Yesterday afternoon, the TCASK staff (yes, all two of us) participated in a conference call with abolitionist and victims’ advocates from around the country, devoted to the issue of victim orientation in our movement. All too often, abolitionists are portrayed as being “for the offenders” and therefore “against the victims”. Now we all know that this isn’t true, and to claim that we at TCASK don’t feel compassion and care for those who have lost a loved one to murder simply isn’t true.

Nonetheless, as the recent execution of Sedley Alley and near execution of Paul Dennis Reid demonstrate, it is necessary for TCASK and all abolitionists, to become more victim focused in our approach. And it is also the right thing to do.

It isn’t hard to see that the death penalty can be very harmful to victims’ families. A system that drags out the worst moment of a person’s life, forcing them to re-live it again and again over the course of 10, 15, or 20 years is simply not a way to promote healing for victims’ family members. In fact, it runs the very serious risk of re-traumatizing them. Some people will suggest that this calls for an expedited death penalty, but those people have to remember that, with 123 exonerations in the modern era of executions, the faster you make the process, the greater the risk of executing innocents.

Still, we have a long way to go to make ourselves more truly victim centered, but this also leads us to an interesting balancing act. We don’t believe that people on death row are monsters or unworthy of life, and we have to resist the societal depictions of them as such. At the same time, we do no good for victims if we minimize the crimes committed by those facing a death sentence. It is important for us to acknowledge the pain an loss associated with murders. But it is equally important for us to refuse to allow another life to be taken. This is not an easy line to walk.

I am continually inspired by those who have lost loved ones to murder and have found the strength to speak out against state killing. People like Hector Black (featured earlier this week on the blog), Regina Hockett, and Charlie Strobel right here in Tennessee offer us a new model for dealing with loss. But every person grieves differently and heals at a different rate, seeking to find some peace after a loss that those of us who have not had a loved one murdered will never understand. When we talk about the death penalty and advocate for abolition, we can never afford to lose sight of this.

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I won’t quote the Bible or the great song anymore, I promise, but the lyric/passage seemed particularly appropriate last night at our monthly Nashville TCASK meeting. Last month we witnessed the state murder Sedley Alley in all of our names. Next month, Stephen Hugueley’s life may be taken, and, with execution dates set in September (for Daryl Holton) and October (for Donnie Johnson), we all have a tendency to push forward to our next campaign.

But something horrendous did occur and our names are attached to that death certificate and the cause of death that reads “homicide”. And that is not an easy thing to process, particularly when many of the people around you don’t understand your pain, and feel that “justice was served”.

So, even while we look ahead to these possible executions, and even as we lay our plans to organize all around the state to truly end the death penalty, and ensure that what happened to Sedley Alley never happens to anyone else ever again, we need time to grieve together, and be with one another. So on the one month anniversary of Sedley Alley’s execution, Friday July 28th, we will gather together at the new TCASK office in Holy Name Catholic church to simply create space for us to be together, as a community, to begin to process this tragedy. We talk so much about the need for healing after a violent crime and it is important that we follow our own words when the state is the perpetrator of that violence.

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Suicide is a major problem in our society. Annual deaths from suicide hover around 30,000 a year, making suicide a more frequent cause of death than homicide ( a statistic I was shocked to learn yesterday). And assisted suicide is illegal everywhere in the United States; the only exception to this rule is physician assisted suicide in the state of Oregon when an adult patient is suffering from a clearly terminal disease.

But in America we have another form of suicide which goes completely unreported – state-assisted suicide for death penalty “volunteers”. In the modern era of executions, more than 10% of those executed have been so-called volunteers, those inmates who drop their appeals and seek to be executed. We had a near volunteer right here in Tennessee last month when Paul Reid attempted to drop his appeals but questions about his mental competency to do so led to a last minute stay of execution. Daryl Holton is scheduled to be executed in September as he attempts to drop his appeals.

Some people like to view this phenomenon as inmates accepting the justice of their sentence, but a very interesting article, John H. Blume, of Cornell Law School, compares volunteering to suicide in the general population and finds that most volunteers match the suicide model rather than the acceptance of justice model. For instance, over 70% of suicides in the general population are committed by white men. Whites represent around half of the death row population, but account for over 80% of all volunteers. Additionally an extremely large percentage of those who commit suicide suffer from substance abuse and mental illness, particularly schizophrenia, severe depression, and bi-polar disorder. These numbers are mirrored on death row; Paul Reid has been diagnosed with schizophrenia (among other things) and Daryl Holton suffers from major depression with psychosis and has a history of suicide attempts. In fact, 87% of death row volunteers through 2004 suffer from either mental illness, substance abuse, or both.

You can read Blume’s entire article here, although I warn you, it is fairly long.

