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Brooke Marie Rottiers Women On Death Row

Brooke Marie Rottiers was convicted of a murder that would end up with her taking up residence on California death row. According to court documents Brooke Marie Rottiers and two others would convince two men to go to their hotel room where they were brutally murdered and robbed. Brooke Rottiers who was working as a hooker convinced the two men to follow her to a hotel room where the other two people were waiting. Once inside of the room the men were forced to strip and then were beaten and then strangled. The trio would dispose of the bodies however they were soon under arrest and it did not take long for the criminals to turn on each other. Brooke Rottiers would be the only on to end up on death row.

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Inmate Name	ROTTIERS, BROOKE MARIE
CDCR Number	WA8232
Age	39
Admission Date	10/27/2010
Current Location	Central California Women’s Facility
Location Link	Directions
Parole Eligible Date (Month/Year)	CONDEMNED

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Three separate juries have convicted a prostitute, her boyfriend and another woman who lured two men to a Corona motel room where they were robbed and killed.Jurors, all hearing evidence in the same case, found Brooke Rottiers, Omar Tyree Hutchinson and Franchune Dyuel Epps guilty of murder and a special circumstance of robbery. The verdicts were read Friday.

The penalty phase for Brooke Rottiers began Tuesday. Jurors will determine if she should face a death sentence. Epps and Hutchinson both face life in prison without parole.The trio was convicted of killing Marvin Gabriel, 22, and Milton Chavez, 28, two Riverside day laborers whose decomposing bodies were found by Riverside County sheriff’s deputies hogtied with electrical cords and bright-pink duct tape. The men were gagged with panties and found with plastic bags around their neck with bras and cords, according to court records.Authorities found the bodies when inspecting an abandoned Honda Accord left in the Gavilan Hills area in August 2006, near Lake Mathews in Riverside County.Prosecutors said two men went to the El Paraiso bar in Riverside the night of the killing.

Cell phone records show Brooke Marie Rottiers, now 30, who was working as a prostitute, was in the same area with Epps, 26.The two men and the defendants then went to a Corona motel. Epps was accused of pulling a gun as Brooke Marie Rottiers ordered Hutchinson to strip them down and rob them. Brooke Rottiers believed she may have killed one of the men accidentally, Deputy District Attorney Sean Lafferty said. Rottiers then beat the two men and strangled them.Hutchinson’s attorney, Ryan Markson said Hutchinson admitted to helping her dispose of the bodies but denied taking part in the robbery.A motel guest told detectives Brooke Rottiers, who went by the nickname “Kraizie” described how the men were strangled and smothered with pillowcases as they suffered. Brooke Rottiers, who was arguing with Hutchinson about borrowing a car, said she was worried about police finding her DNA. In the room, police found the same pink duct tape used to tape a plastic bag over one man’s head after a wash cloth was shoved down his throat.”It’s horrific. It’s one of the most disturbing murders I’ve seen”, Lafferty said. “It’s not an instantaneous death. It’s a very personal brutal, intimate way to kill somebody”.

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A prostitute has been sentenced to death for her role in luring
two day laborers to a Corona motel before strangling them.

Judge Helios Hernandez followed a Riverside jury’s
recommendation that Brooke Marie Rottiers, 30, of Corona, receive
the death penalty, rather than life in prison, for her crimes.

Brooke Marie Rottiers was convicted of two counts of murder committed during
a robbery for the August 2006 deaths of Marvin Gabriel, 22, and
Milton Chavez, 28.

The decomposed bodies of both men were found later, hogtied and
gagged in the trunk of an abandoned car in the Gavilan Hills area
of Lake Mathews.

Omar Tyree Hutchinson, 34, and Franchune Dyuel Epps, 26, were
also convicted of murder, but prosecutors did not seek the death
penalty in their cases. They were convicted in participating in the
killing by holding both men at gunpoint and helping dispose of the
bodies.

Prosecutors said Brooke Marie Rottiers met the victims in a Riverside bar and
lured them to the motel with promises of sex. Rottiers ordered them
to strip at gunpoint before tying them up and robbing them. She
then beat them and strangled them with electrical cords and women’s
underwear.

“The deaths of the two victims was prolonged. It was not quick.
The victims had time to appreciate their impending doom,” Hernandez
said, according to court minutes. “The defendant had time to
appreciate the victims’ impending death.”

