Ernest Johnson
      Protest Ernest Johnson's Re-Sentencing

     On March 13, a jury once morerecommended the death sentence for Ernest Johnson, convicted of brutally murdering three people, Mary Bratcher, Fred Jones and Mable Scruggs with a hammer during a 1994 robbery of a Columbia Casey's General Store. Judge Gene Hamilton will formally sentencehim on Monday, April 19.

        While empathetic to the families and friends of those three slain human beings, we want the killing to end, with an example of compassion by the state.

 
 We urge people of conscience to join in the following actions:

        * Write to Judge Hamilton, urge him to impose a life sentence
                (his only legal option) not death for Ernest Johnson;
 

Judge Hamilton
c/oBoone County Circuit Court, 705 E.
Walnut, Columbia MO 65201.
 

 * Join us in a Vigil for Life with leafleting, beginning at 8:00 a.m.,
Monday, April 19 in front of the Boone County Courthouse. And
perhaps in a nonviolent direct action within the courtroom if death is againimposed (*if interested in participating must attend the following event);

        * Attend a Discussion/Clarification of Thought on Direct Action, considering appropriate nonviolent action, plus their potential
legal and personal ramifications, 6:00 p.m., Wednesday, April 14 at 2018Hazelwood Dr. (call for directions). Bring a potluck dish as well if you'd like. A nonviolence training will immediatelyproceed for those individuals never receiving such training yet wanting to participate in a possible April 19 action.

             For more information:

                               Jeff Stack
    Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation
                         2018 Hazelwood Dr.
                        Columbia MO 65201
                        Phone 573-449-4585
        Email: jstack@mail.coin.missouri.edu



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