Mary Neal Pleads for Thomas Arthur

Email to Gov. Bentley - March 28, 2012 re Thomas Arthur, condemned senior citizen whose guilt is highly doubtful:

Thomas Arthur, an Alabama senior citizen, is was to be EXECUTED on March 29, 2012. He passed his DNA test in 2009 http://goo.gl/DNR5k - I experience intense censorship advocating for Thomas Arthur. I film same as it happens. I saved the Thomas Arthur censorship videos to give to Arthur's family in case he is not spared. There is something horribly wrong when a man passes his DNA test and is executed anyway. There are more items to be tested that Arthur's attorneys will pay for being tested. Yet, Arthur is denied further testing. This appears to be premeditated murder. Alabama is such a beautiful state with friendly people. I hope you will stop the execution or please influence a judge to do so. Please respect human rights. Arthur had attorneys who were paid only $1,000, according to reports. He was denied DNA test for decades. Now he has results people choose to ignore and deny more testing. Please stop this wrongful execution, Governor Bentley. Thank you in advance for doing everything you can to uphold justice and deliver compassion, and God will bless you. Psalm 102:19-20. [Although Arthur won his fifth stay of execution on March 23 while the court considers Arthur's challenge to the legality of the lethal injection drugs that would be used, he remains on death row and in jeopardy of being killed for an unproved murder.]
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See the comments below. Comment number one sounds to be a threat against children in my family because I advocate against DP, especially regarding Thomas Arthur. Stalkers prevented or stalled this tweet to a friend on Twitter, where I am @koffietime at http://Twitter.com/koffietime

@RCdeWinter What am I to say to threats re my advocacy against DP; go ahead & kill ThomasArthur; just don't hurt us? AskDOJ@usdoj.gov

I asked many people at Twitter to PLEASE contact the USDOJ about my cyberterror. Can you imagine what it is like to go online at Care2 where my advocacy group against mass incarceration of mental patients is located and have a lethal injection bed with your name underneath it pop out? Can you imagine writing to groups at Yahoo and having only three ads showing at my mail page - a starving, diseased dog to make fun of my poem DOG JUSTICE; a dead dried up bug (large size), and a casket ad? That is how I am treated. Yet I persevere not because I am fearless, but because I refuse to be their slave.

People actually died for Americans to have free speech and freedom of press. We do not honor their sacrifice by giving up our rights. There are seven links in this article. Furthermore, GOD wants us to be free. He is a human rights advocate of the highest order. It is WRONG for police to ignore my reports and proof about cyber censorship, especially since my security system captured the IP addresses stalkers use. It is wrong for police to REFUSE to trace the car tag of a stalker who followed me to the library and admitted he was "paid well" to follow me. It is unacceptable for police to dare me to talk to the public about Larry's murder, which happened after 18 days of secret arrest in Shelby County Jail in Tennessee. They resent my trying to warn other minorities about The Cochran Firm fraud. They should not come to my home and tell me I cannot talk to their superiors about the crime reports police refuse to address. Our phone should not be taken over. Last night while I spoke to a friend, she said the number that showed on her caller I.D. was not mine. It was from a 905 area code, and I have a 678 area code. That happens often, plus the stalkers prevent incoming and outgoing calls at will.

When a police officer tried calling my number from her cell phone, she received three short rings and a hangup, but police refuse to address our telephone takeover as well as our computer takeover. These things are done because I would not stop telling the public about the secret arrest and murder of my disabled brother, Larry Neal http://WrongfulDeathOfLarryNeal.com and about The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm fraud against minorities (Google "Cochran Firm Fraud"). This article has seven links. The stalkers get very ANGRY whenever I advocate against mass incarceration, criminalizing mental illness, and capital punishment, especially regarding people like Thomas Arthur and Troy Davis whose guilt is not proved. Stalkers censor me all the time when I write online against injustice, but when I publish anything at all about Arthur, they really lose it. See the comments below. Thank you.

Please call and write to save Thomas Arthur, an innocent senior citizen facing wrongful execution in Alabama for 29 years!
email Gov. Bentley  http://governor.alabama.gov/contact/contact_form.aspx

Governor's Office Telephone Numbers

Switchboard:  (334) 242-7100

Fax:  (334) 353-0004

Case of man on death row for 29 years, spared from Thursday execution, far from over

http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/3a6170d2ae454ec68c5b4d92a93adc54/AL--Arthur-Execution/
The Republic -March 23, 2012 - MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Though the scheduled Thursday [March 29, 2012] execution of Thomas Douglas Arthur had been halted, the legal battle over the man convicted of a 1982 murder-for-hire is far from over. [End of news excerpt]
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The report above states that Arthur challenges the legality of his execution with the lethal injection drugs that would be used to kill him on behalf of the People of the State of Alabama. There are seven links in this article, which I hope you will open, especially Arthur's DNA results in my email to Gov. Bentley. No man's life should be threatened after having passed a DNA test on all the items that a state allows to be tested. Wicker took the DNA test and got the same results eliminating him that Arthur received, and Judge Pulliam said that science had ABSOLUTELY PROVED Wicker was not the murderer. Why then did Arthur's results not also eliminate him as the killer? Something is wrong with this case, and I am censored and threatened for saying so. Thomas Arthur's May 23rd stay of execution was his fifth. That may be a record. States may be interested in setting DP records, for all we know. See "DP - The Unholy Race" in MaryLovesJustice blog at this link  
http://marylovesjustice.blogspot.com/2011/10/dp-unholy-race.html


Plea for justice by Mary Neal, advocate against capital punishment as commanded by God - Heb. 13:3

