In 2010, the North Carolina GOP defeated a Democratic state legislator with a campaign flyer featuring mugshots of two black death row inmates and warning voters these “killers” might be “moving into your neighborhood sometime soon” because the legislator had “voted to [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Death Penalty’
August 29th, 2014 - 9:48 pm § in Uncategorized
Starving the troops
Rick Perry is so predictable. Let’s skip over the fact Gov. Perry, a Texan (Strike One) and Republican (Strike Two), refused to read a report that raised serious questions about the guilt of Cameron Todd Willingham just before Perry allowed his execution to proceed for the deaths of his childr[...]
April 28th, 2014 - 12:38 am § in Uncategorized
BREAKING NEWS: Egyptian Law … cut their heads off!
Egypt judge sentences to death 683 in mass trial, including Muslim Brotherhood leader[...]
March 21st, 2014 - 4:50 am § in Uncategorized
The Death Penalty: Revenge Or Justice?
Dearly beloved, avenge not yourselves, but rather give place unto wrath: for it is written, Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord. — Romans 12:19 (KJV) On May 15, 1916, a 17-year-old black farmhand named Jesse Washington went on trial in Waco, Texas, for the murder of his employer[...]
March 19th, 2014 - 7:00 pm § in Uncategorized
The Late Ray Jasper Deserves Only Crocodile Tears
Roger Rabbit “I’m on death row and yet I didn’t commit the act of murder. I was convicted under the law of parties. When people read about the case, they assume I killed the victim, but the facts are undisputed that I did not kill the victim. The one who killed him plead guilty to […][...]