Death Warrant for Warren Hill, Mentally Ill on GA Death Row

Warren Hill was originally sentenced to life imprisonment for shooting his girlfriend, Myra Wright, in 1986. He was subsequently sentenced to death for killing his cellmate, Joseph Handspike.

Georgia is preparing to EXECUTE the mentally ill man who "somehow" got a board of wood with long nails driven through it and beat his cellmate to death while he slept. Did the prison know how dangerous Hill was? Absolutely. He was already imprisoned for murder. And how on earth did Hill get a board and nails to make a Midieval club like the one pictured below? Hill's murder by the State on January 27, 2015, and his victim's murder, will be included in our "AIMI vs. USA" legal action before the International Court in 2015. 

If inmates can be endangered and killed by locking them in cells with murderous mentally ill people, which has happened in Georgia correctional facilities more than once, then every prisoner is at risk. Correctional officers and prison administrators who apply this lack of care are intended to escape accountability by executing the mentally ill inmates who kill their cellmates. The inmates who kill will bare the blame, not the prison which should be a "controlled environment." 

"AIMI vs. USA" will take the USA before the International Court for dereliction of its duty to protect the rights of institutionalized persons, such as Hill and his victim, Handspike. Hill should have had no opportunity to ascertain a board and nails, and his victim should not have been in the cell with a homicidal mentally ill man like Hill. 

Read about The Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA) of 1980, a United States federal law intended to protect the rights of people in state or local correctional facilities, nursing homes, mental health facilities and institutions for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (Wikipedia). The U.S. Justice Department totally ignores its responsibility to uphold that Act; an "act" is all it is (see the links to information about CRIPA below).

As Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King said over 50 years ago, "All we say to America is, 'Be true to what you said on paper.'" That is still a huge problem, and no group of people anywhere on planet earth is as oppressed as Americans with mental disabilities in custody. They are regularly tortured and killed without any accountability being demanded. Some are tortured for sport and killed in grotesque Medieval ways, including death by scalding, death by roasting, death by hanging, and forcing mentally ill inmates to entertain correctional officers by engaging in gladiator fights (to the finish, in some cases). 

It is likely that Hill's mental illness was untreated before he killed Myra Wright, his first victim. Neglect likely caused both murders.

Read about Hill at "Georgia Kills Mentally Ill Inmates."
http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2013/02/georgia-kills-mentally-ill-inmates.html

Happy Martin Luther King's Day 2015. Let us stand up together and demand that Americans with mental disabilities like Warren Hill be protected, moved into mental hospitals instead of jails and prisons, and that mental illness be decriminalized in the United States of America. Nobody deserves to be misused as prison commodities because of a common, treatable health condition. If the renowned human rights leader, Dr. King, were alive, we at Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) believe decriminalizing mental illness would be one of his main objectives. Please make it one of yours. Read more about "AIMI vs. USA" at 
http://AIMI-HumanRights.blogspot.com

USDOJ: Civil Rights of Institutionalized Persons Act (CRIPA)
http://www.justice.gov/crt/about/spl/cripastat.php

CRIPA at Wikipedia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_Rights_of_Institutionalized_Persons_Act

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Thank you for giving Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill.

How can you help? Follow this blog, share this article, and listen to the George Mallinckrodt Blogtalkradio presentations taped January 11 and January 15, 2015 (links are below). Mallinckrodt exposed brutality and a murder against mentally ill inmates in his book, "Getting Away with Murder" and was fired from his position as a psychotherapist in Florida prisons as a consequence of his objections to torture. Human and civil rights of persons with mental disabilities in the United States are treated as nonexistent.

"Getting Away with Murder," by George Mallinckrodt
January 15, 9pm EST
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2015/01/16/getting-away-with-murder-a-george-millenckrodt-interview-part-2
January 11, 3pm EST
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/humanrightsdemand/2015/01/11/getting-away-with-murder-a-george-mallinckrodt-interview

It would be illegal to keep a dog in a tight space 23 hours a day and gas or Taser him for barking. It would be illegal to put a dog in deadly restraint for control. That happens to mentally ill people routinely in the nation's correctional facilities. What happened to Larry Neal? Why are we still asking that question after eleven years? Cover-ups regarding the wrongful deaths of mentally ill inmates are common and vile.

Mentally Ill Americans Need Dog Justice. Treat mental illness medically, not legally. Support the H.R. 3717 "Helping Families in Mental Health Crisis Act." The U.S. congressional bill provides for crisis intervention team (CIT) training for police and corrections officers, assisted outpatient treatment (AOT) programs to stop recidivism, and other needed changes.

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http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogspot.com/2015/01/warren-hill-death-warrant-issued.html

"Continue to fight this fight" ~Troy Anthony Davis

Anti-DP message by Mary Neal, director of

~Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee

~Dog Justice for Mentally Ill

~Human Rights for Prisoners March

~Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill ("AIMI")

MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

phone (678)531.0262 or (571)335-1741

Head Ripping Machine vs. Tennessee Electrocutions

Orion Satire: Head ripping machine for execution
http://youtu.be/lfsMMVgIToA

NOT SATIRE: Tennessee plans to resume electrocutions.
http://www.cnn.com/2014/05/22/us/tennessee-executions/

 

http://youtu.be/7GU7jU1HaHo

  
While normal Americans go about our daily lives, psychopaths really are devising new ways to kill people one-by-one and by the millions.

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"Continue to fight this fight" ~Troy Anthony Davis

Anti-DP article by Mary Neal, director of
~Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee
~Dog Justice for Mentally Ill
~Human Rights for Prisoners March
~Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

Democide: Government Murders

DEMOCIDE is an opportunity for the government to show its mastery over the general populace, not unlike slave owners used to do. Slave masters called all the plantation slaves together to see a lynching happen. That way, slaves, who greatly outnumbered the slave owner and his supervisors, were terrorized and kept "in their places." So it is with the death penalty today. The slave owners feared the slaves' superior numbers, just as oppressive elitists fear the poor and working classes today.

