Midnight execution looms

[Judi Lynn]

Midnight execution looms
California's oldest death row inmate tied to 4 murders

Monday, January 16, 2006; Posted: 11:21 a.m. EST (16:21 GMT)


Clarence Ray Allen is scheduled to be executed shortly after midnight.
FRESNO, California (AP) -- Dusk had just fallen on the night of September 5, 1980, when Jack Abbott heard gunshots at the general store next door. He grabbed his shotgun and vaulted the wall separating their properties.

"I could see them in there, someone with a gun in their hand. I could see somebody lying on the floor," Abbott recalled during a recent interview.

Inside, he found the bodies of two clerks, Douglas Scott White, 18, and Josephine Rocha, 17. The owners' son, Bryon Schletewitz, 27, was dead in the stockroom. Abbott was shot in the back, but he still managed to shoot the fleeing intruder in the foot.

The killings at Fran's Market that night put two men on death row: a 32-year-old newly paroled convict named Billy Ray Hamilton, and Clarence Ray Allen, the man who ordered the attack from prison.
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http://www.cnn.com/2006/LAW/01/16/allen.execution.ap/index.html

[maddezmom]

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