The judge declined a defense attorney’s motion to reduce the
sentence to life in prison.

“We showed strong evidence that when Ms. Rottiers was not on
drugs and homeless, she actually took good care of her kids and her
family,” Rottiers’ attorney Chad Firetag said. “This was not to
excuse the crime and denigrate what happened.”

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Maureen McDermott Women On Death Row

Maureen McDermott has been on California Death Row for nearly three decades for a murder that she mastermind. According to court documents McDermott decided to kill the victim, her roommate, in order to collect the mortgage insurance so she convinced someone to help her who would hire two other people who would actually commit the murder. The victims private parts were severed in order to point the police into believing it was a gay murder. McDermott master plan failed brilliantly and eventually she would be convicted of murder and sentenced to death

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On April 28, 1985, Stephen Eldridge was brutally stabbed to death in the home he shared with defendant, Maureen McDermott. It was undisputed at trial that the actual killers were Jimmy Luna (a former coworker and personal friend of defendant’s) and two brothers whom Luna had hired for the murder, Marvin and Dondell Lee.

The prosecution’s theory at McDermott’s trial was that defendant had hired Luna to kill Eldridge so she could obtain sole ownership of a house she co-owned with Eldridge and collect $100,000 under an insurance policy she had on Eldridge’s life. Luna (who had pled guilty to first degree murder) and both Marvin and Dondell Lee (who had received complete immunity and were never charged with the murder) testified against defendant. Maureen McDermott denied complicity in Eldridge’s murder.

Prosecution evidence At the time of Stephen Eldridge’s murder in 1985, McDermott was 37 years old. During the day, she worked as a registered nurse at a hospital (Los Angeles County-USC Medical Center), and in the evening she provided nursing care to Lee La Porte at his home. McDermott shared a house in Van Nuys with Eldridge, a 27-year-old, self-employed landscaper. They owned the property as joint tenants. In December 1984, McDermott and Eldridge had each bought $100,000 in life insurance, designating each other as beneficiary. [28 Cal.4th 963] In early 1985, defendant’s relationship with Eldridge deteriorated. Eldridge complained about the unkempt condition of the house and about defendant’s pets. McDermott was upset about Eldridge’s treatment of her pets and his plans to sell his interest in the house.

Near the end of February 1985, McDermott discussed with Jimmy Luna, a hospital coworker and personal friend, a plan to kill Eldridge. Maureen McDermott told Luna that she had an insurance policy on Eldridge’s life and that she wanted him dead. She offered Luna $50,000 to kill Eldridge, and he agreed. Defendant told Luna that she wanted Eldridge stabbed because a gun would make too much noise, and that she wanted the killing to look like a “homosexual murder” because she thought the police would not investigate the murder of a homosexual as vigorously as other killings. To make the murder look like a homosexual killing, defendant on different occasions suggested that Luna carve out the word “gay” on the body with a knife or cut off the victim’s penis.

On three occasions in late February and early March of 1985, McDermott arranged for Luna to be at the house she shared with Eldridge so Luna could kill Eldridge. Each time, however, Luna became frightened and could not carry out the murder. Maureen McDermott then suggested to Luna that he find someone to help him kill Eldridge, but she told him she did not want anyone but Luna to know of her involvement.

In March 1985, Luna asked his friend Marvin Lee to help him commit the murder. He told Marvin that an “organization” wanted someone killed, and he offered Marvin $3,000 to “watch [his] back.” Marvin agreed. In later conversations, Luna told Marvin that the intended victim was a homosexual and that Luna would castrate the victim to make it look like a “homosexual murder.”

In the evening of March 21, 1985, Luna and Marvin knocked on the door of the house where defendant and Eldridge lived. As Eldridge opened the door, Luna and Marvin forced their way inside. Threatening Eldridge with a knife, Luna ordered him to crawl on his hands and knees into the bedroom and to lie facedown on the bed. Luna then cut Eldridge on the buttocks with the knife and yelled homosexual epithets at him. From another room, Marvin retrieved a two-foot-long bedpost, with which Luna struck Eldridge on the head. Eldridge jumped up and ran out of the house. Luna and Marvin left. Los Angeles Police Officer David Yates, who was dispatched to investigate the attack on Eldridge, found him at the house dressed only in his underwear and covered in blood. An ambulance took Eldridge to a hospital for treatment.

