Death Row Inmate Randy Garcia - Another Talented Poet

Yet another talented poet awaits death by lethal injection in California, due to our barbaric justice system that insists on killing innocent model citizens.

You can read all about Randy Garcia's plight all over the Internet. All you have to do is google Randy Garcia and you will find dozens of web sites defending this 37 year old, and looking for donations for appeals and, hopefully, make him a free man so he can continue with his poetry and never ending quest for pen pals.

Canadian Citizens Against the Death Penalty have provided Randy with a web site where he can exhibit his poetry as well as photos of himself (one draped only in a towel) and ask for pen pals. Randy is lonely in prison, he's been on death row since 1995, after being convicted of murder in 1993. The photos he's posted show a young man about 25 years old; the age he was when he entered death row. Apparently, he hasn't changed them; probably in an attempt to attract more female admirers.

But you'll have to look a bit harder for the crime he committed. And you will not find one memorial page about his victims. The only thing you'll find is a brief summary about the crime.

On May 8, 1993, Garcia broke into the home of Joseph and Lynn Finzel, 29 and 28 respectively. Mr. Finzel was not at home and their baby daughter was asleep in her crib.

Garcia immediately tied Mrs. Finzel to the bed and attempted to rape her. Her husband interrupted everything by returning home, at which time, he was shot by Garcia with his own gun. A gun Garcia found in the house. He then turned around and shot Mrs. Finzel.

In fear for her baby daughter's life, Mrs. Finzel played "dead" for two hours. The bed which she was tied up on was a water bed and the water was seeping to the surface. Not only did Mrs. Finzel have to pretend to be dead, she had to try to keep from drowning. Or crying out as Garcia heartlessly ransacked the house, even stealing the wedding ring off her dead husband's hand.

Thinking his victims were dead, Garcia left the home. It was then that Mrs. Finzel managed to free herself, climb over her husband's dead body and stagger into the street for help, with a bullet lodged in her.