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TO: Editor/Publisher
FROM: Zolo Agona Azania
#4969
RE: Press Release
THE LAW IS FOR EVERYBODY
Extinguishing a human life by lethal injection is dressed up as a medical procedure, but it is actually a cold, calculated, ritual murder. The condemned is strapped to the death gurney. The first drug is sodium pentothal. A saline solution is then used to insure the tube is cleared out so the drugs won't mix and clog it from a chemical reaction. The third drug is pancuronium bromide, the muscle relaxer. The fourth syringe then pushes another saline solution through. The fifth syringe is potassium chloride, the toxic drug that stops the heart. Following the injection process and a five-minute waiting period, the blinds to the witness area are closed and the physician advised. If the offender's heart has not stopped, the lights are dimmed, blinds opened, and the superintendent or designee orders the injection procedure to be repeated, after which the blinds are once again closed and the physician checks for signs of life. The physician then reports his findings to the superintendent or designee.
U.S. capital punishment is fatally flawed, an instrument of class warfare, organized and designed to permit an elite, local and multinational, to operate without any constraint from democratic human rights processes. The guilt or innocence of an accused is not figured into the equation of a higher meaning of justice because it is considered less important to capital punishment proponents.
i was a Black man charged with killing a police officer. There was no pretrial identification. The prosecutorial machinery knowingly used false testimony and covered up material evidence that did not support their charge against me. A paraffin gunshot residue test showed i had not fired a gun. The judge had me shackled during the trial in the presence of an all-white jury. The court bailiff spoke to the jurors in the deliberation room on the orders of the judge and said they should be ready to be asked individually to state that their verdict is death. The forman of the jury gave a sworn affidavit confirming it. Furthermore, the jurors were allowed to consume alcohol during the trial.
How could i still be found guilty? The criminal sanction system is anchored on procedural issues rather than guilt or innocence. The law court judges hold that mere factual innocence is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached. All that the U.S. law requires is a fair trial, not a perfect one.
Think about it. The law
is for everybody, including you.
Zolo Agona Azania, 4963, Indiana State Prison, P. 0. Box 41, Michigan City, IN 46361
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