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    Richard Euguene Stitely - California

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    Stitely in 2007




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    Richard Stitely was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County on September 14, 1992 for the killing of Carol Unger, 47, on January 19, 1990. Stitely was convicted by the same jury in an unrelated incident of forcible rape against Valery C six months before. Stitely was tied to the rape and murder by DNA tests, after Unger’s body was found in an alley the day after she failed to return home from the White Oak Inn. Witnesses said she left with Stitely. Stitely originally claimed he was not at the bar that night, but changed his story under interrogation.

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    On March 21, 2005, the California Supreme Court affirmed Stitely's sentence on direct appeal.

    On October 3, 2005, the US Supreme Court denied certiorari.

    http://scocal.stanford.edu/opinion/p...-stitely-33496

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    On September 9, 2009, Stitely's habeas case was remanded by the California Supreme Court to Los Angeles County Superior Court for an Atkins (mental retardation) hearing.

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

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    San Quentin Death Row Inmate Dies As Prison Grapples With Large Coronavirus Outbreak

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    Officials at San Quentin State Prison were investigating the death of a condemned inmate following a large outbreak of COVID-19 at the prison.

    The California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation (CDCR) said 71-year-old Richard Eugene Stiley, on San Quentin’s Death Row since 1992, was found unresponsive in his cell Wednesday at 8:38 p.m.

    https://sacramento.cbslocal.com/2020...irus-outbreak/


    All news articles are reporting his name as Stiley,not Stitely.
    "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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    The CDCR press release about his death gives his name as Stitely.

    https://www.cdcr.ca.gov/news/2020/06...-stitely-dies/
    Violence and death seem to be the only answers that some people understand.

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    Deceased San Quentin Death Row Inmate Richard Stitely Tests Positive For COVID-19

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    Richard Stitely, a condemned inmate at San Quentin State Prison that was found unresponsive in his cell last week and pronounced dead, was confirmed Monday to have tested positive for COVID-19 as an outbreak at the prison was spreading exponentially.

    The Marin County Coroner’s Office said the positive test was conducted by the California Department of Public Health as part of a forensic examination of the 71-year-old Stitely, who had been on Death Row since 1992.

    The coroner’s office said the cause, mode and manner of death were undetermined pending additional investigation and toxicology testing.

    Stitely’s death comes as San Quentin has surpassed 1,100 coronavirus infections among prisoners and staff, with seriously ill convicts being transferred to ICU units across the San Francisco Bay Area.

    According to the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation’s web site, there were 1,016 active cases Monday morning among the 3,776 inmates housed at the facility.

    Of those cases, 973 have been confirmed over the last 14 days. None of the infected inmates have recovered from the virus. Among the staff, prison officials said 89 have been confirmed as being infected with six recovering enough to return to work.

    So far, at least 25 inmates were being treated at Bay Area hospitals under heavy security, including Marin General, Seton Medical Center and Saint Francis Hospital in San Francisco.

    Stitely was sentenced to death in Los Angeles County for the 1990 rape and murder of Carol Unger, 47, last seen leaving a bar in Reseda with Stitely.

    There are currently 725 people on San Quentin’s death row. In March of 2019, Governor Gavin Newsom signed an executive order placing a moratorium on executions in California, and ordered the closure of the execution chamber as San Quentin.

    https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/20...-for-covid-19/
    "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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