California inmate Brandon Wilson commits suicide on death row

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; margin-right: 1em; text-align: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NChRHTC3szcodC0x0Mej6xeDa4uvrYaYGKnxByVNolyZpCS9hTw9Sf1i_PrDbAxOHg0gqQFHB5A4SYzEW1kS4hyphenhyphenIqiMNVcr0OzIWRcZxM6sj1SuHynUXWQyTENHl7PmNwBIpaUDhHRw/s1600/California+Death+Row_+A+guard+stands+watch+over+the+condemned+prisoners+housed+in+East+Block+during+a+media+tour+of+death+row+a.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img alt="San Quentin's death row, California" border="0" height="225" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi_NChRHTC3szcodC0x0Mej6xeDa4uvrYaYGKnxByVNolyZpCS9hTw9Sf1i_PrDbAxOHg0gqQFHB5A4SYzEW1kS4hyphenhyphenIqiMNVcr0OzIWRcZxM6sj1SuHynUXWQyTENHl7PmNwBIpaUDhHRw/s400/California+Death+Row_+A+guard+stands+watch+over+the+condemned+prisoners+housed+in+East+Block+during+a+media+tour+of+death+row+a.jpg" title="San Quentin's death row, California" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">San Quentin's death row, California</td></tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: justify;">SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a California death row inmate who killed a 9-year-old Oceanside boy has hanged himself in his cell.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">State corrections officials tell the San Diego Union-Tribune (<a href="http://bit.ly/2jggvtH" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/2jggvtH</a>) that Brandon Wilson was found dead Thursday at San Quentin State Prison.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The 33-year-old was convicted of slitting the throat of Matthew Cecchi in an Oceanside Harbor restaurant in 1998.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The Oroville boy was in town for a family reunion.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">Wilson, a drifter from Wisconsin, said he'd taken LSD and believed God had told him to kill people.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">He was captured two days later after stabbing a woman during a robbery in Hollywood. She survived.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br /></div><div style="text-align: justify;">At his murder trial, Wilson told jurors he had no remorse and told them to recommend the death penalty or he would kill again.</div><br />Source: The Associated Press, January 14, 2017<br /><br /><div style="text-align: center;">⚑ | Report an error, an omission; suggest a story or a new angle to an existing story; submit a piece; recommend a resource; contact the webmaster, contact us: <a href="mailto:deathpenaltynews@gmail.com">deathpenaltynews@gmail.com</a>.</div><br /><table border="0" cellpadding="4" cellspacing="4" style="background-color: white; border-collapse: collapse; border: 0px solid rgb(255, 204, 0); color: black; text-align: center; width: 100%;"><tbody><tr> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: right;"><a href="https://www.facebook.com/WebDPN/" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhL4sspwgGptzvuHVklum5TwxKppRN-lIC5TN8RLZFq_B4ZOtBrX1ssXPNKQ6XpSyQFRJRtVQN45HMkpt3VX0JtOW0TovwxZAurG-AV6gh98IAXo7Ip6QlpkZr9WrM3_m943Mwy-gGxBAY/s1600/Find+us+Facebook.jpg" /></a></div></td> <td><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><a href="https://twitter.com/WebDPN" target="_blank"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiULIPEaT_P6oIauxAZd17XRRxljesDLS7iIjdQXT7Xct99uHeohx4IYmiAB6S044gTjMDGSy50sL2vDzOyPZ-3vJj9zwcYQ2rgzJh9v1-QDiunKAQtLLLqJ83s38qN3HABxGIC8GsIOD0/s1600/Find+us+twitter.jpg" /></a><span id="goog_1427852018"></span><span id="goog_1427852019"></span><a href="https://www.blogger.com/"></a></div></td> </tr></tbody></table><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"><br /><b>Opposed to Capital Punishment? Help us keep this blog up and running! <a href="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=JBVXEBZLP3WKW" target="_blank">DONATE!</a></b></div><form action="https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr" method="post" target="_blank"><div style="text-align: center;"><img alt="" border="0" height="1" src="https://www.paypalobjects.com/fr_FR/i/scr/pixel.gif" width="1" /></div></form><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div><div style="text-align: center;"></div>

California inmate Brandon Wilson commits suicide on death row

San Quentin's death row, California SAN QUENTIN, Calif. (AP) - Authorities say a California death row inmate who killed a 9-year-old Oce...

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