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	Capital Punishment (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Harris parked the stolen vehicle in the garage.
		On March 6, 1979, Robert Alton Harris was convicted in San Diego County, Superior Court of two counts murder in the first degree with special circumstances, and kidnapping.
		Robert Alton Harris was executed April 21, 1992 in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison - the first execution in California in 25 years.
	www.cdcr.ca.gov /ReportsResearch/robertHarris.html (600 words)

	Encyclopedia: Robert Alton Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Alton Harris (born April 18, 1692) was a USA career criminal and murderer who was executed in San Quentin's gas chamber in 1992.
		Harris' execution is specifically remembered for his peculiar choice of final words: "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper." This was a reference to the film Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, released in 1991.
		Robert Alton Harris was executed April 18, 1992 in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison - the first execution in California in 25 years.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Robert-Alton-Harris (823 words)

	harris
		Harris seemed to lose consciousness after about one-and-half minutes." She, and other witnesses, said he looked a very different and more solemn Robert Harris than two hours earlier.
		Eventually Harris senior was jailed for sexually molesting his daughters, while the mother smoked and drank herself to death.
		Robert Harris was 25 years old when he shot and killed two San Diego teenagers.
	www.geocities.com /trctl11/harris.html (706 words)

	Robert Alton Harris
		Robert Alton Harris (January 15, 1953-April 21, 1992) was an American career criminal and murderer who was executed in San Quentin's gas chamber in 1992.
		Harris had killed two teenage boys in 1978.
		Harris' execution is specifically remembered for his peculiar choice of final words (recorded by Warden Daniel Vasquez): "You can be a king or a street sweeper, …
	www.spock.com /Robert-Alton-Harris (80 words)

	Death Be Not Proud
		Robert Harris was convicted in the 1978 San Diego killing of two teen-age boys, a horrific crime.
		Robert Harris also suffered from fetal alcohol syndrome, which is a severe, permanent mental disability affecting a person's ability to understand and react to situations.
		Robert Harris remained strapped in, waiting for the sodium cyanide pellets to drop into the sulfuric acid to produce the hydrogen cyanide gas.
	abacus.bates.edu /pubs/mag/97-Summer/deathbenot.html (2547 words)

	Welcome to the California Department of Corrections (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Harris parked the stolen vehicle in the garage.
		Co-defendant Daniel Marcus Harris was convicted of kidnapping and sentenced to six years in state prison.
		Robert Alton Harris was executed April 21, 1992 in the gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison - the first execution in California in 25 years.
	www.cdc.state.ca.us /CommunicationsOffice/CapitalPunishment/executed_inmates/robert_harris.asp (600 words)

	Capital Punishment Cases
		Harris' father was a drunk who often abused his mother and his sisters.
		When Robert was two years old his father slapped him across the dinner table, causing him to fall out of his high chair and have convulsions.
		Opponents of his execution argued that Harris himself was also a victim and should not be held totally blameworthy or responsible for his crimes.
	www.su.edu /faculty/bpennhol/Phil150.CapPunCases.html (816 words)

	9th Circuit '96 Opinion that Gas Chamber is Unconstitution
		Harris was scheduled to be executed in California's gas chamber on April 21, 1992, four days later.
		Harris also filed a petition for writ of habeas corpus with the California Supreme Court on April 21, 1992.
		The court also noted that the execution records of Robert Harris and David Mason, executed in 1992 and 1993 respectively, were "the most probative evidence of pain and consciousness experienced" by those inmates executed in San Quentin's gas chamber "because these executions were conducted in accordance with the challenged protocol." Id. at 1401.
	www.lectlaw.com /files/cas73.htm (4353 words)

	CJR - Death Watch: A Night at the Gas Chamber, A. Lin Neumann
		On April 21, at 12:05 A.M., four minutes after Robert Alton Harris was supposed to be dead the first time, San Quentin State Prison spokesman Vernell Crittendon strode to the lectern to face the press for the sixth time that day.
		Harris, who had invited a few family members and friends to attend, was in the deathwatch cell, just waiting, watching TV.
		Harris was brought in and immediately strapped down.
	archives.cjr.org /year/92/4/death.asp (948 words)

	The Primal Roots of Violence: A Tale of Two Criminals by David B. Chamberlain, Ph.D.
		avid Edwin Mason and Robert Alton Harris spent their final years on Death Row before they were gassed by the Slate of California in 1991 and 1993 for heinous crimes of violence.
		The senior Harris was jailed for sexually molesting his daughters, while the mother smoked and drank herself to death.
		Harris was twenty five years old when he shot two San Diego teenagers to death.
	primal-page.com /roots.htm (645 words)

	sentiment as social justice
		After 13 years of procedural roadblock, California was finally able to execute Harris, who, lacking a car for a bank robbery in 1978, kidnapped two 16-year-old boys sitting in an automobile eating hamburgers, drove them to a deserted canyon, and shot one.
		Harris appealed to the California Supreme Court, which under the guidance of Chief Justice Rose Bird overturned 68 death sentences before she was voted out of office in 1986.
		The Harris case perfectly illustrates the wisdom of the preacher, uttered nearly three millennia ago: “When the sentence for a crime is not quickly carried out, the hearts of the people are filled with schemes to do wrong” (Eccles.
	www.equip.org /free/DE205.htm (4271 words)

