Court upholds death sentences, but Mother Nature had the last word
Two Southern California juries decided that Teofilo Medina Jr. should be executed for committing four murders in a one-month crime spree in 1984, and a federal appeals court agreed Thursday. But this time, Mother Nature had the last word. Medina, a Death Row inmate since 1987, had been moved to hospice care at a Vacaville prison in January after surgery for cancer that had spread to his brain, his lawyers said. He died there Sunday at age 70. He was the second condemned inmate to die of natural causes in the last week... Читать дальше...