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    Victim in Texas

    He murdered my best friend Stephen Craig Little (Steve) on Dec 28, 1979 in Dallas. We were 7 years old at the time and lived next door to each other. I miss him everyday. MJR will get his punishment one day. I don't understand why he is still alive!

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    On the 29th of August 2018, Robbins filed another habeas appeal before the California Supreme Court.

    https://appellatecases.courtinfo.ca....9TMCAgCg%3D%3D

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    Man on Death Row for 1980 Killing of Isla Vista Boy Found Dead in Prison Cell

    By Tom Bolton
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    A Death Row inmate from Santa Barbara County — convicted of sodomizing and killing a 6-year-old Isla Vista boy in 1980 — was found dead in his cell at Corcoran State Prison on Friday, according to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation.

    Malcolm Joseph Robbins, 63, one of the longest-serving condemned persons in the state, “was discovered unresponsive in his cell and pronounced deceased by medical staff at 6:33 a.m., with a manner of death identified as natural causes,” the department said in a press release.

    Robbins was 21 years old when he sodomized and murdered Christopher Finney on the afternoon of June 15, 1980.

    Christopher disappeared on the way home from his father’s store in Isla Vista. He was last seen riding on a red motorcycle driven by a blond man wearing shorts.

    The boy’s skeletal remains were found about three months later near the UC Santa Barbara lagoon.

    After being arrested in New Jersey in late 1980 in an unrelated incident, Robbins confessed to sodomizing, strangling and killing Christopher, who the medical examiner determined died of a broken neck.

    Robbins eventually was extradited to Santa Barbara, convicted of first-degree murder, and sentenced to death.

    According to appellate court documents, while Robbins was in custody in New Jersey, he was questioned by law enforcement officials from Texas, West Virginia, New York, Wisconsin, Maine, and other jurisdictions as well as New Jersey and California.

    In addition to murdering Christopher, he confessed to sodomizing and murdering a 7-year-old Dallas boy in 1979, and was suspected of killing a 17-year-old West Virginia boy in 1980.

    He was convicted in 1981 of strangling and killing a 9-year-old New Jersey boy, and was suspected in other killings of boys across the country.

    Robbins led authorities to the bodies of the victims in the West Virginia and New Jersey cases.

    Court documents and testimony at Robbins’ trial painted a picture of his upbringing in Maine marked by parental neglect, physical and sexual abuse abuse, and institutional mistreatment, as well as increasingly serious criminal behavior, according to court documents.

    https://www.noozhawk.com/man-on-deat...n-prison-cell/
    "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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    Robbins in his younger days and more recent photo

    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
    - Oklahoma Rep. Mike Christian

    "There are some people who just do not deserve to live,"
    - Rev. Richard Hawke

    “There are lots of extremely smug and self-satisfied people in what would be deemed lower down in society, who also deserve to be pulled up. In a proper free society, you should be allowed to make jokes about absolutely anything.”
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