This case calls out loud and clear for imposition of the death penalty. Had this multiple murderer been sentenced to death, his former cellmate would in all likelihood be alive today.
The human rights activists who keep screaming for abolition of the death penalty don’t seem to realize that the vermin they are trying to save do not deserve to walk among the living.
EX-ATWATER FEDERAL PRISON INMATE CHARGED IN 2003 HOMICIDE
By Denny Walsh
The Sacramento Bee
March 23, 2012
An inmate at a federal prison in Merced County was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the 2003 death of his cellmate.
Shortly after a grand jury indictment against Samuel Richard Stone was filed in Fresno federal court, the government filed a notice that it will seek the death penalty.
The indictment alleges that Stone murdered Michael Anita on July 30, 2003, while they were housed in a segregation unit at the U.S. penitentiary in Atwater.
At the time, Stone was serving a life sentence for two separate homicides in 1999, according to a joint news release from the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento.
Stone, 32, "from at least age 15 and continuing into his adult life, engaged in a continuing pattern of violent criminal conduct," the notice of intent states.
The Anita murder "involved serious physical abuse to the victim," and was committed "after substantial planning and premeditation," the notice says.
Further, it says, Stone "has displayed no remorse for the murder," and he "poses a continuing danger" to inmates, prison guards and other officials "at correctional institutions where he is or will be incarcerated."
Stone is an inmate at the U.S. penitentiary in Lewisburg, Pa.
The Atwater prison is a high security facility for adult males. It also has a minimum security satellite camp. It is on property that was once part of the now-decommissioned Castle Air Force Base. As of Thursday, the prison had 1,406 inmates and the camp 138.
Atwater is a community of 28,000 on Highway 99 eight miles north of Merced.
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