Rutledge4VaGov2021 response to Rashad Brooks shooting and why it was justified and prayers to all in Atlanta Georgia!

Rutledge4VaGov2021 response to Rashad Brooks shooting and why it was justified and prayers to all in Atlanta Georgia!

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We are Troy Davis – Quote of the Week – by Merle Rutledge Jr

“The media limits the overall picture of Troy Davis Execution. People of different backgrounds and all walks of life. White, Black, Latino, etc.. rallied behind this one man, that was trying even to his last breath to save others that face similar circumstances under disputed facts. This is the difference between guilt and innocence, by a majority of all people represented, being heard loud and clearly, that Dr. King dream and soul is still present in someway in all of us, which can not be brainwashed through politics. Even in our last hour, we all agree that we would rather hear the call for peace, than know we left behind hate, because our future generations has to suffer for our inaction, but we can look forward to the future knowing our actions.” by MTRJ

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Texas Governor kills innocent man – The Real Rick Perry

Take a look into this case especially after a recent debate in which Texas Governor Rick Perry answered sharp pointed questions in regards to the use of the death penalty.   Gov. Perry as his time as governor has presided over 200 death penalty cases in which he lost no sleep at all in which the State of Texas applied absolute justice over.   This case obviously was forgotten in the midst of the debate in which his character and integrity could be question in regards to executions and the review of facts that are applied in allowing for a stay, go ahead of the death sentence, or even actual innocence in a case.

An article written by Mark Benjamin, a reporter from the Times, called The Controversial Willingham Case:  What Rick Perry Knew and When based off the 2004 execution of Willingham.  Cameron Todd Willingham, was scheduled to be executed in Texas, Patricia Cox had good reason to believe he was innocent.  Willingham was convicted of murder for killing his three daughters in a late 1991 house fire after a prosecution based almost entirely on a forensic fire analysis performed by an assistant fire chief and a state deputy fire marshal in the days after the blaze. Two weeks before Willingham’s execution date in 2004, though, Cox had managed to get famed arson analyst Gerald Hurst to take a fresh look at the case.

Working pro bono, Hurst reviewed the evidence and drafted a study that devastated the original findings. Hurst’s conclusions were based on his own skills, but arson forensics had also become far more advanced and standardized in the previous 13 years. “A contemporary fire origin and cause analyst might well wonder how anyone could make so many critical errors in interpreting the evidence,” Hurst’s report began.

Recently, the State of Georgia has been in the middle of a heat storm on the possibility of killing Troy Davis, a convicted murderer only recognized by that title by the State of Georgia, but not by citizens all across America, was put to death last week based off eye witness testimony.  There was no D.N.A or physical evidence linking Troy Davis to the crime, as well as 7 out of the 9 witnesses that testified against Troy Davis has recanted their story and citing police misconduct as the reason for their statements in the case.  However, At the Republican presidential debate Sept. 7, NBC’s Brian Williams brought up the subject of executions in Texas, noting that Perry had presided over the execution of 234 people as governor. “Have you struggled to sleep at night with the idea that any one of those might have been innocent?” Williams asked.

Perry didn’t hesitate. “No, sir. I’ve never struggled with that at all,” he said, reiterating his faith in the judicial and appeals process in Texas. Then he stared hard at Williams and added in a Texas drawl, “But in the state of Texas, if you come into our state and you kill one of our children, you kill a police officer, you’re involved with another crime and you kill one of our citizens, you will face the ultimate justice in the state of Texas, and that is, you will be executed.” The audience broke into a round of applause.

Willingham Case: What Rick Perry Knew and When

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Letter in Support of Troy Davis – Stop the Execution of a Innocent Man by Georgia

Dear D.A Chilsom

It is better to let 10 guilty men go free, than to let one innocent man suffer.  It is rare that you will ever come to a decision under these circumstances that will have so much ramifications for all parties involved.  I can not with good conscious under the information that has been presented so far with this case concede that the death penalty would be used in such a way to hide the truth instead of embrace it.  All the evidence that has come with this case has been recanted by clear majority, and all physical evidence given the circumstances of the conviction does not exist, but the events that led to this one horrific night has a conscious.  The conscious of second thought that one of the many witnesses that recanted and the others that have not, that one of them know the true culprit, and right now you are not able to hear the case again, but you are able to hear equality.

D.A Chilsom, if you was Troy Davis, with all the evidence, testimony, recanted statements, and more that has come out.  Do you think it would be fair to have the death penalty applied to you under the same conditions with the shoes on the other foot, or would you hope throughout all this truth that has spilled out onto the courtroom floors that it would be a glimmer of due diligence to recognize reasonable doubt?  Reasonable doubt has not been created, but it has always existed.   I ask that you give a stay of execution until further review on anything that adds guilt, and if it can not add to it than its no truth to it, and not taketh away of guilt can be amended.  If not, than it is our duty under the law to rectify a injustice.

The Innocence Project and many groups alike have shown a complete transformation to how people have suffered over wrongful convictions.   Maybe its time to let one innocent man not suffer for what 10 guilty ones have done.  The witnesses that recanted their story are just as guilty for the murder of the officer as well as the murder of Troy Davis.  They are accessories to the fact along with the state of murder.

Murder is murder whether the state orders it or not, especially based off the totality of the circumstances in this particular case that a reasonable and competent person, such as a public official, should have known that such actions would be against their oath of office or by a clearly establish law and policy.  There are many that have been convicted, but has been innocent, and proof of that is all over the United States of America.  Their is a clear and establish policy of a statute of murder, and just because you are an official of the public doesn’t give you a pass in this life or the next, to order the murder of a innocent man.  This would be a murder by the state, and justice under these conditions is moot, because the case itself has been tainted and this is the poison that comes from the poisonous tree.  (7 witnesses admit to being that poison that does not bear justice.)

Thank you for your time,

Merle T. Rutledge Jr

“All action and not just words!”

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