The reason why prosecutors object to prisoners taking DNA tests or having new trials with substantial new evidence (that arrived after conviction) is because innocence does not really matter to them. Periodic executions like Willie Lynch suggested in the 1700s are for keeping slaves subdued. Through capital punishment, America's "lower classes" are treated like slaves, including everyone who works for a living and citizens who have a fixed income, i.e., people who cannot live off their dividends and inheritances. If murder was really offensive to masters over the criminal justice system, I would not be censored and stalked for asking why and how my mentally disabled brother was murdered after 18 days of secret arrest (kidnapping) in Memphis Shelby County Jail in 2003.

Capital punishment is not a deterrent to crimes, and neither is it uniformly applied for similar crimes. It was never meant to be. DP is merely an act of terrorism used to keep hundreds of millions of people respectful to government power. That is why capital punishment is limited to poor and working class persons and has a significantly higher rate of incidence among non-whites. Those are the people most oppressed and therefore most feared by oppressors - elitist white supremacists who benefit by keeping millions of people subservient.

Prosecution for murder and most other crimes in America depends on who the victims and defendants are in terms of wealth and class, skin hue, and how close the next election is. While inmates are tortured on death row, counting off their days until their own murders, police officers (government representatives) earn vacations by killing unarmed Americans - especially the mentally ill, who comprise over fifty percent of all police violence victims. Soldiers are awarded medals for killing people who pose no threat to this country. During the average convicted killer's term on death row in the United States, the government kills tens of thousands of people in wars and police violence. Democide is also murder. DEATH TO THE DEATH PENALTY.

Democide is used to demonstrate government mastery and prevent slave rebellions like those pictured.

This writer wrote another article with "democide" in its title. Please read it and tell me what you think. Do you agree that before America bombs another country for "killing its own citizens" we should have an accurate count of all the U.S. citizens killed by police? Nobody keeps track of that, and it would be useful information. 

"Democide: Death by Gov't in USA and Syria"
http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/democide-death-by-govt-in-usa-and-syria.html

MaryLovesJustice
MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com
 

Second Anniversary of Troy Davis Execution

Troy Anthony Davis 

Welcome to the Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee blog. September 21 was the second anniversary of the Troy Anthony Davis execution. He was executed in Georgia without irrefutable proof of guilt. In fact, millions of people believe Davis was innocent.  In this blog, we examine the circumstances that led to the execution of Troy Davis on September 21, 2011, and protest capital punishment, especially for potentially innocent persons. We endeavor to do as Troy Davis asked with his final words. Let us continue to fight this fight!
WORLD DAY AGAINST DEATH PENALTY, October 10, 2013 
http://www.worldcoalition.org/

Two Petitions for Justice for Troy Davis and Officer MacPhail

Petition to re-investigate the murder of Officer MacPhail (GoPetition.com)
http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/re-investigate-officer-macphail-s-murder.html

Petition to re-investigate the murder of Officer MacPhail (Change.org)

http://www.change.org/petitions/georgia-bureau-of-investigations-gbi-and-u-s-dept-of-justice-usdoj-re-investigate-officer-mark-macphail-s-murder

DAVIS SAID, "All I can ask is that each of you look deeper into this case, so that you really will finally see the truth. I ask my family and friends that you all continue to pray, that you all continue to forgive. Continue to fight this fight. For those about to take my life, may God have mercy on all of your souls. God bless you all."

Troy Davis' Last Words Released By Georgia Department Of Corrections (AUDIO)

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/troy-davis-execution-last-words_n_1000648.html

Troy Davis execution goes ahead despite serious doubts about his guilt
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/sep/22/troy-davis-execution-last-words

Troy Davis, In His Final Words, "I Am Innocent" (AUDIO) Read more:
http://globalgrind.com/news/troy-davis-execution-i-am-innocent-final-words-audio#ixzz1b9kIU8jJ

GlobalGrind.com - Troy Davis Execution "I am innocent" Final Words Audio
http://globalgrind.com/news/troy-davis-execution-i-am-innocent-final-words-audio

UPCOMING EXECUTIONS 

Death Penalty Information Center

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/upcoming-executions

PETITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY
http://petitions.halabol.com/2012/12/17/abolish-death-penalty

NEW BOOK - "I AM TROY DAVIS"
http://www.democracynow.org/blog/2013/9/19/read_new_book_i_am_troy_davis_published_on_second_anniversary_of_his_execution

Mary Neal, director

Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee

MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com

Scott Panetti: Ridicule and Execution

Does the United States justice system find mental illness entertaining? Do officials over justice consider it funny to kill mentally disabled citizens? Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty shared a video exposing the trial of Scott Panetti, who was charged with murdering his in-laws on September 8, 1992. The court allowed this untreated man who suffered from severe paranoid schizophrenia to conduct his own defense wearing a cowboy outfit and be sentenced to death.

Panetti's father expressed a loss of faith in the justice system after watching his very sick son try to defend himself. He expected Judge Steven Ables to stop the trial when it was obvious how unprepared Panetti was, but Judge Ables allowed the trial to continue to the end. Perhaps Edith Jones is not the only judge on the who believes that a death sentence provides a public service by allowing an inmate to "make peace with God." See the video below and at YouTube link http://youtu.be/0WTn78SIRvc . News and viewpoints are censored regarding how America mistreats its acute mentally ill citizens.
UPDATE: The video is now at 
http://youtu.be/obBaLvWZ8HE 

December 3, 2014 update: The United Nations requests that the United States commute Panetti's sentence based on human decency and the Convention Against Torture. 
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=49487

Original test resumes: Panetti's appeals have been denied since he was sentenced to execution. Some judges have disdain for defendants who are mentally ill. The Austin Chronicle reports that Justice Edith Jones, who sits on the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals – based in New Orleans, its jurisdiction includes Texas – made numerous offensive and biased comments during a February lecture at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, according to the complaint filed pursuant to the federal Judicial Conduct and Disability Act. She told law students and other attendees that she thought the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling outlawing the death penalty for the mentally retarded did intellectually disabled individuals a disservice, and that to create such an exemption from execution was a "slippery slope," reads the complaint.