Thomas Arthur Murder: March 29

Thomas Arthur, Alabama Death Row
DNA eliminated as murderer July 2009

(Five(5) links) BEFORE Y'ALL MURDER THOMAS ARTHUR, could you tell me one thing? What did Arthur really do? There is no proof he killed anyone. In fact, the DNA test he took already in 2009 eliminated him as a match for ALL of the evidence that was tested. There is more evidence that could be tested against Arthur's DNA, and he wants desperately to do that to clear his name. But Alabama refuses to allow further tests at Arthur's attorneys' expense. We therefore might assume that Alabama knows the man is innocent and there is some other reason why Arthur is to be sacrificed. What is it, please? Did Arthur offend someone powerful? Please see an excerpt from a CrooksandLiars.com report below:

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AL Refuses to Allow Important DNA Test for Death Row Case
Arthur's attorneys are even willing to pay for that testing, the few thousand bucks it would be, and the testing could be completed by the execution date. It is here where prosecutors and judges lose me when they prioritize "finality" in capital punishment cases at the expense of "accuracy." It would cost Alabama nothing to let Arthur's lawyers do the testing. And it might solve a case that already has cost the state millions of dollars. Instead, Alabama wants to finally solve its Arthur problem by executing him. No matter how the new DNA test could come out, the state is more interested in defending its dubious conviction.
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Have people forgotten that Thomas Arthur already took a DNA test and it eliminated him as the murderer? The way my cyberstalkers get busy every time I write about Arthur is very disturbing. It is like a premeditated murder is about to happen. The Care2 ecards I sent out in 2009 announcing Arthur was about to be executed although his DNA test results indicated innocence arrived to most addressees blank. Care2 reported there was a technical issue. Then Gmail, which I use for prisoner advocacy, had technical issues, also - on the very same day that Care2 ecards reported problems - September 1, 2009. Arthur's DNA test results from 2009 are in a .pdf file at this link http://www.thomasarthurfightforlife.com/images/Arthur_DNA_Test_Results_07-20090001.pdf - This week my cyberstalking got worse than before. There is something strange happening regarding the Thomas Arthur case, and it seems personal - like someone WANTS the man dead no matter what.

I have been locked out of Care2 for weeks. Is that to prevent my contact with my Care2 friends? We worked together and pushed my Thomas Arthur article to the front page of Care2 in 2009, letting as many people as possible know that a man who passed his DNA test was facing imminent execution anyway. The story is at http://www.care2.com/news/member/51339753/1236493

Like most activists, I never met Arthur or any of the condemned people for whom I advocate. I just believe Arthur is innocent based on the evidence presented in the media and compelling evidence on Arthur's website at this link  http://www.thomasarthurfightforlife.com/ . The same was true about Troy Davis. What about Hank Skinner in Texas? The court stepped in and gave Skinner a stay of execution when he was going to get axed in November 2011. But has he had his DNA test yet? This is four months later. Are stays of execution just to give the public a chance to forget?

People have a right to know why they are being killed. Arthur begged for a DNA test for 20 years to prove his innocence and did not get one until another man said he killed Troy Wicker, the man Arthur was about to be executed about. Alabama wanted to prove the confessor did not do the murder, so Alabama ordered DNA tests for both men. It would have looked real bad to let the confessor take DNA tests just to eliminate his confession but deprive Arthur of DNA tests he begged to have for many years. Arthur finally got a DNA test early in 2009, but it apparently does not matter to anyone in the Alabama justice system that THOMAS ARTHUR'S DNA TEST ALREADY RULED HIM OUT AS CONTRIBUTOR FOR ALL OF THE EVIDENCE THAT WAS TESTED.

Do you remember what Judge Pulliam said and did when Arthur's and Bobby Ray Gilbert's DNA tests came back? She said that the DNA test had conclusively proved that Gilbert was NOT the murderer. Regarding Arthur getting the VERY SAME results, she said, "Put Arthur's test results under seal and do not let anyone see them!" This is serious.

Right away Alabama was ready to execute Arthur although Arthur's DNA test results were the exact same as the false confessor's who Judge Pulliam said had been CONCLUSIVELY ELIMINATED. If the test conclusively proved in the judge's mind that the confessor was not the killer, then why didn't the same test results for Arthur exonerate him?  

After Arthur's DNA test results came from the lab in the summer of 2009, he and his family thought they were home free. His daughter and I talked several times. Not only did Arthur expect to be moved off death row, but we all believed Arthur would be going home soon. Contrarily, an Alabama district attorney told Birmingham News that he was going to go ahead and request Arthur's death warrant - time his DNA tests came back NEGATIVE FOR ALL EVIDENCE TESTED.

At least tell Arthur why you really plan to kill him. Did he hit someone's bumper and neglect to leave a note? Did he date someone's wife 30 years ago before being imprisoned on this unproved murder charge? Arthur should be told why Alabama wants him dead so he can stop begging for DNA tests as though someone in the justice system cares about innocence and guilt. 

I just read that Thomas Arthur had three trials, and Alabama set a $1,000 cap on his attorney's fees all three times. How many hours of an attorney's time will $1,000 buy?  In the law firms where I worked, it might purchase between three to five hours of legal work, depending on whether a partner or an associate did it. I read that the public defender assigned to handle the Troy Davis appeal had over 70 open cases to defend simultaneous to his case. Is that not ridiculous? It is beyond ridiculous to execute people when their defense was necessarily negligent, and you know it. Is that loving thy neighbor as thyself? No.

