GASTONIA, NC (AP) - A North Carolina man convicted of dumping his 17-year-old victim's body in South Carolina is taunting his hometown, boasting he'll spend decades on death row in air-conditioned comfort.
The Gaston Gazette reports that the boasts come in a letter from 50-year-old Danny Hembree Jr.
Hembree says appeals of his November conviction will keep him alive for the next 20 years. He says until his final day he'll be "a gentleman of leisure," watching color TV, taking naps when he wants, and eating three balanced meals a day.
Hembree is on North Carolina's death row for suffocating Heather Catterton in 2009. He's also accused of killing a 30-year-old woman in 2009 and dumping her burned body in South Carolina and killing a woman found in a Gastonia cemetery in 1992.
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