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
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 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.
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