[Peace-discuss] [Peace] Executions

[Mildred O'brien]

The January 14-15 Nation magazine article by death-row inmate Billie Allen "A Plea for Life" is an impassioned plea for life on death row, too late now for Chris Vivalva and Dustin Higgs suffering from Covid19, both since executed; Higgs early this morning (the macabre midnight toll of DJT's vengeance rings at midnight). Like Allen, Higgs maintained innocence and were appealing their convictions, too late for Higgs and others like Chris and Lisa Montgomery and Brandon Bernard, who did not qualify for mercy in the waning days of Trump's last act playing God.  Billie Allen's plea: 'We need you to raise your voices against the death penalty before we lose another Chris [now too late for him and Dustin]. Before they come for me."
Sadly, God's self-appointed surrogates are not listening.   But perhaps, like Lazarus, they will find mercy. It took another convict, our ex-governor, George Ryan, to execute justice by banning the death penalty in Illinois.
MidgeI  



-----Original Message-----
From: C. G. Estabrook via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>
To: John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com>
Cc: Peace Discuss <peace-discuss at anti-war.net>; Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com>; Peace <peace at anti-war.net>; Debra Schrishuhn <deb.pdamerica at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, Jan 13, 2021 8:11 pm
Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] [Peace] Executions

John—

Wouldn’t it have been better if the slaveowners had lost their “War of Independence” (1775-83)? 

Slavery would have been abolished in the British North American colonies as it was throughout the British empire. 

—CGE


> On Jan 13, 2021, at 2:28 PM, John W. <jbw292002 at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 1:21 PM Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Tragically, the two men also on death row will likely be executed as well within the next couple days. 
> 
> I’m glad to live in a state where such barbarism has been outlawed. Though the Federal gov., under the Trump administration over ruled and placed the death penalty on the table for a recent case. 
> Thankfully, the good people of Illinois chose to ignore it, and gave the monster killer, life instead. 
> 
> As Margaret Kimberly of the Black Agenda report pointed out recently in respect to US electoral laws, we have so many laws, procedures, rules etc. within each state differing from one another, that keeps us separated within the nation, we need some uniformity. 
> 
> Not her exact words, but its obvious that these differing state laws of which the death penalty is one, make it extremely difficult to achieve progress when the battles must be continually fought and won over decades. 
> 
> Well, it's interesting. For every point of view, there's a countervailing point of view. 
> 
> As one who studied law formally, I absolutely hated the complexity of 50 different sets of state laws, overlaid and often contradicted by the federal law. It's a mess, and makes everything infinitely more complicated, more labrynthine, ultimately more incomprehensible. 
> 
> The idea originally was that the autonomy of the states would keep the federal government from growing too all-powerful. We've seen how the states' autonomy has eroded over the years, both for good and ill. (The Civil Rights Movement wouldn't have been possible without federal intervention.) Sadly, the only people who are upset about it are those still fighting on the losing side of the Civil War.
> 
> I honestly would have liked to see the South secede and become a separate country, albeit without slavery. The North would have done just fine without them. But that's a separate conversation. 
> 
> John
> 
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>> On Jan 13, 2021, at 05:15, Debra Schrishuhn <deb.pdamerica at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Sadly, tragically, no.
>> 
>> https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2021/01/12/lisa-montgomery-execution-once-again-set-take-place/6635726002/
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>> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 12:40 AM John W. via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> Yay!! We won!! We did it!!! By the time her competency hearing is finished, Joe Biden will have hopefully suspended federal executions once again! 
>> 
>> 
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:19 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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>> https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/955984890/judge-blocks-execution-of-only-woman-on-federal-death-row
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