Death Row Speaks
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This web page message looks ordinary enough. But it’s posted on a site that’s very far from ordinary.
It’s posted on Death Row Speaks, an American site founded in 2001 by David Paul Hammer (left) and Jeffery William Paul to, “show the humanity of those condemned to death”.
“I am forty-six years old and have been under a federally imposed sentence of death since November 4, 1998,” says Hammer in his profile, one of 50, going on:
I was sentenced to death for the murder of my cellmate, Andrew Marti. I pled guilty to this crime, and was sentenced to death upon the binding recommendation of a jury. Since the jury’s verdict I have vacillated numerous times over whether or not to pursue further appeals in my case. In June of 2004, I came within three days of being execution.
Paul’s profile includes this:
The third day after my arrival on Arkansas’ death row, where they housed a few federal prisoners before this place was finished, they took a guy out to the death chamber and 48 hours later, he was executed. My closest friend in Arkansas was next, and to date, 13 men that I have lived around have been executed or died of assaults and other hazards of prison life.
Death Row Speaks is unique.
“This website brings information on the death penalty from both inside and outside the prison,” it says. “On this website you will find profiles, poems, artwork, essays and all kinds of materials contributed by death row inmates all over America. We give information on upcoming executions, methods and the history of the death penalty.”
What’s its primary purpose? To oppose the Death Penalty.
“Our mission is to increase awareness of the death penalty and provide information on related issues, to win additional support of our position, and to encourage activism on the part of our visitors.”
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January 3rd, 2007 at 6:12 pm
‘to show the humanity” of those condemned to die?
Give me a break! Where was their humanity when they were taking the lives of others?
The old saying is so true, “You’ll never find a guilty man in prison,” nor will you find one not “converted and brought to God,” by their dilemma.
Poppycock!
Instead of allowing a web-site for them to cry; there should be a web-site where their victims’ loved ones can WATCH them be executed!
January 3rd, 2007 at 6:13 pm
BY: Rev. Dan J. Stevens
dstevenslsw@yahoo.com
January 3rd, 2007 at 10:26 pm
Of course. No one ever gets executed by the American justice system who doesn’t deserve it.
January 4th, 2007 at 5:08 am
What’s weird to me is that this guy profiled ? Uh, his executioner is my cousin.