	[No title]
		In 1978, Robert Alton Harris, a 26-year-old paroled murderer, kidnapped two California teenagers in the parking lot of a fast-food restaurant.
		Harris and his lawyers challenged the quality of his psychiatric evaluation, claimed California's gas chamber was unconstitutional, and argued that the death penalty discriminated against younger killers, males, and those who killed whites.
		While Harris is a metaphor for the conservative case against the current capital justice system, Patterson's case has been seized upon by abolitionists.
	www.washingtonmonthly.com /features/1999/9911.green.m4 (3850 words)

	CJLF: Briefs: Tyler Brief - Argument, Part II.A. - II.B. (File 3 of 5)
		The debacle surrounding the execution of Robert Alton Harris was repeatedly cited by supporters as illustrating the need for change.
		Harris, 503 U. The complete 141-step chronology is given in Lungren and Krotoski, Public Policy Lessons from the Robert Alton Harris Case, 40 UCLA L. Rev. 295, 315-326 (1992).
		While the Harris case was unique in the shamelessness of the evasion of McCleskey, it was not unusual in the length of delay in the district and circuit courts.
	www.cjlf.org /briefs/Tyler2.htm (1624 words)

	Letters
		Through his own admission, he taunted them before they died, laughed after shooting each of them in the head, and calmly sat down beside the bodies and finished the lunch he had stolen from the victims before ending their lives.
		Whether Robert Harris had a terrible upbringing or not, did too many drugs, hung out with the wrong crowd, was messed up on Twinkies, or whether other excuses were offered is, I feel, irrelevant.
		Robert Alton Harris will never again cut short the life of another young person or ruin the remaining years of countless family and friends.
	abacus.bates.edu /pubs/mag/98-Winter/letters.html (2251 words)

	New College for Instructional Innovation
		My experience with synthesizing and integrating the subject matter of this course with the case of Robert Alton Harris appears to resemble the state of the field of criminology itself.
		By this I mean that attempting to determine Harris' level of culpability by establishing the factors in his life which contributed to his violence, then attributing these determinant factors as the underlying cause for his behavior, is difficult.
		As I analyzed this case I was continuously torn between the popular and familiar opinion that brain dysfunction cannot be used to mitigate behavioral abnormalities as extreme as Harris' and the increasingly convincing and emerging evidence that brain dysfunction can contribute to uncontrollable violence in an individual.
	www.csufresno.edu /cetl/Funding/InstInnov/Reports/SkrapecBreen.html (1330 words)

	Justice Policy Institute (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		With the reinstitution of capital punishment in California, one of the arguments most frequently used to justify the death penalty is deterrence: that it is necessary to kill an offender to dissuade other people from committing the same kind of crime.
		Rates for the four month period preceding and following the executions of both Robert Alton Harris and David Mason were examined to discern evidence of a deterrent effect.
		In fact, immediately following Harris’ execution, a “brutalizing effect” was evidenced which may be in response to the violent nature of executions.
	www.justicepolicy.org /print_article.php?&id=289 (1232 words)

	Feature Story: Review, Summer 2000
		case of Robert Alton Harris, who in 1992 became the first person executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated by the courts in 1978.
		Haney felt acutely the weight of his responsibility in the case of Robert Alton Harris, who in 1992 became the first person executed in California since the death penalty was reinstated by the courts in 1978.
		Harris had been sentenced to death for the 1978 murders of two 16-year-old San Diego boys, and Haney was called on late in the appeal to compile Harris's social profile for the defense.
	review.ucsc.edu /summer.00/crime_and_punishment.html (3415 words)

	Gomez v. United States District Court for the Northern District of California
		The Court of Appeals granted Robert Alton Harris a stay of execution pending a review of his 42 U.S.C. § 1983 claim that his execution by lethal gas would be cruel and unusual in violation of the Eighth Amendment.
		Harris' action is an obvious attempt to avoid the application of McCleskey v.
		Since he is seeking an equitable remedy, the State's strong interest in proceeding with its judgment and Harris' obvious attempt at manipulation must be taken into consideration.
	straylight.law.cornell.edu /supct/html/historics/USSC_CR_0503_0653_ZS.html (206 words)

