Why Is Charles Ng Still Alive?
Why Has Serial Murderer Charles Ng Lived Longer Since His Conviction than his Victims Lived in Their Entire Lives?
Charles Chitat Ng, together with his partner in mayhem Leonard Lake, tortured and killed a multitude of people in the mid-1980s, mostly babies and young adults.
Lake took the coward’s way out by committing suicide when he was apprehended, not willing to be held prisoner as he had held many of his victims prisoner while torturing them.
Ng is now 60 and is on death row in San Quentin. He has been there for going on twenty-two years now (since mid-1999), after “gaming the system” for several years, causing his trial to last over a dozen years and costing the taxpayers millions of dollars.
Not only has Ng, at 60, lived longer than his victims were allowed to, he has lived longer since being arrested than the victims lived in their entire lives.
From the time of his arrest in 1985, Ng has been allowed to abuse the legal system and live at taxpayer’s expense for 36 years.
For more information, see the book “Die For Me: The Terrifying Story of Charles Ng/Leonard Lake Torture Murders” by Don Lasseter.
There are many mass murderers convicted of the death penalty who are still awaiting the carrying out of their sentence years and even decades after their conviction and sentencing. Why am I focusing on Charles Ng? Partly because I just read the book mentioned above. But why did I just read that book? Partly due to the fact that (although not residing there at present) I am from Calaveras County, where these atrocities took place.
I still recall when the kidnapping, raping, torturing, and murdering occurred, or rather when these two devils incarnate were apprehended for those crimes. News quickly came out that video evidence existed of what those maniacal monsters had done. I could not understand why the trial needed to last more than one hour when such was the case--that is, when there was not only video evidence that Lake and Ng were guilty of the crimes, but that these atrociously wicked and heartless men had themselves made the videotapes, presumably as a sort of twisted entertainment or for “bragging rights.”
I recall responding to these proceedings at the time with three words: “Get a rope!”
Thirty six years ago!
Why Is Charles Ng Still Alive?
Where is the deterrent that the death penalty provides as protection to the population of the State if the penalties are never carried out, or only after decades of hemming and hawing, paper shuffling, and foot-dragging?
Ng should have been executed years ago. That sick-o has it made at San Quentin. He works as the Death-row inmate barber in their yard. Hes allowed to use a electric shaver and scissors. How do I know? I worked their for seven years in Plant Ops. Too many of these guys are treated with royalty. When we got work orders for death-row, we had to stop whatever we were doing and go and repair or fix stuff in their cells. It could be a TV stand, ADA grab bars or making their bunk into a single bunk. Just dumb stuff.