<div dir="ltr"><div><div>Please sign the petition.<br></div>Thanks.<br></div>Allen<br><div><div><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Joseph Katz</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jkatz@mail.sdsu.edu">jkatz@mail.sdsu.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 6:20 AM<br>Subject: Fwd: clemency<br>To: Allen Plotkin <<a href="mailto:aplotkin@mail.sdsu.edu">aplotkin@mail.sdsu.edu</a>><br><br><br><div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_quote">---------- Forwarded message ----------<br>From: <b class="gmail_sendername">Lyrintzis, Tasos S.</b> <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:lyrintzi@erau.edu" target="_blank">lyrintzi@erau.edu</a>></span><br>Date: Sun, Nov 5, 2017 at 3:17 AM<br>Subject: RE: clemency<br>To: Joseph Katz <<a href="mailto:jkatz@mail.sdsu.edu" target="_blank">jkatz@mail.sdsu.edu</a>><br><br><br>Joe,<br>
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A web petition has been organized (please see below). Please circulate for other faculty to sign.<br>
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Thank you,<br>
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Tasos<br>
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From: Max Branscomb <<a href="mailto:mbranscomb@swccd.edu" target="_blank">mbranscomb@swccd.edu</a>><br>
To: Adjunct Faculty <<a href="mailto:AdjunctFaculty2@swccd.edu" target="_blank">AdjunctFaculty2@swccd.edu</a>>; Fulltime Academic <<a href="mailto:FulltimeAcademic2@swccd.edu" target="_blank">FulltimeAcademic2@swccd.edu</a>><br>
Sent: Saturday, November 4, 2017, 3:02:21 PM PDT<br>
Subject: Deny Clemency to the Killer of Deana Alonso's Husband<br>
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Dear Colleagues,<br>
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Before I joined the faculty at Southwestern College, I was a working journalist. One of the most horrific things I ever wrote about was the senseless murder of three engineering professors at San Diego State University, including the husband of SWC Professor of Spanish Deana Alonso-Lyrintzis. Dr. Costa Lyrintzis was a brilliant engineer, caring professor, doting father and loving husband. He was a sweet man who loved his family, his students and his Chula Vista community. He and two other young professors were murdered in one of their own classrooms by a deranged graduate student who hid a gun in the room prior to the meeting so that he could ambush them. Ironically, the three professors had good news for him that terrible morning -- they were going to approve him for a Master's degree.<br>
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Prosecutors at the time felt they had an excellent chance to have the murderer executed. Deana and the other two widows agreed not to press for the death penalty in exchange for a promise by the prosecutors that the killer would serve three consecutive life sentences and never be released from prison. The killer accepted that deal. This week Deana and her daughter Sofia Lyrintzis learned that the killer of their husband and father has applied for executive clemency. I support the petition to Gov. Brown (link below) asking that he deny clemency. I support my colleague Deana Alonso who has already suffered the violent loss of her husband. She and the other widows and their children should never have to suffer the release of this killer.<br>
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Respectfully,<br>
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Max Branscomb<br>
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Max Branscomb, Ed.D.<br>
Professor of Journalism<br>
Advisor for Student Publications<br>
Southwestern College<br>
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-----Original Message-----<br>
From: Deana Alonso [mailto:<a href="mailto:deanaalonso@mac.com" target="_blank">deanaalonso@mac.com</a>]<br>
Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2017 1:16 PM<br>
To: Renee Kilmer<br>
Cc: Norma Rich; Max Branscomb<br>
Subject: Pétition · Jerry Brown: Deny Clemency to the Killer of Professor Constantinos Lyrintzis! · Change.org<br>
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Dear colleagues,<br>
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Would you distribute to faculty and staff on my behalf? I have no words to describe my horror at this news... my daughter and I received a letter from the District Attorney letting us know about the plea for clemency from the killer of my husband and another 2 professors.<br>
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Please help us to make Governor Brown realize that it would be a devastating blow to the victims and our Community to allow clemency to the man who killed our beloved professors at SDSU in 1996.<br>
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Thank you!!<br>
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<a href="https://www.change.org/p/jerry-brown-deny-clemency-to-the-killer-of-professor-constantinos-lyrintzis" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.change.org/p/jerry<wbr>-brown-deny-clemency-to-the-<wbr>killer-of-professor-constantin<wbr>os-lyrintzis</a><br>
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