Please explain the prosecutor's position on killing a man whose DNA test results indicate innocence. Taxpayers have a right to know why killing is being done in their names and with their dime. Why does Alabama really want Arthur dead? Is it personal? I saw some television shows featuring people who held grudges from childhood against individuals who bullied them when they were little kids. Is something like that happening here? Or is Arthur being murdered to propel Alabama to a higher score in the DP race with other capital punishment states?

I am against capital punishment even for the guilty. But if Alabama wants another notch on its belt in the DP race, couldn't the state kill someone who is guilty or at least "likely" guilty of murder instead of using a man whose DNA test results completely eliminated him on everything that the State of Alabama was willing to test?

This is serious. We want to know, and Arthur has a right to know, what is the real reason for Thomas Arthur's execution? The Bible says "Woe unto hands that shed innocent blood" (Prov. 6:16-17). Isn't it worth a test - a test that will cost Alabama zero - to be sure? What is wrong with simply using the test results that were already received from the forensics lab to exonerate Arthur? Is everyone still pretending that Arthur never had DNA tests already? Why did the judge put Arthur's DNA test results under court seal? Who ever heard of such a thing as that? 

Did you know the former police officer who stretched Oscar Grant out on the cold B.A.R.T. station platform and shot the 22-year-old father in his back only served 11 months in prison? Even if Thomas Arthur is guilty, he already spent 30 years behind bars and underwent the stress of imminent execution more than once. The disparity in sentencing from state-to-state and person-to-person is truly unacceptable. I know you probably respond, "Says who?" I have to reply, "God says." If you place no value on being fair, what is the "justice" system?

Please consider that everyone is mortal. Everybody in the justice system from Mr. Holder to the man who mops the floor in a jailhouse in a little country town is going to have to stand before God some day. Do you want innocent blood on your hands? I wore myself out trying to appeal to the justice system for Troy Davis, and I recognize now that something is terribly wrong. It is a hard thing to understand, but I don't think y'all care if people you execute might be innocent. Arthur's case proves you don't care if they are highly likely to be innocent. If DNA tests are good enough to send people to death, why isn't Arthur's DNA test good enough to save him?

To my atheist friends, please don't take offense. I know religion is not strictly necessary for a person to be moral and support human and civil rights. I also know that just because a person claims to be religious does not mean he/she really is. But it seems that some people who believe human beings are apes' great grandkids can do just about anything to people and feel no more guilt than I do when I eat hamburgers. Human beings are just meat to them.

I will finish this article later and add some links. But after all the work I did to help save Troy Davis only to find out you killed him anyway, I just don't know whether it helps. With Troy, I thought everything was fine and went to bed. Then the next morning, someone said, "They killed Troy last night around 11."  I could not believe it. If over a million people worldwide could see more proof of guilt was needed, why couldn't you? Why don't you care?

This is overwhelming, and it is late. May God bless SOME of you and prove His power to the rest. I cannot take much more of this human rights advocacy right now. It is disheartening to know how MEAN SOME OF Y'ALL ARE. MEAN PEOPLE. Have you ever dreamed you were falling? You awakened with relief in your bed, right? Well, hell is a bottomless pit with fire and hot lava all the way down leading to nowhere, ever, and you do not awaken in your own bed and Jesus refuses to hear you repent.

Repeat of paragraph 1 for cellphone users. (My articles are often coded to begin after the first few lines or paragraphs to censor photos and introductory information.) BEFORE Y'ALL MURDER THOMAS ARTHUR, could you tell me one thing? What did Arthur really do? There is no proof he killed anyone. In fact, the DNA test he took already in 2009 eliminated him as a match for ALL of the evidence that was tested. There is more evidence that could be tested against Arthur's DNA, and he wants desperately to do that to clear his name. But Alabama refuses to allow further tests at Arthur's attorneys' expense. We therefore might assume that Alabama knows the man is innocent and there is some other reason why Arthur is to be sacrificed. What is it, please? Did Arthur offend someone powerful?

See also "ALABAMA IGNORES THOMAS ARTHUR'S DNA TEST RESULTS" http://justicegagged.blogspot.com/2012/03/al-ignores-thomas-arthurs-dna-test.html
The quoted text in this article is from this link:  http://crooksandliars.com/susie-madrak/alabama-refuses-allow-important-dna-t

A photo of Thomas Arthur is below. Imagine nearly 30 years on death row, most of them spent asking for a DNA test, finally getting the test, then the test results are ignored because they eliminate the inmate for the crime scene evidence tested. Amazing!

America's Judicial Caste System and DNA Testing

(14 paragraphs and 7 links before the CBS article) I wrote an email to principals among several political parties and suggested that candidates for elected office who make justice reform a party platform would enjoy good support from voters. People are more aware than ever before about denial of justice in criminal and civil courts, and fair-minded Americans want change. Ironically, wrongful verdicts in civil cases are automatically VOID if the evidence used to reach the verdict or judgment was false. Such judgments are not merely voidable, but already void. Civil court cases are ordinarily about money. Why does the justice system prioritize fairness regarding money matters above justice for innocent Americans who are wrongly incarcerated? Could it be that money is deemed more important than citizens' lives to those who make our laws? Apparently, that is exactly the case.

