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Cameron Todd Willingham and Others
Nov 3, 2009
Cameron Todd Willingham's Execution - and Others


This blog does not open links in a new window.  Please read about all the cases before opening any links, or use your back arrow to return and complete the strong cases for innocence regarding death row inmates in several states, plus cases of aggrevious excessive sentencing.  Story posted at:  http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/ -





Cameron Todd Willingham

PRESSURE MOUNTS on Texas' governor regarding what appears to be the wrongful execution of a young father.  Cameron Todd Willingham was convicted for setting fire to his home with his three children inside.  The children perished in the fire, and Willingham was charged with arson and murder.  At a time when Todd's heart was breaking from the tragic loss of his children, he had to defend himself (unsuccessfully) for murder.  He was on death row for over 12 years, which was certainly long enough to determine the cause of a fire.  In fact, a determination was made prior to Willingham's execution.  An arson report wherein fire investigators determined there was likely no arson was recently made public.  Many people are calling for a moratorium on capital punishment in Texas, which holds the record for executions in America.  A lawsuit has been filed against Governor Rick Perry in connection with Willingham's 2004 execution.  The governor's office reportedly received a fax of the arson report stating that there was likely no arson before Willingham's execution.

Learn more about the Willingham case and access a petition to sign in support of his post mortem exoneration.  The petition sponsored by the Texas Moratorium Network can be accessed at this site:
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http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/execution-of-cameron-todd-willingham.html   -

The site also has a VIDEO about another executed Texan who was also allegedly innocent.

Governor Perry is campaigning for re-election.  He acknowledges no wrongdoing regarding Willingham's execution, despite the professional's report that there was likely no arson.  Please the newscast below.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PI3JDqpIl80

Please be aware that other likely innocent people are on death row.  Consider Thomas Arthur who awaits execution in Alabama.  His DNA test results were returned in July stating that Arthur was ruled out as contributor for any of the crime scene evidence tested.  A judge sealed Arthur's test results, his lawyers were forbidden to disclose his innocence, and the Alabama D.A.'s office reported to Birmingham News in August that a death warrant would be sought for Arthur. 



Thomas Arthur

Mainstream media did not report Arthur's DNA results, although the media had closely followed his quest for post-conviction DNA testing for many years.  All was silent when the test results came back with Arthur  negative as Troy Wicker's murderer.  The only exceptions to the silence that I found on the Internet was a report about Arthur's DNA test results from another blogger and myself.  This writer had major problems publishing the news about Arthur's DNA test results.  Care2 reported a cyberattack on September 1, which was the day I tried to send the news out via ecards.  Gmail, which I use for prisoner advocacy,  suddenly had an outage.  I worked all night long fighting cyberstalkers to get the article published about Arthur's DNA test results on August 31, and it finally made front page news at Care2 News Network.  So far, Arthur still breathes.  Arthur's daughter posted his DNA test results on her father's website.  See more about that drama at this link:

Should Thomas Arthur be Executed for Telling a Fibb?
http://www.votingcentral.com/VotingCentral/displayPoll.do?pollId=1236f80e-49c4-163d-b520-0cb9ffffffd4





Troy Davis is another condemned man who has substantial evidence of innocence that arrived after his conviction for the murder of Officer MacPhail, a Savannah, Georgia police officer.  Despite the fact that seven of nine witnesses have recanted or contradicted their testimony against Davis in his murder case that had no forensic evidence, the system repeatedly refused to grant Davis a new trial.  Millions of people over the world cheered this  summer when the Supreme Court ordered that Troy Davis' case would be reviewed again by another Georgia federal judge who will decide whether Davis will finally have his "just day in a fair court" (Davis' words).  However, the High Court determined that the judge can only consider new evidence that was not available to Davis' attorney initially.  Davis' attorney for his appeals case had 70 other active cases at the time, and it is unlikely that his first state-appointed attorney had the opportunity to adequately defend him on a capital murder charge.  The High Court further ruled that Davis' innocence must be proved by the new evidence he presents to the federal judge, despite the fact that Davis has no DNA evidence to present.  Davis must do better than prove there is a reasonable doubt of his guilt like other defendants - he has to prove actual innocence.  Otherwise, Davis will be executed like Cameron Todd Willingham was. 

Just as the media is silent regarding Thomas Arthur's DNA test results indicating innocence, Troy Davis is under a gag order and not allowed to speak with the press.

