Ravenwood - 06/08/03 06:35 PM
For those of you that haven't heard, Virginia now has a womyn on death row. My guess is that they sentenced Teresa Lewis to death, to stave off any Martha Burk protests of the formerly all male 'club'. Virginia hasn't executed a woman since 1912, which I'm sure Martha Burk finds unacceptable. This isn't a complete victory for womyn's rights though, because Ms. Lewis is still subject to being segregated from the rest of the male death row population, in a womyn's only cell.
I've always taken pride in Virginia's justice system. She usually lands in second place, right behind Texas, when it comes to the number of annual executions. When you figure it per capita, Virginia may even be number one. Where-ever she ranks, you can bet our governor won't be pandering to the Nobel committee by giving everyone on death row a free pass. Yes, I'm talking about you.. Illinois.
Illegal procedure. You are only allowed to bait one troll classification at a time.
Posted by: Tiger at June 8, 2003 7:04 PMHey, don't blame the whole state. Republican Governor George Ryan did it all by himself. Why? He's probably hoping the justice system will have leniancy on him when he is on trial. You see, 63 Republican operatives have been indicted and more than 40 already convicted, including George Ryan' Chief of Staff, his life-long best friend and Inspector General who covered up the crimes, two former Republican state representatives, and a whole host of people connected to Gov. George Ryan. It seems when Governor Ryan was the Secretary of State he turned his whole staff into a campaign committee to help him get elected Gov. while we all payed for it. They even took bribes to give out truck driving licenses to people so they didn't have to take the tests. Then on of those truck drivers mowed down a family van killing 6 children and the mother, while the father, a minister, barely survived. I think King George probably had those deaths on his conscious when he pardoned EVERYONE on death row. That and we had set 13 people on death row exonerated after it was learned they were innocent.
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