed with a firearm.

    He had also received a life sentence without parole after convictions for kidnapping for ransom, penetration with a foreign object, attempted sodomy, lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14, sodomy of a child under 14, two counts of forcible rape, second-degree robbery and enhancements for the use of a firearm.

    At least two dozen San Quentin prisoners have died, including several sent to Bay Area medical centers for treatment in the wake of a COVID-19 outbreak that has sickened more than a thousand prisoners.

    Last weekend, protesters sought to marshal support to ease the pandemic’s deadly impact within state prison facilities. On Sunday, a prison guard who had been battling the illness succumbed.

    Arias was one of 714 people awaiting execution on California’s Death Row, though Gov. Gavin Newsom has effectively suspended the death penalty here.

    https://www.mercurynews.com/2020/08/...s-in-hospital/
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    20 Years at Federal and he was still being granted extensions. Yet another meal ticket for an attorney gone.
    "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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    I am glad he is dead!

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