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My friend on death row...
« on: January 22, 2009, 06:50:26 PM »
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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Thu Jan-22-09 07:02 PM
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My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment.
   
I know a lot of you are for capital punishment. I understand, and I don't want to argue about it.

I just want you to know that a human being is being put to death right now, at this moment, by strangers who care nothing about him, strapped to a gurney in a Huntville, Texas prison.

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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Thu Jan-22-09 07:17 PM
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15. I write to death row prisoners.
   
I find a prisoner (usually online ads from other countries who are anti-capital punishment) who has no family that writes to him and I begin writing to him. I send him money several times a year, to make sure he has stamps, and other essentials. I find out what he's interested in, and ship him books and magazines. Sometimes, often, get him a newspaper subscription to his hometown. Just generally try to be a friend to someone who is friendless.

I don't "fall in love," and I let them know, at the outset, that that is not what this is all about. I try to be consistent in writing, so that they know that there is one person they can count on, to communicate with.

It's a heartbreaking task, to write to one of these prisoners until they die, but it is very necessary, I think.


If you wanted to help your time could be better spent with people who are a lot more deserving.

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Maat  Donating Member  (1000+ posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:09 PM
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7. I'm so sorry ... I'm against the death penalty ...
   
because it lowers US to a criminal level, in my humble opinion - not criminal in the legal sense, but in a psychological sense.

Peace be with you. Peace be with him.

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Jokerman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Thu Jan-22-09 07:09 PM
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8. Barbaric.
   
I hope someday to live in an enlightened, compassionate society.

This isn't it.

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naaman fletcher  (145 posts) Thu Jan-22-09 07:20 PM
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16. I'm opposed to the death penalty..
   
because I don't trust the government (read the various books on the Death Penalty in Oklahoma, including Mark Furhman's).

But, I have no sympathy for your friend, or that he is being put to death "by strangers who care nothing about him".

He should have thought about that before he killed his step-mother and robbed her of her wedding ring.

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-perkins_22met.ART.East.Edition1.4ee2f40.html

This is the only semi-valid argument in here.

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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Thu Jan-22-09 07:31 PM
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23.He claimed that he didn't do it.
   
And I'm not going to get into an arguement with you about his innocence or guilt here.

Judge clearly thought otherwise.


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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #1 on: January 22, 2009, 06:52:11 PM »
I am sooooo proud to have NEVER begin a sentence with:

"My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment."

It isn't as bad as "my sister is getting treatment for the VD I gave her" but it is close.

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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #2 on: January 22, 2009, 06:54:25 PM »
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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Thu Jan-22-09 07:31 PM
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23.He claimed that he didn't do it.
   
And I'm not going to get into an arguement with you about his innocence or guilt here.

Wait a sec...

There's a prisoner on death row (well, was) who claimed innocence? I'm shocked. Shocked!  :whatever:
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #3 on: January 22, 2009, 06:56:37 PM »
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Jokerman  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Thu Jan-22-09 07:09 PM
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8. Barbaric.
   
I hope someday to live in an enlightened, compassionate society.

This isn't it.

To live in an enlightened and compassionate society one must be enlightened and compassionate.  A society is made up of people.
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #4 on: January 22, 2009, 06:58:45 PM »
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Th1onein  Donating Member  (1000+ posts)  Thu Jan-22-09 07:02 PM
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My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment.
  
I know a lot of you are for capital punishment. I understand, and I don't want to argue about it.

I just want you to know that a human being is being put to death right now, at this moment, by strangers who care nothing about him, strapped to a gurney in a Huntville, Texas prison.


I can sleep peacefully tonight.  Texas justice has once again been served up.
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #5 on: January 22, 2009, 07:00:10 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on January 22, 2009, 06:52:11 PM
I am sooooo proud to have NEVER begin a sentence with:

"My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment."

It isn't as bad as "my sister is getting treatment for the VD I gave her" but it is close.



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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #6 on: January 22, 2009, 07:10:12 PM »
Quote from: Carl on January 22, 2009, 07:00:10 PM
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I can always count on you Carl.

And I am, at the moment, at equilibrium again :)
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #7 on: January 22, 2009, 07:20:46 PM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on January 22, 2009, 07:10:12 PM
I can always count on you Carl.

And I am, at the moment, at equilibrium again :)


I just put you one over, but for the "It isn't as bad as "my sister is getting treatment for the VD I gave her" but it is close" line.  That's funny!  :rotf: :lmao: :rotf: :lmao:
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #8 on: January 22, 2009, 07:39:27 PM »
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My friend, the death row prisoner, is busy dying at this moment.
   
I know a lot of you are for capital punishment. I understand, and I don't want to argue about it.

I just want you to know that a human being is being put to death right now, at this moment, by strangers who care nothing about him, strapped to a gurney in a Huntville, Texas prison.

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Here's hoping they screw up and make it slow and painful.

