DEATH ROW--death penalty in America

[Lady Cop]

anyone remember this horrific case?

A convicted murderer who brutally stabbed a nine-year-old boy in a public restroom in 1998 has killed himself in his death row cell.

Brandon Wilson, 33, a drifter from Wisconsin, Ohio, was found hanging inside in his cell in San Quentin State Prison, California on Thursday.

His death is 13 years to the week that he attacked Matthew Cecchi in a restroom in Oceanside, California while the boy's aunt waited outside.

Wilson had been camping when he felt ‘the time had come to kill a person’, according to a confession statement read in court.

He followed the youngster, who was on a family reunion, to the bathroom after watching him in a nearby playground.

Wilson slit his throat with a hunting knife and stabbed him five times in the back as the little boy stood at a urinal.

When his aunt grew concerned that Matthew had not come out, she went inside and found him bleeding to death on the bathroom floor.

A prison spokeswoman said Wilson was found hanging inside his cell and pronounced dead at 6:47 a.m. He was alone in his single-person cell, she added.
He is the 19^th death row inmate to commit suicide since California reinstated capital punishment in 1978, according to the Department of Corrections.
That means more condemned inmates have died of suicide than the 13 prisoners who have been executed in the state since 1978. There are currently 719 inmates on death row in California.