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Who Are We Doing This For?


Yesterday, the Philadelphia Inquirer carried the following op-ed piece, written by Lorry Post. As Tennessee moves at break neck speed toward executing two men in a single night (June 28th), as we think about Paul House still sitting on death row after 21 years (although with a new sense of hope), I think we should take some time to reflect on the true effects of capital punishment. So read, reflect, pray, and think about the following statement:

Death Penalty is Unfair –
To Victims’ Families

By Lorry Post

My wife, June, and I are among family members of murder victims who believe life in prison without parole is more just than the death penalty.

Those of us who have endured a loved one’s murder need support and justice. We don’t want excuses when the system doesn’t deliver, and we certainly don’t want to be used to promote someone else’s agenda.

Unfortunately, we often are. But some answers may soon be on the horizon.

A legislatively mandated commission to study the death penalty in New Jersey embarked on its work last week.

The commission is looking at whether the death penalty is worth maintaining in the face of mounting concerns about the risk of executing the innocent.

I hope the commission will ask a key question: How can our criminal justice system best accomplish the ends of public safety, punishment, and the needs of victims?

My wife and I know firsthand the tragedy of losing a family member to a killer.
In 1988, my daughter, Lisa, was stabbed to death by her husband in Georgia. Her slaying took her away not only from my wife and me, but tragically from my granddaughter, who has grown up without her mother and with her father in prison.

Living through this ordeal – Lisa’s death, the trial, and life without my daughter – has driven home the harsh realities of our criminal justice system.

More than anything, victims’ families need emotional, and sometimes financial, support from their community.

In New Jersey there are systems in place, but, as often is the case, funding is limited.
The death penalty, meanwhile, has cost the state a quarter of a billion dollars more than life without parole would have cost since 1982, according to a 2005 study by New Jersey Policy Perspective.

This has diverted funds from victims’ services and from critical areas of law enforcement.
Some say victims’ families want “closure.” There is no closure when someone you love is murdered. But there should be justice and certainty – certainty that the right person has been convicted and sent to prison and certainty that when the trial is over, it’s really over.

The death penalty accomplishes neither of these goals.

As we have learned in recent years, the wrong person too often is sentenced to death, and according to surveys most Americans believe innocent people have been executed.

What’s worse is that the death penalty prolongs the tragedy for victims’ families, with seemingly endless appeals and high-profile legal proceedings.

It can be decades before a killer is executed, and when that occurs, the lawyers, the politicians and especially reporters painfully rehash the entire case. The victims are forced to live through the ordeal once again.

Some suggest expediting the process to make it more amenable to the concerns of victims’ families and to save the state’s resources. But the Catch-22 inherent in the death penalty is that if we speed up the process, we increase the risk of executing the innocent.

Cutting costs and time would mean cutting corners in the investigation and trial phase or accelerating the inmate’s appeals. Both are sure-fire ways to ensure that even more mistakes are made.

The death penalty is about exorbitant costs, unacceptable risks, fatal flaws and gross inequities. Excuses for keeping this broken system are running out.

Lorry Post is the founder and former executive director of New Jerseyans for Alternatives

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Who’s Crazy Now?

Yesterday, Circuit Court Judge John Gasaway rejected the request, by Paul Reid’s sister, Linda Martiano, to be named as her brother’s next friend. While Gasaway conceded that Ms. Martiano had the necessary relationship with Reid to be named next friend, he claimed that the petitioners had not made a prima facie showing of mental incompetence.

Now, I’ll be the first person to tell you that I am not a lawyer, and I don’t understand all the intricacies of the law (I still get nervous when I have to pronounce “prima facie” to be completely honest), but I’ve read the judge’s opinion as well as the affidavits submitted on Reid’s behalf. Particularly, I’d call attention to the affidavit of George W. Woods, M.D., a neuropsychiatrist. Dr. Woods is a fellow of the American Psychiatric Association, a board member of the Executive Committee of the International Academy of Law and Mental Health, and on the advisory board of the Health Law Institute at DePaul University. In other words, this guy knows his stuff.

In Dr. Woods’ affidavit, he states uncategorically, that “Mr. Reid is presently incompetent under the analysis required by and of those standards.” He explains that Reid suffers from paranoid delusions (the “military government” is controlling all the people around him, manipulating his behavior, and torturing him with “scientific technology”)which make him incapable of making rational decisions. Reid believes that his current counsel are members of the military government conspiracy. Additionally, Woods explains, Reid experiences memory problems, “repeats” of odd deja vu moments.

