If this doesnt outrage you...
Ask yourself how long you have been an ass.
So its no secret that I am completely opposed to capital punishment, which may or may not put me in the minority of people on this blog... But regardless of your stance on our currently flawed system of taking lives as punishment for... well.. taking lives...and a debate about that is not what this post is about, THIS is a case you should be aware of:
Over the last week there has been a lot of blog talk regarding Cory Maye, but mainstream media has largely ignored it. I was informed of this by Dave Lowitzkis' blog, The Interaction of Faith, Politics and Culture.
Cory Maye is sitting on death row in Mississippi for shooting a police officer who raided his apartment. Sounds pretty straightforward, right? Unfortunately it is not that easy.
Maye today sits on Mississippi's death row, convicted of capital murder for shooting police officer Ron Jones. It's probably worth mentioning that Jones is white, and Maye is black. It's probably also worth mentioning that at the time of his death, Jones' father was police chief of Prentiss, Mississippi, where the shooting took place. The jury that convicted Maye contained two black women, but was otherwise white.
Summary:
Cops break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, they had the wrong door. The man wasn't named in the warrant, and wasn't a suspect. The man, frigthened [sic] for himself and his 18-month old daughter, fires at an intruder who jumps into his bedroom after the door's been kicked in. Turns out that the man, who is black, has killed the white son of the town's police chief. He's later convicted and sentenced to death by a largely white jury. The man has no criminal record, and police rather tellingly changed their story about him having drugs in his possession at the time of the raid, to "well, he had traces of drugs"...which are probably a whole lot easier to plant.
Here is a collection of links talking about the case.
This case has been completely ignored by mainstream media, and I am not sure exactly why. I am blogging about it to try to spread awareness about a situation, where a man is going to be executed, who does not deserve to be.
Consider yourself informed.
posted by drew @ 12:06 PM
6 comments
6 Comments:
thank you for keeping us informed
you gotta love what you do, chief
drew, good find. this is ONE case I dont mind if people play the race card. thats jacked up
First of all I'm glad that Tyler is done with school as our comment strings are now reaping the benefits.
Second although we all know the race card is overplayed to the point of almost a cliche the true damage of this is that when there actually is an injustice due to race we as a society have deaf ears and rolled eyes. I'm not saying this is such a case because I don't know anything about it. But it still sucks. Especially because my mocha took a long damn time yesterday and I'm almost sure it was because of my anglo-saxon heritage.
actually, thats garrett.
as a brownskinned liberal, and card carrying member of the Green party, i have no problem crying "race" whenever i feel like it.
and i understand why you get me and garret confused, i am brown and his D is also brown.
obviously you have never seen his D. garrett, do you have a camera phone?
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