The conclusion to be drawn seems clear, volunteers are generally seeking a way to commit suicide, not accepting the justice of their sentence. If this is the case, then determining mental competency (and the threshold for mental incompetency must be adjusted to properly take into account our growing understanding of mental illness) but the motivation of the inmate must be taken into account, as participating in suicide is immoral and illegal. In his article, Blume suggests one possible two-pronged standard to determine whether an inmate should be allowed to drop their appeals. This is certainly a starting point for a terrific discussion that we all need to engage in during the coming months. Are volunteers accepting justice? Or are we seeing a last desperate cry for help from people who have experienced serious emotional trauma, abuse, and mental illness?

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So we have now been here at Holy Name Catholic Church for about a month, and none of the swept off my feet luster has worn off yet. This is still the nicest space TCASK has been in in at least the last several years, and, with it’s convenient location just across the river from down town and the capitol and only a few blocks from some good food and coffee at five points, we couldn’t be at a better spot in the city.

And did I mention that this is a real office? You see, for the last year or so, TCASK has been housed in a house over in West Nashville. Now, as I think my first paragraph made clear, we love the move, but we have lost a few things in making the change, and we thought we’d take this opportunity to throw ourselves on the mercy of the blog reading public, see if anyone really is reading out there, and see if y’all can help us out. So here goes.

To begin with, I’m a New Yorker, which means that the day does not begin until I’ve had my toasted bagel (in my case with peanut butter and hot sauce, but we don’t need to get into that). Of course, to have my bagel, we need a TOASTER! Who would have thought?

Second, especially around executions, keeping an eye on press coverage is a very important part of what we do, as is viewing videos from around the country to assess their utility as organizing tools, but of course, for this, we need a TV, preferably with a VCR until attached.

And houses are bigger than our office, which means that, for us, storage space is at a premium. We’ve made, if I do say so myself, pretty excellent use of our one closet and current bookshelves, but we need at least one more bookshelf to house all of our materials.

And lastly, our phones. Now there’s no difference between our old office and our new in relation to the phones, but the phones are two years older than they were when we moved into our last space. Consequently, our cordless phones are holdig their charge for shorter times. What we really need, for those long conversations, is a back up cord phone, which doesn’t need a charge.

One phone change that has been made is that we now have two phone lines (one of which the fax also operates) so eventually we need a two-line phone system to really make us happy.

So, now that I’m done with my little wish list, if anyone has any of the above items and would like to make an in-kind donation to a charitable organization (that’s us if that wasn’t clear), give us a call at (615) 256-3906 and let us know. We’ll be more than glad to take any of the above items off your hands.

And, I promise, bagels help me git er done!

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Hector Black is a wonderful farmer from Cookeville who, in 2000, experienced one of the worst events that I can imagine; Hector’s daughter was murdered. This morning, in my email box, was a letter to the editor written by Hector. The words of people like Hector, who step away from vengeance, even when they have the most cause to want it, continue to inspire me. Hector’s letter is below:

Thoughts on the Death Penalty July 9, 2006 5AM

It seems to me the DP is an act of revenge. A life for a life. I know that when our daughter was murdered, I wanted the man who did it to hurt the way I was hurting. I wanted him to suffer like our daughter did. I wanted to get even. Seems to be a natural impulse. But is there any way of getting even? I mean really even. How can anyone make up for the brutal death of your loved one? Isn’t bringing the loved one back is the only way to really get even – to get back to where you were before the horror? My wife and I came to realize that killing the man who killed our daughter would not honor her in any way. Doesn’t the death penalty just add one more death, one more group of relatives and friends hurting. Does the world need more pain? Seems to me there is more than enough to go around.

When I think about the death penalty I realize that it penalizes the poor. When did you last read about a rich person being executed? It’s certainly not that rich people don’t kill. They can hire the top lawyers (shoot, they can hire killers). They find a way through. Just the power of having a lot of money seems to affect the way we think about them. Guy off the streets? A nobody. But a Rockefeller….Money even changes the balance in the delivery of justice. Not one of the 102 people on death row in Tennessee could afford a lawyer.

The proportion of people or color executed for murder is way higher than of white people. Think that’s because they kill more often? Think again.

Does the DP slow the murder rate? Nope, just check out no death penalty Europe’s murder rate and ours. Unless you think Europeans are just less likely to kill. Or take Texas – one of the highest murder rates in the nation in the state the executes more people than any other.

Well, is it Christian? To that, I would ask if you can picture Jesus pulling the switch on an electric chair, or injecting poison into the person strapped to a gurney.

Is it justice, equal justice? Over a hundred people have been released from death row because DNA evidence proved their innocence. Makes one wonder how many innocents have been executed. The death penalty is not applied evenly throughout the US. A person is killed in Texas who would instead be sent to jail in Vermont. How fair is that?