The next day, Maureen McDermott spoke on the telephone with Luna about the failed murder attempt, telling him, “we are going to have to do it again, and this [28 Cal.4th 964] time you can’t fail.” After March 21 but before April 28, 1985, there were several telephone conversations between defendant and Luna. During one of these conversations, Marvin was with Luna, and he listened in as defendant discussed the murder plan and what they would do with the anticipated insurance proceeds. Maureen McDermott objected to Marvin’s participation in the planned murder; she said that if Marvin told anyone about it, that Luna would “have to kill that nigger too.” Luna assured her that Marvin was trustworthy and would not say anything. Marvin’s brother Dondell overheard part of this conversation when Marvin passed him the telephone.

On the day of the murder, April 28, 1985, Luna met Marvin and Dondell Lee, and Luna offered Dondell money to help commit the murder. Luna then made several telephone calls to defendant, during which defendant told Luna that she would leave a front bedroom window open for entry into the house and that Luna should tie her up and cut or hit her so she would look like a robbery victim. Around 8:15 p.m., Luna, Marvin, and Dondell entered the house through the front bedroom window. Luna went down the hall to defendant’s bedroom, where defendant told him that Eldridge had not yet returned from a dinner engagement. Maureen McDermott told Luna to cut her on the breast and inner thigh, which he did, to make it appear that Eldridge was killed when he came home while defendant was being robbed. Around 10:40 p.m., Eldridge came home.

When he entered the house, Dondell Lee met him with a rifle owned by defendant, but provided to him by Luna. Marvin Lee then grabbed Eldridge by the neck in a chokehold and took him down the hall, where Luna repeatedly stabbed him until he slumped to the floor. Luna then returned to Maureen McDermott’s bedroom, where he found defendant lying on the floor with a facial injury. Maureen McDermott asked Luna how the injury looked, saying she had banged her head on a table in the bedroom. As Luna and the two Lee brothers were about to leave the house, Marvin Lee overheard defendant yell from the back bedroom not to forget to cut off Eldridge’s penis. Luna did so.

Los Angeles County Deputy Medical Examiner Susan Selser performed the autopsy. She testified that Eldridge had been stabbed 44 times and that his penis was cut off postmortem. Of the 44 stab wounds, 28 were independently fatal. On May 23, 1985, Luna was taken into custody for questioning, but he was released within 72 hours. On July 2, 1985, he was arrested for the first degree murder of Eldridge.

In August 1985, Maureen McDermott was also arrested. She [28 Cal.4th 965] was charged with attempted murder, and murder and special circumstance allegations of murder for financial gain and lying in wait. Marvin Lee, who was in custody for an unrelated offense, was granted immunity for the murder of Eldridge in exchange for his confession and truthful testimony. In August 1986, Dondell Lee was granted immunity while in the custody of the California Youth Authority. In July 1989, Luna entered into a plea agreement under which he pled guilty to first degree murder and agreed to testify truthfully in the prosecution of Maureen McDermott.

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Maureen McDermott was convicted of a brutal murder for insurance money

Veronica Gonzales Women On Death Row

Veronica Gonzales and her husband Ivan Gonzales were for some reason looking after their niece who was four years old whose mother was in drug rehab and her father was in prison for child molestation. The little girl was beaten and starved for months before being severely scalded when she was thrown into a bathtub which would end up causing her death. Veronica Gonzales and Ivan Gonzales would be arrested and charged with multiple crimes including child abuse, torture and murder. Both would be convicted on all charges and both would be sentenced to death and sent to California Death Row

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Inmate Name	GONZALES, VERONICA UTILA
CDCR Number	W74886
Age	50
Admission Date	07/22/1998
Current Location	Central California Women’s Facility
Location Link	Directions
Parole Eligible Date (Month/Year)	CONDEMNED

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The state Supreme Court upheld the death sentence Thursday for a woman who was convicted along with her husband for the torture and murder of 4-year-old Genny Rojas in what was called the worst case of child abuse in San Diego County history.

Veronica Gonzales was sentenced to death in July 1998 for the murder of Genny, her niece. The child had been burned in a bathtub of scalding hot water, submerged until the skin peeled off her body.