Alternet recently published the stories of four other men who may be wrongly convicted, including some on death row.  The article is at this link:
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By Liliana Segura, AlterNet
October 26, 2009

4 Prisoners Facing Executions or Serving Extreme Jail Sentences Who Very Well May Be Innocent
http://www.alternet.org/rights/143499/4_prisoners_facing_executions_or_serving_extreme_jail_sentences_who_very_well_may_be_innocent/?page=entire

Texas is gearing up to execute another prisoner tomorrow, a man named Reginald Blanton, who has a very strong innocence claim of his own. (Blaton was executed.  Read about his case at this link.)  http://www.alternet.org/rights/143417/innocent_until_proven_dead:_will_texas_execute_another_innocent_man/.)

Cruel and unusual though it might seem, for a person to be sentenced to die for a crime he or she did not commit is hardly a unique phenomenon in this country. In the past 35 years, no fewer than 138 people have been released from death row after proof of their innocence was discovered -- including eight this year alone.

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Darrell Lomax, Innocent on Calif Death Row
Darrell Lomax, California Death Row Inmate
ANOTHER CONDEMNED MAN who has a strong case of innocence is Darrell Lomax, who is on California's death row.  California has not executed anyone in many years, but made an announcement that executions will soon resume there.  Darrell's story and evidence are presented in this article:


Supreme Court Rules Inmates Have No Constitutional Right to DNA Testing Although Study by Expert Criminologists Shows Capital Punishment Is No Crime Deterrent
http://www.nowpublic.com/culture/supreme-court-dna-ruling-study-shows-dp-no-crime-deterrent

This is a link to Darrell Lomax's website:  www.ccadp.org/darrelllomax.htm

Jeff Wood
Jeff Wood, Texas Death Row
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There are numerous other cases of likely innocent people on death row across America.  Part of the reason is because the mentally ill and juveniles are especially likely to sign false confessions, because they are easily intimidated.  Jeffrey Wood awaits execution in Texas, a mentally ill man who was very young when a robber induced him to drive with him to the store.  Jeff was instructed to wait in the truck for Daniel Reneau, who went into the store, robbed and shot the manager.  Jeff had no knowledge that a robbery/murder was taking place.  Nevertheless, Jeff is on Texas' death row under the Law of Parties.  He was treated for mental illness after his arrest to get him trial-ready.  Jeff's attorneys reported that their client refused to allow them to vigorously defend him.  Jeff requested to defend himself, but the judge refused.  He insisted on dictating to his attorneys, however, how the case should be handled.  Since he was declared mentally sound, his attorneys were limited.  The actual shooter in the case has already been executed by the State of Texas.

 

Andre Thomas, Mentally Ill Condemned Man
Andre Thomas

Andre Thomas was ruled "crazy, but sane under Texas law," by a judge this year after the mentally ill man ate his left eye.  Thomas ate his right eye while awaiting trial several years ago after killing his wife and children and walking around with their hearts in his pocket.  Now poor Andre is blind, "crazy," and awaiting a Texas execution.  (The judge used the word "crazy," not this writer.)  Andre Thomas' petition is below:

Petition to Save Andre Thomas and Stop Executing Mental Patients
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/No-Executing-Mental-Patients

Jeremy Smith, Mentally Ill California Prisoner
Jeremy Smith
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There are many more inmates who were excessively sentenced due to mandatory sentencing laws and three-strikes laws (that disallow judges using their own discretion).  Consider the case of Jeremy Smith.  He is a young man who was schizophrenic from childhood.  He allegedly hit another mental patient in his mental hospital, and was induced to sign a plea bargain for EIGHT YEARS imprisonment in California, a state that its governor reports is practically breaking under the weight of its prison costs.  While in prison, he allegedly made "terrorist threats" to a guard and was further charged for that, which may substantially lengthen his sentence.  California is paying at least $70,000 per year to punish the sick young man in a solitary confinement prison hole 23 hours per day.  Gov. Schwarzenegger's efforts to effect prison reform are reportedly hampered by members of the state legislature.

California had to send its senior citizens IOU's rather than live checks this year, but no cost is spared to imprison mental patients like Jeremy who do not deserve to be punished for having a disability.  No one can be punished or rehabilitated into a state of good mental health.  See Jeremy's petition below:

Justice 4 Jeremy Petition - Lifelong schizophrenic in CA prison hole - http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/JusticeForJeremy

Wrongful convictions will undoubtedly continue to happen, because much can go wrong with evidence and witnesses between the time a defendant is arrested and brought to trial, sometimes years later.  However, wrongful convictions can be reduced by increasing the amount of money states spend for public defenders.  Saving innocent people from prison or execution is not only humane and just, it also saves taxpayers a good deal of money in an economy where every dollar counts.  It is more financially prudent to increase spending for indigent defense to accomplish real justice than to have to pay over $50,000 per year per innocent inmate who is sentenced to many years in prison due to inadequate representation.  Wrongful convictions are substantially more expensive than the cost for upgrading public defenders' budgets. 