"In describing … what Judge Jones said about these cases, I am not able to capture the complete outrage she expressed over the crimes or the disgust she evinced over the defense raised, particularly by the defendants who claimed to be mentally retarded," reads the declaration, filed with the complaint, of veteran Pennsylvania-based death penalty attorney Marc Bookman, who attended the lecture. "Judge Jones's disgust at how these defendants were 'using mental retardation' was very evident and very disconcerting," reads the complaint. Austin Chronicle Report on Judith Jones
http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/news/2013-06-04/judge-edith-jones-blacks-and-hispanics-more-violent/

An excerpt from Yahoo Voices described the Panetti trial: "Dressed in costume like one of the actors in an old Western Movie, with a big brimmed cowboy hat hanging on his shoulders by the strap, plaid shirt, bandanna, fancy cowboy boots, and spurs, Scott Panetti proceeded to defend himself, playing out the role of lawyer. The prevailing judge, Ables allowed his court to be turned into a three ring circus as jurors watched, stunned at what they were seeing and hearing, some fearing the man they watched before them."

An attorney who was called by Panetti as a witness shared his observations, stating: “The courtroom had the atmosphere of a circus. The judge just seemed to let Scott run free with his irrational questions and courtroom antics.”
http://www.internationaljusticeproject.org/illnessSPanetti.cfm

Panetti's ex-wife, whose parents were killed, does not feel that Panetti should die for his crime that resulted from untreated mental illness. And obviously, nobody should defend himself in a capital murder case, especially not a paranoid schizophrenic man dressed as a cowboy. Panetti's trial was an outrageous exercise that has probably provided justice officials many laughs for over 20 years while Scott Panetti awaits the needle on death row in Texas.

Homelessness, prison and death must discontinue being America's answer to acute mental illness. Nobody deserves execution for having a health crisis.

Judge Edith Jones: Kill Inmates to Save Their Souls

Say you are on death row and your case comes up for appeal. Is it fair to have an appeals judge who thinks the best way to save an inmate's soul is to condemn him to death? See the excerpt below:

"Judge Edith Jones reportedly sees the death penalty as some kind of mercy"

by Jarvis DeBerry, The Times-Picayune

The death penalty. You've heard it called many things: Vengeance, barbarism, deterrence, justice. But even if you're a faithful, church-going Christian, you may never have heard the death penalty described as Edith Jones, a judge at the federal appeals court in New Orleans, is said to have described it in February. The death penalty, she reportedly said, is an accelerant toward salvation . . . According to some audience members at a lecture Jones gave at the University of Pennsylvania in February, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals jurist preached that some criminals only get things right with God on the way to their execution.

Such a judge needs an accelerant toward a new career. What would be this judge's reasoning about killing inmates who claim to be "born again" while on death row? Would she want to kill "saved" inmates even quicker before they revert to a life of sin, thus preventing the new converts from backsliding? Judge Jones also reportedly stated that blacks and Hispanics are more violent than whites [and presumably, more in need of the "saving grace" of execution]. 

Judge Jones - Killing Inmates to "Save" Them

According to a complaint filed on June 4, 2013, against Jones by several civil rights groups and the Government of Mexico, Jones violated her duty to be impartial. See an excerpt from the Austin Chronicle:

"Jones  asserted as fact the proposition that blacks and Hispanics are more likely to commit violent crimes. When asked to explain her comments, "she stated that there was 'no arguing' that 'Blacks and Hispanics' outnumber 'Anglos' on death row and 'sadly' it was a 'statistical fact' that people 'from these racial groups get involved in more violent crime,'" reads the complaint. As an example, she noted that it is a "fact" that "'a lot of Hispanic people [are] involved in drug trafficking' which itself 'involved a lot of violent crime.'" According to the complaint, when the lecture host abruptly ended the question-and-answer portion of the program Jones 'lost her composure.'"

Read the entire articles at the following links
"Judge Edith Jones reportedly sees the death penalty as some kind of mercy"
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2013/06/judge_edith_jones_sees_the_dea.html

Judge Edith Jones: Blacks and Hispanics More Violent
http://www.austinchronicle.com/blogs/news/2013-06-04/judge-edith-jones-blacks-and-hispanics-more-violent/

UPDATES

Edith Jones, Federal Judge in 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, Faces Rare Supreme Court-Ordered Review Over Alleged Racist Remarks
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/13/edith-jones-federal-judge_n_3437341.html

The complaint against Judge Jones was dismissed, reports TheRealityCheck:
http://rhrealitycheck.org/article/2014/10/16/civil-rights-groups-appeal-dismissal-ethics-complaint-judge-edith-jones/
Read about the death penalty in Texas and Louisiana, two states under the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, at the following Death Penalty Information Center webpages:
Texas http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/category/categories/states/texas
Louisiana http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/category/categories/states/louisiana

"Keep fighting this fight."

Georgia Murders the Mentally Ill: Warren Hill Story

Warren Hill's Execution Would Be Unconstitutional

Warren Hill got a stay of execution regarding his February 19, 2013 execution date. On April 23, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that the federal court has lifted his stay of execution. 