My family experienced two void judgements regarding our civil lawsuit against The (Johnnie) Cochran Firm. When we sued the firm for fraud, the law firm claimed in court not to have any office within the State of Georgia where our lawsuit was served, although the Atlanta law office is open and conducting business every day. That perjury was used to have our lawsuit dismissed without the necessity of either settling with my family or facing a jury. Surprisingly, the Superior Court judge agreed that there is no such thing as a Georgia office of The Cochran Firm and dismissed our lawsuit, and The Cochran Firm never even paused its prolific advertising for new clients and continues to accept high-profile cases in its Atlanta office. We then sued The Cochran Firm in United States District Court under the diversity rule based on the law firm's fraud on the court. Since both judgments were rendered based on The Cochran Firm's perjury about its Georgia office, both are VOID judgments. See information about the case at this website and view some of the evidence under the DOCUMENTS tab: http://wrongfuldeathoflarryneal.com/

How would you like it if days after such perjury was allowed in court to cheat you out of millions of dollars in a righteous lawsuit, your defendant issued a commercial like the one at this link? YouTube Commercial for Atlanta Office of The Johnnie Cochran Firm http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlcolpUzckU. The Cochran Firm published that YouTube commercial admitting its Atlanta office within a week of the USDC judge ruling that my family is too "immaterial" to matter, and that judge also dismissed our lawsuit and prevented the case from going to jury, WHICH WE PAID TO DO. No one should leave a lawsuit against billionaires in the hands of a single judge to decide. Money is too important to some people. "JURY TRIAL DEMANDED" should be respected in the United States of America - that is supposed to be a Constitutional right, also. Unfortunately, "justice" in civil courts as well as criminal courts depends on who you are - being a citizen is not nearly enough, especially if your case is against someone in the "protected class." Perhaps The Cochran Firm hurried and published the YouTube commercial for its Atlanta office to prevent class action lawsuits against for false advertising against media companies that continued the law firm's Atlanta ads after being notified of the court's verdict. Media companies may suppress everything to do with Larry Neal's murder and The Cochran Firm's fraud against his survivors for that reason, or it could be because they are interested in hiding government corruption in the expectation of a bailout for censoring your news. Now my family is expected to just go somewhere and eat our chicken and join Larry's wrongful death cover-up, or we are harassed, stalked, and practically imprisoned in our own home to avoid harm! See "Black Relatives Killed by Police? So? Just Eat Yo Chicken and Shut up!" http://freespeakblog.blogspot.com/2009/11/blacks-relatives-killed-by-police-just.html

Working class and indigent people have no protected rights, whether they are black or white, especially if the people who wrong us are in a higher caste. During both court cases regarding The Cochran Firm having used its position as Larry Neal's wrongful death attorneys to work for Shelby County Jail behind our backs, Larry's survivors experienced cyberterrorism, censorship, and actual stalking. All of those crimes continue today in violation of U.S. Code 18, sections 242 and 245 and other laws, but police and the U.S. Department of Justice REFUSE to investigate the terrorism, just as they refuse to investigate Larry Neal's murder. At the link below is a two-minute example of illegal cybercensorship my advocacy for justice for Larry and other wrongly incarcerated inmates is met with every day (I have a library of such video proof): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icRD77mugaI As a poor black woman who has been deprived of a comfortable income as a legal assistant by stalkers who followed me from home from work each night and deprived of a righteous settlement or jury award by unscrupulous people - criminals! - in the "justice" system, I can do nothing about the censorship and harassment my family and I endure. However, people will NOT treat us this way and proclaim "equal justice" and "American values" and issue much-belated apologies for slavery that are believed. Larry was killed and discarded like a slave. Like families in the 1940's who awoke to burning crosses on their lawns, there is the intention to intimidate Larry's survivors into silence about the crimes we face.

How much do you think my censorship video library is worth? Cyberstalkers prevent me from being able to collect advertising income off the hundreds of articles I write about wrongful incarcerations, the need to eliminate the death penalty and decriminalize mental illness. People were hired to continually click ads at my articles and force Google to cancel my AdSense account to protect its ad customers from paying from false clicks. Cyberstalkers are particularly zealous to ensure that my articles reach a minimum of African Americans and Christians. I feel pressed to hurry and tell people how little citizens' rights are respected for whites like Hank Skinner as well as Africans like the Neals - before the FEMA camps under H.R. 645 are ready for tenants. Because I do so, it is apparently dangerous to go out to work since I am allowed to be stalked by vehicles full of men wearing bluetooths led by a USDOT truck. Google "Mary Neal 911" to see the actual police report about one horrifying ordeal that police also ignored. I urge Americans to wake up and smell the koffie in my articles and at Twitter, where I am KoffieTime - http://www.Twitter.com/KoffieTime

Perhaps the plan is to starve Larry Neal's family for daring to ask the justice system to tell how they killed him and because we sued their very useful law firm, The Johnnie Cochran Firm, for its fraud. (These events transpired after Mr. Cochran was no longer available to prevent his name and reputation from being used to mistreat minorities, as stated by former Cochran Firm attorney Shawn Holley, who sued the firm for racial discrimination after Mr. Cochran died and African American lawyers were reportedly dismissed or forced out of the law firm.) Such intense censorship is applied to my publishing government crimes that people could learn much from my videos. I would upload a couple at this article, but people are hired to watch my computer input and see that I do cannot publish them. Someone else posted the "Prison Labor Profits" sample video at YouTube for us. Being African American and having African Americans in high positions over justice has not mattered regarding my family's persecution, and neither has Larry Neal been elevated above the dog caste in America - canines' deaths are investigated and prosecuted.

