Death Sentences For Depraved 2007 Connecticut Multiple Rape, Murder, Arson Convictions Revoked

Victims: Dr. William Petit (left) said it's an 'insult' that Hayes, who raped and murdered his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit (right) and killed daughters Michaela (center-bottom), 11, and Hayley (center-top), 17, won't be executed.

[From article]
The Connecticut man who lost his wife and daughters in a brutal home invasion in 2007 said Wednesday it was 'sad' one of the killers had his death sentence revoked to comply with new state laws.
Dr. William Petit was tied up in the basement of his New Haven home during the July 23, 2007 attack and almost beaten to death. He could only listen as his wife was raped and murdered by Steven Hayes. Petit managed to flee to a neighbor's home as his daughters perished in the fire Hayes lit.
'It is a very sad day when a prolonged trial and decision and sentencing by a jury that took 4.5 months to seat is overturned by a legislature that ignores the wishes of the people of CT,' he said in a text message via Twitter on Wednesday.
He added: 'The insult is compounded by a Supreme Court that rules on not one but 2 cases based on personal opinions and politics and not the law.'

Tragic: Wolfe-Petit was taken to a bank to withdraw money for the robbers before her murder, while her daughters were tied to their beds. She told the cashier to call the police, but they arrived too late.

Hayes was sentenced to death in 2010 after being convicted of murder, first-degree kidnapping, first-degree sexual assault and 13 other counts.
Co-defendant Joshua Komisarjevsky was also sentenced to death in 2011.
But in 2012 the Connecticut House of Representatives voted to repeal capital punishment, stopping it from being handed out in future cases.
Originally, the 11 people on death row - including Hayes and Komisarjevsky - were still to face execution.
But in August last year that was deemed to be 'cruel and unusual punishment' and their death sentences were commuted.
Hayes's trial, which ended Wednesday is the first in a series deciding what will be done with those men. Komisarjevsky and the other nine men who were on death row have yet to face theirs.
Petit and his family declined to make a statement in court, saying they had already said what needed to be said during the trial, as did Hayes and his public defender Thomas Ullmann.
Superior Court judge Jon C. Blue concluded: 'With the gravity of these crimes and the depravity of your character, nothing more needs to be said.'
He then handed down six consecutive sentences of life without possibility of parole, followed by a total of 106 years for Hayes's crimes.
Hayes and Komisarjevsky committed their crimes in July 2007, when a home-invasion robbery spiraled into a nightmarish litany of rape, child abuse and murder.
The pair forced their way into Petit's home and beat him badly with a baseball bat before tying him up in the basement of his house, which he shared with his wife Jennifer Hawke-Petit, 48, and their daughters Hayley, 17, and Michaela, 11.
The pair demanded money from Petit, then 50, and ransacked his home - but when they found a banking book with $30,000 in it, they changed their mind.
Instead, they decided they would take Hawke-Petit to a bank, and force her to withdraw $15,000. She did, and told the teller what was happening.
But the police did not arrive in time for what happened next.
Once back home, Hayes raped Hawke-Petit, then strangled her to death. Petit, still tied up in the basement, could only listen.
When he heard one of the men say that it 'it will all be over soon,' Petit realized that they were all going to be killed and managed to break the bonds on his hands - but not those on his feet - and crawl to his neighbor's house.
The doctor was so bloodied and disfigured by his beating that his neighbor of 18 years didn't even recognize him at first.


Horror: Hayes and friend Joshua Komisarjevsky raided the Petits' home (pictured after the invasion) in July 2007. They tied Petit up in the basement, then Hayes raped Hawke-Petit before strangling her to death.

