Ronald W. Clark Jr
July 19, 2013
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Capital Punishment

The death penalty in America is the most bias, unfair, prejudicial punishment that there is. For it is unfairly applied, aimed at not the worst of the worst, but the poorest of the poor. Senator Gates, Governor Scott and those other well-to-do, blood thirsty Floridians sitting in their plush offices in Tallahassee have nothing to worry about, when it comes to them or their family members experiencing capital punishment. For America's death chambers only accept the poor and under class.

This sentence is arbitrarily and capriciously applied without rhyme or reason. In 1990 when I was in the county jail awaiting trial, there was a guy from the navy who while his friend was out on the ship, broke into his friends house, killed his friends wife and newborn child with a hammer! If there was ever a case for the death penalty, that would have been it! For that was a heinous cold hearted act! The guy got life in prison, surprised?! Well you shouldn't be. For I can take almost any guy on death row, go back to the time he was sentenced, in the county he was sentenced in and find similar, if not worse cases, where the individual got a life sentence or 30 or 40 year sentence's instead of death, because some state attorney for unknown reason's decided who would live and who would die. Yes, he or she was made God!!

Google Mayport murder May 2003. I was in the jail with him. He told me how he killed five (5) people and he got five life sentences for those five murders. Where's the equality? Well it's not in the crime or sentence! A little 8 or 9 year old girl was going home from school in Jacksonville, Florida about 4 years ago. This man kidnaped her, molested her and dumped her in the trash. His sentence? You guessed it, he's doing life in prison. Go on the FDOC website, you will find murderer after murderer in population serving life sentences or 20, 30 year sentences. You can find out where they are from. Google their names in the local paper, and read about their cases. You will see that I know what I'm talking about.

The death penalty is not just unjust to the inmate who sits in a cage waiting to die for 15, 20, 25 years. But it's unjust to our family member's who have to endure this sentence. Who not only have to count down the year's, month's, week's, day's, hour's, and final minutes of their loved ones life, which is the most horrific hell you can ever imagine. But the family is then left to suffer, and heal from this tramatic event, of what is the most sick case of cruel and unusual punishment carried out by the United States government against law abiding family members who just happened to be unfortunately poor and unable to save their loved ones with high powered attorneys. Equal justice? Equal suffering? Tell that to the family members who stand outside Florida state prison (FSP) as the person they love is helplessly strapped to a gurney or chair and killed by the state under the fraudulent concept of justice. While that inmate with the same or worse crime in population, their family never experiences this barbaric, uncivilized, bias form of torture that they are enduring. No...there's nothing equal about it. A guy down the hall, his 13 year old daughter is so stressed out about her father being under this sentence, she's been counting the year's and month's. She just tried to commit suicide. I know other people's family who are under psychiatric care because of the mental and emotional anguish this sentence is having on them. They are suffering, where that inmate's family in population does not have to. Capital punishment is not fair and equal. And it truly violates the 8th amendment of law abiding citizens, who happened to be unfortunate enough to be related to a death row inmate.

Capital punishment victimizes the families of the death row inmate who has to endure counting down the final day's hours and minutes of their loved ones life. It's unlike a death notification! No this is a final count down, a true act of torture!! Justice is not created equally! For the poor will be vicimized by the rich, who can afford to kill the poor, and escape America's death chambers, and who create these bias, prejudicial laws that allow some rich politician to kill poor people in the chamber of death. Equality?! Only a fool believes that lie. We need change. We need capital punishment abolished.

God Bless you.
In Peace + Love
Ronnie :)