Veronica and her husband, Ivan, waited several hours before calling authorities.

The subsequent investigation revealed the burning was only the last example of what Associate Justice Carol Corrigan wrote was “a prolonged and varied course of abuse.” Trial testimony revealed the couples’ two-bedroom Chula Vista apartment had become a house of horrors for the girl, with testimony so graphic it haunted jurors and investigators long after the trial was over.

She was beaten repeatedly, burned with a blow dryer on her face and upper body, and handcuffed and hung from a bar inside a closet for hours at a time. She had come to live with the methamphetamine-addicted couple, who had six children of their own, when her own mother headed to a drug rehabilitation program.

Ivan Gonzales was also sentenced to death. The two are the first married couple ever sentenced to death row in California history.

Though Genny died 16 years ago and the two were sentenced in 1998, this is the first appeal for Veronica Gonzales, who is housed at Chowchilla women’s prison in central California. She can now pursue appeals in the federal courts, which could take years, and second habeas corpus appeal in state courts.

The Supreme Court has not yet set a hearing on the first appeal for Ivan Gonzales.

The 80-page opinion rejected a variety of attacks on the verdict from Gonzales. She had claimed she was a battered woman dominated by her husband, but Corrigan rejected that and said evidence showed Veronica was the dominant person in the marriage.

While agreeing to uphold the guilty verdict, Associate Justice Rebecca Wiseman — an appellate court judge who was assigned to hear the case in place of retired Justice Carlos Moreno — said the death sentence should be reversed.

She wrote that closing argument by then-prosecutor and current San Diego Superior Court Judge Dan Goldstein was improper because Goldstein read an emotional letter he wrote to the dead girl. Wiseman said such a powerful appeal to jurors’ emotions was improper and merited reversing the death sentence.

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Veronica Gonzales was convicted in the child abuse death of a four year old child

Susan Eubanks Women On Death Row

Susan Eubanks is another woman on California Death Row that murdered her children and in this case there were four aged between four to fourteen. Eubanks would shoot each child in the head before shooting herself in the stomach. According to court documents Susan Eubanks was in an argument with her boyfriend while she was drinking and taking valium and when she arrived at her home she would grab a gun and fatally shoot the four children. Susan Eubanks would be convicted of all four murders and sentenced to death

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Inmate Name	EUBANKS, SUSAN DIANNE
CDCR Number	W82266
Age	55
Admission Date	10/20/1999
Current Location	Central California Women’s Facility
Location Link	Directions
Parole Eligible Date (Month/Year)	CONDEMNED

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On October 26, 1999, Susan Eubanks of San Marcos, California took the lives of her four sons. The boys, ranging in age from 4-14, were all shot in the head. She then turned the gun and shot herself in the stomach. According to her defense lawyers, she shot herself as a result of an attempted suicide.

Only one other person was in the home at the time of the killings, Ms. Eubank’s 5-year-old nephew, who was found unharmed.After spending the day drinking with her boyfriend and taking Valium, they began to fight.

Once home, Eubanks then slashed 2 tires on his car and refused to let him in the home. He called the police and they then escorted him to the home, where he removed some belongings and left. According to her defense team, this was the catalyst of the killings. They claimed that it was then that she lost control of her mind and body.

After warning one of the boys’ fathers, as to her diminished mental state (The boyfriend told the father that she “Talked about killing herself and the boys”), the father then called the police department. He asked the Sheriffs Department to check on the children. When the deputies arrived at the home, they heard sobbing, and inside, found the three older boys dead from gunshot wounds to the head. The youngest was not yet dead, so an ambulance was called to the scene.The four year old boys was still was then rushed by ambulance to the hospital, where he would later die. They then found the 5th child, her nephew unharmed. They also found Susan Eubanks sobbing and suffering from a self-inflicted gunshot wound. She was also sent to the hospital.

After 5 days, Eubanks was charged with 4 counts of first-degree murder.The trail began in August of 1999 and the prosecuting attorneys alleged that Susan Eubanks had killed her sons as a result of rage. The rage was a result of anger felt toward their fathers and the boyfriend, whom had all chosen to leave her. It was claimed that she felt the desire to seek revenge for the failure of the relationships; that she had wanted the fathers to also know the pain of loosing those that had been loved.