The USDOJ has made several grants recently to curtail wrongful convictions and to stop prisons' revolving door for mentally dysfunctional people.  Regarding the shocking propensity courts have to ignore evidence of innocence that arrives after conviction, Attorney General Holder made it clear that real justice must take precedence over procedure.

 

Jamie and Gladys Scott, Mississippi Inmates
Scott Sisters

Excessive sentencing is also unnecessarily cruel and expensive.  Yet, in Mississippi, two sisters were given life sentences for the theft of $11, and they, too, have a strong case for innocence - the Scott Sisters.  Many people believe Gladys and Jamie Scott were wrongly convicted just as they assert, but even if they are guilty, life sentences for $11 with no one physically harmed seems to be excessive sentencing.  They have already been imprisoned for around 15 years.  Mississippi taxpayers are sentenced right along with the women, because taxpayers must foot the bill.

The petition for the Scott Sisters is at the link below:

Gladys and Jamie Scott Wrongful Conviction Case Petition
http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Free-Jamie-Gladys/index.html

The website for the Scott Sisters is: Free the Scott Sisters
http://search2.comcast.com/?cat=dnsr&con=ds&url=www.freethescottsisters.com

There is also a blogspot for the Scott Sisters called FREE JAMIE AND GLADYS SCOTT.
Their contact person is Nancy Lockhart at thewrongfulconviction@gmail.com


DEATH TO THE DEATH PENALTY!

Objections to the death penalty include:


~ It targets the poor

~ It is racist

~ It kills the innocent

~ It is barbaric

~ It does not deter crime

~ It is expensive (Taxpayers pay $90,000 per year per condemned inmate over and above incarceration costs for inmates in maximum security prisons, according to the Death Penalty Information Center)

Thou shalt not kill.  ~ Exodus 20:13; Deuteronomy 5:17 

Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour.
~Exodus 20:16

Mary Neal
http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill
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More Threats to Mary Neal - Standing for Justice Is Risky in U.S.A.
Aug 6, 2009
Ugly Dog

FREEDOM OF PRESS VIOLATED - FREE SPEECH ATTACKED - INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS IGNORED - I AM LOCKED OUT OF MY NOWPUBLIC.COM ACCOUNT FOR DEMANDING THAT THE COMPANY STOP DELETING MY INTELLECTUAL PRODUCT AND CLAIMING IT CANNOT RECOVER SAME FROM ITS COMPUTER SYSTEM.

My 175 articles published at NowPublic.com in favor of safe prison conditions free from torture and wrongful death, giving prisoners good medical and psychiatric care, eliminating capital punishment, wrongful convictions, three-strikes laws, and mandatory sentencing, highlighting the problem of criminalizing mental illness, and my family's justice quest have repeatedly been attacked. - See Wrongful Death of Larry Neal

at http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

See my articles at http://NowPublic.com/duo

I was not advised that NowPublic was actually removing my articles and various comments, removing photos from articles (such as Billey Joe Johnson's photo from my Kathryn Johnston news article) until recent admissions by the staff. 

I believe that some folks expected me to be dead by now, based on the in-person stalking that I have experienced and not given emergency 911 police services on Sept. 27, 2008. 

Perhaps people hoped to delete all of my Internet submissions.  However, I am essentially a homebody, and the powers that be do not seem to want to stage a home invasion on the order of Kathryn Johnston's in 2006 by Atlanta Police.  I stopped driving months ago, because I am followed when I leave home.  Here is my most recent communication with NowPublic.  My series of articles on Michael Jackson continues to climb in number of hits - now around 40,000.  Those articles are not so much about MJJ as they are a criticism of enforcing experimental H1N1 vaccines on the world's population.  Can you think of any acceptable reason why an independent news network would have a problem with one of its most well-read authors asking that her work not be deleted?  See the message from NP that came via email, dated Aug. 5, 2009:

Tina Kells
20 hours ago

Hi Mary,

I understand there were some difficulties between you and staff while I was away and after reviewing the various forum posts I have decided to contact you directly. It think it is time that we clarify a few things regarding your persistent complaints and accusations. First and foremost there is NO security breach at NowPublic and I ask that you stop stating publicly that there is, this is simply untrue and your accusation is unfounded.

I know you feel very strongly that you are being attacked by cyberstalkers but I can assure you that no person or entity has infiltrated NowPublic simply to attack and monitor you. If you are being harassed online it is has nothing to do with our site infrastructure. I suggest you have your computer(s) checked and cleaned and contact your ISP. Any difficulties you experience are not due to a security breech on our end. For the most part your publishing issues have been traced to user error and have been easy to fix on our end. Your NowPublic account is not, and never has been, hacked by cyberstalkers.

