DO GRUPO CARE2 CONTRA A PENA DE MORTE: «AGAINST DEATH PENALTY»

PENA DE MORTE: NEM OS DOENTES MENTAIS SÃO POUPADOS...

http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/info/AMR51/003/2006/en

UM ERRO DA JUSTIÇA QUE VEIO AO DE CIMA...TARDE DEMAIS...É UM A JUNTAR A MUITOS OUTROS!

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executed-possibly-innocent

A PERSPECTIVA DE GUARDAS PRISIONAIS TOCADOS POR ESTA REALIDADE (E SÃO MUITOS):

"...HUNTSVILLE, Tex., Dec. 10 - Jim Willett, the warden of the prison here, awakened a little before 5 a.m. on Tuesday in his home, which his wife, Janice, had decorated for Christmas. He had not been looking forward to the day.

"My first thought was, 'Today's an execution,'" he recalled later that morning. "'I wonder what he'll be like.'"

Mr. Willett said he was hoping that the man who was to be put to death shortly after 6 p.m. would not resist and that the execution would proceed smoothly. His job requires him to stand at the head of the person strapped on the gurney and to signal the anonymous executioner in the next room to inject the sedative and two lethal chemicals through a syringe. In his two and a half years as warden, Mr. Willett has given the signal - raising his glasses - that has killed 84 people.

"Just from a Christian standpoint, you can't see one of these and not consider that maybe it's not right," said Mr. Willett, 51, talking in his office, with the blownup photographs of his children, Jacob, 19, and Jordan, 14, on the wall.

It is the worst part of his job, he said, but it is his job just the same.

Now, the prison here, known as the Huntsville unit, was about to execute three men in three days. While that is not an unusual week for Huntsville, the nation's busiest death chamber, it would bring the year's total to 40, the most people legally killed by any state in one year in American history, according to the Death Penalty Information Center, a nonprofit research group in Washington.

Those who champion the death penalty, the law enforcement officials who call for it, the juries who vote for it, the judges who uphold it, the pardon boards and the governors who sign off on it, are not the ones who walk into the death chamber and help end lives

They too hate their job..."




HÁ FAMILIAS DAS VITIMAS QUE NÃO APROVAM A PENA DE MORTE...EIS A SUA PERSPECTIVA:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/victims-families-petition-against-texas-mans-execution

"...On July 10, Carlton Akee Turner is scheduled to be put to death in Texas for the murder of his adoptive parents when he was 19 years old. But a majority of the victims’ relatives are speaking out against the execution. Victim Tonya Carlton's brother, Kelly Johnson, wrote in a petition to the Board of Pardons and Paroles, “I do not wish to see my sister’s only child executed. I believe in my heart that my sister would only have wanted Akee to receive the help that he needed to restore his mind to a sound state.” Tonya’s first cousin and close friend Krishell Colemen said, “I don’t think Carlton [the defendant] should be executed. I don’t want him to be executed. Now that I know more of the details that led to the murders, I realize that he needs help. Killing him is just another murder. Nothing is going to bring my cousin back. Killing him will just hurt our family again, the way Tonya and Carlton’s murders did.”

The clemency also cited Governor Rick Perry’s statement that Texas can “never forget the impact felt by crime victims” while reminding the Board that the "vast majority" of the victims’ family members don’t want to see the couple’s son executed. “Executions are held out as a talisman that will provide the victim with closure,” said the petition. “This belief serves in part as a rationale for executions. But, in Mr. Turner’s case, an ‘eye for an eye’ truly does leave a family blind, twice robbed of their own.”

The petition also pointed out that Turner was convicted by an all-white jury, with no black citizens even making it to the voir dire phase of selection. The petition argued, “The capital prosecution of an African American man by an all white jury from a jurisdiction [Dallas County] with such an extensive record of discrimination in exactly that arena should cause doubts in the first instance.”







Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights released a report entitled “Creating More Victims: How Executions Hurt the Families Left Behind.” Families of the executed are victims, too, according to the new report, which draws upon the stories of three dozen family members of inmates executed in the United States and demonstrates that their experiences and traumatic symptoms resemble those of many others who have suffered a violent loss. “I don’t think people understand what executions do to the families of the person being executed,” says Billie Jean Mayberry, one of the family members featured in the report. Mayberry’s brother, Robert Coe, was executed in Tennessee in 2000. “To us, our brother was murdered right in front of our eyes. It changed all of our lives.” “Creating More Victims” includes recommendations for mental health professionals, educators, and child welfare advocates. MVFHR also plans to deliver the report to the United Nations High Commissioner on Human Rights and request that that office undertake further study of the impact of executions on surviving families. For a copy of the report, contact Susannah Sheffer, 617-512-2010, sheffer@ispwest.com. For more information about MVFHR, visit www.mvfhr.org.

