IN MEMORY OF THE 4 VICTIMS MURDERED BY CLARENCE RAY ALLEN (EXECUTED IN CALIFORNIA ON 17 JANUARY 2006)

            On this date (17 January 2006), Clarence Ray Allen was executed by lethal injection in California. As of today, he is the last person to be put to death by the State of California. To learn more about this ruthless killer, click here.

            I post this today to remember the four innocent victims whose lives were lost, bear in mind, 3 of them were killed even when Allen was behind bars. 

Bryon Schletewitz

Douglas Scott White

Josephine Linda Rocha

Mary Sue Kitts

QUOTE 1: “I’m trying to do what my father wants me to…Speak from my heart, tell how we feel. Tell why we want the state to carry out the execution.”

QUOTE 2: Patricia Pendergrass, sister of victim Bryon Schletewitz, told ABC News: "His mind is still very clear. His mind is just the way it was when he was 50 years old and planned this heinous crime.

"He knows exactly why he will be taken into that execution chamber."

"It will close a chapter for me," said Schletewitz's sister, Patricia Pendergrass, who is the last surviving member of her family.

Patricia Pendergrass, sister of victim Bryon Schletewitz, one of Clarence Ray Allen’s victims. Clarence Ray Allen (January 16, 1930 – January 17, 2006) was an American murderer who was executed by lethal injection on January 17, 2006 at San Quentin State Prison in California for the murders of three people. At age 76, he became the second oldest inmate to be executed in the United States since 1976. (John B. Nixon of Mississippi was executed in December 2005 at age 77). He remains (as of May 2010) the last inmate executed in California. Pro-death penalty activists cite Allen's actions as a reason to support capital punishment in the United States. He was already serving a life sentence for one murder when he was convicted of organizing the killing of three more people.