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FREAK NATION Member	Fri Feb 21 16:10:00 http://nyp...arcerated-child-molesters/amp/ NEWS California prisoner confesses to killing two incarcerated child molesters By Associated Press February 20, 2020 | 11:53pm Jonathan Watson confessed to killing two child molesters in prison CORCORAN, Calif. — A California prison inmate confessed in a letter that he beat two child molesters to death with a cane while behind bars just hours after his urgent warning to a counselor that he might become violent was ignored, a newspaper chain reported Thursday. Jonathan Watson, 41, confessed in the letter to the Bay Area News Group in Northern California that he clubbed both men in the head on Jan. 16 at the California Substance Abuse Treatment Facility and State Prison in Corcoran. Prisoner David Bobb, 48, died that day. Graham De Luis-Conti, 62, died three days later at a hospital. Both were serving life sentences for aggravated sexual assault of a child under 14. “We can’t comment on an active investigation,” Dana Simas, spokesman for the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation, wrote in an email. Watson is serving a life sentence for a 2009 murder conviction. Days before the attack, he said his security classification was changed and he was transferred from a single-person cell to a lower-security dormitory pod at the Central Valley facility. Watson called the switch a “careless” mistake and said he had protested the decision. Watson wrote that six days after he arrived at the prison, a child molester moved into the pod. Watson believed the man began taunting other inmates by watching children’s television programming. Watson said in the letter he couldn’t sleep that night “having not done what every instinct told me I should’ve done right then and there.” Two hours before the attacks the next day, Watson told a prison counselor that he urgently needed to be transferred back to higher-level security “before I really (expletive) one of these dudes up,” but the counselor “scoffed and dismissed” him. Watson said he returned to his housing pod. “I was mulling it all over when along came Molester #1 and he put his TV right on PBS Kids again,” he wrote, according to the newspaper chain. “But this time, someone else said something to the effect of ‘Is this guy really going to watch this right in front of us?’ and I recall saying, ‘I got this.’ And I picked up the cane and went to work on him.” Watson said he then left the housing pod to find a guard and turn himself in, but on the way, he saw “a known child trafficker, and I figured I’d just do everybody a favor,” Watson wrote. “In for a penny, in for a pound.” Watson said he then told a guard, who didn’t believe him “until he looked around the corner and saw the mess I’d left in the dorm area,” Watson wrote. Watson is in segregated housing while he is under investigation for the killings. He hasn’t been charged yet. “Being a lifer, I’m in a unique position where I sometimes have access to these people and I have so little to lose,” Watson wrote. “And trust me, we get it, these people are every parents’ worst nightmare.”
kargen Member	Fri Feb 21 17:42:48 no
jergul large member	Fri Feb 21 19:20:50 It would play well with his base, but Trump already has his base. So a pardon would not make any practical sense. Also, the pardon would be for his original crime. Life is life in the US. A couple more murders in jail mean nothing that the president can intercede on.
kargen Member	Fri Feb 21 21:36:31 I don't think the President could pardon him even if he wanted to? He can only be pardoned if the crime is/was a federal crime.
TJ Member	Fri Feb 21 22:16:21 Trump can only pardon federally charged crime. This deranged individual was charged with a State crime and is in State prison. He was facing a life sentence with the possibility of parole in California. No chance of that after his confession of two more State murders.
Paramount Member	Sat Feb 22 03:12:51 So they moved this killer to a low-security dormitory pod, and then they moved two pedos there? The question is WHY? Did someone want the pedos dead? Did the now two dead pedos know something about what Trump, Prince Andrew and Clinton did at Epstein’s parties/gatherings?
Rugian Member	Sat Feb 22 08:59:13 It's hilarious watching the resident Euros display their complete lack of understanding of US federalism in this thread. Maybe you guys need to "employ more researchers" or whatever you call it.
jergul large member	Sat Feb 22 09:11:26 The two slayings could easily be federalized and charged under federal law, then pardoned (they victims were targeted for their percieved sexual orientation after all). But how would that matter as the base drug related murder would still be in force. That was my point. Sorry that it was unclear.
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