After it became obvious that mainstream media would not report to unsuspecting consumers (like Kathryn Johnston's family) that The Cochran Firm denied its own famous law office in Georgia to further defraud the Neal family, I began publishing the news myself in articles such as this one. I also founded an online advocacy to RESIST OPPRESSION on behalf of other inmates like Larry Neal, who died on August 1, 2003. My physically and mentally handicapped brother was secretly arrested for nearly three weeks and returned to his family as a naked corpse without any explanation as to why he was arrested, why police lied and kept the lifelong schizophrenic man for weeks in order to deny him his heart medicines, and under what exact circumstances Larry died. Did police Taser him? Kill him in a restraint chair? Was Larry assaulted to bring on his heart attack? Was he used for waterboarding training?

AND WHERE IS MITRICE RICHARDSON, ANOTHER AFRICAN AMERICAN MENTAL PATIENT WHO HAS NOT BEEN SEEN SINCE HER ARREST IN CALIFORNIA LAST SEPTEMBER? I hope her family finds her alive and well or is able to learn what happened to Mitrice. Memphis/Shelby County Jail never had to answer my family's questions about murdering Larry thanks to The Jonnie Cochran Firm, which signed contract to represent us in a wrongful death lawsuit against the jail but the lawyers secretly held our lawsuit inactive while the Tennessee statute of limitations passed. One good turn deserves another, so the justice system rallied around to protect the traitor law firm from paying damages for its horrible fraud against our grieving elderly mother and my family. Our advocacy group to help others who are wrongly treated in or by the justice system is called Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill (AIMI), a/k/a, The Dorothea Dix Group, at this link - http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI - AIMI's 240 members are involved in a HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS MARCH across the Internet to support H.R.619, a congressional bill to help decriminalize mental illness. We also advocate to repeal capital punishment and end wrongful convictions, juveniles being prosecuted as adults, and other injustices. A list of justice concerns is at this link: http://3.vu/5hdEl

When witnesses present false testimony that leads to wrongful convictions or DNA tests could make determinations about inmates' guilt or innocence, criminal laws shoud be as fair as civil laws. Such convictions should be just as VOID as wrongful judgements are in civil court.

Over 400 convictions have been overturned after new trials, hearings, or DNA tests. This proves that many prisoners are truthful when they protest "I Didn't Do It, Your Honor!" Thousands more convicted persons seek DNA tests through the Innocence Project, but will they get them? How much does innocence matter in criminal justice? Do Americans want to continue paying around $60,000 per year for each innocent inmate's incarceration? (NY rate for inmates in the general prison population. Rate increases substantially for death row inmates, the incarcerated mentally ill, and inmates with severe health problems like cancer. The amount varies by state.)

In 2009, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that convicted persons have no constitutional right to DNA tests, although most Americans thought they had a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. Wrongful executions and incarcerations certainly impact citizens' rights.

The High Court's disappointing ruling in 2009 regarding post-conviction DNA tests, the battle rages on. Each state can still deteremine how much innocence matters for residents. On March 24, the U.S. Supreme Court stopped the execution of condemned Texan Henry Skinner with only one hour to spare. Unfortunately, numerous inmates who won stays of execution were nevertheless deprived of re-trials or DNA tests. Georgia death row inmate Troy Davis has been granted three stays; Alabama death row inmate Thomas Arthur has also been granted three stays. After Arthur's last stay of execution that prevented his July 31, 2008 execution, he was finally allowed a DNA test. Arthur's DNA was found not to match any of the crime scene evidence tested. The forensic lab results were released in July. Amazingly, the judge sealed Arthur's DNA test results, and he remains on death row nearly a year later. A hearing is planned in his case.

Millions of people agree that it is important to give new trials with substantial new evidence like Troy Davis has and give people like Hank Skinner DNA tests. It would be unfair to have Hank Skinner wait years on death row for a test he never actually receives after his stay of execution. Thomas Arthur received stays, but he kept being prepared for execution with DNA tests denied. Troy Davis received stays, but no new trial so far. Furthermore, it seems terrribly unjust to have a man pass his DNA test and STILL be on death row almost a year later like Arthur is. God help!

Since all the ads on this article have turned into ads about 9mm guns and home security, I will post the CBS article now. The CBS news below is about wrongful convictions. Please note that although 47 states grant post conviction DNA testing rights as CBS reports, some states only grant the right to test for condemned inmates - not those facing life in prison for rapes or other crimes that testing might prove the convicted person did not do. Furthermore, there should be a national mandate on how long evidence is maintained and under what conditions. Unfortunately, many of the thousands of hopeful inmates who expect to some day have the right to conduct DNA tests on the evidence that was used to convict them might be disappointed to learn that forensic evidence was not maintained in their case files.

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Case Renews Wrongful Conviction Debate

Laws Granting Right to Post-Conviction DNA Testing on Books in 47 States, But Advocates Push for Change in Holdouts

(CBS) Henry Skinner was an hour from death last week when the Supreme Court stayed his execution. At issue: could DNA testing prove his innocence? Three [states] remain without laws allowing post-conviction DNA testing, and some advocates are touting this turn of events as a victory that may bring about legislative change, as CBS News correspondent Manuel Gallegus reports.

Dennis Maher spent 19 years in a Massachusetts prison for a series of rapes he did not commit. But he's not angry. "If I am angry then I am going to be bitter and dwell on what I lost," he said. Maher was falsely identified by an eye-witness and was sentenced to 20 years to life in 1984. He was 26. After his conviction, he tried for years to have the DNA evidence in his case tested. But, for convicted felons in Massachusetts, that decision rests with the judges and prosecutors - the same people who sent the convicts to prison.

"The judge thought I was guilty so he didn't have to allow DNA testing," Maher said.

Massachusetts, Alaska and Oklahoma are the only states that don't have a standardized law granting convicted felons a right to test DNA evidence in their cases. Advocates for DNA testing have tried at least three times to push the issue through the state legislature, but it's always failed. Critics found it too vague and prosecutors fought back.