Georgia prepares to execute Warren Hill. Hill is an offender with intellectual disabilities. His execution would show complete disregard for justice, state law, and the Supreme Court. Moreover, killing Hill would offend God. 

WESLEY SNIPES is currently incarcerated and serving a three-year sentence on allegations that he failed to file a tax return timely. If Snipes were made a cellmate for an untreated, mentally ill killer who beat Wesley to death while he slept, using a thick board of wood with nails driven through it, wouldn't Wesley's lawyers sue the state for GROSS NEGLIGENCE? If that sick killer was then EXECUTED, shouldn't the executed man's family sue for GROSS NEGLIGENCE and CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT? WHY wasn't the mentally challenged man sent to a mental hospital before or after his first murder instead of prison? Why wasn't his mental illness being treated behind bars? Why was security so slack at the prison that he had access to a weapon? Why was a mentally ill inmate who had already committed a murder given a cellmate? Those questions apply to the murder for which Warren Lee Hill faces execution on  July 23, 2012 February 19, 2013.

Brandon Rhode, pictured above, was another mentally challenged man who Georgia killed in 2010. Brandon was killed with drugs purchased from the back of an English bicycle shop, because he died while execution drugs were deliberately withheld from America. Brandon was the son of an alcoholic drug abuser who was born brain damaged. He killed someone as a teen. A decade later, Georgia killed this helpless, sick man in a torturous execution.

Thousands of people express outrage about Hill's execution because it is illegal to execute the mentally ill according to state and federal law.  Hill's cellmate's death clearly resulted from the prison's negligence. Inmates should not be locked in cells with armed homicidal mental patients to be killed in their sleep, and the state should not ignore its own culpability in such murders and execute sick men. A similar incident occurred in Georgia a couple of years ago when a mentally ill inmate in DeKalb County Jail also killed his cellmate. A former jail guard at Memphis Shelby County Jail reported a shocking jail death to the radio audience of a Rev. Pinkney Blogtalk Show. Apparently, jail guards released two acute mental patients from isolation to watch them have a "dog fight" to the finish. Jailers have a duty to provide a secure environment for incarcerated persons, but the responsibility is not always taken seriously. 

Millions of Americans are concerned about prisoners' human rights and object to capital punishment, but officials do not care as much about citizens' protests as they should. It would be more effective to examine death penalty cases to identify a reason to sue the state following execution. For instance, Hank Skinner begged for a DNA test for years to prove he is innocent, but his requests were denied. Finally, Texas approved Skinner's DNA test, but the bloodstained jacket that Skinner counted on to exonerate him was suddenly reported "missing" from the state's evidence storage. If Skinner is executed, Texas should be sued for negligence regarding the lost jacket. 

Every execution, especially when victims are mentally ill, should be followed by a lawsuit if any valid fault against the state can be established. 

Consider that almost no mentally ill people who are receiving proper psychiatric care do violent crimes, but states usually withhold treatment until a mentally challenged person PROVES (often through violence) that he is a danger to self and others. That standard has led to numerous avoidable murders and suicides. In such cases, the affected families may be able to sue for damages. Please help the families of Warren Hill and his victim to hold the prison and State of Georgia responsible for the inmate's death that should not have happened in a controlled environment. LAWSUITS FOLLOWING WARREN LEE HILL'S WRONGFUL EXECUTION MAY DETER FUTURE STATE KILLINGS OF THE MENTALLY ILL.

Gov. Deal's Chief of Staff, Chris Riley, and his executive assistant, Carrie Ashbee, are at (404) 656-1776.

Court Denies Hill's Bid to Halt Execution - AJC Apr. 23, 2013 http://www.ajc.com/news/news/local/court-denies-hills-bid-to-halt-execution/nXTcS/

For He hath looked down from the height of His sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death ~Psalm 102:19-20


Mary Neal, Director of Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI) http://www.care2.com/c2c/group/aimi
Director of DOG JUSTICE FOR MENTALLY ILL http://dogjusticeformentallyill.blogstpot.com


Paragraphs 1 - 3 repeated: Warren Hill got a stay of execution regarding his February 19, 2013 execution date. On April 23, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported that the federal court has lifted his stay of execution.

Georgia prepares to execute Warren Hill on Tuesday, February 19, 2013. Hill is an offender with intellectual disabilities. His execution would show complete disregard for justice, state law, and the Supreme Court. Moreover, killing Hill would offend God. (1,013 words 6,253 characters in this article) 

WESLEY SNIPES is currently incarcerated and serving a three-year sentence on allegations that he failed to file a tax return timely. If Snipes were made a cellmate for an untreated, mentally ill killer who beat Wesley to death while he slept, using a thick board of wood with nails driven through it, wouldn't Wesley's lawyers sue the state for GROSS NEGLIGENCE? If that sick killer was then EXECUTED, shouldn't the executed man's family sue for GROSS NEGLIGENCE and CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT? WHY wasn't the mentally challenged man sent to a mental hospital before or after his first murder instead of prison? Why wasn't his mental illness being treated behind bars? Why was security so slack at the prison that he had access to a weapon? Why was a mentally ill inmate who had already committed a murder given a cellmate? Those questions apply to the murder for which Warren Lee Hill faces execution on  July 23, 2012  February 19, 2013. 

Mentally Ill on Death Row

 
John Errol Ferguson Case: Daniel T.K. Hurley, U.S. District Judge, Grants Stay Of Execution

MIAMI -- A federal judge on Saturday granted a stay of execution for a convicted mass killer in Florida, who is mentally ill and was scheduled to be put to death on Tuesday, October 23, 2012.

U.S. District Judge Daniel T. K. Hurley granted the motion for a stay in the case of John Errol Ferguson, who was to be executed Tuesday after 34 years on Florida's death row ... Ferguson's attorneys maintain he is insane and that the Constitution prohibits the state from executing him.