"Dignity Denied: The Experience of Murder Victims' Family Members Who Oppose the Death Penalty:" A report released by Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation provides an account of the experiences of murder victims' family members who oppose capital punishment and steps that can be taken to protect these individuals from discrimination based on this opposition. "Dignity Denied" challenges lawmakers, the federal government's Office of Victims of Crime, and leaders within the victims' services community to address past and current discrimination and commit to equitable treatment of survivors of homicide victims. Specifically, the report offers model legislation and recommends that victims' rights laws be amended to ban unequal treatment based upon a victim's position on the death penalty. It also states that victims' services should be administered independently, not as part of the prosecutor's office, and that leaders in the victims' services community should develop protocols for serving victims' families who oppose the death penalty. See also, MVFR's Press Release..."

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/victim-resources




ÚLTIMAS PALAVRAS DE ALGUNS CONDENADOS Á MORTE:

Well, gentlemen, you are about to see a baked Appel.
Executed in electric chair in New York.
~~ George Appel, d. 1928



You are going to hurt me, please don't hurt me, just one more moment, I beg you!
Guillotined.
~~ Madame du Barry, mistress of Louis XV, d. 1793



I am going to be face to face with Jesus now. . . . I love you all very much. I will see you all when you get there. . . . I will wait for you.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Karla Faye Tucker Brown, d. February 3, 1998



Take a step forward, lads. It will be easier that way.
Executed by firing squad.
~~ Erskine Childers, Irish patriot, d. November 24, 1922



Thank you for the change in my life you have given me, the love and closeness of my family and my beautiful daughter. Thank you for using me...
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ John Cockrum, d. September 30, 1997



You sons of bitches. Give my love to Mother.
Executed in electric chair.
~~ Francis "Two Gun" Crowley, d. 1931



They butchered me back there, I was in a lot of pain. They cut me in the groin; they cut me in the leg. I was bleeding profusely. This is not an execution, it is murder.
Executed by injection, Florida
~~ Bennie Demps, d. June 8, 2000
( It took execution technicians 33 minutes to find suitable veins for the execution. The executioners had no unusual problems finding one vein, but because Florida protocol requires a second alternate intravenous drip, they continued to work to insert another needle, finally abandoning the effort after their prolonged failures.)



I'm going home, babe.
Executed by injection, Delaware.
~~ James Allen Red Dog, d. March 3, 1993



Remember, the death penalty is murder.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Robert Drew, d. August 2, 1994



Good people are always so sure they're right.
Executed at San Quentin.
~~ Barbara Graham, d. June 3, 1955



I am innocent, innocent, innocent. Make no mistake about this. I owe society nothing. I am an innocent man and something very wrong is taking place tonight.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Lionel Herrera d. May 12, 1993



Such is Life
Executed by hanging.
~~ Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, d. 1880



I love you, mom.
Executed by injection, Texas.
~~ Clarence Lackey, d. May 20, 1997



Today is a good day to die. I forgive all of you. I hope God does too.
Executed by injection, Virginia.
~~ Mario Benjamin Murphy, d. September 17, 1997



Shoot me in the chest!
To his executioners.
~~Benito Mussolini, Italian dictator, d.1945



Hurry it up you Hoosier bastard! I could hang a dozen men while you're screwing around.
Executed by hanging Leavenworth, Kansas.
~~ Carl Panzram, d. September 5, 1930



So the heart be right, it is no matter which way the head lieth.
Executed by beheading.
~~ Sir Walter Raleigh, d. October 29, 1618





SUGERE ÁS ORGANIZAÇÕES NÃO GOVERNAMENTAIS E INTERNACIONAIS DA LUTA PELOS DIREITOS HUMANOS E CONTRA A PENA DE MORTE UMA MEGA MANIFESTAÇÃO CONTRA ESTA TRISTE REALIDADE AINDA VIGENTE NO SECº XXI...MESMO DEPOIS DE TANTOS HORRORES E ERROS LIGADOS A ELA...

Dear friends:

The only effective way to end death penalty, besides the petitions: is a big manifestation, a mass manifestation on several capitals of the world at the same day, same time.
And that is exactly what we are proposing you to do: a big worldwide action: publicly announced in order to have as much people as possible. A worldwide big manifestation in front of the U.N. delegation and unroll a big black banner down the main symbols of each capital: Pizza tower in Italy, Eiffel tower in Paris, the statue of liberty in N.Y. (symbol of the U.S.A.) etc. all banners saying the same thing: DEATH PENALTY NO MORE! ENOUGH HORROR!
Until we call the world’s attention for this, the media attention on it: it will hardly ever stop.