As Plymouth County District Attorney Timothy Cruz put it, "At what point do we say no?" Cruz insists DNA requests should still be handled case by case and says that any new law would overload the system.

"We'd have individuals who will just say, 'I want this, I want to test,' this and it really would open up the flood gates," Cruz said.

Even without the law, nine prisoners in Massachusetts have been exonerated though DNA. But they spent a combined 117 years locked up for crimes they didn't commit. Former prosecutor David Meier leads a Boston bar association task force now urging Massachusetts to change its law.

"These cases strike at the heart of criminal justice system," Meier said and "the bill recommended by the task force would create uniformity and consistency."

Dennis Maher was released in 2003 and since then has been outspoken about the system that locked him up. "The others who are still in prison - they are just looking for a chance, a chance to prove they didn't do what happened to them," Maher said - a chance to begin a new life.

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/03/28/eveningnews/main6342150.shtml

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Mary Neal

Assistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI

P.O. Box 153, Redan, GA 30074

Hank Skinner's Last Wish - Justice

(left to right: Hank Skinner, Andre Thomas, Jeff Wood)

THREE CONDEMNED TEXANS

HANK SKINNER'S LAST WISH: A DNA TEST to prove his innocence. But Texas refuses. It has been several weeks since the last Texas execution, and it is almost show time! Wednesday, March 24, is the big day when guilty or innocent, Hank Skinner is intended to take his turn in Texas' execution chamber. At the end of this blog is an excerpt from an article on the likely innocent man's last wish published by LA Times that has a summary of Hank Skinner's case.


NOVEMBER 2011 UPDATE: The U.S. Supreme Court gave Hank Skinner a last-minute stay of execution in March 2010. However, Texas continued to deny Skinner any opportunity to test his DNA against the evidence in the 20 months since the High Court spared his life. The 1% periodically kills potentially innocent people from the 99% like Troy Davis and Hank Skinner in order to keep the 99% feeling intimidated by their power. Guilt is not the issue; power is - the power to pull 99ers from America's slave pool and execute them. September 21 was Troy Davis' turn. Wednesday, November 9, 2011, is the day the elite will show their power over the 99% by killing Hank Skinner with his guilt unproved. This is what slave masters did in the 1700s to keep slaves subservient to their masters. Periodic executions of sick or potentially innocent Americans is a part of LYNCHING AMERICA. Willie Lynch, a successful slave owner from the West Indies, taught Virginia Colony plantation owners the art of slave mastery.  It takes displays of power like MURDERS by the gentry to keep slaves meek and obedient under conditions where the slaves vastly outnumber their "owners." See "LYNCHING AMERICA" at this link - http://maryneal.hubpages.com/hub/Lynching-America

I read that Hank Skinner was a prisoner activist before his conviction for a crime that decision makers are afraid a DNA test would prove he did not do. I know from my own experiences that people who advocate for HUMAN RIGHTS FOR PRISONERS are monitored, censored, lied on, and plotted against. Wealthy, unscrupulous people have made crime and punishment one of the most flourishing businesses in America, where 2.3 million people are prisoners and 1 in every 30 people is either behind bars or living under the threat of arrest as parolees and probationers. See PRISON LABOR PROFITS at YouTube for a sample of the cybercensorship that my publishing is subject to on a daily basis.

If Hank Skinner's work as a prisoner activist threatened prison profiteers' income like college students at Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University, a decent defense and full investigation when he became a murder suspect may have been deliberately withheld. The Northwestern University students did a valuable service by investigating wrongful convictions and they helped to free innocent people from prison over the years. In fact, they uncovered numerous wrongful convictions involving some condemned men like Hank. The students recently became targets for harassment by the D.A.'s office. Their college was required to surrender the students' grades as part of their investigation for being civic-minded humanitarians. That is a dangerous thing to be in 21st century America. I hope none of the students will ever be caught speeding. They might be Tasered and arrested like a 72-year-old great grandmother was in 2009 when she was stopped by traffic police in Texas. I wonder if the great grandmother is involved in some community action project or if she advocates for prisoners. Those activities are grounds for being labeled an “extremist” and subject citizens to having their web sites listed on “dangerous-for-your-PC” lists. I tried to open my Care2 Sharebook last night, and my new anti-virus program refused to open it in order to “protect my computer.” (Google "Mary Neal Sharebook" and see if they let you see my articles there.) ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL may also be falsely listed as “dangerous” at this link: http://www.Care2.com/c2c/group/AIMI - Numerous other Internet sites have been listed as “dangerous for your computers.” This is not done to protect Americans' PCs, but to prevent the flow of information from certain individuals, independent news sites like IndyMedia, and human/civil rights groups like AIMI. AIMI members merely ask that mental illness be decriminalized in America and for all prisoners to be treated humanely according to Hebrews 13:3. In Nazi Germany, authorities burned books. In 21st century America, people are subjected to censorship, terrorism, arrest, and even execution like Hank Skinner faces, although he is likely innocent.