The defense lawyers claimed that the murders took place as a result of “blacking” out; that as a result of a diminished state of mind, she was not in control of her actions. It was claimed that after spending the day drinking and using prescription drugs, along with past heartaches and current domestic disturbance, that she then became a “robot” and did what she thought would remove her pain.During the trial, it was noted that there had been allegations of child abuse and talk of revenge prior to the murders.

Prosecutors claimed that she was not suffering from a “black out” because she had to load her weapon twice before she had finished; thus giving her ample time to realize what she was doing and stop. It was also noted that while she had killed her sons “execution style”, she had only shot herself in the stomach to. It was noted that she surely would know how to kill herself, after murdering 4 others. Prosecuting attorneys believed that Susan Eubanks had shot herself to increase her chances of a lesser charge, or possibly to frame someone else for the murders.In August of 1999, after just 2 hours of deliberation, the jury found her guilty on all four counts of first-degree murder. After 2 days, they returned with the sentence of death. The judge agreed with the sentence in October of 1999 and Susan Eubanks was then transferred to the Central California’s Women’s Facility, where she now remains on death row.

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Kerry Lyn Dalton Women On Death Row

Kerry Lyn Dalton is on death row in California for a torture murder. For some reason Wikipedia says she was resentenced to twenty five years to life however California Department Of Corrections says she is still on death row. What put her on death row is a brutal murder where a woman was tortured using frying pans and a syringe full of battery acid.

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Inmate Name	DALTON, KERRY LYN
CDCR Number	W42583
Age	66
Admission Date	04/15/1992
Current Location	Central California Women’s Facility
Location Link	Directions
Parole Eligible Date (Month/Year)	CONDEMNED

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Three people were arrested in a torture-murder case in which no body was found after they admitted–and in several instances bragged about–their roles in the crime, it was revealed in court Tuesday.

A preliminary hearing is being held to determine if the three should stand trial on murder charges for killing Irene (Melanie) May in June, 1988. In addition to attacking her with a knife, a screwdriver and a frying pan, they allegedly injected the victim with battery acid. Richard L. Cooksey, a district attorney investigator with the Metropolitan Homicide Task Force, testified Tuesday that Mark Lee Thompkins, 29; Kerry Lyn Dalton, 39; and Sheryl Ann Baker, 28, implicated themselves in the murder in a mobile home in the isolated East County community of Live Oak Springs.

According to one of his acquaintances, Thompkins explained how the three planned to give May a fatal injection in retribution for stealing some items belonging to Dalton, Cooksey testified. Thompkins said the victim was given electrical shocks and then a skillet was used to smash her knees, according to the statement given by Donald McNeely. The body was cut up and the parts were buried on two Indian reservations to make it hard for police to obtain search warrants, Cooksey quoted McNeely as saying. Kerry Lyn Dalton and Baker also allegedly admitted to other people their role in the killing, according to the evidence. Municipal Judge Lawrence Stirling is expected to decide if the three should stand trial in Superior Court at the conclusion of the preliminary hearing.

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They stood in front of a shopping mall, shackled together, heads down, nameplates dangling around their necks, bearing the names of men and women who have died on America’s death row.

Cal Brown.

Teresa Lewis.

Cameron Todd Willingham.

Behind them, stood Victoria Ann Thorpe, dark makeup painted on her cheeks and a sign painted to look like blood stains waving above her head: “Their blood is on our hands.”

Somehow, despite Thorpe’s gory exterior, she’s approachable.

“Would you like information on the death penalty?” she asks shoppers as they exit the mall, unable to avert their eyes from the scene in front of them. She hands them a clipboard and one by one, they fill out postcards showing their support to abolish the death penalty in Washington. The cards will later be sent to state lawmakers. The group has also protested at Gonzaga University and so far has collected more than 200 signatures.

Thorpe, along with the Safe and Just Alternatives organization and The Inland Northwest Death Penalty Abolition Group, is seeking to pass a state law to replace the death penalty in Washington state with life without parole.

Some passersby wave Thorpe away. Some argue.

“The Bible says eye for an eye,” says one man, clutching a novel by Frank Peretti, a popular Christian fiction author.