Sincerely: (nome/país)


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LIGA-TE A ESTAS PÁGINAS CONTRA A PENA DE MORTE NO FACEBOOK: DÁ FORÇA A ESTA CAUSA:

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Death-Penalty-Action-Network/318525529728?v=wall

http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=2204628751

http://www.facebook.com/pages/People-of-Faith-Against-the-Death-Penalty/109511491828?v=wall


http://www.facebook.com/pages/World-Coalition-Against-the-Death-Penalty/112524028762795?v=wall


ESCREVE AO PAPA PARA QUE TOME UMA POSIÇÃO FIRME E CLARA CONTRA ISTO: AFINAL JESUS CRISTO TAMBÉM FOI CONDENADO Á MORTE E MATAR É PECADO MORTAL: MESMO QUE SE MATE UM CRIMINOSO.

Your Holiness:


Death penalty horrors go on. One cannot even imagine the panic, the terror, the mistakes justice does...those uncovered and those who never will...
Death penalty is inhuman, a form of revange that is supposed to pusish a crime with another...what sense does that make?!
So ask you to say a few words, in any of your Holiness mediatic appearences to speak against it, in favour of pardon, of hope to redemption, of not interrupt God's plan for each of us, for counseling the victim's family to bring them peace and consolation, to find other ways to punish as there are in other countries. We all make mistakes, some more serious than others, but there is allways hope for redemption that was visible in Tookie williams case for example, who was, nevertheless, not given a second chance. Death penalty applies sometimes even against the some victims's families wish.
Specialists in human psychology should join with scientists, with prison guards and victims families of criminals allready executed to find ways to make things differently. Some executions go wrong, others are delayed several times causing more panic. God said: «thou shall not kill». So why do we?

Thank you for your time (nome/país)



SEND TO:


benedictxvi@vatican.va





MOVIMENTOS PELOS DIREITOS HUMANOS E CONTRA A PENA DE MORTE A QUE TE PODES JUNTAR ON-LINE E ASSIM DAR-LHES MAIS FORÇA:

http://www.aclu.org/how-you-can-help
http://www.305375.com/home/walk4life2.html
http://www.ncadp.org/index.cfm?content=3


CARTA CONTRA A PENA DE MORTE, A MAIS COMPLETA, COM TODOS OS ARGUMENTOS QUE A TORNAM UMA CRUELDADE INÚTIL MAS DE QUE AS ORGANIZAÇÕES QUER INTERNACIONAIS PÚBLICAS QUER PRIVADAS PARA OS DIREITOS HUMANOS SE ESQUECEM, DAÍ QUE SEJA CONVENIENTE LEMBRAR-LHES PARA QUE A SUA LUTA GANHE FORÇA...ENVIA PARA OS LINKS DADOS:


Dear friends:



The only effective way to end death penalty, besides the petitions: is a big manifestation, a mass manifestation on several capitals of the world at the same day, same time. And that is exactly what we are proposing you to do: a big worldwide action: publicly announced in order to have as much people as possible. A worldwide big manifestation in front of the U.N. delegation and unroll a big black banner down the main symbols of each capital: Pisa tower in Italy, Eiffel tower in Paris, the statue of liberty in N.Y. (symbol of the U.S.A.) etc. all banners saying the same thing: DEATH PENALTY NO MORE! ENOUGH HORROR! Until we call the world’s attention for this, the media attention on it: it will hardly ever stop. By 2004, 118 countries had abolished the death penalty, in law or practice. An average of three countries abolish the death penalty every year. The worldwide trend towards abolition of the death penalty is reflected in the Africa region, where 24 members of the African Union had abolished the death penalty, in law or practice, by 1 October 2004.(1) Here are ten reasons for the total abolition of this degrading and inhuman punishment: 1 - the death penalty violates the right to life. The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR) recognises each person’s right to life. Article 4 of the African Charter on Human and Peoples´ Rights (ACHPR) states that "human beings are inviolable. Every human being shall be entitled to respect for his life and the physical and moral integrity of his person." This view is reinforced by the existence of international and regional treaties providing for the abolition of the death penalty, notably the second optional protocol of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, adopted by the General Assembly of the United Nations in 1989. 2 - the death penalty is a cruel and inhuman death. The UDHR categorically states that "No one shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment." All forms of execution are inhuman. No government can guarantee a dignified and painless death to condemned prisoners, who also suffer psychological pain in the period between their sentence and execution. 3 - the death penalty has no dissuasive effect. No scientific study has proved that the death penalty has a more dissuasive effect on crime than other punishments. The most recent investigation into the links of cause and effect between capital punishment and the murder rate, was conducted by the United Nations in 1988 and updated in 2002. It came to the following conclusion: "...it is not prudent to accept the hypothesis that capital punishment deters murder to a marginally greater extent than does the threat and application of the supposedly lesser punishment of life imprisonment." 4 - the death penalty is premeditated murder, demeans the state and makes society more violent. By executing a person, the state commits a murder and shows the same readiness to use physical violence against its victim as the criminal. Moreover, studies have shown that the murder rate increases immediately after executions. Researchers have suggested that this increase is similar to that caused by other violent public events, such as massacres and assassinations. 5 - the death penalty is discriminatory in its application. Throughout the world, the death penalty is disproportionately used against disadvantaged people. Some condemned prisoners from the most impoverished social classes would not have been sentenced to death if they were from wealthier sectors of society. In these cases, either the accused are less able to find their way through the maze of the judicial system (because of a lack of knowledge, confidence or financial means), or the system reflects the generally negative attitude of society and the powerful towards them. It has also been proved that certain criminals run a greater risk of being condemned to death if their victims come from higher social classes. 6 - the death penalty denies the capacity of people to mend their ways and become a better person. Defenders of the death penalty consider that anyone sentenced to death is unable to mend their ways and could re-offend at any time if they are released. However, there are many examples of offenders who have been reintegrated and who have not re-offended. Amnesty International believes that the way to prevent re-offending is to review procedures for conditional release and the psychological monitoring of prisoners during detention, and under no circumstances to increase the number of executions. In addition, the death penalty removes any possibility for the condemned person to repent. 7 - the death penalty cannot provide social stability nor bring peace to the victims. An execution cannot give the victim his or her life back nor ease the suffering felt by their family. Far from reducing the pain, the length of the trial and the appeal procedure often prolong the family’s suffering. 8 - the death penalty denies the fallibility of human institutions. The risk of executing innocent people remains indissolubly linked to the use of the death penalty.
Since 1973, 116 people condemned to death in the United States have been released after proof of their innocence has been established. Some of them have only just escaped execution, after having passed years on death row. These repeated judicial errors have been especially due to irregularities committed by prosecution or police officers, recourse to doubtful evidence, material information or confessions, or the incompetence of defence lawyers. Other prisoners have been sent to their deaths when serious doubts existed about their guilt.
9 - the death penalty is a collective punishment.
This punishment affects all the family, friends and those sympathising with the condemned person. The close relatives of an executed prisoner, who generally do not have anything to do with the crime, could feel, as a result of the death penalty, the same dreadful sense of loss as the victim’s parents felt at the death of their loved one.
10 - the death penalty goes against the religious and humanist values that are common to all humanity.
Human rights are universal, indivisible and interdependent.
11. The convicted has family: A mother,who commited no crime and suffers even more than the convicted man, what is her crime? loving her son or daughter? is she less of a mother than the victim's mother? sometimes baby sons and daughters, or worse; in an age where they realize what is going on...old grandmothers who die of grief, is that fair?
12. Scientists are studying the brain of violent criminals and finding out that their brain chemistry is different, and therefore they are unable to feel regret, even facing death...so where is the punishment if he or she never regrets? isn't that the goal of death penalty?
13. Many countries condemn children to death too. boys with 14 years of age or less...children are sacred anywhere, it is scaring and inhuman enough for an adult, a child has a whole life ahead to realize his or her mistake...
14. Death penalty is expensive to the public exchequer and money spent there should not be used to killing people, but to heal them, to help those sick: whether the convicted or other citizens by public health measures.
15. A crime should not be punished with another. The State has to give the good example.
16. In the cost / benefits balance the «against» arguments certainly are heavier! Since it is expensive and does not achieve any of it's goals: punishment/regret or crime dissuason, besides the fact that it punishes those around the convicted sine no man is an island, and if it is, there should be understandind to him or her, simpatizing with one who has suffered much allready...
17. Many of these men and women are judged for 5 minutes, 30 minutes of their lives where they made a mistake, their personal history is ignored and not seen with solomonic wisdom as law should do.
18. It may in fact encourage crime because you can only apply death penalty once, and so killing on, two, or ten: the price is the same, so if the murder get's caught for one he gets caught for all.
19. It also encourages crime because the executed's familie, namely sons and daughters, may increase their hate towards the State, the victims family, and may wanna do justice their way...

PLEASE PUT AN END TO DEATH PENALTY; ABOLISH DEATH PENALTY WORLDWIDE : keep these arguments in mind and the idea of the big international manifestation.



sincerely (nome/país/profissão)

E-MAILS:

info@abolishdeathpenaltynow.com deathpenaltynews-subscribe@yahoogroups.com aac@abolition.org Billywaynesinclaire@gmail.com billy@johntfloyd.com jab.sinclair@gmail.com contact@justicedenied.org info@justicedenied.org hsherrer@justicedenied.org info@ncadp.org claudia@ndran.org information@deathpenalty.org media@aclu.org media@dcaclu.org cuadp@cuadp.org rdieter@deathpenaltyinfo.org bwood@mvfr.org aboring@ncianet.org office@vadp.org info@ishr.org info@ihrc.org paris@hrw.org Eleanor.Hevey@hrw.org chicago@hrw.org hrwpress@hrw.org info@asf.be asf-burundi@cbinf.com ug-hom@asf.be npl-hom@asf.be rdc-cmkin@asf.be rwa-cm@asf.be press@amnesty.org.uk