And do you really enjoy the United States being in the company of Saudi Arabia, China, Iran? We are the only western democracy that still executes people. Ugh! Saudi Arabia! They behead people there don’t they? All that blood. We don’t want to think about it. We want our death to be bloodless. Murders are usually bloody. Maybe we would get better “closure” if we saw the murderer’s blood. Herod’s wife got even by having John the Baptist’s head served her on a platter. Pure hatred. Isn’t the death penalty also an act of hatred leaving the murderer with no possibility for remorse, for redemption?

Oh, and for you conservatives out there, life in prison is less expensive than execution. Check it out.

So, if it’s administered unfairly, if it’s unchristian, if it’s an act of revenge and doesn’t deter murder, and it’s more expensive, why in Sam Hill do we continue to use it?

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murders are horribly sad and tragic events…

should i repeat that???

okay…murders are horribly sad and tragic events…

so, on this point we are all on on common ground – death penalty opponents, agnostics, and supporters alike … each of us is appalled, offended, and heartbroken when we learn of the loss family, friend, and even stranger has suffered when someone’s life is senselessly taken by violence at hand of another person…

so where do we depart this common ground??? the short answer is our response and in the case of those who support killing a killer to show that killing people is wrong the justification is that it is reserved for the “worst of the worst”…

if we look at 2 current murder cases here in tennessee we can consider the arbitrary nature of such a classification…

jennifer hyatte is accused of fatally shooting a prison guard to help her inmate husband escape in august 2005…both she and her husband george are charged with first-degree murder in the killing of state prison guard wayne “cotton” morgan…the district attorney general’s office is seeking the death penalty for both…

genero espinosa dorantes and his girlfriend, martha patlan, were returned yesterday from mexico to nashville to face charges that they killed patlan’s 4-year-old son, then fled to mexico after dumping his scalded and burned body in a nashville park…

dorantes and patlan will not face the death penalty – the mexican government does not extradite prisoners to the u.s. who are mexican nationals facing a possible death sentence.davidson county deputy district attorney tom thurman said that the government had to assure the mexican authorities there would be no death penalty in order to obtain an extradition…

two murders – both grievous… the first tragic – yes, but nothing heinous as far as these horrible outcomes go… the second – tragic, yes and truly /horrific…

possible outcome in the first case – two executions … possible outcome in the second case – two sentences of life without the possibility of parole…

this is but one example of what is meant by the arbitrary and capricious nature of death sentencing…

this is why justice adolpho birch dissented in death sentences time and time again while upholding the convictions themselves …

tennessee has no functional proportionality review and capital punishment is not reserved for the so-called “worst of the worst”…

it’s obvious that we do not need to – and should not – seek killing killers as a response to homicides…we call again for the state to stop diverting resources from victim’s compensation, crime prevention, and children’s resources and do away with a sentence inextricably tied to a broken system…

so let’s at least have an honest discussion about where our consensus falls apart and don’t play games – if you’re for the death penalty just say you want revenge…

peace out <3

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That’s the word that we hear most often from death penalty advocates. That’s how we justify it to ourselves. The people on death row aren’t people, they are monsters. Not like us.

People said that around Sedley Alley’s execution, but last night I received one of the most moving reminders of how untrue this is. People, even those who have committed horrendous acts (and in Sedley Alley’s case, his guilt remains in question), are still people, capable of loving and of being loved. Capable of beautiful sentiments. So last night, at the memorial service for Sedley Alley, I was struck again by the fact that this so called monster had people who loved him, and loved him dearly. The last page of the program included the final statement of Sedley Alley. It reads:

I cry not for myself but for those I leave behind. I am going to a much better place where I will find and know true peace. It is the ones I leave behind that I am concerned for. This world is rough and light is dim in it. Where I am going is full of light. The world is tough and there is a lack of compassion and love here. Where I am going there is an abundance of Love, Compassion and Forgiveness. This world has always felt foreign to me. Where I am going is our home, our true home.

I pray that my children will find peace and be able to move on with their lives. I pray that they will find peace in knowing that my pain is through and that I am going to a much better place.

The main thing I want to say to my children, family, and friends is this, Find peace and happiness, live a long life full of Love, forgiveness and hope. To my children, my family, my friends and to those that hate and despise me, to my last breath you all will remain in my prayers and thoughts.

I hold fast to one prayerful thought, that my children, the rest of my family and friends and those that hate me will now be able to find the peace of God that passeth all understanding.

All that has been killed here is my body. A body that was worn out and tired and ready to rest. All that has happened is that my spirit had been allowed to go home and to be with our Lord. To my last breath I pray for this world and forgive those I leave behind.

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Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie the reason you were alive
But you’ll never know…

-Jackson Browne, 1974-

ever wonder if the work to educate people about the failure’s of the death penalty system is bearing fruit??? the answer is yes – consider this note i received a couple of days after last week’s execution and my thanks to the writer for sharing it with me and permitting me to share it with you…

peace out – <3

“…my opinions about the death penalty have changed so much since meeting you. I was really never on one side or the other. But I feel completely against the death penalty now after talking to you … and being able to see a different side to the situation.