As Petit was crawling to safety, his daughters were suffering. They had been tied to their beds, with pillowcases placed over their heads.
Komisarjevsky raped 11-year-old Michaela - he later told authorities he thought she was 16 or 17 - and then Hayes splashed gasoline around the house and set it ablaze.
In journal entries read in court during the trial, Komisarjevsky wrote that he 'resented' the idea that people believe he raped Michaela, but admitting he did sexually assault her and then 'ejaculated onto her' in a 'vulgar display of power.'
He also took photos of her after the assault.
Hayley was able to free herself, but died in the hallway due to the superheated fumes. Michaela's body was found on her bed. It could not be determined how she died.
The suspects then fled the house, ramming through a police barricade with the Petits' vehicle, before being apprehended.
Facing the prospect of execution in 2013, Hayes told The New Haven Register: 'Death for me will be a welcome relief and I hope it will bring some peace and comfort to those who I have hurt so much.'
[. . .]
Since the deaths of his daughters and wife in 2007, Petit has remarried. He and his wife Christine had a son, William Petit III, in 2013.
But he has said he will never come to terms with the loss of his first family.
[. . .]
In May he began a run for state legislature.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3644078/Connecticut-man-listen-wife-raped-killed-daughters-burned-alive-says-s-sad-killer-death-sentence-commuted-new-state-laws.html

'It's an insult': Disbelief of William Petit who was forced to listen to wife being raped and killed and his daughters burned alive as Connecticut court overturns killer's execution because it's 'cruel'
Steve Hayes was convicted on 16 counts, including murder, in 2010
He was put on death row, but in 2012 Connecticut revoked its death penalty
And in 2015 he and ten others had their death sentences commuted
Now he's been sentenced to six life sentences plus 106 years in prison
In 2007 Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky invaded the Petit home
Dr. William Petit was tied up in his basement while Hayes raped his wife
He then strangled her to death while Komisarjevsky raped Michaela, 11
Michaela and sister Hayley, 17, were tied to beds while the house burned
Dr. Petit was nearly beaten to death but managed to escape to a neighbor's home but his daughters died
Komisarjevsky and nine others on death row have yet to be re-sentenced
By JAMES WILKINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 21:47 EST, 15 June 2016 | UPDATED: 06:32 EST, 16 June 2016

Executioners Needed in Saudi Arabia, Bring Your Own Sword

A Saudi Arabian executioner shows off his sword. Executioners are also required to perform amputations on those convicted of lesser offences. 

Photograph: Magazine/Rex_Shutterstock

Still wondering why so many people want to immigrate to the US and to European countries. Even while expressing hatred toward Americans, and America. Why don't they want to go to Saudi Arabia or to El Salvador?
[From article]
The Islamic kingdom is in the top five countries in the world for putting people to death, rights groups say. It ranked third in 2014, after China and Iran, and ahead of Iraq and the United States, according to Amnesty International figures.
A man beheaded on Sunday was the 85th person this year whose execution was recorded by the official Saudi Press Agency, compared to 88 in the whole of 2014, according to Human Rights Watch (HRW). Amnesty said there were at least 90 executions last year.
Most were executed for murder, but 38 had committed drugs offences,

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/may/18/saudi-arabia-advertises-eight-new-executioners-beheadings-soar

Saudi Arabia advertises for eight new executioners as beheading rate soars
Jobs classified as ‘religious functionaries’ at lower end of civil service scale
85 reported executed so far this year, rivalling total for whole of 2014
Reuters in Riyadh
Monday 18 May 2015 12.00 EDT

Boston Marathon Bomber Sentenced To Death

Left to right
Krystle Campbell, 29
Sean Collier, 27, MIT Policeman
Lingzi Lu, 23, Graduate Student at Boston University From China
Martin Richard, 8

All Killed By Tsarnaev Brothers in April 2013 

[From article]