Now this is a sworn statement from a medical professional in the highest standing in his field. Dr. Woods’ states, more than five times, that Reid is incompetent. So how did Judge Gasaway respond?

With a complete rejection! Apparently, even though Dr. Woods repeatedly describes Reid’s symptoms and problems, he does not specifically refer to Reid being asked about his legal options and therefore does not prove that Reid is incompetent of understanding his current legal situation! So, even though the guy believes that his lawyers are part of a vast governmental conspiracy against him, even though he thinks that execution is the only way to escape from the torture of the military technology, even though he has problems remembering, and even though he has persistent delusions which he holds to unshakeably, he might still be able to make rational decisions about his legal case according to Gasaway!

The fact that the state is still proceeding in its attempt to execute Paul Reid on June 28th is a tragedy. But the fact that our legal systems can even make the claim that this man is mentally competent to make any decision is a farce. It simply demonstrates how out of undeveloped our legislative understanding of mental illness is in comparison to our scientific understanding. It is past time that we, as a society, recognize this serious error and stop the legal killing of the mentally ill!

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NIGHTMARE

It’s almost the close of the day, the time when the hard working people of Nashville finish their work days and head home. They sit down to dinner with their families watch the evening news and sleep the peaceful sleep of the righteous, waking up the next morning to get back to their busy lives. Now, it’s a rare occasion indeed when we at TCASK leave the office by 5:00 or even 6:00, but we do still like to have a good night’s sleep, which is why I’m a little upset at the City Paper, because there will be no sleep for me tonight. Not with the horror stories they print scaring me out of my socks!

No! It’s not a story about the rising crime rate (although that’s certainly not a good sign) or even about Barry Bonds. no, the story that caught my eye this morning, causing me to shriek with horror right there on the number 10 bus, was the news that current Attorney General Paul Summers is considering applying for a seat on the Tennessee Supreme Court! Read the entire story here: http://www.nashvillecitypaper.com/index.cfm?section_id=9&screen=news&news_id=50385

Now the Supreme Court hears all the appeals of inmates on death row and sets execution dates – they’ve currently sentenced Paul Dennis Reid and Sedley Alley to be executed on the same night. Whatever else Paul Summers has done as AG, he has been an abolitionist’s nightmare. In 2000, he asked the Supreme Court to place a conservator on Gregory Thompson to medicate him since Thompson was “incapable of making rational decisions.” Then in 2004, while still admitting that Thompson was severely mentally ill, Summers asked that the conservator be removed so he could seek an execution date. He just wanted Thompson medicated to make him sane enough to kill. When Sedley Alley’s execution was stayed a few weeks ago to allow for the courts to settle the question of DNA testing, Summers responded by requesting a date of June 1st (the first day after the 15 day reprieve) be set, even though this would never allow the ajudication and testing to take place.

There are more stories I could tell, but I think that what is clear is that, if selected to fill the Supreme Court vacancy, Paul Summers would be extremely harsh to the men and women sentenced to death. It is unlikely that he would be willing to hear legitimate complaints or examine serious issues of innocence. Would Paul Summers care that DNA testing could prove the innocence of Sedley Alley? Would he allow a new hearing for Paul Gregory House? Would he care that Erskine Johnson (a black man) was sentenced to death by an all white jury in Shelby County which is 42% African-American?

The answer gives me nightmares.

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tcask statement on house and more…

the u.s. supreme court ruling in the house case is here and a washington post article on the case is here … below is the tcask press release just being issued (and will be posted on the tcask web site tonight) …

Paul House Innocent Supreme Court Ruling Asserts
No Reasonable Juror Could Convict House Viewing All Evidence

Nashville: The U.S. Supreme Court ruled today that the innocence claims of Paul Gregory House were strong enough to have his case remanded back to Eastern District Federal Judge Jarvis. By a 5-3 vote the court ruled that “no reasonable juror viewing the record as a whole would lack reasonable doubt.”

“Innocence matters – that what the U.S. Supreme Court asserted today,” said Randy Tatel. “The court has rejected the view that if evidence of your innocence is found after you’ve been convicted, you have no right to have that evidence brought to the attention of a court.”

That view has been fateful for Paul House and his mother Joyce. Apparently, prosecutor Paul Philips who put Paul House on Tennessee’s death row more than 20 years ago would rather execute an innocent person than to see justice finally done. Philips prosecuted House for the murder of Carolyn Muncey in Union County in 1985. The motive given by Philips for the murder was to cover up the rape of the victim.

