DEATH PENALTHY-DEATH ROW OPPOSITION STATEMENT
The following is a Death Row Inner-communalist Vanguard Engagement outline justifying our resistant stance and actions within Texas Death Row. It’s our position that because of the existence of the inhumane Death Penalty, the inhumane living conditions here on Death Row persist. Cruel and Unusual punishment is embedded in the Death Penalty’s every function. Therefore, DRIVE commits to non-violently protest against this inhumane scheme called the Death Penalty (note the Inner-communalist sacrifice under the repressive administration of T.D.C.J.). The goal of this outline is to highlight the contradictive and abusive nature of the entire Death Penalty process, and the vast extent of its pollution; thus, demonstrating that the Death Penalty is so inherently unjust, from application to confinement, that its only resolve is abolishment.
From:
Death Penalty Application
the disparity in whom the D.A.’s seek the Death Penalty against.
the Courts refusal to try us by a jury of our peers, which is the essential element of a trial
inadequate legal-representation
how appellant attorneys fail to use all of the tax-payers' dollars allocated to them to carry out half-decent appeals; the remainder of which is inappropriately funnelled to the State Treasury, where the Governor has said these funds will be considered to fill state deficits.
the Anti-terrorism Effective Death Penalty Act (AEDPA) brought forth by Bill Clinton, and passed by congress, which sped up our appeals to the degree that we don’t receive adequate appellant review, as 98% of Death convictions systematically upheld by the state court and 99.99% of Death convictions systematically upheld by succedent 5th circuit appellant stages clearly demonstrates. The appeals court review is not that accurate.
the torture one experiences being deemed unfit for life, thrusted in line to be executed, though his dignity urges self-preservation.
the mere fact the Death Penalty is the systematic taking of human life.
To:
Death Row Conditions
the Death Row administrations disparate enforcing of certain rules as a means of psychological warfare.
how the Death Row administrations refuses to ensure we receive our essentials (clean clothing, sanitary & working facilities, decent food, and adequate health care).
the inadequate disciplinary hearings which amounts to than Kangaroo court.
how the Death Row administration refuses to allocate funds acquired from us through their commissary for “E & R” (educational and recreational) programs for the Death Row community upliftment. Does our so-called deserving of death make us undeserving of self-embetterment?
how the majority of our grievances are systematically found meritless by the same warden who oversees the unit wherein the problems exist… if the grievances don’t mysteriously come up missing; suppressing our voice against mistreatment through a superficial grievance procedure.
the mental deterioration a Death Row prisoner undergoes being confined to the dormancy of a cage 22-24 hrs a day, without any contact to people or worldly affairs.
the premise that anything associated with the promotion of the Death Penalty is equally inherently corrupted.
D.R.I.V.E.
DEATH Row INNER-COMMUNALIST VANGUARD ENGAGEMENT