“I understand sir, but…”

He interrupts, anger rising, “If you want to let them all go, then you can’t complain when they come into your house and kill you!”

He storms away.

What the man doesn’t know is that Thorpe’s older sister, Kerry Lyn Dalton, has been on California’s death row for almost 18 years. (On Nov. 6, Californians will vote on a ballot initiative that will decide whether to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility of parole.)

Thorpe remembers when she got that phone call in 1992.

“Vickie, I been arrested for something — something real bad … You’ll see it in the paper but don’t believe it! Not any of it!,”

Kerry Lyn Dalton, a methamphetamine addict, had called for help before. But this was different. Her words were mumbled. Her voice was nasally. She was hysterical.

“They say I — I — I killed someone.”

Thorpe writes about the phone call in her new book, “Cages” where she tells the story of her troubled childhood and her sister’s murder trial. She also writes about her own spiritual transformation from “Bible toting right-wing Christian…(who) wore long loose dresses and sensible shoes” to a survivor of spiritual abuse, forging her own divine path.

“Women were worthless in my family, absolutely worthless,” she recalls.

Today, she considers herself a spiritual person, but not somebody who subscribes to a particular denomination — anything that stands for compassion is something she can support, she says.

There’s no evidence of such fragmented confidence when Thorpe speaks publicly about her sister, about “Cages,” or about the injustices of the death penalty. With a tender smile she responds to all questions and contentions.

No, she says, the death penalty isn’t a violent crime deterrent.

No, she says, life without parole isn’t more expensive than an execution.

No, she says, her sister didn’t kill Irene “Melanie” Louise May.

Kerry Lyn Dalton was accused of torturing and murdering May in 1988 at a mobile home park in Live Oak Springs, California. She was arrested in 1992, convicted of first degree murder in 1995, and sentenced to death by lethal injection.

In “Cages,” Thorpe explains that her sister was sentenced based on hearsay evidence. According to court records, Kerry Lyn Dalton allegedly killed May using a cast-iron frying pan, a knife and a syringe filled with battery acid. But there was no crime scene, she notes. No evidence. Not even a dead body; May was never found.

Thorpe, who spent three years writing “Cages” and has re-read the 4,000 page court transcript again and again, maintains that her sister was wrongly accused as a way to get attention off the San Diego Metropolitan Homicide Task Force, which had been unable to solve a series of serial murders in the area.

“By the end of the book I think there should be a sinking feeling of’Oh, wait a minute, how’d they convict her?’” Thorpe says.

Kerry Lyn Dalton is still waiting for her first appeal.

“My viewpoint used to be that the system was wonderful and perfect and only out for justice,” Thorpe said in interview. “I thought the district attorney was the truth seeker. And I thought prosecutors were looking for the truth. Nope.”

Thorpe, of course, wants her sister’s case re-examined. But, she says, even if her sister were guilty, “I wouldn’t want her tortured in a cage, waiting to be killed, like she is now.”

And Kerry Lyn Dalton literally is living in a cage — nine cells with a’cage’ over it where she lives with 19 other women at the Central California’s Women’s Facility. (Some of the women sleep outside of the cage because of space limitations). The special enclosure was built in 1991 when the first women were sent there to await execution.

“It’s just like a zoo cage. It’s heavy mesh with a metal roof. Nobody goes in, and nobody goes out,” Thorpe described.

The death penalty is legal in 33 states, including Washington, which has seven people “on the row.” But there has been an increased focus on the justice of the system. Since 1992, 15 death row inmates have been wrongfully accused and released back into society, according to The Innocence Project.

Thorpe believes there are numerous innocent people in prison, but says that’s not the only reason why she wants the death penalty abolished. She says the death penalty is itself an evil that ruins lives by promoting revenge

‘The death penalty doesn’t work, we cannot reconcile the past,” she said. “It stigmatizes the convicted as monsters, allowing us not to think of them as humans, taking away the guilt … and allowing the state to kill another human being.”

Jesus, she says, wouldn’t stand for such a thing.

“Nothing that he did or said can be manipulated into harshness. He’s an example of a loving human being,” she said, adding that people need to learn a convict’s story, before judging them.

“I believe good is at the heart of everything and love is at the heart of everything and pain and hate comes from hurt and injury.”

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Kerry Lyn Dalton was convicted of a torture murder