I have been censored, cyberstalked, and followed by up to four vehicles and a USDOT truck for asking WHAT HAPPENED TO LARRY NEAL, my mentally and physically disabled brother who was secretly arrested and murdered in Memphis/Shelby County Jail on August 3, 2003. Neither the jail nor the USDOj (small “j” on purpose) appreciate my family asking how and why Larry was murdered. Folks over the justice system consider it to be their prerogative to arrest and murder any one of us. Middle-class and indigent citizens are all in the "slave class" without regard to their race or ethnicity, including police officers, but most of them do not realize it. I am actually whitelisted (or blacklisted) because I tell people about the elite's attitude toward working class Americans, especially mentally challenged people like Larry was. When I called 911 to rescue my grandson and me from the Chevron station where I took cover around 10:00 p.m. on Friday, September 27, 2008, police did not respond to the emergency call. What would have happened if my family had not come in two cars to save us? Duanna Johnson, who also planned to sue Shelby County Jail after police brutality, was murdered a few blocks from her Memphis home a just weeks after my narrow escape from the USDOT truck driver and others. That is why my 87-year-old mother and I mostly stay in the house now like runaway slaves. Asking the justice system for justice is apparently a dangerous undertaking. Human rights and civil rights are not honored for select citizens, and others will follow later. But that is supposed to be a secret. If Hank Skinner had known that standing up for people's human rights marked him as an enemy of the State, things might be different for him today. Then he might not be on death row to be KILLED ON WEDNESDAY, DENIED A DNA TEST TO PROVE HE DID NOT DO THE CRIME. SORRY, HANK. THE ELITE USE REGULAR EXECUTIONS TO JUSTIFY THE EXTRA $90,000 PER YEAR TAXPAYERS ARE CHARGED FOR EACH CONDEMNED MAN.

HANK, PLEASE SAY HELLO TO CAMERON TODD WILLINGHAM FOR US. Also, give a fond hello to Timothy Cole, another wrongly convicted Texan who was imprisoned for 13 years for a rape that a DNA test proved he never did. Gov. Perry issued a pardon to Cole on March 19, 2010. The only problem is that Cole he died in 1999 while imprisoned. Governor Rick Perry claimed to be proud to deliver the postpartum pardon to Cole's mother at the Omni Hotel in Ft. Worth. Having recently evidenced the fallibility of the justice system, the governor should be careful to guarantee Hank Skinner's guilt before execution. Instead, Governor Perry and various justices refuse to allow Skinner to have a DNA test. See information about Tim Cole in a Prison Weblog article at the link below, entitled: “Justice Comes Too Late for Timothy Cole.” http://prisonmovement.wordpress.com/2010/03/20/justice-comes-too-late-for-timothy-cole/

The article at the link above states, “To date, 40 Texas men have become members of a growing group known as “the exonerated,” former prisoners who, like Cole, were convicted of crimes they did not commit and later released from prison after DNA evidence proved their innocence.”

Hank, please consider using your last words to ask, “What happened to Larry Neal?” Obviously, "I am innocent; I didn't do it" are not working for you. They might tell you how they killed my brother, a harmless mental patient police were tired of singing loud outside, although USDOJ illegally refuses to give my family any records of Larry's arrest or investigate his murder. My elderly mother is plagued by nightmares of how Larry was killed while secretly incarcerated in a jail that was under DOJ supervision after years of prisoner abuse. The elite justice system does not have to answer for murder. But they may not mind telling you how Larry died, Hank, since you will not be around to blog about the cover-up that was facilitated by The Johnnie Cochran Firm and is censored by the media, which is the origin of ASSISTANCE TO THE INCARCERATED MENTALLY ILL, an online advocacy organization that stands up for human and civil rights, especially those who are sick, naked, and imprisoned (Matthew 25:36). I had no notion before Larry's secret incarceration and murder that middle-class and indigent people were in a “slave class” in America and can be killed like Larry Neal, Cameron Willingham, and you, Hank Skinner. I am very grateful that mainstream news is reporting that TEXAS IS ABOUT TO DO IT AGAIN – KILL ANOTHER MAN WITHOUT HIS GUILT BEING PROVED.

OUR JUST AND LOVING GOD HAS PUT SOME DECENT PEOPLE IN HIGH POSITIONS IN TEXAS, SO ALL HOPE IS NOT LOST. He positioned judges like Judge Kevin Fine, who ruled the death penalty unconstitutional a few weeks ago. God also positioned another righteous Texas judge, Judge Orlando Luis Garcia, who gave Jeff Wood a stay of execution. Jeff was scheduled for execution although the State of Texas acknowledges that Jeff was not present when the murder happened. He was convicted under the law of parties in a trial that was delayed while Jeff spent weeks in a mental hospital getting “trial ready.” The mentally challenged young man was tricked into accompanying someone to a robbery/murder. Poor Jeff dutifully sat in a truck as he had been instructed, and had no knowledge that a murder was even happening. He forbade his lawyers from pleading his case at trial, thinking that the prosecutors were aliens. Texas still intends to kill Jeff although the actual murderer was already executed. Jeff makes two for one - a good score if execution is a sport. Texas also gave us Rep. Eddie Johnson, who introduced H.R.619 on January 22, 2009. The former psychiatric nurse's bill proposes resuming Medicaid funding for inpatient psychiatric treatment to provide an alternative to prisons for people with mental disorders during crises or for long-term care, if needed. That is a provision that should have been included in the thousand-page national health care bill somewhere, but it was not. Pray with me that God also puts on some official's heart to give Hank Skinner a 30-day stay of execution to test his DNA and ensure that a likely innocent man is not executed AGAIN. A lab has offered to perform the DNA test for free if Texas will only be fair. There are good people everywhere, and some merciful person in a position of public trust who cares about justice and righteousness may yet step into the arena before Wednesday and say, “In the name of Almighty God, PLEASE STOP Hank Skinner's execution for 30 days and let us make sure.”