A jury's ruling today to sentence marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death is "justice" and a warning Boston "will not tolerate terrorism," survivors and police said after the verdict.
"This is nothing to celebrate. This is justice," said first-responder Michael Ward. “He wanted to go to hell and he’s gonna get there early."
The verdict against Tsarnaev, who'll turn 22 in July, was announced by U.S. District Court Judge George A. O'Toole Jr.'s courtroom clerk Paul Lyness. Tsarnaev showed no emotion as the verdict was read.
Marathon bombing survivor Adrianne Haslet-Davis, who lost a third of her left leg in the bombing, told the Herald she's "happy with the verdict."
"My heart goes out to everyone in the survivor community and to the victims' families," she added. "It's still a lot to process right now."
Only three of the 12 jurors bought into the defense argument that Tsarnaev was influenced by his older brother Tamerlan. The jurors unanimously agreed that Tsarnaev showed no remorse for the marathon attack and its aftermath that killed four young people, maimed 17 and injured hundreds.
The jurors unanimously voted to put him to death for the week of terror.

http://www.bostonherald.com/news_opinion/local_coverage/herald_bulldog/2015/05/jury_sentences_dzhokhar_tsarnaev_to_death_for

Jury sentences Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death for marathon attack
Friday, May 15, 2015
By: Laurel J. Sweet, Joe Dwinell and Owen Boss
Boston Herald

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Anne Stevenson states, "we hope that Jahar has a road to redemption while he’s behind bars, which includes education and social interactions with others who can help him give peace to those he hurt." Stevenson arrogantly speaks for others, but does not reveal what children value the convicted mass murderer's life, as hinted in the headline. America granted him and his family asylum from an oppressive nation, showered them with gifts, gave them freedom. The brothers showed their gratitude by killing people who did him no harm. American veterans live in shelters and on the streets. What values are promoted by this essayist?

http://cambridge.wickedlocal.com/article/20150515/NEWS/150517388

Guest Column: Children of Cambridge value bomber's life
By Anne Stevenson
Posted May. 15, 2015 at 11:26 AM
Updated at 11:33 AM

Cambridge Chronicle

Egypt's Former President Morsi Sentenced To Death

Egypt banned Muslim Brotherhood, but not the United States? Why is that?

[From article]
Morsi is already serving a 20-year prison term for ordering the arrest and torture of protesters while in power.
Egypt's religious authorities will now have to give their opinion before the sentence can be carried out.
Morsi's supporters from his Muslim Brotherhood movement have described the charges against him as "farcical".
He was deposed by the military in July 2013 following mass street protests against his rule.
Since then, the authorities have banned the Muslim Brotherhood and arrested thousands of his supporters.
[. . .]
The judge's request for the death sentence in connection with the jailbreak case was referred to the grand mufti, a high religious cleric, for ratification.
However, the mufti's recommendation is not binding. Even if he advises against the death sentence, the judge can still go ahead with it.
[. . .]
Many of his 104 co-defendants were Palestinians accused of being members of militant group Hamas, and were charged in absentia.
The court also issued rulings on another case, sentencing 16 Muslim Brotherhood members, including deputy leader Khairat al-Shater, to death on spying charges.
Morsi, who also faces espionage charges, will be issued a verdict in that case at a later date.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-32763215

Mohammed Morsi, Egypt's ex-leader, sentenced to death
May 16, 2015
BBC

Boston Marathon Bomber, Capital Punishment Poster Boy

[From article]
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev is a cold-hearted killer who shows no remorse for his acts whatsoever. He is so thoroughly indoctrinated into the principles of violent Islamism that “deprogramming” is beside the point. The point is: what is he likely to do with his remaining half-century or so in prison? With whom would he interact, and how? Beyond the addled women who will want to mother him because he’s so cute, or those who want to bear his children because they share his hatred, his primary interaction as the years go by will be with men younger than himself, many of whom are already fascinated by violence and have a rage burning inside against they know not what.
Who better to channel that rage than a man like Tsarnaev? He will be free to preach his vitriolic hatred for the next 50 years.
[. . .]
Rational people expect others to think as they do. This is a fallacy. If we harbor any such illogic, we need only listen to self-appointed ISIS leader al-Baghdadi, when he says, “how can …Bush, Obama, and Kerry obstinately claim that ‘Islam is a religion of peace,’ meaning pacifism?” He quotes the Qur’an in saying Islam is the religion of the sword, not the religion of peace, then says: “And fight them until there is no fitnah and the religion, all of it, is for Allah.” Pretty straightforward thinking: kill everyone who does not submit to their idea of God.
[. . .]
the coddling mother of the two men who killed and maimed that fateful day a year ago at the Boston Marathon. She has steadfastly maintained the illusion of both sons’ innocence, just two weeks ago claiming on Russian social media, “America is the terrorist and everyone knows it! My son is the best of the best.”

