California executes its oldest death row inmate minutes after his 76th birthday

SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) — California executed its oldest death row inmate early Tuesday, minutes after his 76th birthday, despite arguments that putting to death an elderly, blind and wheelchair-bound man was cruel and unusual punishment.

Clarence Ray Allen, who was convicted of arranging the murders of four people, was pronounced dead at 12:38 a.m. at San Quentin State Prison. He became the second-oldest inmate executed nationally since the 1976 Supreme Court ruling that allowed capital punishment to resume. click here for complete article

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[Kitsune]

In the Winter Hat Show video, the beautiful lady has a hat with the word PUNISHMENT on it, all in caps. If not exactly "capital punishment", it's at least Punishmewnt with a capital "P". (Not sure what that has to do with anything, but thought I'd better mention it before things get out of hand.)