"The issues raised merit full, reflective consideration," the court said.
See the entire article at this link http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/20/john-errol-ferguson-case_n_1994917.html

Many people object to Ferguson being executed because of his schizophrenia. The Disability Rights Committee issued an "Emergency Resolution in Opposition to the Execution of John Ferguson, a Mentally Ill Florida Death Row Inmate" that helps us understand the issue of mental illness and capital punishment. The Committee wrote in part:

THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED THAT THE NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD, MEETING AT ITS OCTOBER 2012 CONVENTION IN PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, condemns in the strongest terms the scheduled execution of John Errol Ferguson, a severely mentally ill African American man who has spent the last 34 years on death row, on the ground that it would be cruel and unusual punishment under the Eighth Amendment to the United States Constitution and would also violate international conventions on human rights to which the United States is a party, including the Convention Against Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment; and urges officials in the State of Florida to stop the scheduled execution and commute Mr. Ferguson’s death sentences to life imprisonment.
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There have been numerous executions of mentally incompetent persons despite the constitutional law against unusual punishment. Jonathan Green, a mentally ill Texan, was killed on October 10. See a report from Death Penalty Information Center (DPIC) below:
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MENTAL ILLNESS: Federal Court Stays Texas Execution Because of Inadequate Hearing

UPDATE: The U.S. Court of Appeals overturned the stay of execution and Green was executed on Oct. 10.  Earlier: Jonathan Green was scheduled for execution in Texas on October 10, but a federal judge issued a stay because the state did not afford him due process in examining his mental competency.

The Easter Execution Paid in Full

Exposed: Help the Least of These, His Brethren: Behold the Lamb of God.  And he shall set the sheep on his right hand, but the goats on the left. Then shall the King say unto them ... http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/10/least-of-these-his-brethren.html

FORGIVE. HE ALREADY PAID. 

DEATH TO THE DEATH PENALTY!

   

MaryLovesJustice Show, Tape 1: "End DP in Bible Belt States" at this TalkShoe link 

http://www.talkshoe.com/talkshoe/web/audioPop.jsp?episodeId=621240&cmd=apop (After the first 45 minutes, there is a two-minute pause inserted by cyberstalkers, then the tape continues for another hour. That is the only tape cyberstalkers permitted this censored anti-dp advocate to complete.)

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the LORD behold the earth; to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death 
~Psalm 102:19-20

Remember them that are in bonds, as bound with them; and them which suffer adversity, as being yourselves also in the body ~Hebrews 13:3

Give, and it shall be given unto you; good measure, pressed down, and shaken together, and running over, shall men give into your bosom. For with the same measure that ye mete withal it shall be measured to you again ~Luke 6:38

Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy 
~Matthew 5:7

 If ye love me, keep my commandments 
~John 14:15 

Thy shalt not kill 

~Exodus 20:13

CALVARY ~Mahalia Jackson 

http://youtu.be/nKzE7jN8GsE

Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord

~Romans 12:19


EXECUTION LIST 2012

DATE	NUMBER SINCE 1976	STATE	NAME	AGE	RACE	VICTIM RACE	METHOD	DRUG PROTOCOL	YEARS FROM SENTENCE TO EXECUTION
1/5/12	1278	OK	Gary Welch	49	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	17
1/26/12	1279	TX	Rodrigo Hernandez	39	L	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	10
2/8/12	1280	MS	Edwin Turner ¥	38	W	2 Black	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	16
2/15/12	1281	FL	Robert Waterhouse	65	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	32
2/29/12	1282	AZ	Robert Moorman	63	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	27
2/29/12	1283	TX	George Rivas	41	L	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	11
3/7/12	1284	TX	Keith Thurmond	52	W	2 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	10
3/8/12	1285	AZ	Robert Towery	47	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	20
3/15/12	1286	OK	Timothy Stemple	46	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	14
3/20/12	1287	MS	Larry Puckett	35	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	16
3/22/12	1288	MS	William Mitchell	61	B	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	14
3/28/12	1289	TX	Jesse Hernandez	47	L	1 Latino	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	10
4/12/12	1290	FL	David Gore	58	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	28
4/18/12	1291	OH	Mark Wiles	49	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	1 drug (pentobarbital)	26
4/20/12	1292	DE	Shannon Johnson*	28	B	1 Black	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	6
4/25/12	1293	AZ	Thomas Kemp	63	W	1 Latino	Lethal Injection	1 drug (pentobarbital)	19
4/26/12	1294	TX	Beunka Adams	29	B	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	8
5/1/12	1295	OK	Michael Selsor	57	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	36
6/5/12	1296	MS	Henry Jackson	47	B	4 Black	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	22
6/12/12	1297	ID	Richard Leavitt	53	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	1 drug (pentobarbital)	27
6/12/12	1298	MS	Jan Brawner	34	W	4 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	10
6/20/12	1299	MS	Gary Simmons	49	W	1 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	15
6/27/12	1300	AZ	Samuel Lopez	49	L	1 Latino	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	25
7/18/12	1301	TX	Yokamon Hearn	33	B	1 White	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	14
8/7/12	1302	TX	Marvin Wilson	54	B	1 Black	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	18
8/8/12	1303	AZ	Daniel Cook	51	W	1 Latino 1 White	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	24
8/14/12	1304	OK	Michael Hooper	40	W	3 White	Lethal Injection	3-drug w/ pentobarbital	17
9/20/12	1305	OH	Donald Palmer	47	W	2 White	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	23
9/20/12	1306	TX	Robert Harris	40	B	1 Latino 1 White	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	12
9/25/12	1307	TX	Cleve Foster	47	W	1 Black	Lethal Injection	1-drug (pentobarbital)	8

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* volunteer - an inmate who waived ordinary appeals that remained at the time of his or her execution
~ foreign national
¥ white defendant executed for murder of black victim

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Pedophile Victim Faces Execution for Killing His Abuser

Terrance Williams, a pedophile victim, faces execution for killing one of his abusers.

