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" PUT THE KEY IN THE DOOR "
This past September the Alabama Court
of Criminal Appels upheld my death sentence.
I wrote a friend of mine who attends
college in Indiana of the bad news and she wanted to know what "upheld
my death sentence" meant. She confessed to me not knowing a
lot about the courts and how they work, but still she said she felt stupid
and pathetic. That made me sad because the girl isn't stupid
and pathetic, nor is she alone. That's the sad part, even in this
advanced age of fast information I've noticed a great deal of the average
people in our society don't know a lot about the law, I believe there is
a reason for this; The lawmakers create laws that are hard to understand
or so ambiguous that people misinterpret them.
But if laws were easier to understand,
and (at the risk of sounding like an"anarchist') if there were not as many
of them, there would not be that many law breakers. If there
ever was an effective public information service the prison and jail populations,
and the court traffic would drop significantly.
Thus states would not be able to ask
tax payers for the money to fund these institutions. I mean, if the
government spent as much money on school and teachers, hiring more police
officers we would not need more prisons or police officers to begin with.
Education is the key to peaceful crime fighting, Placing the
People's money where it rightly belongs,
like with our children, is the door to a nationwide solution. All
we have to do is step through it……
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