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/04/dzhokar_tsarnaev_no_better_argument_for_capital_punishment.html

April 29, 2015
Dzhokar Tsarnaev: No Better Argument for Capital Punishment
By Joseph L. Shaefer

Updated: Jodi Arias, New Book, Jury Deadlocked Twice, No Death Penalty

Posted August 20, 2013 12:45 PM ET; Last updated March 5, 2015 9:25 PM ET



[From article]
Arias, 34, was found guilty of first-degree murder in 2013 in the brutal stabbing and shooting death of her boyfriend, Travis Alexander in 2008.
But the jury was unable to decide on what to sentence her to. So a second jury was called in for a penalty retrial. They also failed to reach a unanimous decision on whether to give her death or life in prison.
Maricopa County Superior Court Judge Sherry Stephens will now sentence her April 13, and under Arizona law, only has the option of sentencing her to life in prison or a life term with the possibility of parole after 25 years.
Family members of the victim wept when the judge said the second batch of jurors couldn’t reach a decision Thursday. They sobbed as they left the courtroom, with one covering her eyes as she walked out.
[. . .]
In the first trial, jurors and a TV audience heard gory details of how Arias stabbed and slashed Alexander nearly 30 times then left his body in his shower at his suburban Phoenix home, where friends found him about five days later.
Prosecutors said she shot him in the head and slit his throat so deeply that he was nearly decapitated.
She testified for 18 days at her first trial, describing her abusive childhood, cheating boyfriends, relationship with Alexander and her contention that he was physically abusive.

http://nypost.com/2015/03/05/mistrial-in-jodi-arias-sentencing-after-jury-deadlocks-again/

Mistrial in Jodi Arias sentencing after jury deadlocks again
By Leonard Greene
New York Post
March 5, 2015 | 12:18pm
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This book is written from the point of view of a friend of the victim. 

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/national/the_nympho_and_the_mormon_r52RqLrsEBUHNtefOBw4RO

Exclusive book excerpt: How killer Jodi Arias’ sexual obsession led to tragic climax
Last Updated: 11:37 AM, August 18, 2013
Posted: 1:27 AM, August 18, 2013

Saudi Arabia Imposes Death Sentence By Crucifixion

[From article]

Nimr Baqer al-Nimr, a reformist cleric, has repeatedly called for an end to corruption and discrimination against minorities. He has a wide following, particularly among young people in Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province, home to most of the country’s minority Shiites, who are considered heretics by the Sunni-ruled government.
After being imprisoned for nearly two years, al-Nimr appeared in Riyadh’s Specialized Criminal Court Wednesday with his lawyer and two brothers. Charged with terrorism offences and “breaking allegiance to the king,” the judge upheld the country’s harshest sentence — “crucifixion” — where the decapitated body is publicly displayed. His brothers were reportedly detained after the sentencing.