Please sign the Change.org PETITION TO SAVE TERRANCE WILLIAMS at this link http://goo.gl/NzBUo

Below is an excerpt of the story on Williams by Joseph A. Slobodzian, Inquirer Staff Writer:

Terrance Williams is scheduled to die October 3. He killed a man in 1985, soon after turning 18.

With less than a month before condemned murderer Terrance Williams is scheduled to die by lethal injection, his advocates on Thursday chose an option not used in a half-century: a plea for clemency from the governor.

Lawyers for Williams, 46, formerly of Philadelphia, filed the petition asking Gov. Corbett and the state Board of Pardons to stop Williams’ Oct. 3 execution and commute his sentence to life in prison without parole.

A broad-based group of lawyers and former judges, child advocates, and religious figures – including the widow of the man Williams killed in 1984 – urged that his life be spared for a crime committed three months after he turned 18, the minimum age for someone to be sentenced to death in the United States.

Moreover, the petition says, five members of the Philadelphia Common Pleas Court jury that condemned Williams for the murder of Amos Norwood have said they would have opted for life in prison had they heard mitigating evidence about Williams’ horrific childhood of sexual abuse by a neighbor, a teacher, and Norwood himself.

“The evidence of abuse in this case is clear,” reads a letter of support signed by 26 child advocates and experts in sexual abuse. “There can be no doubt that Terry was repeatedly and violently abused and exploited as a child and teenager by manipulative older men.

“Terry’s acts of violence have, alas, an explanation of the worst sort: enveloped by anger and self-hatred, Terry lashed out and killed two of the men who sexually abused him and caused him so much pain.”

Continue Reading @ Philly.com

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   Thank you for your interest in justice and compassion for Terrance Williams. Join the Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee, the murder victim's widow, and Pennsylvania's Attorney General Linda Kelly in asking for clemency by signing Williams' petition. Please also contact the Pennsylvania Pardons Board as well as the governor's office to request clemency for an abused child who was barely an adult when he was sentenced to die for killing a man who violated him. Please share this article with individuals and online groups. The Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee has no psychiatrists or psychologists as members at this time. But it is our opinion that Williams suffered from post traumatic stress disorder that resulted from lifelong brutality from his mother and sexual assaults from her lovers as well as Williams' juvenile detention guards and others. Pennsylvania prosecuted a judge in early 2011 who channeled children into private prisons for his own profit. The world was also horrified in 2012 by the Penn State University scandal, which revealed that many young people were molested on that campus with the full knowledge of responsible adults. Now in the last quarter of 2012, we urge Pennsylvania to grant clemency to one such victimized child who broke under the weight of his own oppression and took a life. Please have mercy. See an excerpt from a news article below:

PROSECUTOR LIES TO KILL WILLIAMS (PennLive.com Sept. 21, 2012) Three of the five Pardons Board members voted to recommend Governor Tom Corbett grant Williams clemency [after a hearing before the board Monday, September 17, 2012. The board must vote unanimously for clemency in order for the governor to grant same.] Defense attorneys contend Assistant District Attorney Thomas Dolgenos erred in asserting that federal courts had already heard and rejected the defense claim that prosecutors in Williams’ 1986 trial promised to help a co-defendant get parole, in exchange for his testimony against Williams. Williams’ attorneys contend that information — which was also central to the appeal in the Philadelphia court Thursday — didn’t come to light until after the federal appeals were heard, and that Dolgenos’ statement may have swayed the board of pardons vote. - Continue reading at
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2012/09/pardons_board_could_be_last_ho.html

Racial, geographic and economic disparities (by Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to DP)

• African-American defendants in Philadelphia are four times more likely to be given a death sentence than white defendants.
• Although Philadelphia’s murder rate is only 3 times great than that of Harrisburg, the proportion of those condemned to death is 11 times greater in Philadelphia.
• Pennsylvania provides no funding for indigent defense services, opting instead to rely on county-funded indigent defense systems. As a result, the quality of Pennsylvania’s capital indigent defense system varies widely among counties and fails to afford uniform, quality representation to many capital defendants.

For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth; to hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death. ~Psalm 102:19-20

UPDATE

Philadephia Judge Cites Withheld Evidence in Granting New Sentencing Trial to Terrance Williams

On September 28, Philadelphia Judge M. Teresa Sarmina granted a stay of execution and a new sentencing hearing to Terrance Williams because the prosecutors suppressed important mitigating evidence. The evidence, which could have been presented at trial, indicated the prosecutors knew that Amos Norwood, Williams’s victim, had been a pedophile who sexually abused Williams.

Petition: Re-investigate Officer MacPhail's Murder

 

September 21 will be the first anniversary of Troy Davis's execution. Davis was never given a new trial by jury to hear his claim to innocence. Davis requested that we "continue to fight this fight" to clear his name. Will you do that? Please sign the petition requesting re-investigation of Officer Mark MacPhail's murder. The petition is addressed to Georgia Bureau of Investigations and the U.S. Department of Justice. (Four(4) links are in this article.)

Petition to re-investigate the murder of Officer MacPhail 

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/re-investigate-officer-macphail-s-murder.html  

We, the undersigned, hold that Officer MacPhail's murder should be thoroughly investigated in light of recanted and tarnished witness testimony, a faulty initial investigation that was highly prejudicial toward Troy Davis, and his poorly financed defense during the original trial and appeals process. These factors led to the conviction and execution of Troy Anthony Davis without proof of guilt and the possibility that Officer MacPhail's murderer thwarted justice. A thorough investigation is warranted and hereby demanded.