You stupid c*nt.

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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #9 on: January 22, 2009, 07:52:16 PM »
Quote from: DefiantSix on January 22, 2009, 06:58:45 PM
I can sleep peacefully tonight.  Texas justice has once again been served up.



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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #10 on: January 22, 2009, 07:52:40 PM »
A friend? Didn't one of her "friends" get put to death a year or two ago? How many f'n death row inmates does this f'n moron know?
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #11 on: January 22, 2009, 07:56:24 PM »
IIRC, the primitive Th1onein's real name is Melanie and she popped into CU at one point.  If she *really* wanted to do something that brought good to others, she'd be trying to help the families of the victims, too.

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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #12 on: January 22, 2009, 08:02:06 PM »
This is the woman who stood on her dead nephews coffin and spun bouncies.

He was KIA in the early years of the Iraq war and she saddled up his body and rode it for all she was worth playing for outrage sympathy from the other DUchebags.
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #13 on: January 22, 2009, 08:19:51 PM »
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I just want you to know that a human being is being put to death right now, at this moment, by strangers who care nothing about him, strapped to a gurney in a Huntville, Texas prison.

...As opposed to violently killing someone you know, oh like a family member perhaps? Because by golly he needed that ring more than she needed her life, right? No one gets to this point without going through the appeals process which is a hell of a lot more than his step-mother got. Well, unless he let her beg for her life before he killed her, I guess one could consider that an appeal...albeit without benefit of counsel.

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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #14 on: January 22, 2009, 08:26:21 PM »
Quote from: delilahmused on January 22, 2009, 08:19:51 PM
...As opposed to violently killing someone you know, oh like a family member perhaps? Because by golly he needed that ring more than she needed her life, right? No one gets to this point without going through the appeals process which is a hell of a lot more than his step-mother got. Well, unless he let her beg for her life before he killed her, I guess one could consider that an appeal...albeit without benefit of counsel.

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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #15 on: January 22, 2009, 08:43:22 PM »
I am pro-death penalty. The only arguement that comes close to changing my mind is do I want government having that power?

Well the Supreme Court settled that, mostly, when it decreed that only a jury could give the death penalty.... I am right about that?
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #16 on: January 22, 2009, 08:50:16 PM »
^*$%&#)#@%*!!

Rot in hell melaine. Rot in hell you stupid bitch.
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #17 on: January 23, 2009, 12:42:37 AM »
Quote from: FGL on January 22, 2009, 08:43:22 PM
I am pro-death penalty. The only arguement that comes close to changing my mind is do I want government having that power?

Well the Supreme Court settled that, mostly, when it decreed that only a jury could give the death penalty.... I am right about that?

Do you have a link to that SCOTUS ruling?  I haven't found one.
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #18 on: January 23, 2009, 06:09:14 AM »
Good old Melanie "A murderers best friend" :whatever: Anybody else find it interesting that her pool of friends consist of people who are either dead or going to be in short order? Methinks Melanie has serious intimacy issues! :uhsure:
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #19 on: January 23, 2009, 07:34:55 AM »
God bless Texas.
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #20 on: January 23, 2009, 07:41:53 AM »
Anyone who claims that FR/CC/etc are conservative mirror images of DU/Kos/etc, consider the following:

--How many people do YOU know on death row?

--How many of them do you consider "friends"?

I rest my case.
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #21 on: January 23, 2009, 07:43:34 AM »
Quote from: Toastedturningtidelegs on January 23, 2009, 06:09:14 AM
Good old Melanie "A murderers best friend" :whatever: Anybody else find it interesting that her pool of friends consist of people who are either dead or going to be in short order? Methinks Melanie has serious intimacy issues! :uhsure:

You know, of course everybody needs friends.

And offering the hand of friendship is mandated by God.

However, I don't think Melanie's hand is what such people need; there's others more mature, more stable, more unselfish and disinterested, more effective, who could do such people more good during their last days of life.

If I were a murderer, I'd sweat and cringe, if I knew my stoutest friend was a deeply-troubled, probably psychotic, undeniably hysterical, primitive.

I'd be sweating clams if I was leaving life, knowing this was the only "friend" I had.

It's obvious Melanie's into this thing merely for her own ego-gratification, and not for some unselfish purpose.
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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #22 on: January 23, 2009, 08:20:21 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on January 22, 2009, 07:10:12 PM
I can always count on you Carl.

And I am, at the moment, at equilibrium again :)


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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #23 on: January 23, 2009, 08:23:15 AM »
Quote from: Rebel on January 22, 2009, 07:52:40 PM
How many f'n death row inmates does this f'n moron know?



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Re: My friend on death row...
« Reply #24 on: January 23, 2009, 08:26:12 AM »
I have a friend who went to the death chamber here in Huntsville.  As a matter of fact he goes several times a year and has no qualms about cashing the check they give him.

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