	MEPHISTOPHELEAN VOLITION
		While Harris had been strapped in the chamber, the California State Attorney General's office had sought an order from the United States Supreme Court vacating the stay of execution.
		Harris is presently in the gas chamber." That sentence was crossed out by hand.
		At 5:45 AM, the stay was lifted by a 7-2 vote in the U.S. Supreme Court and Robert Alton Harris was rushed into the gas chamber and executed.
	www.sonomacountyfreepress.com /welcome/mephistophelean_volition.html (1694 words)

	Robert Alton Harris (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		rotten > Library > Biographies > Crime > Criminals > Robert Alton Harris
		The first Californian executed in 25 years, via the Gas Chamber at infamous San Quentin prison.
		His last words are perhaps more appropriate for a Batman movie: "You can be a king or a street sweeper, but everyone dances with the grim reaper." The execution was filmed by court order, but the tapes were later destroyed.
	www.rotten.com /library/bio/crime/criminals/robert_alton-harris (69 words)

	"An Argument That Goes Back to the Womb": The Demedicalization of Fetal Alcohol Syndrome, 1973-1992 - Questia ...
		Yet, he concluded, "As great as is my compassion for Robert Harris the child, I cannot excuse or forgive the choice made by Robert Harris the man." The clemency appeal foundered on Wilson's belief that
		FAS, Wilson seemed to say, did not diminish Harris' capacity to understand the consequences of his actions--a determination clearly at odds with that of the medical experts.
		Robert Alton Harris died in the gas chamber at San Quenrin on the morning of April 21, 1992, becoming the first individual executed in California since 1967.
	www.questia.com /PM.qst?a=o&d=5001866665 (740 words)

	FindLaw's Writ - Dean: Execution American Style
		Harris, and two other death row inmates, sought to have the only method of execution then available in California —; exposure to cyanide gas — ruled to be cruel and unusual punishment.
		The question whether Harris was correct that, like hanging, gas chamber executions are unconstitutional at least deserved a hearing, she held.
		Harris sought to use the statute to claim his anticipated execution violated the Eighth Amendment.
	writ.news.findlaw.com /dean/20010622.html (1590 words)

	bakersfield.com - Suspended Sentence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		California resumes capital punishment with the execution of Robert Alton Harris.
		Robert Lee Cannon and Albert Kessel are the first to be executed in the San Quentin gas chamber.
		The Legislature mandates lethal gas be used as the state's new mode of execution.
	ww2.bakersfield.com /2001/justice/timeline.asp (426 words)

	Pet-Abuse.Com - Animal Abuse Case Details: Neighborhood cats set on fire - San Diego, CA (US) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Robert Alton Harris murdered two 16 year old boys, doused a neighbour with lighter fluid and tossed matches at him.
		His initial run-in with police was for killing neighbourhood cats.
		Harris, and his brother, co-defendant Daniel Marcus Harris, abducted two teenage boys.
	pet-abuse.com /pages/cruelty_database/case_details.php?case_id=1317&... (629 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		After a nerve-wrecking last minute stay of execution Robert Alton Harris finally walked to his death in San Quentin on 21 April 1992 for the murder of two boys back in 1978.
		For the State of California this was the first execution in 25 years and for 14 years the Harris case was a top news story on radio and television across the United States.
		Throughout the film, we are made aware of the vital role the media played in the case and the impact the media had on the public opinion.
	www.jurafilm.nl /procedur.html (222 words)

	Birth & the Origins of Violence: One Persepective
		David Edwin Mason and Robert Alton Harris spent their final years on Death Row before they were gassed by the State of California in 1991 and 1993 respectively for heinous crimes of violence.
		The dossier on Mason reveals him to have been a sad, lonely child whose mother tried to induce a miscarriage to avoid having him in the first place, and was never allowed to forget that he was unwanted.
		In the 70's Harry and Margaret Harlow (Harlow and Mears 1979) began to research these and related topics in their primate laboratories at the University of Wisconsin.
	www.birthpsychology.com /violence/verny.html (4813 words)

	State of the Art: A Supplement to Compatibilism
		Watson focused upon a case of extreme evil, a horrible crime by Robert Alton Harris for the murder of two young boys.
		Watson is careful to avoid the suggestion that Harris' history caused him to be in some way incapacitated for morally responsible agency.
		Watson's essay, and the case he featured, the case of Robert Alton Harris, have had a powerful influence on recent compatibilist work.
	plato.stanford.edu /entries/compatibilism/supplement.html (8321 words)

	AI News Release: USA: Amnesty International deplores "urge to kill" in California
		Amnesty International said today it deplored the "desperate urge to kill" shown by the United States Supreme Court and California authorities who yesterday rushed to send Robert Alton Harris to the gas chamber.
		Robert Harris's death brings the total number of executions in the US this year to 12.
		Robert Harris, like many American victims of the death penalty, suffered from serious mental health problems.
	amnestyusa.org /abolish/document.do?id=339CAAF5E3E16491802569A600601F04 (550 words)

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