An intro by me and some views on the death penalty

my thoughts on capital punishment

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Community Reacts To Davidson Death Penalty

Lemaricus Davidson was convicted of the murders of Chris Newsom and Channon Christian. Staff members at Joe N

Osho is asked to comment on the death penalty. This is a ten minute excerpt from a longer talk: "The death penalty is a degrading proof of ... all ? man's inhumanity to man. It shows that man is   more...still living in the barbarous age. Civilization still remains an idea -- it has not become a reality."  less

an question

Since our nation's founding, the government -- colonial, federal, and state -- has punished a varying percentage of arbitrarily-selected murders with the ultimate sanction: death.

More than 14,000 people   more...have been legally executed since colonial times, most of them in the early 20th Century. By the 1930s, as many as 150 people were executed each year. However, public outrage and legal challenges caused the practice to wane. By 1967, capital punishment had virtually halted in the United States, pending the outcome of several court challenges.

In 1972, in Furman v. Georgia, the Supreme Court invalidated hundreds of death sentences, declaring that then existing state laws were applied in an "arbitrary and capricious" manner and, thus, violated the Eighth Amendment's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, and the Fourteenth Amendment's guarantees of equal protection of the laws and due process. But in 1976, in Gregg v. Georgia, the Court resuscitated the death penalty: It ruled that the penalty "does not invariably violate the Constitution" if administered in a manner designed to guard against arbitrariness and discrimination. Several states promptly passed or reenacted capital punishment laws.

Today, states have laws authorizing the death penalty, as does the military and the federal government. Several states in the Midwest and Northeast have abolished capital punishment. Alaska and Hawaii have never had the death penalty. The vast majority of executions have taken place in 10 states from the South and over 35% have occurred in Texas. In 2004, the high courts of Kansas and New York struck down their death penalty statutes as unconstitutional and the legislatures have yet to reinstate them.

Today, about 3,350 people are on "death row." Virtually all are poor, a significant number are mentally disabled, more than 40 percent are African American, and a disproportionate number are Native American, Latino, and Asian.

The ACLU believes that, in all circumstances, the death penalty is unconstitutional under the Eighth Amendment. We also believe that the death penalty continues to be applied in an arbitrary and discriminatory manner in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.  less

My take on capital punishment. Execution or life in prison without the possibility of parole. What should we do with convicts?If life sentence, no getting degrees, conjugal visits, packages in the mail,   more...TV, magazines, spending time in fresh air, lifting weights, etc..

Sorry about that text in there. I really don't know how to insert it properly.  less

Video from the Partisan Defence Committee. Free Mumia NOW!! Mumia is an innocent man! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!! (Part 3 of 3) More info @ http://icl-fi.org/

I, MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, declare:
1. I am   more...the Petitioner in this action. If called as a witness I could and would testify to the following from my own personal knowledge:
2. I did not shoot Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. I had nothing to do with the killing of Officer Faulkner. I am innocent.
3. At my trial I was denied the right to defend myself, I had no confidence in my court-appointed attorney, who never even asked me what happened the night I was shot and the police officer was killed, and I was excluded from at least half the trial.
4. Since I was denied all my rights at my trial I did not testify. I would not be used to make it look like I had a fair trial.
5. I did not testify in the post-conviction proceedings in 1995 on the advice of my attorney, Leonard Weinglass, who specifically told me not to testify.
6. Now for the first time I have been given an opportunity to tell what happened to me in the early morning hours of December 9, 1981. This is what happened:
7. As a cabbie I often chose 13th and Locust Street because it was a popular club area with a lot of foot traffic.
8. I worked out of United Cab on the night of 12/9/81.
9. I believe I had recently returned from dropping off a fare in West Philly.
10. I was filling out my log when I heard some shouting.
11. I glanced in my rear view mirror and saw a flashing dome light of a police cruiser. This wasn't unusual.
12. I continued to fill out my log/trip sheet when I heard what sounded like gun shots.
13. I looked again into my rear view mirror and saw people running up and down Locust.
14. As I scanned I recognized my brother standing in the street staggering and dizzy.
15. I immediately exited the cab and ran to his scream.
16. As I came across the street I saw a uniformed cop turn toward me gun in hand, saw a flash and went down to my knees.
17. I closed my eyes and sat still trying to breath.
18. The next thing that I remember I felt myself being kicked, hit and being brought out of a stupor.
19. When I opened my eyes, I saw cops all around me.
20. They were hollering and cursing, grabbing and pulling on me. I felt faint finding it hard to talk.
21. As I looked through this cop crowd all around me, I saw my brother, blood running down his neck and a cop lying on his back on the pavement.
22. I was pulled to my feet and then rammed into a telephone pole beaten where I fell and thrown into a paddy wagon.
23. I think I slept until I heard the door open and a white cop in a white shirt came in cursing and hit me in the forehead.
24. I don't remember what he said much except a lot of "n-----s", "black motherfuckers" and what not.
24. I believe he left and I slept. I don't remember the wagon moving for a while and when it did for sometime.
25. I awoke to hear the driver speaking over the radio about his prisoner.
26. I was informed by the anonymous crackle on the radio that I was en route to the police administration building a few blocks away.
27. Then, it sounded like "I.D.'d as M-1" came on the radio band telling the driver to go to Jefferson Hospital.
28. Upon arrival I was thrown from the wagon to the ground and beaten.
29. I was beaten again at the doors of Jefferson.
30. Because of the blood in my lungs it was difficult to speak, and impossible to holler.
31. I never confessed to anything because I had nothing to confess to.
32. I never said I shot the policeman. I did not shoot the policeman.
33. I never said I hoped he died. I would never say something like that.
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the above is true and correct and was executed by me on 3 May, 2001, at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
(signed)
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL (more)  less

