Wednesday, October 06, 2010
Death Penalty
My first ex-wife Kathy sent this and asked, nay requested, that i post it: "World Day Against the Death Penalty is October 10. I now work with exonerated former death row prisoners. They were the "lucky" ones. It is estimated that for every seven executions, one person has been exonerated - innocent of the crimes they are accused of. Some of the men I work with came within hours of execution (state murder); most received no compensation once released. And this should not surprise your readers - one of our exonerees had prison guards who later became (in)famous as guards and torturers at Abu Ghraib. So this is a domestic injustice that has international implications. Our exonerees will go anywhere in the U.S. and the world to tell their stories. They are unsung heroes in the fight against state-sanctioned violence in the world. Read more about them here.