Hear Troy Davis's last words, affirming his innocence and carrying his final request: 

"All I can ask is that each of you look deeper into this case, so that you really will finally see the truth. I ask my family and friends that you all continue to pray, that you all continue to forgive. Continue to fight this fight. For those about to take my life, may God have mercy on all of your souls. God bless you all."

Troy Davis' Last Words Released By Georgia Department Of Corrections (AUDIO)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/07/troy-davis-execution-last-words_n_1000648.html

If the world's largest initiative for justice can be ended simply by killing the principal, then no justice quests will be given more regard than children's tantrums in the future. Let us "keep fighting this fight" for the sake of Troy Davis and everyone who is or will be incarcerated or face execution without proof of guilt.

Visit the official Troy Davis website: http://troyanthonydavis.org/

Google "Troy Davis Mary Neal" for more articles by this writer.

NOTE: Please take the initiative to share this petition with your friends and online networks. Both Officer MacPhail and Troy Davis deserved a thorough investigation of this matter. Thank you.

Mary Neal, director of the Davis/MacPhail Truth Committee, an online advocacy against the death penalty, especially for persons whose guilt was not irrevocably proved and for inmates who should be exempt from capital punishment because of mental illness or retardation. You are invited to connect with me at MaryLovesJustice@gmail.com and at Google+ https://plus.google.com/u/0/115212823950444967993/posts - Join the Davis-MacPhail Truth Committee today by signing and sharing the petition!

Anthony Bartee: A Texas/Zimmerman Victim

Anthony Bartee, Denied DNA Tests in Texas

Execution Date May 2, 2012

ANTHONY BARTEE IS INNOCENT UNTIL PROVED GUILTY, BUT TEXAS PLANS TO KILL HIM WITHOUT ALLOWING HIS DNA TEST. He is on death row, deprived of a DNA test to prove his innocence because the system does not really care whether Americans are guilty or innocent. Congress finally said so by approving National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) in 2011 while normal people enjoyed Thanksgiving. President Obama signed it while most Americans celebrated New Year's Eve with friends and family. NDAA provides for military arrests in concentration camps without any criminal charges being levied. Victims will have no opportunity for defense at trial. The difference between YOU and Anthony Bartee, who is to be killed on May 2, is that he might go first. Please don't let that happen without registering your objection.

Was your name in the first batch of petitions delivered in April telling Texas to Test The DNA in ALL the Evidence? Please sign the petition to help stop the execution of Anthony Bartee at http://bit.ly/JsXCrq - The world is appalled at the violence and apparent racism in Zimmerman's fatal shooting of an innocent, unarmed youth, Trayvon Martin. However, this nation's prisons, including death rows, are inhabited by many people who might be innocent. The Innocence Project reports: "Since 1989, more than 250 people in 34 states have been exonerated through post-conviction DNA testing." Innocent inmates are unarmed victims in the struggle to save their lives and regain their liberty. Politicians and human rights organizations that grandstand on Martin's coffin claiming concern about his wrongful death should also show aversion to taking potentially innocent lives like Bartee's while a simple test might save them. It is hypocrisy to show repulsion over Zimmerman killing Martin but not over Texas killing Bartee without irrefutable proof of guilt. Every life is important. God is no respecter of persons.

I signed the petition for Anthony Bartee and wrote the following comment:

"EXECUTE JUSTICE, NOT PEOPLE! Give Anthony Bartee a DNA test, murderous hypocrites.We recognize that Texas is about 50 down from taking the lead from Virginia as the EXECUTION CHAMPION OF USA, but Bartee is probably innocent. See "DP - The Unholy Race" http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2011/10/dp-unholy-race.html People are sick of sociopaths taking tax money that could buy text books to kill our neighbors, whether innocent or guilty. Please stop, if you can help yourselves."

How Important is Innocence in Criminal Justice?

http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-important-is-innocence-in-criminal.html  That issue has been decided by the U.S. Supreme Court. While deliberating on whether Troy Davis would be given an opportunity for a hearing, justices on the High Court stated: 


“'The substantial risk of putting an innocent man to death clearly provides an adequate justification for holding an evidentiary hearing,' Justice John Paul Stevens wrote.


But Antonin Scalia, joined in the minority by Clarence Thomas, was unconvinced and unmoved.


'This Court has never held that the Constitution forbids the execution of a convicted defendant who has had a full and fair trial but is later able to convince a habeas court that he is ‘actually innocent.' Quite to the contrary, we have repeatedly left that question unresolved, while expressing considerable doubt that any claim based on alleged ‘actual innocence’ is constitutionally cognizable.'”


Scalia’s fellow justices noted that his position allows no legal avenue for even an obviously innocent person to have his or her case heard.


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Justices Scalia and Thomas hold that the Supreme Court never made a decision on how important innocence is for a person who was already convicted. But I assert that the Supreme Court has NOT left that question unresolved. Silence on the vital matter of whether to uphold innocent people's right to life means the High Court has actually decided against it.


I swore never to be silent whenever and wherever human beings endure suffering and humiliation. We must always take sides. . .  Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim.  Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented. To remain silent and indifferent is the greatest sin of all. ~ Elie Wiesel, Nobel Prize for Peace, 1986

THE EASTER EXECUTION

http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2012/04/happy-easter-2012-from-mary-neal.html    Despite the Easter Execution, most people are executed in the Bible Belt by so-called Christians. Executions, especially without proof, are not representative of Jesus Christ. He says to those with innocent blood on their hands, "I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness."