Video from the Partisan Defence Committee. Free Mumia NOW!! Mumia is an innocent man! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!! (Part 2 of 3) More info @ http://icl-fi.org/

I, MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, declare:
1. I am   more...the Petitioner in this action. If called as a witness I could and would testify to the following from my own personal knowledge:
2. I did not shoot Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. I had nothing to do with the killing of Officer Faulkner. I am innocent.
3. At my trial I was denied the right to defend myself, I had no confidence in my court-appointed attorney, who never even asked me what happened the night I was shot and the police officer was killed, and I was excluded from at least half the trial.
4. Since I was denied all my rights at my trial I did not testify. I would not be used to make it look like I had a fair trial.
5. I did not testify in the post-conviction proceedings in 1995 on the advice of my attorney, Leonard Weinglass, who specifically told me not to testify.
6. Now for the first time I have been given an opportunity to tell what happened to me in the early morning hours of December 9, 1981. This is what happened:
7. As a cabbie I often chose 13th and Locust Street because it was a popular club area with a lot of foot traffic.
8. I worked out of United Cab on the night of 12/9/81.
9. I believe I had recently returned from dropping off a fare in West Philly.
10. I was filling out my log when I heard some shouting.
11. I glanced in my rear view mirror and saw a flashing dome light of a police cruiser. This wasn't unusual.
12. I continued to fill out my log/trip sheet when I heard what sounded like gun shots.
13. I looked again into my rear view mirror and saw people running up and down Locust.
14. As I scanned I recognized my brother standing in the street staggering and dizzy.
15. I immediately exited the cab and ran to his scream.
16. As I came across the street I saw a uniformed cop turn toward me gun in hand, saw a flash and went down to my knees.
17. I closed my eyes and sat still trying to breath.
18. The next thing that I remember I felt myself being kicked, hit and being brought out of a stupor.
19. When I opened my eyes, I saw cops all around me.
20. They were hollering and cursing, grabbing and pulling on me. I felt faint finding it hard to talk.
21. As I looked through this cop crowd all around me, I saw my brother, blood running down his neck and a cop lying on his back on the pavement.
22. I was pulled to my feet and then rammed into a telephone pole beaten where I fell and thrown into a paddy wagon.
23. I think I slept until I heard the door open and a white cop in a white shirt came in cursing and hit me in the forehead.
24. I don't remember what he said much except a lot of "n-----s", "black motherfuckers" and what not.
24. I believe he left and I slept. I don't remember the wagon moving for a while and when it did for sometime.
25. I awoke to hear the driver speaking over the radio about his prisoner.
26. I was informed by the anonymous crackle on the radio that I was en route to the police administration building a few blocks away.
27. Then, it sounded like "I.D.'d as M-1" came on the radio band telling the driver to go to Jefferson Hospital.
28. Upon arrival I was thrown from the wagon to the ground and beaten.
29. I was beaten again at the doors of Jefferson.
30. Because of the blood in my lungs it was difficult to speak, and impossible to holler.
31. I never confessed to anything because I had nothing to confess to.
32. I never said I shot the policeman. I did not shoot the policeman.
33. I never said I hoped he died. I would never say something like that.
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the above is true and correct and was executed by me on 3 May, 2001, at Waynesburg, Pennsylvania.
(signed)
MUMIA ABU-JAMAL (more)  less

Video from the Partisan Defence Committee. Free Mumia NOW!! Mumia is an innocent man! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!! (Part 1 of 3) More info @ http://icl-fi.org/
http://www.youtube.com/valserx

Video from the Partisan Defence Committee. Free Mumia NOW!! Mumia is an innocent man! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!! (Part 2 of 3) More info @ http://icl-fi.org/
http://www.youtube.com/valserx

Video from the Partisan Defence Committee. Free Mumia NOW!! Mumia is an innocent man! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!! (Part 3 of 3) More info @ http://icl-fi.org/
http://www.youtube.com/valserx

Created this video after the first snow fall of the season, which resulted running from the police. Random Snow Angels are punishable by death you know...

