A 93-year-old man froze to death inside his home just days after the municipal power company restricted his use of electricity because of unpaid bills, officials said.

Marvin E. Schur died “a slow, painful death,” said Kanu Virani, Oakland County’s deputy chief medical examiner, who performed the autopsy.

Neighbors discovered Schur’s body on Jan. 17. They said the indoor temperature was below 32 degrees at the time, The Bay City Times reported Monday.

Schur owed Bay City Electric Light & Power more than $1,000 in unpaid electric bills, Bay City Manager Robert Belleman told The Associated Press on Monday.

A city utility worker had installed a “limiter” device to restrict the use of electricity at Schur’s home on Jan. 13, Belleman said. The device limits power reaching a home and blows out like a fuse if consumption rises past a set level. Power is not restored until the device is reset.

The limiter was tripped sometime between the time of installation and the discovery of Schur’s body, Belleman said. He didn’t know if anyone had made personal contact with Schur to explain how the device works.

Belleman said city workers keep the limiter on houses for 10 days, then shut off power entirely if the homeowner hasn’t paid utility bills or arranged to do so.

Okay sports fans I have a serious problem with this situation.  I find it unacceptable on so many levels.  IMO, the utility murdered this man in the name of money.  If I killed a person that owed me a thousand dollars I would be lethal injected; corporations should be held to to same standard and laws as I am.  Whoever made the decision to kill this man should be prosecuted to the fullest extend of the law.  Because of the circumstance of his death, the torture, the “slow and painful death” there should be NO appeals and the sentence should be carried no less than 30 days after conviction with no chance of pardon from a governor or president that has received money from the corporation.  If an attempt is made to help the person then the politician can be prosecuted as an accessory.

In case there is any doubt….I feel very strongly about this situation.

Enough said, Irene?