In overturning the 6th Circuit ruling the U.S. Supreme Court considered that DNA evidence has now proven that Paul Gregory House did not rape Carolyn Muncey before she was murdered in Union County in 1985. In addition, two witnesses say the victim’s husband, Hubert “Little Hube” Muncey, confessed to killing his wife accidentally after he had been out at the local community center, drinking and dancing. The jury never heard that testimony.

“The court ruled that no reasonable jury would have convicted House,” said Tatel. “That is, Paul House is not guilty.”

House’s case made national news last October when the 6th Circuit Court of Appeals voted 8-7 that the new evidence warranted neither a new trial nor House’s immediate release. The dissenting opinion in House’s 6th Circuit ruling noted that, “This case and the few empirical studies that we have reinforce Justice (Sandra Day) O’Connor’s view that the system is allowing some innocent defendants to be executed.”

The 6th Circuit’s dissenting opinion asserted that, “Once the initial trial and appeal have occurred, the State, and its officials who have prosecuted, sentenced, and reviewed the case, is inclined to believe that the State was right all along. They tend to close ranks and resist admission of error.”

The system is designed to insure fairness of procedure. It is not concerned with fairness in the outcome even if, as Justice Antonin Scalia has often asserted, that means executing an innocent person.

“Innocence does matter,” said Tatel. “Paul House should be given a new trial immediately, or he should be exonerated and released from death row.”

# # #

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HOUSE WON…HOUSE WON…HOUSE WON!!!

okay, you know something is up because i NEVER USE CAPITAL LETTERS…but this is just tooooooooooooooooooooooo goooooooooooooooooood!!!

word has trickled out – the u.s. supreme court decision on the case of paul gregory house has come out and HOUSE WON…HOUSE WON…HOUSE WON!!!

click here, here, and here for background on this case of actual innocence of a death row inmate…

we do not have the details of the decision yet but as soon as we do we will post more information and issue a press statement…

oh yeah, you should know that house’s mother joyce is simply giddy – so much thanks to everyone who has prayed on behalf of joyce, paul, and their entire family…

peace out – <3

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more on mental illness and sentences for murder…

nicholas hilt was facing charges of premeditated first-degree murder, felony murder, child rape and aggravated child abuse … ugly, ugly stuff … i will not recount the horrific details here but you can read about them in this chattanoogan.com on-line article …

tcask has recently blogged about attempts to expand the death penalty for child rape as well as mental illness and capital punishment and this case brings both of these issues into play with a better than expected outcome…

hilt was sentenced to life without parole for the murder charge and will be sentenced August 29th on the rape and child abuse charges…

now the death penalty was on the table originally but prosecutor barry steelman decided ultimately not to pursue a death sentence…

why???

his office reports that they questioned his (hilt’s) mental state…

good for steelman – the victim’s family will be able to begin the long road to healing much sooner than if hilt had received a death sentence…

now, if we could divert the $$$ saved by steelman’s decision into victim’s counseling and other victim’s services we might have the beginning of a better model of responding to such a horrendous crime…

peace out – <3

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how emotions can lead to (really) bad public policy…

yesterday oklahoma’s governor signed into law a bill expanding the death penalty to include anyone twice convicted of rape, sodomy or lewd molestation involving children under 14 … a day earlier, south carolina’s governor signed a bill making a second rape of a child younger than 11 capital crime…

one can easily understand an impulse to protect our children … but how one responds to that impulse says much about their capacity to link means to ends…

does killing child rapists protect our children??? absolutely not, in fact, the law may send the message to molesters “you might as well kill the child” since they already face a death sentence…

that’s the very definition of bad policy — seeking one end yet obtaining just the opposite…

fortunately tcask was instrumental in beating back a similar effort in tennessee earlier this year … in case you missed the lil’ jesuit dude’s blog about it check it out now…

rather than expand a death penalty system that is reserved for the unluckiest of the unlucky, we should end it … studies consistently find that you are more likely to be sentenced to death for killing a caucasian than an african american or a hispanic; some counties pursue the death penalty more than others, leaving the decision of life or death to elected prosecutors rather than a consistent, fair, system; people who can’t afford an attorney are too often appointed lawyers who are asleep, drunk, unqualified or simply incapable of doing a good job at their trial…

the same type of emotional response that led to the passage of these 2 bills is what continues to drive soft public support for the death penalty in general … rather than diverting tens and hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars on retribution that fails to deter a single murder, we should invest in programs that promote the healing of murder victims, compensate them for their loss, and promote the actual prevention of violent crime in the communities where we live…

peace out – <3

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the governor can make a difference…

there is a debate in political science as to whether individuals can be uniquely responsible for impacting history or whether structural constraints dictate that certain events would have occured regardless of individual political leadership – (the classic discussion regards cuba and whether or not there would have been a revolution against batista with or without fidel castro, personally, to lead it) …

yesterday afternoon the u.s. supreme court declined to intervene in the case of percy walton, who was scheduled for execution at 9 p.m….

