Deatrophication of the Brain

I am sitting here with chills going up and down my spine listening to Democracy Now. On today’s broadcast they play never before heard recordings of executions. They are extremely chilling and extremely frightening, extremely difficult to listen to. Just the simple fact that they are carrying out a murder an execution, something that people would go to jail for and possibly even sentenced to death for, they are doing it legally.

Ending a life has never before sounded so chilling and sterile. It’s more gruesome than seeing or hearing a very bloody movie. The precision, the required witnesses and of course the one who’s life is ending strapped to a chair staring out at onlookers who are simply staring back.

5 minutes pass and the condemmed (as they call the man) is murdered. “Very smooth operation, get us another one.” Last words of the first tape. They also talk about a problem with the execution, something popping, the primary eyewitness making the recording believed it to be a bolt of lightning (this was an electric chair execution).

These tapes are extremely chilling and very upsetting to me. It’s disgusting to think that our government can play God and choose to end a person’s life and by such barbaric methods at that. However, no matter how you murder a person at the end of the day it’s still murder.

Earlier this evening I was watching Star Trek: Deep Space Nine. “A dead man can’t learn from his mistakes”, a quote from Captain Sisko. I’ve been saying that exact same phrase my entire life and to this day and into the future I will continue to say it.

I am extremely thankful that Troy Anthony Davis was given another 90 days to live. I hope and pray that they will commute his execution. If our President of the United States can commute the prison sentence of Lewis Libby because the President thinks that 30 months in prison is too harsh, then Troy Anthony Davis and every single person on death row should have their execution sentences commuted. Murder, and that is what I am going to continue to call it, no more strikethroughs to be politically correct. Murder is very permanent.

There was another tape played on today’s broadcast of Democracy Now. I don’t know that I can recommend anyone to listen to these because they are extremely chilling, but, you should listen to them if nothing more than to help set a fire. Things need to change. Abolish the death penalty, now!

Democracy Now for Tuesday, July 17, 2007

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For the past couple of days I have been trying to think of a way to start, fill and end this blog entry. This is one of those subjects that should not even have to be discussed. It should just be known that murdering someone (which is what it is, no matter how you look at the issue) is just plain wrong.

When I was in high school we had to have a mock debate over the death penalty. I thought it was one of the absolute, most ridiculous things ever. The reason I thought so was because even then I knew that the death penalty was and is ridiculous. The main argument that the other side made in the debate was that these people were a drain on society, which is an extremely disgusting way to say that you’re not important enough to be cared for.

Speaking of being cared for. Everyone around here always says “Those prisoners have it made, they get three meals a day, medical care and cable television. We don’t even get cable television at home!” Thankfully, I’ve came to realize that isn’t the case. Prison is no resort, they don’t have it made in heaven like many people around here will have you to believe.

On top of the morality of the death penalty the actual implementation of the executions is usually a long and drawn out process. It’s barbaric.

Regardless of whether or not someone is innocent or not, we should not execute anyone, ever. No matter the crime. Even if the crime was murder. If someone is murdered and we sentence the murderer to death then we continually say that murdering people is OK!

Speaking of innocence we usually find out after the person has been executed that they were innocent all along. Someone comes forward with new evidence, recants their testimony or someone actually does a real investigation years later and they put more devotion into the investigation after the person has been murdered executed than they did when the person was still alive.

The Georgia Resource Center was trying to help, but with no funding, I believe they may have caused a lot of wasted time and problems for my case. I have had at least 5 lawyers and countless investigators, that come and go because they can’t afford to stay with little pay. Every time someone left, my case had to start over, although the judges don’t care if briefs are filed late or wrong. They always punish me. The Georgia Supreme Court years ago voted 4 to 3 to deny me a new trial based on the possible recantation and lies of one key eye witness, who at the time refused to come forward unless my lawyers paid her rent for a while, as she said the prosecutor promised. Two weeks after the Georgia Supreme Court denied my new trial the witness in question Recanted Everything, yet the Georgia Supreme Court would not hear the case again.

The above quote comes from Troy Anthony Davis who is scheduled for government approved murder July 17-24, 2007. This case screams of a case that the court doesn’t care about, that no one has cared about and one that the court system is continually not going to care about because Troy is black and cannot afford the court costs. They refuse to look at new evidence that they are trying to enter into the case. They refuse to listen to new testimonies. They refuse to acknowledge the recantation of key eyewitness testimonies.

I will not say that Troy Anthony Davis is an innocent man because I do not know all of the facts. I do know it sounds like a typical case where the man is innocent. I think it’s disgusting that he is on death row. I think he needs to be off of death row.

Please go to his website and sign the petition, fax or mail a personal letter. I don’t know how much it will help his case because it looks as if no one is going to even listen but we can at least try! If we don’t try then we are being complacent and just as guilty of murdering him ourselves. Please don’t let it happen!

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