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2014/10/15/saudi_court_sentences_highprofile_shiite_cleric_to_death.html

Saudi Arabia sentences reformist Shiite cleric to ‘crucifixion’
Saudi court sentences iconic Shiite cleric Nimr Baqer Al-Nimr to death, sparking fears of sectarian unrest in region.
By: Shenaz Kermalli

Special to the Star

Published on Wed Oct 15 2014

Iranian Sentenced To Death For Facebook Post "Insulting the Prophet Mohammed"

[From article]
A blogger found guilty of insulting the Prophet Mohammad in his postings on Facebook has been sentenced to death. An informed source told the International Campaign for Human Rights in Iran that the blogger, Soheil Arabi, will be able to appeal the decision until September 20, 2014.
Agents from the Revolutionary Guards Corps’ (IRGC) Sarallah Base arrested Soheil Arabi, 30, and his wife in November 2013. Arabi’s wife was released a few hours later, but he was kept in solitary confinement for two months inside IRGC’s Ward 2-A at Evin Prison, before he was transferred to Evin’s General Ward 350. Branch 76 of the Tehran Criminal Court, under Judge Khorasani, found Arabi guilty of “sabb al-nabi” (insulting the Prophet), on August 30, 2014.
[. . .]
“Article 262 of the Islamic Penal Code states that if a person insults the Prophet of Islam, his punishment is death. But in Article 264, it explicitly says that if a suspect merely claims in court that he said the insulting words in anger, in quoting someone, or by mistake, his death sentence will be converted to 74 lashes. I would like to emphasize that if only the suspect claims this, he will not be eligible for death, and there is no need to even prove his claim,” added the source.
“Unfortunately, despite this Article and the explanations provided, the judges issued the death sentence. They didn’t even take any notice of Soheil’s statements in court in which he repeated several times that he wrote the posts under poor [psychological] conditions, and that he is remorseful. Three of the judges ruled for the death sentence, and two ruled for imprisonment,” said the source.

http://www.iranhumanrights.org/2014/09/death-sentence-facebook/

Death Sentence for “Insulting the Prophet” on Facebook
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

Wire Service Chief Equates Death Penalty to ISIS Beheadings

[From article]
Media Research Center Vice President of Research Brent Baker explains our pick: “There’s a very big difference between the two ‘death penalties.’ In our justice system, only the very worst murderers are put death — and only after years of trials and appeals — while the ISIS killers behead the innocent in order to terrorize the world to submit to their political demands. You’d think such a long-time journalist would recognize the difference.”

http://washingtonexaminer.com/mainstream-media-scream-reuters-boss-likens-death-penalty-to-isis-beheadings/article/2553019

Mainstream Media Scream: Reuters boss likens death penalty to ISIS beheadings
By Paul Bedard
September 8, 2014 | 3:20 pm

Report on The Death Penalty

http://www.constitutionproject.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/Irreversible-Error_FINAL.pdf

Irreversible Error

The Constitution Project

165 page report on death penalty

Islamic State Stones Woman Accused of Adultery To Death

[From article]
"The Islamic State carried out its first sentence of death by stoning against a woman in Tabaqa, accusing her of adultery," said the Britain-based Observatory, referring to a town in Raqa province, most of which is under IS control.
An activist in the province confirmed the report, and said the stoning took place in a public square in the Tabaqa market area on Thursday evening.

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=67181

First Published: 2014-07-18
IS Jihadists stone Syria woman to death for 'adultery'
NGO reports Islamic State has carried out its first sentence of death by stoning against woman in Tabaqa, accusing her of adultery.
Middle East Online

Muslim Death Sentences For Religious Conversion

[From article]
While Saudi Arabia is spending billions to Islamize the West, many Muslim prisoners of Islamic submission are dying or leaving the religion quietly.
The relatively few number of Muslims who dare to convert to Christianity do it in extreme secrecy. That is because the penalty for leaving Islam is death in all schools of Sharia, both Sunni and Shiite. Those who wrote Sharia centuries ago knew that keeping Muslims in total submission would be very difficult to maintain, and thus they established barbaric laws condemning Muslims to death for exercising their basic human rights to choose their own religion. Sharia never entrusted its enforcement only to the formal legal system. Islam promises heavenly rewards to individual Muslims who take the law into their own hands. Sharia also states that the killers of apostates and adulterers are not murderers and therefore are not to be punished. That is why, for Islam to achieve 100% compliance to Sharia enforcement, Muslim individuals are encouraged to take matters into their own hands.
[. . .]
In Muslim society, people are often more afraid of their neighbors and family members than of the police. Thus, we see husbands or fathers pressured to apply Sharia by killing an adulterous wife or daughter, or a perfect stranger participate in the killing of an apostate in the public square. Very few get arrested or punished for such crimes across the Muslim world. The ingenious Sharia uses vigilante street justice to bring about Islamic submission. That is why civil unrest and honor crimes go wherever Islam goes. The power of Islam comes from turning Muslim against Muslim -- with a reward in heaven.

