8th Annual March to Stop Executions - Houston Texas
This past October I did my second tour of Texas (you can check out photos of both trips on my myspace blog http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&Mytoken=CCFA6B66-A036-4369-B1C7319CD80CF52A102344713). I have to say the second time was no easier then the first. It's emotionally draining for real. The stories all so similar. Now I know some are just that stories but a lot of them raise enough doubt within me, that I would at least check it out. That's what KILLS me about Texas, even with the fact that over 100 men have been exonerated from death row, they continue as if they were infallible. We are talking about human lives here. One would think you would investigate every possibility before going ahead and killing someone it's insane.
They say hate breeds hate well what of murder. If our leaders kill without mercy how do you expect the followers, the people not to follow. Killing a murderer is not solving anything. The system thinks well they are preventing further killings by executing a murderer. But how does that stop the next murderer from going on a killing spree. There are no quick solutions. It won't all be better with a shot. We are not being smart at all.
Taking a murderer into captivity and torturing him for 12 to 15 years locked in solitary confinement, then strapping him to a gurney and murdering him with lethal doses of poison doesn't impress me one bit. It's uglier than any gruesome murder I ever witnessed or read about. You want to impress me, take that murderer and make him somebody. make him a lawyer, an engineer or a business owner that would impress me. Most of those on death row that are in fact guilty are not crazed killers. They are people just like you and me that got caught up in a bad situation. Maybe you have lead a life that was sheltered and you have never seen a situation as this unfold. But in my life time I have seen to many. It's easy to get caught up out there. Real easy.
Anyway the march was a beautiful thing it gave me the strength I needed to make it through ten days of politicking all over Texas as well as filming for the Frontlines. Check out the blogs on myspace and think about it. It's a just cause. I want to see the numbers swell this year for the 9th March. Get there!!!
After 10 days in Texas, I jumped on a plane to Europe, my 5th European tour starting out in Italy November 8th, 2007.
This past October I did my second tour of Texas (you can check out photos of both trips on my myspace blog http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog&Mytoken=CCFA6B66-A036-4369-B1C7319CD80CF52A102344713). I have to say the second time was no easier then the first. It's emotionally draining for real. The stories all so similar. Now I know some are just that stories but a lot of them raise enough doubt within me, that I would at least check it out. That's what KILLS me about Texas, even with the fact that over 100 men have been exonerated from death row, they continue as if they were infallible. We are talking about human lives here. One would think you would investigate every possibility before going ahead and killing someone it's insane.
They say hate breeds hate well what of murder. If our leaders kill without mercy how do you expect the followers, the people not to follow. Killing a murderer is not solving anything. The system thinks well they are preventing further killings by executing a murderer. But how does that stop the next murderer from going on a killing spree. There are no quick solutions. It won't all be better with a shot. We are not being smart at all.
Taking a murderer into captivity and torturing him for 12 to 15 years locked in solitary confinement, then strapping him to a gurney and murdering him with lethal doses of poison doesn't impress me one bit. It's uglier than any gruesome murder I ever witnessed or read about. You want to impress me, take that murderer and make him somebody. make him a lawyer, an engineer or a business owner that would impress me. Most of those on death row that are in fact guilty are not crazed killers. They are people just like you and me that got caught up in a bad situation. Maybe you have lead a life that was sheltered and you have never seen a situation as this unfold. But in my life time I have seen to many. It's easy to get caught up out there. Real easy.
Anyway the march was a beautiful thing it gave me the strength I needed to make it through ten days of politicking all over Texas as well as filming for the Frontlines. Check out the blogs on myspace and think about it. It's a just cause. I want to see the numbers swell this year for the 9th March. Get there!!!
After 10 days in Texas, I jumped on a plane to Europe, my 5th European tour starting out in Italy November 8th, 2007.
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