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After careful consideration, I decided to not remove this page from my site...
It has a very important message and needs to be read as often as possable.
God Bless and Keep you... Love Kate

(March 2003)
I want to share an E~Mail I recieved...
Please America, wake up?

Subj: [PRISONACT] Will You Hear Me Now?
Date: 03/22/2003 7:37:57 AM Central Standard Time
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From: Rick Halperin
March 20,2003

Will You Hear Me Now?
By Michael Thompson

Judicial prejudice and malice, prosecutorial misconduct, ineffective assistance of counsel, involuntary confessions forced by promises, threats and trickery, the failure of investigators to produce favorable evidence while creating unfavorable, false evidence - these are the components that not only violate the rights of the guilty, but also convict the innocent. Components of a system of justice which has run amuck for far too long under the guise of "being touch on crime" from the Circuit Courts to the United States Supreme Court. When our highest judiciary fails to enforce the rights guaranteed to every individual under the United States Constitution, society as a whole inherits a corrupt system of justice that functions not to protect, but to prosecute and only fools would believe that the innocent are not convicted, and even put to death. A corrupt, zealous justice system can make the most innocent among us appear to be guilty monsters, especially with the assistance of the "spin-doctor" media who graduate from the Jerry Springer school of ""shock TV".

Today, the State of Alabama has put to death an innocent man. Since I'm already dead, and have nothing to gain, perhaps society will finally listen. My blood is on your hands, but I've prayed that God will forgive you all, for you don't realize what you are doing. You are kept in ignorance of the truth and made to believe that our justice system is perfect, and that it's hard at work protecting you from people like me. I spent over 18 years behind bars for a crime that I did not commit and now I've been put to death. You should fear the system that did this to me.

On December 10, 1984 I found myself caught up in something that resembled a segment from the TV series "The Twilight Zone", and it chewed me up like a lion devouring fresh kill. Every twist and turn only sunk me deeper and deeper until, had I not known better, even I would have thought myself to be guilty. The justice system devoured me. It took an innocent man and ripped him to shreds and devoured him. I was that man.

My only reason for leaving you this last statement is to beg you to please put an end to this madness. Stop the killing! At least a live person stands a chance of one day proving his innocence. Don't ever murder an innocent person again. Let my execution be the END of the death penalty in Alabama. I love this state. I love the people in this state. Please love yourselves enough to rise above this evil and be a Godly people, and a just people, for today, as I was executed, you were the only ones present who were guilty of murder.

I'm a Christian - a born again child of God, and all I feel is love and forgiveness. I choose to see my execution as a sacrifice. A wake up call to you. You have executed an innocent man! I'm with God, but you are not, and I pray that you all will be one day, for Jesus died for your sins also. But you must repent and ask yourself "what would Jesus do?"

Please stop the killing. It's not God's will - it's man's will.

God Love You All.

(source: Michael Thompson, executed, March 13, 2003)
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Surely there is more to Life,
than waiting for Death!

I feel so Lost,
I didn't even know this man, but maybe I should have taken the time to get to know him...

I do know several, Death Row prisoners and some have said they didn't do the crime, others admit their guilt...
Death row is not a place to be denying the truth, it's a place that usually brings home the truth...

The ones fighting daily, to save their own lives, have that right, whether their innocent, or not.

We fight every day for the "Right to Life" for unborn babies, even if it means they'll live in the saddest of conditions, on earth,
but not for our men and women, who cry for our compassion, to let them live,
even if it's in prison, the rest of their life.

Your answer to me may be,
"They didn't have compassion for their victoms..." but we are all not created as equal as we've been taught.

Each of us has a unique personality and set of ethics that we were taught to live by.
Maybe some weren't taught the same, so what's right for me , isn't right for you,
does that mean that after I do something terrable to you,
I can't change the way I see things and be sorry, for what I did, to you?

We're not made equal in our thought processes either, but does that say, our thoughts cant change to a higher level...

I'd be afraid to even say The Lords Prayer, if I believed that God would judge me for who I once was, instead of who I've become,
as I learn, mostly from experence.

The "Eye For an Eye" testiment was rewritten when Jesus Christ came to save us all, He's the one that said, "Judge not least ye be judged..."

We justify a murder, for a murder, and then say in God We Trust...
We say, "He's a threat to society..." and go to churchs and clame all man as our brothers,
well your Brothers and Sisters, need you now more than ever,
to help end the battle, we daily fight to free the innocent, or at least give them the binefit of the doubt and let them live.

When we allow murder to legally proceed in our prisons, we're backing the same kind of system that is doing the exact same thing that got Christ Crusified

And YES!

That was meant to be, to save our pathetic souls!
It was an example for us to follow and learn from.... what did we learn???

It seems nothing, because Jesus tried to tell them of his innocence too,
and No ONE would listen....
Just as no one listens today!

If I could say to Michael, anything of comfort, I would tell him that there were people, that truly believed in his innocence and that God will one day Judge us all, for our part in allowing this to happen.

We can hide the truth from our own hearts, but we can't hide the truth from God and when it comes our time to be judged, I pray that God has more mercy on us, than we have on those we've judged.

So the only thing I have, that I feel will properly end this page, is another quote...

"Will You Hear Me Now?"
By Michael Thompson

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