A Death Sentence is No Nap

Hotep,

This coming December will be my 15th year behind the wall, thirteen on death row

In that timeframe I’ve survived 35 executions, the most recent being Samuel Russell Flippen (8/18/06)

That’s right; it’s been nearly four years since North Carolina’s last ‘public’ execution

Now don’t think of it as the state trying to apply sutures to a slight laceration, concerning the death penalty.

It’s more like putting a Band-Aid on a system that is bleeding profusely. Feel me?

These last four years have been a mere timeout, a brief pause in executions so that the state lawmakers can get their game plan in order.

They’re in a quandary about how to come up with an appropriate poisonous cocktail, to kill death row prisoners in a humane manner. What?!!

Can anyone in the blogosphere see the irony in that?

That’s like a great wide receiver whose all thumbs, or, for all of you “Dancing with the Stars” fans, a great dancer with two left feet. It just doesn’t exist.

I mean, it’s only natural to think of death row as the worst of the worst, but attempting to con the public into believing that there’s actually a humane manner of executing prisoners makes the state lawmakers the worst of the worst. Word is bond!

The state lawmakers will allow you to believe that an execution is as simple as someone going to sleep.

Well, that didn’t hold true for Willie Ervin Fisher (DOE 3/9/2001), a man who had plenty of life left in him.

That became more than obvious when his veins were injected with the poisonous cocktail that puts you ‘to sleep.’ Na mean?

I know the death penalty is a sensitive issue across the board and any logic concerning the death penalty can easily be heard as subjective.

But, know this…

Tyra Banks made it easy for us to understand the art form of modeling, when she spoke through her reality series “Top Model.”

And, no one will question the legendary Earvin ‘Magic’ Johnson when he explains the mindset of a NBA baller facing a game 7. Right?

When we listen to them, do we hear them as being subjective or do we recognize their words as the real?

I’ll be the first to admit, before Tyra Banks hit the reality tv circuit, I viewed fashion models as nothing more than pretty chicks in skimpy clothes.

True indeed, some of them are just that, but there are gems present nonetheless. Feel me?

The same stands true here, Death row is what it is, but everyone here isn’t the worst of the worst.

Ask Glenn Chapman or Jonathan Hoffman.

Both of these men were released from death row within the last two years and are now productive members of society.

I strive to be where they are, but until that day comes, let me be your “Magic” Johnson.

I’ll give it to you straight, no chaser.

Ya heard?

Holla if ya hear me,

MannofStat

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