shortly thereafter, virginia gov. tim kaine announced that he is granting a six-month stay of execution for walton so that the facts of his case (and, in particular we presume, his claim of mental illness) might be studied further…

so the question pops up, does the person in the executive seat of the state matter? that is, would kaine’s predecessor mark warner have issued the reprieve?

probably not…virginia had carried out 11 executions under warner’s signature before he commuted robin lovitt’s sentence to life without parole late last year…

and the most well known example of an executive making a difference is former illinois governor ryan’s declaration of a moratorium on executions in 2000 and his commutation of over 160 death sentences to life without parole just before he left office in 2003…

so how about tennessee which is a weak executive – strong legislative state ??? governor bredesen is odds on favorite to win re-election this fall and there is experience enough to believe that he may not budge on this issue on his own accord…

so what does this suggest? the tennessee coalition to abolish state killing is pursuing a legislative strategy because that’s where the power is – that’s “who” can deliver what we want: a moratorium and study for now to give legislators the tools they need to begin backing away from their public “support” of the death penalty… and it’s through the process of building a strong, statewide grassroots organization that the initial push on elected officials to re-think this issue will emerge…

after all, if you walk up to a deep and wide ravine you can’t just step off the edge and fly to where you see that you want to be … you have to build a bridge of some sort so that you, and everyone else, can feel safe in journeying to the other side…

peace out – <3

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accident at the intersection of mental illness and the death penalty…

at the national level of death penalty organizing it’s often referred to as the next frontier and with good reason…

consider that in 2002, in atkins v. virginia, the supreme court prohibited the death penalty for people with mental retardation…the court reasoned that the impairments of defendants with mental retardation diminish their personal culpability and their ability to understand consequences, rendering the death penalty unjustifiable on grounds of retribution or deterrence…

and here’s the rub … there is a profound inconsistency in exempting people with mental retardation from the death penalty while those with serious mental illness remain exposed to it…the same rationale of diminished culpability, greater vulnerability and limited capacity applies to defendants afflicted with severe mental illness…

here’s what nami executive director michael fitzpatrick had to say on the subject in january… (click above)

now i suffer from depression and so i know at least a little bit about the ups and downs of struggling with and managing a mental illness … and here in tennessee the cases of greg thompson, abu-ali abdur’rahman, and paul reid both revolve around our lack of understanding about and the stigma that pervades mental illness…

if you have contacts and/or experience with the incarceration (and extermination) of the mentally ill drop us a line at tcask … we’ll be talking more about this over time so stay tuned!

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it’s the broken system stupid…

well we’re no james carvilles (is that an amen i hear over there?) but we do face a strategic question we’ve never faced before…

we have 2 executions set for the same day (june 28th) so how do we design our actions leading up to that date??? do we design a message and set of actions for each case (paul reid and sedley alley) ??? if we do, then as organizers we risk overloading our constituents with too big of an “ask” and diminish the response to our appeal for action which is the opposite of our objective…


hence the above reference to carville’s famous advice from the 1992 clinton campaign … rather than create two letters to the editor (one for each case) and either stagger or combine the request(s) for action, we create a single letter to the editor laying out that:

  • we’ve had one execution in more than 16,600 days
  • now we’re facing 2 in a single day in which…
  • one has a 20 year old unreliable conviction in which physical evidence exists but the state refuses to release it for the dna testing that could bring certainty for victim’s family members and general public alike, and…
  • one in which a person with a long, diagnosed history of schizophrenia (paranoid type), twice declared incompetent by texas courts, is seeking to give up his appeals while his sister seeks to be declared next friend for reid because, in his delusional state, is incompetent to make the decision to drop his appeals
  • and next time it may be an innocent person who was wrongfully convicted like paul house whom the state seeks to kill

the lesson? all actions as an organizer have to go back to answering the question, “does this support our strategic plan and process goals?” … the answer to that question helps determine the path you choose to travel down decision by decision, case by case, year by year with achieving your endgame objective as the pot of gold at the end of the line…

for us that means it’s the broken system stupid…

peace out – <3

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