Special thanks to my boyfriend for assisting   more...me in this great video!  less

A bare bones documentary, made with free materials

A look at the history of the European Union the involvement of Great Britain

a video to show that the european politicans are imposing the 2005 failed   more...European Constitution on the citizens of the European countries by passing practically the same failed document as a brand new reform treaty the lisbon Treaty in order to avoid nation wide referendums in all members states.

In this part we look at the common law british justice system, what rights have been given up on our behalf and how it will change. we compare it with the corpus juris legal suystem of the continante

common law
http://www.efm.bris.ac.uk/het/hale/co...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_law

civil law
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_la...
http://www.bartleby.com/65/ci/civilla...

corpus juris
http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1E1-C...
http://www.caef.org.uk/cj44.htm

harmonise laws
http://euobserver.com/9/24979?rss_rk=1
http://www.era.int/web/en/html/nodes_...

habeas corpus
http://www.habeascorpus.net/asp/

101 reason to leave the EU
http://www.englishdemocraticparty.org...

supremacy of parliament
http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk/...

Paris Rome Single European Act Amsterdam Nice European Constitution lisbon Treaty Habeas Corpus Corpus Juris Innocent till proven Guilty Trial by Jury QMV qualified majority voting EU European Union European Commission Council of Ministers European Court of Justice European Council European Ministers Membeers of European Parliament Soverignty Democracy Fascism Fascist Marxist Marxism Communism Communist Totaliterian State  less

IRAQ, MARINES COME UNDER FIRE AT THEIR POST.

www.StolenBoy.com - In the privileged neighborhoods of Southern California, bored teenagers string one lazy afternoon into another, searching for their next thrill. When you live life without consequences,   more...anything can happen. And on one heated summer day, something terrible did.  less

GOD Version 6.0 brought to you by Today's Christians!

A great and timeless rebuke - done in a mocking way - of liberals who profess to be Christians. Left-wing, demon-possessed pigs parading as God's children   more...get owned in this great presentation of how they have tried to redesign God in THEIR image!

Truly, such pigs are idolaters.  less

Sodomites want their homosexual unions - to be 'homied & in homiage', NOT married or marriage - to be legalized.

What does God say about their abominable lives.

"True compassion is more than flinging a coin to a beggar; it comes to see that an edifice which produces beggars needs restructuring."


"A time comes when silence
is betrayal." That   more...time has come for us in relation to Vietnam.

"Each day the war goes on the hatred increases in the heart of the
Vietnamese and in the hearts of those of humanitarian instinct. The
Americans are forcing even their friends into becoming their enemies.
It is curious that the Americans, who calculate so carefully on the
possibilities of military victory, do not realize that in the process
they are incurring deep psychological and political defeat. The image
of America will never again be the image of revolution, freedom and
democracy, but the image of violence and militarism." (more)  less

Young people should be given, *as a social duty*, the wherewithal to grow in knowledge and understanding of the world in which we live. They are to be accorded a history that reflects their place in the   more...world that is, and the world to come.

To fail to do so is to commit a kind of social suicide. It is cruel. It is stupid. It is wrong. (more)  less

Mumia fighting for his life.

Video from the Partisan Defence Committee. Free Mumia NOW!! Mumia is an innocent man! Abolish the Racist Death Penalty!! (Part 1 of 3) More info @ http://icl-fi.org/

---UPDATE---

More FACTS going to...
http://www.icl-fi.org/english/wv/886/...
  more...http://www.partisandefense.org/pubs/i...