In the past I have had to ask you to stop attacking, accusing and verbally assaulting staff, both in private messages and in public forum posts. I was shocked to see that you not only continued these attacks but escalated them last week. I am speaking specifically of your accusation that Amy was in any way racist toward you. This is perhaps the most outrageous of the many unfounded accusations you have directed toward the site and its staff. Once again I ask that you refrain from personal attacks, which are a direct violation of our terms and conditions, and address staff with respect. I know for a fact that Amy has on many occasions gone out of her way to assist you, one may even say she has gone above and beyond, and the racist accusation made by you is in no way backed up by the historical facts of your interactions with her. I strongly feel you owe her a public apology.

I have always found your strong sense of social justice to be among your best qualities but it seems that you have little regard for the manner in which you treat the staff and editors at NowPublic. Your hostile and accusatory behavior must stop immediately, it is counter productive to the community and unfair to staff. It is very clear that you do not at all appreciate the huge amoung of help you have been given in the past and I find it very hard to justify asking staff to continue to subject themselves to your hostile allegations. If you can not address staff in a productive and respectful manner your account will be suspended and may be permanently closed.

I ask that you treat staff the way you would like to be treated. If this is not possible we will need to reconsider your involvement with our community. I am sorry it has come to this but your recent behavior can not go unaddressed.

Please consider this a formal warning.

Tina Kells
News Director

RESPONSE BY MARY NEAL

Re: Recent Events

I choose to end this discussion. I do not want my posts deleted or destroyed. Period. If you have no security breach, then tell your staff to cease and desist immediately, please. If you delete anything, then send me a copy. In much less time than it took for you to email me on this matter, you can use the highlight/ copy/ paste and put whatever data you plan to delete in an email to me and mail me a hardcopy. Otherwise, we have a problem.

CLARIFICATION BY MARY NEAL

Re: Recent Events

A LEGAL PROBLEM - I want to make that very clear. The fact that you are on record as telling me to input my data directly into NP creates a contract for safeguarding same. Ask your lawyers.

Furthermore, in view of the recent admission that the interference and deletions I experience have originated at NowPublic and were not resulting from cyberstalkers from OUTSIDE the network, I have already reduced my input at this site and am in the process of making other arrangements for my writing. So be patient. Tell whoever is interested.

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As my justice articles gain popularity, the attacks against my free press rights grow stronger.  News of my mentally and physically brother's secret jail death was omitted from mainstream news, but citizens media like Care2 News Network, OpEdNews, IndyMedia, and NowPublic.com published same.  My advocacy to improve the justice system is under fierce attack, including personal endangerment.

Since I experience much interference at Care2, also, below are the tag lines for this submission, and I entered same as a group discussion at AI, Against Human Stupidity, AIMI, and Beginner Writers here at Care2.  Taglines are:

censorship freedomofspeech billofrights firstamendment cyberstalking wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com USDOJ maryneal freedomofpress nowpublic.com prisontorture constitutionofusa, *group:hs*, *group:aimi*, *group:minorityrights*

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Petition for Congressional Hearings on Tasers
Jul 7, 2009
Taser Torture In America - Please Sign the Petition

A Call For Congressional Hearings
http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/

The petition language:

Dear Senator Reid, Speaker Pelosi and Congressional Black Caucus:

We call on our Congress to speak out and organize public hearings on the systemic human rights violations occurring with Federal funding against black, Latino, Native American and other Americans.

While there continues to be considerable media and congressional attention to torture in Guantanamo, there is comparatively little attention to the mounting evidence of human rights violations in the streets of America by a number of police departments across America, including torture and killings of black children, women and men through-out the United States through the use and abuse of Tasers.

We want Congress to stand up with us against the police pre-trial electrocution of black children, women and men by taser.

We believe that few Americans support spending our tax dollars on torture, which violates our moral, religious and legal traditions.

Most Americans expect an American policing policy that ensures the rights of all individuals regardless of race, greed, color, national origin, sex, disability or political or religious affiliation.

We believe most Americans would favor Congressional hearings as to whether our own U.S. police, policing policies and actions violate Federal and International laws prohibiting human rights violators.

Evidence of widespread police abuse of tasers is more than enough to warrant our concern and justify a congressional inquiry.

We propose that Congress undertake serious oversight into the extent to which our taxes are funding human rights violations and torture by tasing, and provide an alternative roadmap to the restoration of our democratic values. We want Congress to make sure that police pre-trial electrocution of black children, women and men by taser stops.