http://nonie-darwish.blogspot.com/2009/08/if-you-convert-you-die.html

If You Convert You Die
August 13, 2009
By Nonie Darwish

Woman Who Married Christian Sentenced to Death, Link To Form for Letters

Link to send letter to Consulate of Sudan regarding the possible death of woman who married a Christian.

http://www.sudanembassy.org/index.php?option=com_breezingforms&Itemid=13

[From article]
A Sudanese woman doctor who married a Christian man and who was convicted earlier this week on charges of “apostasy” was sentenced to death on Thursday, judicial officials said.
According to the Sudanese officials, 26-year-old Meriam Ibrahim, whose father was Muslim, was convicted on Sunday and given four days to repent and escape death. She was sentenced after that grace period expired, the officials said, speaking on condition of anonymity in line with regulations.
The BBC reported the woman’s death by hanging will not be carried out until two years after the birth of her child.
[. . .]
The court in Khartoum also ordered Ibrahim be given 100 lashes for committing “zena” — an Arabic word for illegitimate sex — for having sexual relations with a non-Muslim man.
[. . .]
As in many Muslim nations, Muslim women in Sudan are prohibited from marrying non-Muslims, though Muslim men can marry outside their faith. By law, children must follow their father’s religion.

http://nypost.com/2014/05/15/pregnant-woman-to-be-flogged-hanged-for-marrying-christian/

Pregnant woman to be flogged, hanged for marrying Christian
By Post Wire Report
New York Post
May 15, 2014 | 9:19am

Argument For Death Penalty

[From article]
Those of you who follow my work assiduously know that Davis shot and killed an off-duty cop, Mark MacPhail, in a busy Burger King parking lot in front of dozens of witnesses, including people who knew him, as well as a van full of Air Force airmen. (He didn’t recant.)
After shooting the cop once, Davis sauntered up to the cop’s body and shot him again, directly in the head. As one of the airmen told the jury in identifying Davis: “You don’t forget someone that stands over and shoots someone.”

http://www.humanevents.com/2014/05/21/statistical-analysis-shows-4-of-nyt-reporters-are-serial-killers/

STATISTICAL ANALYSIS SHOWS 4% OF NYT REPORTERS ARE SERIAL KILLERS
By: Ann Coulter
5/21/2014 07:33 PM

Woman Rape Victim In Iran, Sentenced to Death

[From article]
In Iran, after spending seven years in prison, 26-year-old former interior designer Rayhaneh Jabbari is due to be hanged for defending herself against a rapist.
Rayhaneh stabbed Iranian physician Morteza Abdolali Sarbandi with a pocketknife, after she said he attempted to drug and rape her.
[. . .]
Under Iran’s harsh judicial system, 500 people were executed in 2013 – a record that is slated to be broken in 2014. Jabbari is likely to be part of that record. “You must realize that the laws in Iran are medieval laws of retribution, revenge and punishment
[. . .]
on behalf of the “war on women,” while Sandra Fluke was on Capitol Hill begging for free contraceptives, Iranian women defending themselves against rape were being found guilty of a crime. And while Minority Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Ca) was accusing Republicans of allowing women to “die on the floor” for lack of Obamacare abortion funding, in Iran, for their gender alone, Iranian rape victims were being sentenced to death, raped again, and swiftly hanged.