I, MUMIA ABU-JAMAL, declare:
1. I am the Petitioner in this action. If called as a witness I could and would testify to the following from my own personal knowledge:
2. I did not shoot Police Officer Daniel Faulkner. I had nothing to do with the killing of Officer Faulkner. I am innocent.
3. At my trial I was denied the right to defend myself, I had no confidence in my court-appointed attorney, who never even asked me what happened the night I was shot and the police officer was killed, and I was excluded from at least half the trial.
4. Since I was denied all my rights at my trial I did not testify. I would not be used to make it look like I had a fair trial.
5. I did not testify in the post-conviction proceedings in 1995 on the advice of my attorney, Leonard Weinglass, who specifically told me not to testify.
6. Now for the first time I have been given an opportunity to tell what happened to me in the early morning hours of December 9, 1981. This is what happened:
7. As a cabbie I often chose 13th and Locust Street because it was a popular club area with a lot of foot traffic.
8. I worked out of United Cab on the night of 12/9/81.
9. I believe I had recently returned from dropping off a fare in West Philly.
10. I was filling out my log when I heard some shouting.
11. I glanced in my rear view mirror and saw a flashing dome light of a police cruiser. This wasn't unusual.
12. I continued to fill out my log/trip sheet when I heard what sounded like gun shots.
13. I looked again into my rear view mirror and saw people running up and down Locust.
14. As I scanned I recognized my brother standing in the street staggering and dizzy.
15. I immediately exited the cab and ran to his scream.
16. As I came across the street I saw a uniformed cop turn toward me gun in hand, saw a flash and went down to my knees.
17. I closed my eyes and sat still trying to breath.
18. The next thing that I remember I felt myself being kicked, hit and being brought out of a stupor.
19. When I opened my eyes, I saw cops all around me.
20. They were hollering and cursing, grabbing and pulling on me. I felt faint finding it hard to talk.
21. As I looked through this cop crowd all around me, I saw my brother, blood running down his neck and a cop lying on his back on the pavement.
22. I was pulled to my feet and then rammed into a telephone pole beaten where I fell and thrown into a paddy wagon.
23. I think I slept until I heard the door open and a white cop in a white shirt came in cursing and hit me in the forehead.
24. I don't remember what he said much except a lot of "n-----s", "black motherfuckers" and what not.
24. I believe he left and I slept. I don't remember the wagon moving for a while and when it did for sometime.
25. I awoke to hear the driver speaking over the radio about his prisoner.
26. I was informed by the anonymous crackle on the radio that I was en route to the police administration building a few blocks away.
27. Then, it sounded like "I.D.'d as M-1" came on the radio band telling the driver to go to Jefferson Hospital.
28. Upon arrival I was thrown from the wagon to the ground and beaten.
29. I was beaten again at the doors of Jefferson.
30. Because of the blood in my lungs it was difficult to speak, and impossible to holler.
31. I never confessed to anything because I had nothing to confess to.
32. I never said I shot the policeman. I did not shoot the policeman.
33. I never said I hoped he died. I would never say something like that.
I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the United States that the above is true and correct and was executed by me on 3 May, 2001, at Waynesburg, Pe  less

Congressman Ron Paul called for an end to the Drug War and a repeal
of "most" Federal drug laws last night during the PBS Republican
Presidential Debates hosted by Tavis Smiley.

"We have already   more...spent over $400 billion since the early 70s and it's
wasted money. Prohibition didn't work; prohibition on drugs doesn't
work."

Ron Paul cited the unfair disparity between the relative percentage of
black drug users and blacks imprisoned for drug use . He called for
equal justice under the law, giving example to the system's race
based "punishments."

"Blacks make up 14% of those who use drugs, yet 36% of those
arrested are blacks and it ends up that 63% of those who finally end up
in prison are blacks. This has to change. We don't have to have more
courts and more prisons, we have to repeal the whole 'War on Drugs'-- it
isn't working," Paul said

While many other candidates admirably agreed that blacks were treated
unfairly under existing drug laws, many of their solutions included
suggestions for new courts, arbitration and rehab programs, not a
scaling-back of the failed and hypocritical 'War on Drugs' or a repeal of
Drug Laws.

"So we need to come to our senses...it's a disease. We don't treat
alcoholics like this. This is a disease and we should orient ourselves to
this," said Ron Paul.

Paul was also asked about his support for the death penalty in regards
to waning public opinion. He again cited unfair prosecution in the justice
system.

"You know, over the years, I've held pretty rigid all my beliefs, but I've
changed my opinion about the death penalty. For federal purposes, I no
longer believe in the death penalty. I believe it has been issued unjustly.
If you're rich, you get away with it; if you're poor and from the inner city,
you're more likely to be prosecuted and convicted. And today, with the
DNA evidence, there's been too many mistakes, so I am now opposed
to the federal death penalty"  less

Documentary on Iraqi Civilians mistakenly killed by American Forces in Kurdistan, the difficulty obtaining the paltry $2,500 US offered in compensation for a Wrongful Death, the grief of the family and   more...the lack of accountability when Wrongful Death occurs.  less