DIRECT LINKS
http://juristmail.com/contact-us/
http://www.unwatch.org/site/c.bdKKISNqEmG/b.1289233/k.29CF/Contact_Us/apps/ka/ct/contactus.asp?c=bdKKISNqEmG&b=1289233&en=jjLZJ1MEKfLUI1MDIcJSL1NDJcLNL8NPIfJTK6PNKeLWIiO2G
http://www2.wcc-coe.org/wccstaff.nsf/SendEmailForm?OpenForm&ParentUNID=A05686BB90D2F6FFC1256E22002CCAA7
http://www.youthforhumanrights.org/contact.html
http://www.hafsite.org/contact_us
http://www.amnesty.org/en/contact
http://www.aclu.org/general-feedback
http://physiciansforhumanrights.org/about/contact/







SE QUERES AJUDAR MAIS VEZES A SALVAR VIDAS HUMANAS DO HORROR DA PENA DE MORTE (fora o impacto que tem em familiares inocentes...) ESTE LINK TEM OS APELOS URGENTES - APELOS Á ACÇÃO E ÀS AUTORIDADES - EM QUE PODES AJUDAR E MUITO DE FORMA SIMPLES:

USA OS SITES E LINKS DE «CLICK TO GIVE» PARA DAR DINHEIRO A ESTAS CAUSAS SEM DAR UM TOSTÃO: APENAS COM 1 CLICK OU MAIS, COMO QUEIRAS).http://www.santegidio.org/en/pdm/news/ap_1_e.htm







A PENA DE MORTE É DESUMANA! ASSINA AS PETIÇÕES CONTRA ESTA REALIDADE CRUEL, MAS ANTES A CARTA PARA ENVIAR:


YOUR EXCELLENCY:

The universal declaration of human rights was signed after World War II, this letter, as indicated, referred to all humans and I would ask your excellency whether it is for
us mere mortals, we too are only human, to decide life or death to someone and take the life of another person?
How many more innocents have to die via the death penalty, because of justice mistakes? how many more sick people, according to doctors and scientists, will have to die as if they were just criminals and monsters? How much more panic and terror must exist elsewhere in the world while we have breakfast? How many more mothers whose only crime they committed was to have a child, will have to suffer, innocent as they are, the tremendous pain of losing their son or daughter on the
electric chair or letal injection or whatever horror may be? and innocent children lose their father for the death penalty, broken families and hurt by the State, by the government that does not give the good example? a state that does pay a crime with another crime? Until when the law of an eye for an eye? When will there be mercy and forgiveness for all human beings?
The only righteous judge is God! any effort made to restore justice in a murder case will not repair the loss (and in many cases without a single mistake alike in the past, and yet enough for such hard penalty to bare? Can you imagine yourself in their place? do that exercise...
THE ABOLITION OF THE DEATH PENALTY is the hallmark of civilized countries. Can’t we all be civilized?
STOP DEATH PENALTY!

Sincerely: (name/country)

(Add whatever title to the message you want).


EMAILS:


letters@nytimes.com.
executive-editor@nytimes.com
managing-editor@nytimes.com
http://www.leader.ir/langs/en/index.php?p=letter
http://www.president.ir/en/
pria@dmk.ir
cnao@audit.gov.cn
English@mail.gov.cn
dexrel@ohchr.org
AskDOJ@usdoj.gov.
Relex-enpinfo@ec.europa.eu
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ngochr@ohchr.org
civilsocietyunit@ohchr.org


DIRECT LINKS:


http://answers.usa.gov/cgi-bin/gsa_ict.cfg/php/enduser/ask.php
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/ban-criminal-sharia-law/
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/6/stop-the-death-penalty/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/against-death-penalty/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/against-death-penalty/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/3/FREE-THE-INNOCENT/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/mass-incarceration/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/reverse-the-supreme-court-ruling-concerning-lethal-injection-it-is-cruel-and-unusual/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/Halt-October-Executions/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-executions-iran/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/lets-make-austin-death-penalty-free/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/4/stop-the-death-row/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-death-penalty-in-all-states/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/stop-executions-in-belarus/


http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/nodeathpenalty/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/2/voices-for-death-row-inmates/

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/administering-sedatives-before-execution/





DOIS CASOS: CASEY, FILHA MENOR DE UMA CONDENADA E A MÃE DE UM JOVEM EXECUTADO:


"...Now that the body of little Caylee Marie Anthony has likely been recovered, we would like for the state of Florida to reconsider the death penalty as a possible sentence for her mother, Casey Marie Anthony. Caylee has touched the heart of a nation, and we ask for a just and fitting punishment for her alleged murderer..."


"...LETTER WROTE BY THE MOTHER OF A CONVICTED MAN...


