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From Lamp of Hope at: http://www.lampofhope.org/AZ114642.html
My name is Pete Rogovich.
I am on Arizona's death row. I am
looking for outside correspondence.
My interests are outdoor
activities. I am also interested
in motorcycle, cars, and trucks.
I enjoy reading books. I
will write to anyone.
Pete Carl Rogovich
ADC#114642 B3G58
Unit SMUII
Arizona State Prison Complex
Eyman
P O Box 3400
Florence, AZ 85232
From Surviving
the System: http://www.survivingthesystem.com/rogovich_pete_carl.htm
Meet Prisoner/Inmate: PETE CARL ROGOVICH
12/23/01
Dear Traci,
Hello! First let me introduce myself. My name is Pete Carl Rogovich. I
am a prisoner on death row in the state of Arizona. My good friend
Mike Correll passed your letter, dated 8/21/01, to me. Mike knows I
really have no one to write to, so he passed your letter on to me. I
do hope it is all right to write to you.
In your letter, you asked about sharing some of my life’s story. I
would be glad to, but Traci, first I must make sure you are willing to
write back to me. This letter I got from Mike is four months old.
There are so many people I have written to, that I never hear back
from them again.
Traci, I have been imprisoned for close to 10 years now. This
includes the time I spent in the county jail going through all the trial
proceedings, which was three years and four months.
Traci, I have never been in any kind of trouble with the law before,
besides a few minor tickets; no big deal, right? I believe everyone
will get a ticket or two in their lifetime.
Well Traci, You let me know whether or not you would be willing to
write back or not. Of course I will be happy to correspond with you.
Take care and God bless,
Sincerely,
Pete Carl Rogovich
1/10/2002
Dear Traci,
I received your letter of 12/31/01, thank you very much. First let me
say I don’t know too much about the disease of alcohol and drug
addiction. I believe it is mostly genetic, a lot too if the person is
abused in some way, either emotionally, mentally or physically in
some way to self-medicate themselves thru alcohol and drugs.
After I went on that mad killing spree I was diagnosed with severe
mental illness. I am not a mental health expert by no means; but
they said I was going thru an acute psychosis or an acute psychotic
episode, in particular paranoid schizophrenia. But that insanity
defense only seems to work in the movies.
I am a Christian. I have believed in God for a very long time, ever
since I was 6 years old. You know it’s the ones that are saved by
Christ that the evil ones want to destroy. All the unsaved in the
world today, the devil lets them have anything they want. It’s the
Christians, the believers in Christ, that’s who the devil wants to
destroy.
I know you probably already think I am straight up crazy. Every one
who I have time around thinks or truly believes I am a psychotic nut.
And yes, I do take psychotropic medication, these include 200mg of
Zoloft a day, 4mg of Trifluoperazine Hydrochloride an extremely
powerful anti-psychotic (or also known as a Neuroleptic) to treat
psychotic conditions, and 2mg of Cogentin or Benztropine Mesylate
to control the side effects of the anti-psychotic.
Many people who abuse alcohol and or street drugs suffer from some
type of mental illness, whether it’s some form of anxiety or
depression to severe mental illness such as psychosis and
schizophrenia. I do know when I abused or did drugs it produced a
tranquilizing effect on my mind. I used many types of drugs, but
speed and alcohol was my favorite, met amphetamine or crystal
meth, it was to put a tranquilizing effect on me.
Many, many lives have been destroyed by the mental disease of
addictions (drugs and alcohol) and in the DSM IV, this is the
psychiatric handbook for diagnosing mental illnesses, diseases or
disorders it clearly states that drug and/or alcohol addiction is a
bona fide mental illness. In fact, dual diagnosis patients, that means
a person suffering from both mental illness and addiction are often
the toughest cases to treat. Look at me, I have been through 3
treatment centers.
Well Traci, I have wrote you a 3 page letter, so I will close for now.
Take care,
Pete
April 16, 2002
Dear Traci,
I did receive your most welcomed letter of April 4th, Thank you very
much. I have not forgotten about you. I have been having a lot of
problems both in my mind and my financial situation is also very bad.
Today is stone day, it’s 1:07pm. I can hear the corrections officers
(CO’s) dropping the stone bags out in the hallway, and I know I am
not getting one. That bothers me a lot, Traci.
I really do not have anyone to take care of me, to help me out, no
family. I have family but they just cannot deal with it, me being here
on death row.
Believe me Traci, I have no problem working for a living, I did so
honestly for years when the U.S. Government allowed me to live on
the street. I’ve worked hard since I was at a very young age, 12
years old. I did everything I could to make an honest living. I was
not arrested for all these offences until I was 26 years old, from 16
years old until I was 26 years old I was a very good painter and
other people in the profession also said I was good.
I really do hope your website works out great for you Traci.
I am on death row convicted of 4 counts of First Degree Murder, 2
counts of Aggravated Assault, 2 counts of Armed Robbery and one
count of Felony Flight. Now for all these convictions, I received 25
to life for the first murder, 3 concurrent sentences of death, and for
the next 5 convictions I received 52 years, and everything is ran
wild, or stacked, box canned consecutive. But the death sentences,
even if they were overturned they would stack them on me, a total
of 152 years until I would come up for parole.
I have been incarcerated for over 10 years now. It has been a long
hard struggle. I remember the…now I don’t know what I was going to
say.
On October 10th, 2002 I am going to have to give up all of my
appliances for these ADOC approved clear view secure view
appliances. Like I said, I don’t have anyone I can depend on, so I
might sit here not in silence, because I will have to listen to all the
idiotic talk around here. You can probably guess I don’t get along
with a lot of inmates, most of the time I just keep to myself.
I am sending in this letter two SDOC forms for you to see. This is my
last postage stamp, that’s why you do not hear from me in a while. I
don’t even have any stamps to keep writing to you and a few others
I do write to.
This unit is one of the most restricted units in the country. We are
locked in a cell 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, except for 3 showers
a week and/or 3 rec turns a week if we want them. Every time we
are taken out of cell we are stripped searched and escorted
everywhere in restraints. If they did allow me to work I would do it
to just earn some money to purchase the things I need at the
inmate store.
Although I cannot receive postage stamps thru the mail, I can
receive postal money orders thru the mail. I am going to sign off for
now.
Sincerely
Pete
Pete Carl Rogovich ADOC#114642
SMU II B3H45
Arizona State Prison Complex- Eyman
PO Box 3400
Florence, AZ. 85232-3400
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