Death Row inmate writes letter: Leads a Leisure life, mocks fooled public

North Carolina Death Row Inmate Writes Letter About Life of 'Leisure'

ABC NewsBy CHRISTINA NG | ABC News – 6 hrs ago



A convicted murderer on death row in North Carolina wrote a taunting letter to his hometown newspaper about his life of "leisure" in prison and making a mockery of the legal system.

Danny Robbie Hembree Jr. was found guilty of murdering 17-year-old Heather Catterton in 2009 and was sentenced to death on Nov. 18, 2011.

Hembree, 50, is on death row at Central Prison in Raleigh, N.C., but he's not looking for any pity in the letter he sent to The Gaston Gazette.

"Is the public aware that I am a gentleman of leisure, watching color TV in the A.C., reading, taking naps at will, eating three well balanced hot meals a day," Hembree asked in the letter. "I'm housed in a building that connects to the new 55 million dollar hospital with round the clock free medical care 24/7."

He also asks if the public knows that the chances of his "lawful murder" taking place in the next 20 years, if ever, are "very slim."

Hembree has also been accused of killing two other women. One was 30-year-old Randi Dean Saldana, whose burnt remains were found near Blacksburg, S.C. in 2009. The other was 30-year-old Deborah Ratchford, whose body was found in 1992.

He admitted to taking drugs and having sex with Catterton and Saldana on the days they died, but told jurors he did not kill them or dispose of their bodies, according to ABC News' Raleigh-Durham affiliate WTVD. He is scheduled to go on trial for Saldana's killing in March.

Hembree confessed to killing the three women during recorded police interviews, but later said the confessions were an attempt to cover up a string of armed robberies, according to the Gaston Gazette.

In the letter, Hembree also mocks the judicial system.

"I laugh at you self righteous clowns and I spit in the face of your so called justice system. The state of North Carolina has sentenced me to death but it's not real," he wrote.

North Carolina State Representative Paul Stam told WTVD that the letter is a travesty of justice. He said that it is more likely that Hembree will die of natural causes than of the death penalty.

"His punishment does not fit his crime at all," Stam said.

Hembree tells the citizens of Gaston County, N.C., that they should petition that state and force them to carry out his "murder sentence."

The Gaston County District Attorney's Office did not immediately respond to request for comment.

"I am a man who is ready to except [sic] his unjustful punishment and face God almighty with a clean conscience unlike you cowards and your cowardly system," Hembree wrote. "Kill me if you can suckers. Ha! Ha! Ha!"

The letter is signed, "Sincerely, Danny Hembree."

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like Beanie says

'locked in a box, 3 hots and a cot'

:shock:

reminds me of the guy in Europe, who says he did a crime just so that he could go to jail and live it up. His cell was immaculate, had a tv and everything.

not a care in a world except for dodging the occasional cockmeat sandwich

 

^ ^ ^

Maybe it explains the high rate of recidivism.

 

They don't have freedom to do what they want when the wish to. They can't walk out the door and go down the street to the store or to a friend's house. So they might have what they think is a great leisure life on us but......

 

are u serious?

ur talking about freedom and walking around, to a forum full of sloths

they already sit around in their room doing nothing...prison would be perfect

 

Prison should be a place of horror. They should have uncomfortable beds, no TV, no radio, airconditioning should be limited to areas where the guards have to work as well, and prisoners should have to work from dawn til' dusk, hard labor, no communal time and eat the shittiest food legally possible.

If only I ran the world. No, wait that would be bad, nothing would get done and everyone would suffer. LOL :smt005

 

sounds like an old Russian Gulag



back when Prison was nothing more than a glorified POW camp

lol

 

exactly, because you know he isn't getting any ass, so what luxury does he really have? if it was me, i would be on suicide watch.

 

You do know that plenty free men aren't get any ass either.

 

Haha! Exactly! Punish the bastards!! :smt043

 

but they are in the prison of having no "game"

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That's their choice though. As for guys like me, there is no way I'm going to live without some female attention. That WOULD be one thing that drives me up a wall being in prison.