Mississippi Gov. Barbour denied clemency for 62 year old white male , Paul Everette Woodward who raped and murdered a 24 year old youth court volunteer in 1986. He has been on death row at Parchman since 1987. He had no visitors in quite awhile and none were at his execution by lethal injection.
Miss. Gov also denied clemency for 72 year old Gerald James Holland, another white man sentenced to death for the rape and murder of a 15 year old Gulfport girl . He is the oldest death row inmate in Miss. and will be executed tonight at 6 pm.
This is the first back to back executions in Miss. for almost 50 years.
Although this subject is contraversial and creepy. Look at the facts.
What do you believe we should do?
Cost of execution: $14,000 +
Cost of death row case from trial to execution : $1.26 million
Median coast of non death row case from trial to end of incarceration: $146,000+
Average cost of prisoner for one year: $65,000+
Prisoners are the only population that gets mandatory medical/dental care
Thursday, May 20, 2010
The Gulf Coast Oil Spill
I just returned from the Gulf Coast...we have two condos in Biloxi....one is up for grabs...interested?
In anycase, I expected to see a black ocean and tar covered beach. The sun was shining, the beach was clean and the water clear and glistening. There may be trouble in the gulf but you cant see it from the shore...yet.
Who knows...its like a hurricane...if the wind shifts...the damage goes to Florida, the hit was in LA....but there are cautions. The fisherman/shrimper (shrimping season - mid June) are still out from what I hear, but there are areas that are closed and getting bigger by the day. This certainly will affect prices ...fish, oil, and maybe other things. I also heard that there is a 50% decrease in hotel reservations so far...people are canceling vacations, fishing, etc. I think many outsiders...expect what I expected...a beach disaster...but the beaches are nice for now (as nice as Biloxi beaches can get).
The thing that is disturbing is the panic....every other commercial is an ad for a sleazy lawyer advertising law suits for damage from the oil spill...the paper too. Shame on you all. Yes...I feel compensation for lost (Legitimate claims) is a good thing...but not this wild panic...
BP is not going to loose too much money...but there will be repercussions. Do you think the big guys are going to take a cut...not in our lives. This is just a great excuse to artificially inflate prices again.
The other disturbing truth is the 160 dead sea turtles washed up in Gulf Port...they now claim that the oil didnt kill them...it was the chemicals that they put in the ocean to disperse the oil.
What is worse the cause or the cure?
Now I am not an expert on this stuff or even can say that I have spent hours doing research...however, I listen, watch and experience. And I have an opinion - like they say, every one has one!
In anycase, I expected to see a black ocean and tar covered beach. The sun was shining, the beach was clean and the water clear and glistening. There may be trouble in the gulf but you cant see it from the shore...yet.
Who knows...its like a hurricane...if the wind shifts...the damage goes to Florida, the hit was in LA....but there are cautions. The fisherman/shrimper (shrimping season - mid June) are still out from what I hear, but there are areas that are closed and getting bigger by the day. This certainly will affect prices ...fish, oil, and maybe other things. I also heard that there is a 50% decrease in hotel reservations so far...people are canceling vacations, fishing, etc. I think many outsiders...expect what I expected...a beach disaster...but the beaches are nice for now (as nice as Biloxi beaches can get).
The thing that is disturbing is the panic....every other commercial is an ad for a sleazy lawyer advertising law suits for damage from the oil spill...the paper too. Shame on you all. Yes...I feel compensation for lost (Legitimate claims) is a good thing...but not this wild panic...
BP is not going to loose too much money...but there will be repercussions. Do you think the big guys are going to take a cut...not in our lives. This is just a great excuse to artificially inflate prices again.
The other disturbing truth is the 160 dead sea turtles washed up in Gulf Port...they now claim that the oil didnt kill them...it was the chemicals that they put in the ocean to disperse the oil.
What is worse the cause or the cure?
Now I am not an expert on this stuff or even can say that I have spent hours doing research...however, I listen, watch and experience. And I have an opinion - like they say, every one has one!
Hey - its been almost a year since I did this blog...
Alot has changed...
1. We moved to Sumner, MS...down the road from Clarksdale about a year ago
2. Ihave a little office space for massage in the front room...but have been spending most of my time writing grants/writing for online colleges/and lots of other volunteer stuff.
3. Writing is a big part of my life...went from a science background to creative...right/left brain thing?
4. Desire to share/comment on life and what is going on...maybe that is old age, huh?
1. We moved to Sumner, MS...down the road from Clarksdale about a year ago
2. Ihave a little office space for massage in the front room...but have been spending most of my time writing grants/writing for online colleges/and lots of other volunteer stuff.
3. Writing is a big part of my life...went from a science background to creative...right/left brain thing?
4. Desire to share/comment on life and what is going on...maybe that is old age, huh?
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