I was watching the news last Tuesday night and my kids were with me. They asked me about what an execution was and how it happened. I explained it to them in very basic terms since they are 7 & 10. Wednesday morning ______ woke up and crawled into bed with me and said, “Mom, did they execute the man last night?”, I said “yes” and he said he was thinking about it and was sad.

So, see how what you’ve shared with me has now affected a new generation. I just thought you should hear that story.”

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In the past two days, the Tennessean Letters to the Editor page has been graced with a few excellent letter and, yes of course, a few bad ones, but, ignoring those, let’s celebrate the good pieces. Today, a letter from TCASK Board member Kathryn Lea appeared in response to a letter from a few days ago claiming that the Bible and therefore God support capital punishment. Lea’s concise and articulate response can be read here (it’s the fourth letter):

On the 4th of July, while most of us were out watching fireworks (East Nashville looked a little bit like a war zone from my roof), another terrific article in regards to Sedley Alley appeared, written by Bobby Braddock. Click here and scroll down to the last letter to read a great message.

Press coverage is vital to the work that we do. Here in the office, we send out press releases and media advisories, we establish and cultivate relationships with reporters and editors, and we plan media events, but sometimes coverage isn’t forthcoming, or reporters put their own spin on a story. Letters to the Editor are a wonderful democratic solution. They show grass roots support for our issue and offer a great opportunity to get important messages out without worrying about the 15 second sound bite. With our state looking at three more serious execution dates this summer and fall, the more attention that we can call to our issue in the press, the better.

So even if there aren’t any big events or sensational stories for reporters to cover, we can continue to build grassroots support and get media attention through letters and op-eds. By the way, you know who else reads the editorial page? Legislators! It’s a great way to demonstrate to our elected officials that there constituents care about the serious flaws in the death penalty system.

So go ahead and write a letter to your local editor. Here are some quick and simple tips to make the letter more effective:

• Keep it short. Letters should be no more than 250 words.
• Since you’re writing a short letter, pick one central point and stick to it.
• Proof read. Editors will select well written letters, so no typos.
• End with a nice sting, witness the great ending lines of both of today’s highlighted letters.
• If you need some timely facts, ask us. The TCASK staff is here to help.

So go to it and demonstrate the power of the people with the power of the press!

Fairly, there are numerous aspects you would like to think about medications. All discount medicaments save money, but few online drugstores offer better deals than other online drugstores. There isn’t anything you can’t order online anymore. Remedies like Deltasone ordinarily is used to treat diseases such as eye problems. Glucocorticoids naturally occurring steroids, which are easily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. There are varied drugs for every conditions. Cialis is a remedy prescribed to treat many illnesses. What do you already know about long term side effects of cialis? What consumers talk about how long does it take for cialis to take effect? A general sexual appeal among men is the erectile dysfunction. Sexual problems mostly signal deeper problems: low libido or erectile dysfunction can be the symptom a strong heartiness problem such as heart trouble. Albeit the erectile dysfunction itself isn’t necessarily dangerous, erectile dysfunction is sometimes one of the early warning symptoms of other underlying health conditions that can be extremely dangerous. Unfortunately nearly all over-the-counter medicines have sometimes dangerous aftereffects, from muscle aches to death. If you buy any erectile disfunction medicaments like Cialis, check with a physician that they are sure to take with your other drugs. Do not take unwanted medications. Take Cialis to your local chemist’s shop which will dispose of them for you.

Susan McBride 615-258-2672

Fairly, there are numerous aspects you would like to think about medications. All discount medicaments save money, but few online drugstores offer better deals than other online drugstores. There isn’t anything you can’t order online anymore. Remedies like Deltasone ordinarily is used to treat diseases such as eye problems. Glucocorticoids naturally occurring steroids, which are easily absorbed from the gastrointestinal tract. There are varied drugs for every conditions. Cialis is a remedy prescribed to treat many illnesses. What do you already know about long term side effects of cialis? What consumers talk about how long does it take for cialis to take effect? A general sexual complaint among men is the erectile disfunction. Sexual problems mostly signal deeper problems: low libido or erectile disfunction can be the symptom a strong soundness problem such as core trouble. Albeit the erectile disfunction itself isn’t necessarily dangerous, erectile dysfunction is sometimes one of the early warning symptoms of other underlying soundness conditions that can be highly dangerous. Unfortunately nearly all over-the-counter medicines have sometimes dangerous aftereffects, from muscle aches to death. If you buy any erectile disfunction medicaments like Cialis, check with a physician that they are sure to take with your other drugs. Do not take unwanted medications. Take Cialis to your local chemist’s shop which will dispose of them for you.