DAVID PAUL HAMMER | ‘Classic Con Man, Second-Rate Killer’ Dies In Prison Decades After Avoiding Death Penalty | Was Serving His Sentence At The ADX Florence, Colorado Until His Death At Terre Haute In 2019 | Baronial Autographed Greeting Card Signed

David Paul Hammer. Autographed Greeting Card Signed. 4 x 5.5 in Baronial. Pmk: August 22, 2006. SEALED. Contents unknown. Pristine.

Summary

David Paul Hammer (October 9, 1958 – June 7, 2019) was an American federal prisoner serving life without possibility of parole. He was sentenced to death on November 4, 1998 for the murder of his cell mate, Andrew Marti. He was also a writer and anti-death penalty advocate who achieved media fame for his 2004 autobiography The Final Escape, Secrets Worth Dying For (his 2004 first book about Timothy McVeigh), and 2010's Deadly Secrets: Timothy McVeigh and the Oklahoma City Bombing, based on information from when McVeigh was a then-fellow death row inmate. Hammer was also known for his appeals against his 1998 federal death sentence and against the death penalty itself. Hammer's federal conviction was vacated in 2005 for the government’s Brady violation (failure to disclose exculpatory or mitigating information it had). After 16 years in isolation on federal death row isolation at Terre Haute prison in Indiana, in 2014 the court resentenced him to life without parole. He was serving his sentence at the ADX Florence, Colorado until his death at Terre Haute in 2019.

Life in prison

At the time of his resentencing, Hammer had long been classified as a BOP Medical Care Level 3 inmate. In early 2015, after 18 years in solitary confinement, BOP transferred Hammer directly to USP-Tucson, one of the few BOP prisons able to accept Care Level 3 inmates. Within a few months, they hospitalized Hammer for a partial amputation of his right foot for osteomyelitis, a bone infection. The amputation did not cure his condition, and BOP reclassified him to a Care Level 4. In early 2016, BOP transferred Hammer to MCFP-Springfield, a medical prison. In 2017, a further right foot amputation removed the ulcerated area. He also suffered a minor stroke in August 2017. Hammer’s blindness became almost total. In March 2018, BOP moved Hammer to ADX Florence, Colorado after he strangled an inmate. This is an administrative maximum or “Supermax” federal prison in Florence, Colorado, also known as the “Alcatraz of the Rockies.”

Except for two brief escapes during the 1980s, Hammer was continuously incarcerated for over 40 years. Hammer served 30 of those years in solitary confinement isolation, and 16 years on death row.¹

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