1. We are calling on the U.S. Attorney General and the Justice Department to aggressively fulfill its most basic mandate of enforcing the law. Torture by tasing is a crime, and the Justice Department is the right place to initiate an independent top-to-bottom investigation of the torturing of black children men, women and children by local police jurisdictions throughout the United States. It's important that the general public understand the 'use of force continuum' used by law enforcement officials, and how it is abused by many in the law enforcement community. (See the use-of-force-continuum provided by the blog Electronic Village) Note: Although there is a Justice Department Review of TASER-related Deaths the on-the-spot pre-trial electrocutions continues.

2. Congress should investigate whether US police tasing policies violate Federal or international civil and human right laws, including the U.N. Convention against Torture, and international covenants against cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of citizens even in cases of so-called "state emergencies".

3. Congress should require the effective regulation of Taser use and require police/ citizen review panels by Federal, state and local police and security agencies, including strict adherence to international human rights standards, or act to defund all such Federal, State and local police and security agencies who violate taser use regulations that would be established by Congress. No Federal stimulus dollars should be used to purchase tasers.

We ask the Congress to hold congressional hearings to reach its own conclusions regarding the use and abuse of tasers, particularly as it relates to minority group members such as blacks, Native Americans and Latinos.

As you know the UN's Committee against Torture has declared that Taser use can constitute a form of torture, while USA: Amnesty International has an on-going concern about the use of tasers on American citizens. With all the conversation about the Bush torture memos and torture in the United States, we the undersigned bring up the issue of torture of black Americans at the hands of police in the United States. We urge you to stand up against the police pre-trial electrocution of black children, women and men by taser.

ADD YOUR SIGNATURE HERE: 
http://www.petition2congress.com/2/1822/taser-torture-in-america-call-congressional-hearings/



I added text to my letter:

Amnesty International reported in Dec. 2008 that the Taser death toll was 334. But Dr. Kohler, Chief Medical Examiner of Summit County, Ohio, was ordered by the court to change her determination of the cause, manner, and mode of death in autopsy reports for three men who died during confrontations with law enforcement and delete all references to death by Taser. She appealed and lost. Therefore, MEs across America were taught that courts will not tolerate them reporting Taser deaths. Dr. Kohler was ordered to change the cause of those three deaths from "homicide" to "accidental" and "undetermined." They would have broght the official Taser death toll to 337 before New Year's Day 2009. Read about this case of the judge overruling the medical examiner at http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Ohio-Court-of-Appeals-Affirms-pz-14826061.html


The Ohio courts' ruling put MEs across the U.S. on notice to downplay Tasers' role in deaths. Furthermore, MEs are on the same county payrolls as police officers. Some MEs have been caught lying about deaths involving law officers and were prosecuted.  Because many judges, medical examiners, and politicians own Taser stock, suing for death by Taser is like suing those people personally. The same is true of trying to sue jails and prisons since the advent of private prisons.

If there are Congressional Taser hearings, demand to see the stock portfolios of all judges and medical examiners who have input in Taser-death trials, as well as their spouse's and children's portfolios. Also check the portfolios of the congresspersons on the hearing panel. Only if this is done will families of Taser victims be compensated fairly for such deaths. To know how far courts and politicians will go to protect police in the wrong, read about THE COCHRAN FIRM FRAUD online.   http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com

Thank you for all you do to uphold justice.

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Here is a beautiful waterfall that reminds me of AIMI and all Care2 members - a series of waterfalls all coming together to make something lovely!




Not only are waterfalls beautiful to look at, but they are powerful, too.  Have you ever heard a waterfall roar?  What a strong sound!  The waterfall applies constant pressure to the hard rock, and it is capable of eventually changing the rock formation! 

Remember, elected officials care about what voters care about, and voters cannot care about problems they do not know about.  Inform someone today!  Please grab the link to this petition and send to your friends.

Unfortunately, mental patients are probably tasered more than any other group.  Tasers are not non-lethal; they are less lethal weapons.  I think that on occasion, Tasers have saved lives.  Officers needed to diffuse a situation and did not have to use live ammo.  But Tasers should not be used unless officers are in a situation where it is worth killing someone, because that is the risk the police officer is taking.  I don't think Tasers should ever be used on six-year-old children or 72-year-old great grandmothers, and this has been done.

WE NEED CLEAR GUIDELINES FOR TASER USAGE.

How long has it been since you emailed your representatives to express concern about indescriminate Taser usage?  This petition is your chance and an opportunity for your friends to help crash rocks!  Please add your stream of water to those of many others. 

Mary Neal
ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL
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