Please sign Anthony Bartee's Petition on Democracy in Action at this link! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/206/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=10307    In case they corrupt the link, here it is without linking     http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/206/p/dia/action/public/?action_key=10307  (Copy/paste the petition link into your browser to reach the petition. Stalkers know each condemned man costs taxpayers around $70,000 per year more than inmates serving life sentences (according to DPIC stats). It depends on incarceration rates in a given state, but DP inmates definitely cost more to warehouse. Cyberstalkers therefore coded the "SAVE BARTEE" link (under the Cross of Christ) to be practically invisible. Arresting and killing people are just business dealings to prison profiteers.)

DEATH TO THE DEATH PENALTY!

Do you see the photo of a public hanging directly above? The prison profiteers' cyberstalkers which the U.S. Government and Georgia justice officials and police allow to censor my Internet input may remove it. I encountered a good deal of cyberstalking placing it here. Perhaps the injustice system believes we will forget that executions are barbaric activities if they remove my pictorial reminder. Maybe without a photo, they hope we will forget that it is nothing new for mobs of people to kill simply because they are bloodthirsty bigots without consideration about the guilt or innocence of their victims, as long as the victims are black like Anthony Bartee or from among working class whites like Hank Skinner. Skinner won a stay of execution in November 2011, but he has also not been allowed to take a DNA test to date. Stays of execution are therefore issued to delay, but not to eliminate, the possibility of killing innocents. 


It was long ago decided that when barbarians want to do a murder, they must go through a court process first. After that, INNOCENCE DOES NOT MATTER. I respectfully disagree, and it is your duty to disagree along with me. Hundreds of people who went through a "full and fair trial" were later found to be actually innocent and were exonerated based on post-conviction evidence, including DNA test results. Bartee deserves the right to use every means available to prove his innocence. No one should be executed without irrefutable proof of guilt, especially while the state denies access to test evidence that was used to incriminate him. Punishing innocent people for crimes violates not only the wrongly convicted but also crime victims.
Summary of allegations against Bartee from "Crime & Capital Punishment.com"  On August 15, 1996, in San Antonio, Bartee murdered 37-year-old David Cook by using a nine-millimeter pistol to fatally shoot him in the head and neck. Bartee then took Cook's motorcycle and fled the scene. Bartee was on parole for two counts of aggravated rape when he [allegedly] committed the murder. http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/showthread.php?1368-Anthony-Bartee-Texas-Execution-May-02-2012  


For Texas to prevent Bartee from testing his DNA against the evidence puts Texas in the position to kill another innocent man. Did Bartee kill his friend? Perhaps. But the idea that he or any convicted person might be innocent is worth a test. Hundreds of prosecutors, judges, juries, and even eye witnesses have been wrong before. Hundreds. People are innocent until proven guilty. That has not happened where a single shred of doubt remains, whether the accused is a convicted felon like Bartee or a person with no prior offenses like Troy Davis. In Bible Belt states where people feel compelled to continue DP, The Unholy Race to execute the most people before the Second Coming, capital punishment should be off the table except for offenders with sound mental health against whom the state has irrefutable proof of guilt.

Military people from America's working class are dispatched throughout the world risking their lives in battles that are supposedly for human rights. Millions of men and women have died over the course of five centuries to protect Americans' civil rights that are guaranteed under the Constitution, and the right to life is chief among them. However our justice system quibbles over whether U.S. citizens should be allowed to perform DNA tests at their own expense to avoid wrongful execution! That is absurd, inhumane, and unAmerican. As minorities like Bartee and working class whites like Skinner are imprisoned and executed in America with their guilt not proved, please remember that their so-called "right to life" is exactly equal to your own - disregarded by elitists over the justice system and therefore nonexistent. 

Over the Holidays, Congress and the President approved NDAA, which subjects people to indefinite military detention (concentration camps) without criminal charges. And Bartee, an innocent man, faces execution on May 2, begging for a test the state refuses to give him. Both problems stem from the fact that the lives and human rights of minorities and working class whites are considered "immaterial" by elitists. Elitists decision makers disregard the sacrifices that generations of military families and civil rights activists made to make America a land of liberty and justice for all. We the People can and must address both problems: (1) Support H.R.3785, the congressional bill introduced by Rep. Ron Paul in January to repeal the concentration camp provision of NDAA. (2) Please stand up for Bartee's right to life. In so doing, you take a stand for yourselves, your families, and for all working class Americans. No wealthy American would be denied DNA tests like Bartee and Skinner are. Insist that guilt must be proved by every means available before depriving Bartee of life. Isn't that what you want for yourself? Isn't it what you, Bartee, and every person deserve? 


The Innocence Projects maps exonerations by state, geographic trends, and individual cases at this link http://www.innocenceproject.org/news/StateView.php . The fact that more than 250 Americans have been spared from wrongful incarceration and execution through DNA testing necessitates Bartee's execution being stayed and a test actually being given this time. Stays of execution must stop being an elitist game to temporarily reduce public outrage about the government killing innocent Americans. The trickery is not appreciated.


God said we must take a stand against unrighteousness and love our neighbors as we do ourselves. Bible Belt states execute people more than others, and risk killing more innocents, perhaps because Christians are not taught God's Word regarding executions. Please see Proverbs 31:8-9 below. Then be DOERS of the Word and not hearers only, as Jesus admonished.

Proverbs 31:8-9 King James Version (KJV)

"Open thy mouth for the dumb in the cause of ALL such as are appointed to destruction.  Open thy mouth, judge righteously, and plead the cause of the poor and needy."


CONGRATULATIONS TO CONNECTICUT FOR BECOMING THE 17th STATE TO ABOLISH CAPITAL PUNISHMENT ON APRIL 25, 2012. GOV. DANIEL P. MALLOY AND THE CONNECTICUT STATE LEGISLATURE HAVE REMOVED THAT MORAL AND FINANCIAL BURDEN FROM THEIR CITIZENS. PLEASE PRAY FOR TEXANS. BLESSINGS!


See "Execution Watch" at this link http://executionwatch.org/