Executed April 26, 2001
DAVID DAWSON
Poetry From Death Row, Delaware
David was given a new execution date for April 26, 2001
News about David's Last Stay of Execution...
David receives a temporary stay of execution:
Convicted murderer
David
F. Dawson will not be executed until an answer
is received from the
U.S. Supreme Court later this month.
Dawson, 45, was
scheduled
to be executed by lethal injection Friday
between 12:01 and 3
a.m.
at the Delaware Correctional Center near Smyrna.
Dawson has been on
death
row since 1988 after he was convicted of the
1986 slaying of
Madeline
M. Kisner in her home near Kenton.
The U.S. 3rd Circuit
Court
of Appeals in Philadelphia issued the stay of
execution late Friday
night, according to the court's attorney Kelly Glaum.
"The motion went to
a
panel of three judges and they issued the order
pending a petition for
writ of certiorari (in front of the U.S. Supreme
Court)," she said.
The order means the
execution
is immediately delayed until the high court
responds.
"If the Supreme
Court
denies certiorari this court shall be notified
forthwith so that the
stay may be vacated," the order reads.
Delaware Deputy
Attorney
General John Williams said the U.S. Supreme
Court wrapped up its
session Monday without addressing the petition, then
went into recess for
2 weeks.
"It's entirely up to
the
(U.S.) Supreme Court to decide (and) we probably
won't hear anything
until
March 26, at the earliest," he said.
Delaware Department
of
Correction officials say they are complying with
the court's wishes.
"As far as we are
concerned,
we are not proceeding on March 9," said Beth
Welch, chief of media
relations for the Department of Correction.
Mrs. Kisner was
found
tied and stabbed 12 times after Dawson and 3 other
men escaped from the
Delaware Correctional Center.
The 3 other escapees
-
Mark McCoy, Richard Irwin and Larry Nave - were
arrested in Utah and
found to have not been involved in the murder of
Mrs. Kisner.
Dawson originally was scheduled to be executed in 1988.
That date, and 2
others
in 1993 and 1994, were postponed due to a series
of appeals.
source: Newszap
David Dawson is a death row prisoner in the State of Delaware.
Please read his poetry below and consider writing him with your support.
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From the trial:
A: Yes. It was
a
brown hair of Caucasian origin.
Q: Did you make a
comparison
of that hair, sir, with the other known samples that you had?
A: Yes, I did.
Q: Can you tell us what
you found?
A: Of the known samples
that I compared it with, I found it was microscopically dissimilar to
all
the known head hairs which were submitted to me that I compared it to.
Q: The person that you
compared it to included David Dawson, correct ?
A: Thats correct.
Q: Mrs Kisner herself?
A: Thats correct.
Q: Richard and Brian
Kisner?
A: Thats correct.
Q: Mark McCoy, Larry
Nave and Richard Irwin, correct?
A: No I did not
compare it to these.
Q: You didn't compare
it to them?
A: No.
Please write David to show your support:
Penpal Request :
I am a lonely white male seeking drops of friendship on my heart to help the pain of suffering,
I've been on Death Row since 1988. I prefer to mention that I am a human being than to my innocence or guilt, because if I'm innocent what difference does it matter, I've been convicted even when they found head hair on the victims chest and a pubic hair under the victims fingernail. And it was proven that these didn't belong to the victim or any family member and even more not even me. Even though I escaped from prison with three others, the state charged only me and claim I seperated from the other three but yet they found hairs that they don't know who they belong to, a snowball in hell has a better chance of surviving than a poor man has of proving his innocence in the so called justice system. I'm 44, 4-1-55, 5'7", 150 lbs, long brown hair, blueish gray eyes, tattooed, enjoy reading, drawing, listening to different types of music, writing letters if I only had someone to send them to, exercising. I'm basically hoping for friendship with women my age or older, openminded, race unimportant. All are beautiful in my heart.
David Dawson
My outside contact is my sister, Brenda Lee Lints
e-mail: blints@aol. com
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