http://americanthinker.com/blog/2014/04/iran_to_execute_woman_for_fending_off_a_rapist.html

April 17, 2014
Iran to Execute Woman for Fending Off a Rapist
American Thinker
Jeannie DeAngelis

Jewish Frenchman Exonerated After 350 Years

[From article]
A French Jew who was wrongly executed for blood libel almost 350 years ago has been exonerated of the crime and declared a martyr.
Raphael Levy was burned at the stake in 1670 after being accused of killing a three-year-old Christian and using their blood for religious rituals.
But on Sunday, more than three decades after his death, officials in Glatigny, Moselle, dedicated a plaque to the man's memory, describing him as a 'martyr accused of a crime he did not commit.'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2543485/French-Jew-executed-blood-libel-exonerated-350-years-death-declared-martyr.html

French Jew who was executed for blood libel is exonerated 350 years after his death and declared a martyr
Raphael Levy was burned at the stake after being accused of killing a child
The Jewish merchant was wrongly accused of the crime in 1670
He has been exonerated in Glatigny, France, 350 years after his death
By JENNIFER SMITH
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 15:03 EST, 21 January 2014 | UPDATED: 02:56 EST, 22 January 2014

AZ Woman Released After 20 Years On Death Row, Due to Faulty Trial

Aug. 1, 2013 In this photo, Debra Jean Milke listens to a judge during a hearing as she awaits a retrial in the 1989 shooting death of her 4-year-old son, Christopher, at Maricopa County Superior Court in Phoenix. (AP)

Ariz. woman released after two decades on death row
Published September 06, 2013
Associated Press

http://www.foxnews.com/us/2013/09/06/ariz-woman-released-after-two-decades-on-death-row/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+foxnews%2Fmost-popular+%28Internal+-+Most+Popular+Content%29

Life Without Parole Is Insufficient Punishment

Blecker argues that life sentences without parole allow convicts to enjoy life as if they were not in prison. He says there is no punishment beyond taking the inmate's freedom. He is concerned about the most heinous criminals being punished the same as inmates who were convicted of simple theft or non violent crimes. The heinous criminals enjoyed Due Process protections before being denied their freedom. For the past 40 years government thugs and their partner sociopaths in the private sector conducted a brutal relentless campaign of character assassination and punishing me without being charged or convicted of any crime. Not just once for each allegation, but multiple times up to 50 times for each allegation. 

http://www.city-journal.org/2012/22_4_snd-punitive-segregation.html

ROBERT BLECKER
Permanent Punitive Segregation
What should life be like for the worst of the worst?
City Journal
Autumn 2012
Vol. 22 No. 4

Man Almost Executed on Flawed Evidence Seeks New Trial

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2200236/Carlton-Gary-The-shocking-Death-Row-injustice-The-Stocking-Strangler.html

No fingerprints and a dodgy confession in a Ku Klux Klan stronghold: The shocking Death Row injustice of 'The Stocking Strangler'
By DAVID ROSE
THE MAN WHO FIRST SAVED CARLTON GARY FROM EXECUTION IN 2009
Daily Mail (UK)
PUBLISHED: 16:00 EST, 8 September 2012 | UPDATED: 16:00 EST, 8 September 2012

Sampson Death Penalty Overturned

When will the FBI agent who hung up the phone when Samson called to turn himself in before he killed those three people, be arrested for malfeasance? It was not the first time the FBI ignored information because they thought a person was crazy (mentally ill). In 1963 the FBI ignored multiple reports of a plot to kill President JFK. They believed all the men were mentally ill. That is unlawful discrimination denying access to government services based on disability. The FBI continues to deny persons with disabilities access to protection from violation of US laws. 

http://bostonherald.com/news/regional/view.bg?articleid=1061130690&srvc=news&position=3

Judge overturns killer Gary Sampson’s death penalty
Boston Herald
By Laurel J. Sweet
Thursday, May 10, 2012