George (pleeeze save me) Bush is now our biggest State killer.
(The 'please' is what the woman said to him, whom he killed; he made
a joke of it).
wcm
>
> Ponchai Wilkerson was murdered by George Bush and The State of Texas
> yesterday.       Those reading this story, might notice the interesting
> "disappearance" of another Texas prisoner, Martin Gurule.       There
> are lots of disappearances within the Texas Department of Corrections
> (TDC).      And many of those offed,  are not deathrow convicts.
>
> One of the favorite methods (though not the only) of execution by TDC,
> is death by infectious disease.      The TDC is a little like a drive-by
> shooter, spraying innocent bystanders with AIDS and Tuberculosis as TDC
> goes about its daily routines.     Some of those it tries to waste away
> by neglect, DO manage to escape, And then they return to the community
> with the bugs the TDC has given them.   You could be one of those
> considered guilty by association, so to speak.
>
> I mention these realities, because there is so much of that......."The
> animal got what he deserved mentality"...... out there.      These are
> the self-righteous amongst us who believe that prisoners should be
> stripped of all humanity, tortured, and then done away with.
>
> If Wilkerson was indeed guilty of the murder he was claimed to have
> committed, he still managed to remain a human being, more than those
> that often claim to be protecting us from people like Wilkerson.
>
> At least, Wilkerson did not murder the hostage, though he had the chance
> to do so.      Can the same be said about our government authorities?,
> they murder people in their custody all the time.
>
> The picture of a White 'Justice ' System beating Wilkerson in court as
> he protested his death sentence, and then asking him if he had any final
> words after macing him on his way to the death chamber....    This is a
> true picture of the character of George Bush, and his Texas Department
> of Corrections model for the US and the world............Tony Abdo
> __________________________________
>  HUNTSVILLE, Texas (Reuters) - A convicted murderer who tried to break
> out of death row in 1998 and took a guard hostage last month spit a
> handcuff key out of his mouth just moments before he was executed on
> Tuesday by lethal injection in a Texas prison.
>
> Prison officials said they were launching an investigation into how
> Ponchai Wilkerson, 28, managed to get the key and keep it in his mouth
> for most of the day as he physically resisted efforts to take him from
> his cell to the death chamber.
>
> The key did not fit the body shackles Wilkerson was wearing before he
> was strapped to a gurney for the fatal dose and there was never any
> danger he could have used it to escape, Texas Department of Criminal
> Justice spokesman Larry Todd said.
>
> ``He´s been very cunning all his time in prison,´´ Todd said,
> referring to Wilkerson´s participation in a failed 1998 escape attempt
> and his part in holding a female guard hostage for 13 hours last month
> before she was freed unharmed.
> Wilkerson was the 11th prisoner put to death by Texas this year and the
> 210th since the state resumed capital punishment in 1982 after the death
> penalty ban was lifted. Texas leads the nation in executions.
>
> He was sentenced for the November 1990 murder of Houston jewelry store
> owner Chung Myong Yi, who was shot once in the head at short range while
> Wilkerson and an accomplice robbed the store.
> Prosecutors said the jewelry store murder followed a month-long crime
> spree by Wilkerson and friends that included three carjackings, three
> drive-by shootings and several robberies. One robbery netted them
> $40,000 worth of guns from a firearms store.
>
> Wilkerson declined a final meal.
> Final Words Mysterious-
>
> ``As Wilkerson was strapped to the gurney, the warden asked him if had
> any final words,´´ Todd said.
> Wilkerson replied with four words, Todd added.
>
> ``The first word was ´key,´ the second two words were not
> understandable and the last word was ´Wilkerson.´ Then he spat out a
> handcuff key. The warden picked the key up,´´ Todd said.
> The key was a common one for handcuffs used in prisons and by police
> officers, he added.
>
> Wilkerson died at 6:24 p.m. CST, seven minutes after the lethal dose was
> injected into his veins.
>
> Guards had to use a Mace-like gas on Wilkerson to get him out of his
> death row cell at the Terrell Unit prison near Livingston about six
> hours before the execution, prison officials said.
> The guards then had to carry Wilkerson bodily as he refused to walk to a
> van for a 40-mile drive west to the death chamber in the Walls Unit in
> downtown Huntsville, then carry him from the van into the building.
>
> Wilkerson and another death row inmate last month used a homemade knife
> to take prison guard Jeanette Bledsoe hostage, demanding a moratorium on
> state executions.
>
> The standoff ended without injuries when the convicts were allowed to
> meet with death penalty opponents and voice their grievances over
> conditions on death row, where inmates are kept in isolation in small
> cells for 23 hours a day.
> Before that, Wilkerson had been one of seven men who tried to break out
> of the Ellis unit near Huntsville on Thanksgiving night in November
> 1998.
> All but one of the would-be escapees stopped when guards began firing.
> The convict who got out, Martin Gurule, drowned shortly afterward in a
> nearby creek.
>
> A second execution this week is scheduled for Wednesday, when Timothy
> Lane Gribble, 36, is due to die for the 1987 rape, abduction and
> strangling of a Galveston County woman.
> .
>