The whole time I was pregnent he continued to go out with "the boys." The result of his abuse and neglect of me was that I resented being pregnant and therefore resented my unborn baby. Michael's birth didn't improve circumstances, of course. My husband continued to go out, but by now I knew that it wasn't "the boys" he was seeing.

As Michael grew, I noticed a strong resemblance to his father who was becoming increasingly violent. Because Michael looked so much like his father, I resented him more and more. Though the most violent beatings were reserved for me, Michael came in for his own share of abuse. I remember one incident that happened when Michael was still a baby. He toddled over to his sleeping father and tugged on his hair. His father jumped up and yanked the baby's hair so hard that Michael screamed. "There!" he roared at Michael. "That will teach you!"

The violence and abuse continued, and in May of 1966 Michael's brother Shawn was born. For some reason still unknown to me, I wanted Shawn. Michael sensed this and resented him. What must it have been like to have known only hostility and abuse for the three short years of his life, and then to have a brand new baby thrust into the situation who was loved and coddled by the very mother who had rejected him?

Michael was as resentful of Shawn as I had always been of him. Michael began getting into everything. If I didn't get up early enough to prepare his breakfast, he would sneak downstairs to get it himself, making a mess in the kitchen, an offense that always earned him a beating. Often he would get bored and walk down to the corner fire station to visit with the firemen; he was all of three or four years old.

Because he was so "bad" and "out of control" his father put a padlock on his bedroom door where he spent most of the day locked in his room. Imagine the life of that little boy. Imagine how circumstances over which he had no control were shaping him. Imagine being unloved and unwanted, physically and emotionally abused everyday of your life; then imagine you are only four years old. Already the world doesn't make sense to you. There is no safe haven to run to, no place to turn for affirmation, no love in your life. And you can't understand the whys because you are only four years old.

By the time Michael was five, things had gone from bad to worse. I was suffering beatings more often and more violently, and Michael was getting actual beatings by now. Instead of becoming passive, which had been my reaction, he became more rebellious. Now much of my anger at my situation was focused on him.

I clearly remember one time when Shawn snuck downstairs and took some matches. He and Michael sat on the bed playing with them and accidentally started a fire. Of course, I blamed Michael entirely and accused him of trying to murder his baby brother. No wonder he resented Shawn so much. Michael couldn't get a fair shake, for I had started to physically abuse him just as his father did. I had always abused him emotionally, calling him stupid and telling him how bad he was, or pushing him away when he asked me to read him a story. "I don't have time," I would yell at him. "Go on! Get away!" Now I was beating him. That scared me, and I decided to send him 400 miles away to my mother's to live. We told him we were sending him away to help him. We told ourselves the same thing. The truth was I just wanted to get rid of him and he knew it.

All of his life there had been only abuse and resentment; yet somehow, being sent away was proof - if any was needed - of our rejection of him. Circumstances beyond his control were still shaping Michael. At six years old, he was already carrying the weight of the world on his frail little shoulders, but I was too caught up in my own pain to notice his.

Michael started kindergarten at my mother's and spent the entire school year there, not once causing any trouble at her house or at his school. Once school was out, Michael came home. We expected that since he had behaved so well at my mother's that he was now a well-behaved child and that we would have no problems with him. How we expected so much of him when our own abusive relationship had not changed is incomprehensible. As soon as he found out that we still found fault with everything he did and that Shawn could do no wrong, he fell back into his old pattern of behavior. He began to fight with Shawn, nothing violent, just normal sibling rivalry, but the fighting was constant. He ran away a lot and skipped school constantly. We never lost an opportunity to tell him how bad he was.

By 1970, I still couldn't cope with Michael (the problem was mine, not his) and I sent him away once again. This time he was sent to live with my sister just outside of Buffalo, New York, about 400 miles away. Michael was gone, but Shawn stayed home with us, and once again we were a 'family.' While Michael was away staying with my sister, I finally got my divorce. Shawn and I moved to the town that my sister was living in. She was having difficulties with trying to raise my six year old Michael and her own one year old child. She was only twenty-one herself.

Not knowing what the behavior of a six year old child should be, she assumed that some things were bad, based on what I had told her of him. She had been counseling with Child and Family services and when I arrived, she arranged for me to meet with them. After I found out that they might be willing to take him off my hands and place him in a residential treatment home, I lied about his behavior to get him placed. He was admitted to the Connors Children's home for emotionally disturbed boys on December 21, 1970. He spent Christmas there without any of his family, but of course Shawn stayed home with us and we had Christmas together.
In June of 1971, I married my current husband. We went to the Connors home and visited Michael on the weekends and eventually were able to bring him home for weekends and holidays. I began trying to make up for all the lost time and the lost love, but it seems that the one who needs the love the most is the most difficult to love. Michael had suffered so many rejections that he had built a wall around him and wouldn't let anyone through. However, once the new stability of family life started to become apparent, Michael started to respond. Finally, in June of 1975, Michael was discharged from the children's home and he came home. He was now almost thirteen years old, and it was like bringing home a stranger.

