Parole pondered for killer of California man buried alive

[Jazzy]

Gov. Jerry Brown was deciding Friday whether to block parole for the killer of a developmentally disabled California man who was buried alive.

Brown has until midnight to decide whether to release 52-year-old David Weidert, or block the parole already granted by a state panel because he believes Weidert is too dangerous.

Weidert was sentenced to life in prison for killing 20-year-old Fresno-area resident Michael Morganti in 1980 to hide a $500 burglary.

Prosecutors said Weidert, who was 17 at the time, feared Morganti would testify against him because Morganti had been a lookout during the burglary of a doctor's office and was cooperating with police.

Weidert and a juvenile accomplice lured Morganti from his Clovis apartment, forced him to dig his own grave, beat him with a baseball bat and shovel, and stabbed him. They also choked him with a telephone wire and buried him alive, where he suffocated.

Amador County Sheriff Martin Ryan, president of the state sheriffs' association, called it "a 45-minute scene of torture and hideous cruelty."

Weidert is incarcerated at the Correctional Training Facility in Soledad. State parole commissioners concluded in January that he is no longer dangerous, leaving the final decision to Brown.

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Everybody changes in prison, and lo and behold, as usual, it's always for the better. So did the young man he and his friend brutally murdered get up out of his grave and start walking around?, No?, well I guess some things don't change, and that should include this man NEVER getting out of prison. He's prone to change right back into a killer with no thought of anyone but himself.

What do you think? Should he paroled?