Death Penalty Case Study: Spencer Brasure

Torture Killer Spencer Rawlin Brasure

As California voters decide whether to side with the ACLU and other liberal special interests to get rid of the death penalty, the No on 34 campaign continues its profiles of the “worst of the worst” convicted murderers on death row. Here is another killer who would be spared if Proposition 34 passes in November.

 

In August 1998, Spencer Rawlin Brasure was convicted and sentenced to death for brutally torturing and killing a Redondo Beach man on Sept. 7, 1996. Brasure and his accomplice kidnapped 20-year-old Anthony Guest, tied him up, burned him with a propane torch, stapled wood to his head, forced him to eat broken glass, and shocked him repeatedly with a cattle prod before setting him on fire and leaving him to die in a remote Ventura County campsite near Gorman.

 

The coroner’s office testified that it took the victim several hours to die in agony. The judge described the murder as “savage, barbarous, merciless and cruel.”  Evidence at trial also showed that Brasure had tried to have several witnesses in the case killed.

 

While sitting on death row at San Quentin State Prison, Brasure has found time to campaign against the death penalty. In 2011, he wrote a blog from prison complaining that he is a victim of a “political agenda”.

Marc Klaas

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I am President of the KlaasKids Foundation and BeyondMissing, Inc. Both organizations are 501(c)(3) public benefit non profit organizations.

3 thoughts on “Death Penalty Case Study: Spencer Brasure”

  1. Yeah, I knew Whitey. There’s no doubt they smoked that dude. Other people were in the house during the torture. Fucked up way to die. Whitey is right where he belongs.

  2. these kinds of people ( if you can call them that ) need to be disposed of and we need to strip them of their “rights” they choose to lose their right for taking a life . There is a special place in heaven for the people whose lives have been taken from them I truly believe this. But I also believe that there is a place for people like this animal that is not so special. We as a society really have to be more diligent about our surroundings and careful about our children not that it is our fault but that is the fact GOD BLESS ALL THOSE PEOPLE WHO HAVE HAD THEIR LIFE TAKEN FROM THEM

  3. This man must die. The depravity involved in the murder of the young man is deep rooted in his psychological makeup that he cannot change This opinion comes from a liberal minded woman.

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