At first Michael went to ungraded classes, but by 1976 he went to regular classes for the first time. He was placed two grades behind his age group though his IQ was 150 in the 6th grade. Michael had not matured emotionally because of his surroundings. The other kids were mean to him, teasing him, calling him a retard. They even beat him up, and Michael quit school at the age of sixteen. I was having a difficult time with him just hanging around the house. He was going through normal teenage changes and problems, but I kept thinking it was because he was 'disturbed.' I kept telling him that he was 'sick.'

Again I decided to shift my problems to someone else's shoulders. This time I sent Michael to my two brothers who lived about two hours away. They had offered to let Michael come and live with them as I was threatening to throw him out. Same story! Michael was gone. Shawn stayed and we were a family again. Michael only lived with my brothers a couple of months. At sixteen, he couldn't hold down a job and was threatening to to kill himself. My brothers sent him back, and you can bet that I made sure that he knew that once again he had screwed up.

He continued to say he was going to kill himself. He ran away and when we found his hat floating in the canal, we thought he had. When we found him, we took him to the psyche ward of the city hospital and had him admitted for two weeks observation. When the admitting doctor asked him why he had wanted to kill himself, he stated, "I must be a real piece of garbage if my own (natural) father don't even want me." He had not heard from his real father since 1972. There had been no phone calls, letters, Christmas cards. Nothing! Apparently even hearing from an abusive father would have meant a lot to Michael.

Once the two weeks was up at the hospital, the social worker called to make discharge arrangements. I told her he could Not come home! They placed him in a room at the YMCA and put him on welfare. This was about twenty-five miles from where we lived. While he sat alone in his room at the Y, the three of us enjoyed normal family life without him. Another rejection!

In October of 1981, Michael went into the Navy. Sometime during his tour, he stopped writing to me. I didn't hear from him for almost a year, and I had the Navy chaplain track him down. Once Michael knew that I had been wondering about him and looking for him, he became emotional. For the first time, he felt that perhaps I did love him a little. He was so sorry that he had upset me that he went AWOL and came home to let me know that he did love me. This act would be used against him at his trial.

In November of 1990, Michael was on a hospital ship off the coast of Saudi during Desert Storm. He had put nine years in the Navy and his enlistment was up. He was frightened of the fighting and did not re-enlist. I became angry with him for spoiling a career when he had nothing else going for him. He asked if he could come home until he found a job. I said no. If he could throw away a nine year career, I was not going to support him! When Shawn had gotten out of the Marines in 1985, he had come home with no questions asked. The obvious difference in my treament of Michael and his brother must have seemed so unfair to Michael. He was the one who had always been rejected, was still being rejected.

My brother was living in Virginia close to the place where Michael had been discharged. He called to tell me that Michael had lost the part time job he had and was living in his car. I got the message to him that he could come home. He arrived in late November and stayed with us until we moved to Texas the following July. He found a job at Burger King and earned his GED. During the time he stayed with us, we asked him not to smoke in his bedroom. We were afraid of fire. He continued doing so anyway, and we removed the bedroom door. He left while we were out shopping one day, and when we came home, there was a note telling us he had run away. The note was childish and accused us of adopting him, etc.

He was twenty-seven years old! He did not have to run away like a small child.

No matter how we treated him, we were all that Michael had, and he flew ahead to Texas so that he could have a job by the time we arrived in August. He stayed with my sister and her family. His uncle got him a job at the moving company he worked for. When the three of us arrived in August, Mike moved in again with us.

Things seemed to be settling down some. Michael became engaged to be married and in 1992, he moved in with his fiance. They were planning a nice wedding, but two weeks before the wedding, he found out that she was seeing another man. He called up to help him move out. He showed no anger. He did not trash the place as a lot of other guys would have done, but he did leave a one-word note on the television. "Why?" it asked. Once again, he had been rejected by someone who had purported to love him very much.
He asked if he could move back home as he had nowhere else to go. I again told him that he could not move in with us. I told him that I had to intention of supporting him; yet, when Shawn had broken up with his girlfriend, I had invited him back home until he could find another place. Since I wouldn't let Mike come home, he moved into Shawn's one room apartment and slept on the sofa. I had two empty bedrooms at the time. Shawn lost hie job and couldn't pay his half of the rent, so he moved back in with us. Mike kept the apartment until the time of his arrest.

Michael had suffered one rejection too many. He became a recluse, staying in the apartment all the time and not letting anyone in. We later found out that he had gone into a deep depression with obsessive-compulsive behavior. He started to fantasize about young high school girls (his emotional age level). He was making an extensive list of them with vital information.

