Only 12% of the world's countries still commit prisoner murder. Only 10% of US
states or 5 states have murdered prisoners in 2013.

31 Jul 2013

Only FIVE of FIFTY states, only 10%, have murdered prisoners this year.

Texas remains first with 10 judicial murders. Next is Ohio with 5. Then Florida
with 3. Georgia and Virginia have 1 each. Ohio is the only Northern state
involved
in gubernatorial prosecutorial or judicial murder.
 http://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa/date/2013.htm

Rhode Island

deathpenaltyinfo.org

"The federal death penalty is controversial because it can be applied even in
the 18 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico that have elected not
to have capital punishment in their own law. Out of respect for the people of
Rhode Island--a non-death penalty state--the governor, Lincoln Chafee
(pictured), resisted turning over a defendant in 2011 to face the federal death
penalty. The defendant, Jason Pleau, agreed to plead guilty to a series of
charges including murder if he could be tried in state court. The federal
government resisted this offer, and it eventually prevailed in a court challenge
by the governor regarding custody of Pleau. Now the federal government has
announced that it will accept a plea in federal court in exchange for not
seeking a death sentence. Following the agreement, Gov. Chafee said, "The case
today has reached a conclusion, and [the victim's] family can begin the long
healing process. A life sentence is the appropriate punishment for this brutal
crime and respects Rhode Island's longstanding opposition to the death
penalty.""

Florida Again deathpenaltyinfo.org

"Florida has set an August 5 execution date for John Ferguson, a death row
inmate who has suffered from severe mental illness for more than four decades.
As far back as 1965, Ferguson was found to experience visual hallucinations. He
was sent to mental institutions and was diagnosed as paranoid schizophrenic,
delusional, and aggressive. In 1975, a mental health doctor described Ferguson
as "dangerous and cannot be released under any circumstances." Nevertheless, he
was released less than a year later. Ferguson believes he is the "Prince of God"
and is being executed so can save the world. Ferguson's attorneys recently filed
a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court, asserting that Florida courts have
applied the wrong standard for mental competency, ignoring the current
interpretation of this issue by the High Court, which requires that an inmate
have a rational understanding of why he is being executed. An earlier editorial
in the Tampa Bay Times opposing Ferguson's execution, agreed, "Florida is
embracing an interpretation of competency for execution so pinched that it would
virtually extinguish limits on executing the severely mentally ill. The state
says Ferguson is aware that he is being put to death and that he committed
murder, and is therefore competent to be executed."

Cold premeditated judicial
murder
is more criminal
than hot passionate
spur of the moment killing.
Judges, prosecutors, governors
disassociate themselves from
their atrocities with pens or
typed legal briefs as warmongers
don't see their bombing
victims on the ground.

When a state
murders a prisoner
it doubles
the murders.

Only love can
conquer hate.
Only light
can eliminate
darkness.
See also:
 http://www.governor.ohio.gov/Contact/ContacttheGovernor.aspx
 http://deathpenaltyusa.org/usa/date/2013.htm


www.governor.ohio.gov/Contact/ContacttheGovernor.aspx

Mercy For Billy Slagle

Please ask Governor Kasich
to end Ohio's role as the only
executing northern state and
to cancel the execution
of Billy Slagle.

Governor John Kasich
Riffe Center, 30th Floor
77 South High Street
Columbus, OH 43215-6117
Phone: (614) 466-3555
 http://www.governor.ohio.gov/Contact/ContacttheGovernor.aspx


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