Even people who do not believe in God the Father should recognize that karma is real. You reap what you sew. Potentially innocent people should not be executed for unproved crimes. In fact, no one at all should be executed in America at least until the USDOJ and Shelby County Jail start obeying the Freedom of Information Act and tell Larry Neal's elderly mother and 130 close relatives how Larry came to be secretly arrested for 18 days and murdered in the Memphis jail. Accountability in a democracy is supposed to be a goose and gander thing. No one should be above the law, especially when the law demands the lives of potentially innocent people like Hank Skinner, humanitarian, American citizen, and a human being who was made in the image of God.

Please voice your objections before it is too late. Do not be like World War II-era German citizens who remained silent while their neighbors were marched away to death camps. Taxpayers bought the lethal injection bed and the poison that is frequently injected into condemned men's throbbing veins. That makes it YOUR injustice if Hank is executed. Remember that while Hank and other death row inmates face execution in the absence of a DNA tests, their “inalienable right” to life is equal to your own. Consider how tenacious and alienable YOUR civil and human rights really are in the USA, slave class citizens, while you watch another working class man being led to the gallows by an elitist government that says, “Innocence doesn't matter.”

Thanks in advance, Governor Perry, President Obama, Texas judges, Supreme Court justices, or whomever God sends to stop this atrocity. Thanks, fellow Americans, who call and write emails to people over our “justice” system who should care enough to be fair to Hank Skinner and see that his constitutional right to life is not violated because judges say they are satisfied with "ample evidence of his guilt," when more absolute evidence is at hand. While our nation's leaders are meeting in Washington regarding a health care bill to protect Americans' health (except for millions of mentally ill people), they should be mindful that execution would be very unhealthy for Hank Skinner. Capital punishment without irrefutable evidence of guilt is unhealthy for democracy, I BELIEVE.

See an article published by LA Times regarding Hank Skinner's justice quest.

LA TIMES - Reporting from Washington – March 19, 2010
HANK SKINNER'S LAST WISH - A DNA TEST

Texas death row inmate Hank Skinner, convicted of murdering his girlfriend and her two sons 16 years ago, has only one request before he is executed next week. He says the state should be required to do DNA tests of evidence from the victim, such as semen and blood under her fingernails, that could prove, once and for all, who was the real killer .... no one should be put to death without testing crucial evidence that could show the wrong man was convicted.

Skinner has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to block the execution, set for Wednesday, to permit time for the testing.

Skinner was an obvious suspect in the murder of Twila Busby on New Year's Eve 1993. He had been drunk and asleep on her couch shortly before she was strangled and clubbed to death in the same room. Her blood as well as that of one of her dead sons was found on his clothes. Skinner insists he awoke in a stupor to find his girlfriend murdered, and he maintains that her uncle was the killer.

"The state of Texas is trying to kill me for something I didn't do," Skinner said in a recent taped interview from prison. "We are asking to test all the evidence they identified as important."

In any investigation today, all of this evidence would have been tested for DNA," said Rob Owen, a University of Texas law professor who now represents Skinner. "But why not do the testing now?"

Prosecutors declined to comment. But they, and some of the judges who have ruled on his appeals, said that because Skinner's trial lawyer did not ask for the extra DNA testing, it was too late now [another example of procedure over justice]. Other judges said that because they saw "ample evidence" of his guilt, no further testing was required. In January, a magistrate rejected Skinner's final appeal.

Doubt arose about Skinner's guilt 10 years ago after an investigation by students from the Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University. They found another ex-girlfriend who had seen Skinner shortly after the murders and said he was too drunk and disoriented to have killed three people, including one son who stood 6-feet-6 and weighed 225 pounds. She also said Skinner did not have cuts or scratch marks, as would have been expected after a struggle.

The students also found a neighbor of the uncle who said he had cleaned his van and removed the carpet a day after the killings. The uncle did not come under investigation, and later died in an auto accident.

Skinner's current lawyers have asked Gov. Rick Perry to postpone the execution for a month to allow for the testing. They also asked the high court for an emergency order to block the execution. Owen said that if blood or skin from the victim's fingernails has DNA matching Skinner's, it would confirm his guilt. If the test finds the DNA of another man, "I think that exonerates him," he said.

Skinner's appeals run squarely into a 5-4 ruling from the Supreme Court last year saying the Constitution does not give convicts the right to demand DNA testing of crime-scene evidence. But that case involved a paroled rapist in Alaska, not a prisoner facing execution with evidence still untested.
LA Times at this link: http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-court-dna20-2010mar20,0,632491.story .

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Let us not repeat tragic mistakes from Texas' execution chambers or from 1940's Germany. "As a dog returneth to his vomit, so a fool returneth to his folly." Proverbs 26:11

Please take a stand for righteousness. Everyone is someone in the Lord. No country should ever kill its citizens, especially without clear and present evidence of wrongdoing. A 30-day stay of execution is not too much to ask for the sake of justice. God, help.

When you write and call YOUR PUBLIC SERVANTS about Hank Skinner, please make mention of Andre Thomas, who is so mentally ill he is eating his own body parts on Texas' death row - both his eyes were eaten so far. A petition for mercy for Andre is at this link: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/No-Executing-Mental-Patients . Also, please mention Jeff Wood. Texas admits Jeff never murdered anyone, yet he is on death row. Read and share more information about Jeff Wood and capital punishment at this link: SCHEDULED FOR TEXAS EXECUTION: JEFF WOOD, A MENTALLY CHALLENGED YOUNG MAN http://www.nowpublic.com/world/scheduled-texas-execution-jeff-wood-mentally-challenged-young-man - The "slave class" must stick together and help one another. Jesus said, "Love ye one another as I have loved you."

Mary NealAssistance to the Incarcerated Mentally Ill

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