The town we had moved to had a population of fewer than 28,000. Everyone knew everyone. There was one family who practically owned the whole town. You know what I mean. We will call them "Smith." They owned Smith Furniture, Smith Oil, Smith School, Smith Medical Plaza, etc. Michael's list included over 300 names. That was just about every young girl in town, so you know just about every family was affected. He quit his job and never told anyone. He started breaking into homes to pay his rent, knowing from past experience that we wouldn't let him come home. This time he never asked. In one break-in he stole a gun, but tried to sell it to a friend because he didn't know how to use it. His friend showed him how.

From his list, he chose five girls and started to write them notes. And yes, I guess you could say that he started to stalk them. He took a particular fancy to one girl and went to her house in the middle of the night to see her, to profess his love to her. She was not home, but her mother was and caught him. He tried to get away, but she grabbed him by his hair and wouldn't let go. One time, when he was about fifteen years old, I had dragged him across the street from my mother's house by his hair in front of all the neighborhood. He had cried and begged me not to do it. He had been so humiliated and perhaps this triggered Michael's response to being grabbed by his hair again. He panicked and killed her.

He ran out of the house in blind terror, speeding away at 100 miles an hour with his headlights off. After he was stopped for the traffic violations, he confessed to the murder immediately. He didn't have to. They even admitted that there probably wasn't enough evidence to convict him. But he felt so devastated by what he had done that the guilt overwhelmed him. Once they had his confession, they did not have to plea bargain for anything.

Two lawyers were appointed by the court. One had never handled any kind of criminal case, let alone a capital murder. The other was a cocky sob who had no use for Michael. He said right to his face that Michael was a sorry piece of sh--. The guilt phase of the trial was a formality. He had confessed. The only question was, did he deserve the death penalty?

During the punishment part of the trial, the DA swore herself in as a witness and read the report from the children's home. The report was full of lies, innuendoes and hearsay. So many things that normal kids do can sound bad if viewed from a courtroom where a trial for murder is occurring. She said that it was a fact that Michael had threatened to kill his parents and blame his younger brother. How could she swear to this being true? Was she at our house? Did she hear him say it? No! So who did? Who put this in the report? Why weren't they at the trial to be cross-examined? Not only did she read this report, which could have been anybody saying anything with no one there to cross-examine, but Michael's so called lawyers never offered a single objection to any of this.

The DA also took the lies that I had told the children's home and used them against him. There is no record of his ever setting fires or trying to kill his brother. She had only my words from a school paper, yet she swore to them in court as the gospel truth.

We had a list of more that twenty character witnesses, most of them local police officers and prison guards. Michael's idea of a fun evening was going over to the local coffee shop and joining the townspeople at the round table drinking coffee all night. When they found out what he did, they all said, "Not our Michael." Yet his lawyers never called a single one of them as character witnesses.

Instead, the DA portrayed him as an "unemployed driferter" with no ties to the town, and his lawyers did nothing to change that image.

Remember the small town of 28,000. Well, a judge's wife was on his list. This judge just happened to be friends with the judge that tried Michael's case. The investigating officer's wife was on the list, etc, etc.

His lawyers, as a formality, did ask for a change of venue. Remember Mr. Smith, the town's leading citizen? They called him to testify if he thought there was undue publicity or prejudice in town. Smith said no and the change of venue was denied, but it just so happens that Smith's sister is married to the victim's family lawyer. The victim was a secretary at the Smith school. One of the jurors was a neighbor of the victim and almost everyone in town knew someone on "the list."

The States Special prosecutor kept winking at Michaels lawyer, the one who had never tried a criminal case before. She did this right in front of Michael while he was on trial for his life. She, the state prosecutor, and Michael's lawyer were heard talking about the missionary position being a great stress reliever. On the day he was given his death sentence, they made a date for dinner right in front of him..

Tears I have not



Tears are dropped when one is lonely,depressed or sad.

Yet I do not cry.

Tears fall when there is pain.

Tears crash when there is sorrow.

Tears rush when there is fear.

And tears roll when there is anger.

Yet I do not cry.



Tears race when there is despair.

Tears trickle when there is laughter.

Tears rain when there is hatred.

And tears run where there is solitude.



I feel the pain, I feel the sorrow.

I sense the fear, I feel the anger.

I feel the despair, and I often laugh

Quite hartly (sic).



I feel the hatred, I feel the solitude.

I feel the sorrow, I feel the anger.

Yet still, I do not cry.

-- Michael Patrick Moore , 1993

BUT UNFORTUNATELY, THIS MOTHER HAD TO GO THROUGH THE PAIN...


"...Michael Moore

Michael Patrick Moore, 38, was executed by lethal injection on 9 January in Huntsville, Texas ..."



Argumentos que mostram claramente que a pena de morte não baixa os niveis de criminalidade violenta. Estes sites são elucidativos:

http://www.prodeathpenalty.com/ornellaspaper.htm
http://www.deltacollege.edu/org/deltawinds/DWOnline04/thedeathpenalty.html
http://www.nationmaster.com/graph/cri_mur_percap-crime-murders-per-capita

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