Byline: Tim Beidel Staff writer
A cancer-stricken 73-year-old Schenectady man, serving a long prison sentence for killing his son and shooting his estranged wife and her boyfriend, has asked Gov. Mario M. Cuomo for clemency, saying he doesn't want to die "all alone in prison."
Joseph Raucci, who pleaded guilty in 1986 to two counts of attempted murder and a count of manslaughter, is serving a 16 2/3-to-50-year sentence in the Shawangunk Correctional Facility in this Ulster County community. He has asked Cuomo to waive guidelines that require a clemency applicant to have served half his minimum sentence.
According to the prison's medical director, Raucci suffers from prostate cancer that has spread to his bones and spinal cord. An operation to relieve the pain in 1987 was unsuccessful, and Raucci receives pain-killing morphine every three hours …
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