Governor Haley Barbour
Jamie and Gladys Scott "no longer pose a threat to society"; as if they ever really did. Yet the people in power still refuse to pardon or commute their sentence. They are released to save money because "Jamie Scott's medical condition creates a substantial cost to the state of Mississippi." Pitiful.
The system lets serial killers, rapists, white, blue, yellow, and green-collar offenders off for little or no reason, only to find out that they are just as scurrilous as ever. These two women, "young, gifted, and Black," posed such a threat to SOCIETY for this alleged $11crime [(unless they were caught red-handed with gun and dough)] that SOCIETY had to impose such a strenuous FINAL penalty upon them, short of death.
A jury convicted them - and what a mean-spirited and bigoted jury it must have been. It reminds me of the travesty of justice in the movie "Heaven's Fall." The people were utterly determined to make a black man pay for something he did not do. They over-threw the judge's courage to deem the whole trial a farce and perversion of justice, thereby rendering an unsavory verdict. They hound-dogged that poor man unswervingly in an effort to carry out their wishes for him until he died in transit, still maintaining his innocence. What a Godless enterprise. Heaven's Fall portrays a TRUE LIFE EXPERIENCE - as this one is.
They (the vampire cowboys and girls) knew he was innocent. The white girl they used to try to "kill somebody" was exposed. But she had a staunch heart of darkness. They did not care. They wanted a black man to be lynched or burned or killed by whatever other method of death that would torture him the most. They just wanted a death. In a way, they killed the two young women, the Scott sisters, because of unjust judgment. But the quest for justice could not be quenched. Thank God.
This is one of the many ways our beloved country wastes its potential. It invests highly in binding people to their misdeeds instead of preparing them for re-entry into society as better contributors to, rather than drainers of, society (in one way or another). To wit, THE CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO VOTE IS NOT THEIRS UNLESS I MISSED SOMETHING TO DATE. [(Note the present unrest in the prison strikes, for example.
People who like to lie about things and delude themselves, maintain that prisoners are in hog heaven: free food, money, tv, plush rec rooms, EDUCATION, no work!! except in-house, and other luxuries. I could not believe my ears when a CHURCH MEMBER shared that. I thought prison was the opposite of FUN times myself. "He needs to spend a little time in "Oz," I thought.)]
Society is sort of like a two-faced coin. People cry woe is us because of some drain or leaching of would-be contributors to the welfare of the whole. However, they are not satisfied unless they make someone who least deserves it pay needlessly for some slight crime, while they allow the Son of Sam, Freddy Krueger, Jack the Ripper, and the Loch Ness Monster, for example, to roam the streets somewhere out there in the darkness. It is truly amazing how some human minds work out their illogical conclusions.
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