“The Devil and the Death Penalty” recounts the crimes, arrest, trial and appeals of Lawrence Bittaker, a convicted serial murderer and rapist who has lived on San Quentin’s Death Row since 1981. In 1979, Bittaker, and his accomplice Roy Norris, known as the Tool Box Killers, kidnapped, raped, tortured and murdered five teenage girls. Called “worse than Manson” by Stephen Kay, former Los Angeles County Deputy District Attorney , Bittaker was prosecuted by Kay during a sensational trial, which was the first trial to ever allow television cameras into a California courtroom. Thirty years later, Lawrence Bittaker’s seemingly endless appeals underline the state’s utterly dysfunctional death penalty appeals process. The documentary includes interviews with Kay and witnesses, case files, court documents and photographs. ‘The Devil and the Death Penalty’ uses the Bittaker case to examine the death penalty process itself, both realistically and philosophically to explain exactly what happens in California to most condemned defendants." "Bittaker and Norris became known as the "Tool Box Killers" because the majority of instruments used to torture and murder their victims, such as pliers, ice picks and sledgehammers, were items normally stored inside a household toolbox. Bittaker Described by FBI Special Agent John E. Douglas as the most disturbing individual for whom he has ever created a criminal profile... Both Bittaker and Norris died of Natural causes in Prison, Bittaker in 2019, Norris Feb 2020 Sources: http://crimedocumentary.com/lawrence-bittaker-devil-death-penalty/ Donate: Donorbox: https://tinyurl.com/jhu4ff2k Liberapay: https://tinyurl.com/e249e5cc Other Platforms: YouTube: https://tinyurl.com/n4ek7ymu Bitchute: https://tinyurl.com/adt44yhs Odysee: https://tinyurl.com/c5625npr Odysee II: https://tinyurl.com/y54tf5k7 Xbox Captures: https://tinyurl.com/37558ddc Social: Twitter: https://tinyurl.com/te4jhhv3 Minds: https://tinyurl.com/4xh42uzz MeWe: mewe.com/i/m1240 Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for Fair Use for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and more. No copyright infringement intended. The clips used in this video are brief and edited, usually with narration playing over it or showing amounts needed to make my point. I do not own or claim to own the rights to footage. https://www.copyright.gov/legislation/dmca.pdf