My long-time friend Armando, now living in Florida, says he did not put that photo on Facebook of us together in Cuba some decades ago. So who actually possessed that photo and who has done that? We really don't know. After that photo was taken (we now can't remember by whom), I had brought him out of Cuba via Mexico, using circuitous means, as I believe has already mentioned on this blog and certainly in my books.
Armando declares that Donald Trump's deportations are based on racial hatred [of Hispanics] and now go against the Bible. And he says that Trump keeps on expanding the excuses he uses to deport even US citizens.
Trump está dejando ver su odio racial. Está queriendo deportar a las personas que se han hecho Ciudadanas en este País. Trump está pasando más allá de sus límites y también en contra de la Biblia. Empezará a sacar Ciudadanos con excusas y después a todos por igual.
Maybe Armando fears being deported back to Cuba himself, after it took me considerable effort and expense to ever get him out. Now even his mother is out of Cuba, so they see each other quite frequently these days in Florida. And Armando has ready access to his lifesaving medication, all because one of the many appeal letters he had sent out decades ago happened to land on my office desk to be translated. He was lucky to have had that letter actually reach me, as I was the only one who ever responded and I did in fact bring him out. Showing my passport to the border guards and speaking in English, I held his hand as we walked across the border together those many years ago.
Would that ever happen now with Donald Trump as our president, after erecting high fences impossible to climb and posting armed guards all along our southern border using high tech surveillance techniques? Readers already know the answer. Even though we really still need those working-age folks here because we no longer have enough of them, Trump is now suffering from senile dementia, so he really doesn't understand the need for those workers nor does he understand many other things. A president can inform and educate the public, but Trump isn't doing any of that because his own mind is fading so fast. He hardly knows what day or what year it is now, often losing his train of thought in mid-sentence. Trump is suffering from senile dementia, but is completely unware of it. He still thinks he the very greatest American president of all time.
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What is double jeopardy?
The Double Jeopardy Clause in the Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution prevents the government from prosecuting or punishing a person twice for the same offense.
Arguments for Double Jeopardy: Some legal scholars, such as Fordham Law School professor Deborah Denno, argue that a double jeopardy claim could be viable for Christa because the state carried out the full execution process (administering two full doses of pentobarbital on September 30, 2026) and only gets "one bite at the apple" when executing a punishment.
But, of course, the family of her victim, after losing their cherished young loved one forever and for all time due to Christa Pike's brutal, deliberate, murderous actions against someone she deemed a love rival, would certainly not consider that justice has been done unless she is executed and actually dies, "an eye for an eye." The family were right there in the death chamber while the lethal injections were being administered and certainly would not agree to allowing Christa to live now, even if she remains incarcerated. They don't want justice delayed to be justice denied. So they really do want her dead, the sooner the better.
The murderous accomplice boyfriend Tadaryl Shipp, only 17 at the time, because of his age, was given life imprisonment, not the death penalty as Christa was, as she was already 18. Her legal team's many challenges have delayed her execution for more than 30 years. Current photos of Christa are readily available, but photos of Shipp now come only from sources blocking me (seeking payment perhaps?). Readers have probably seen the image of Shipp wearing a black skullcap and a flowing white beard, but you won't be seeing that image right here.
- Shipp was denied parole now in 2025 due to the "seriousness of the offense". His next eligibility review is scheduled for October 2031. The only photo of him allowed to be used here, even on my small circulation blog, is this one below from before the murders. But many current photos of him in prison are available now from the mainstream press, which has taken full possession of them and is charging fees for their use. .
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I had once posted a photo of Caleb Flynn, while commenting that the police have often heard his story before from a man who has actually killed his own wife, while always blaming a mysterious intruder. Flynn thinks he's the only guy to have made up that story, but that's really hardly the case. Likewise, though perhaps somewhat less often, a wife has also blamed the death of her husband on an unknown stranger arriving at night. Few intruders actually enter private homes here in the US and most killings of a wife or husband have ended up with the arrest of the spouse. The spouse is always the first and often the only suspect. I'd wanted to see if a photo of the hapless Caleb Flynn was still on this blog, but I can no longer find it, so perhaps the blog photo police took it down. Flynn is now serving life in prison and his "other woman" has already moved on, no longer even visiting him anymore, nor will his daughters be likely to ever go see him again after he has killed their own mother.
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"Death by a thousand cuts" is an idiom for a series of small, minor problems or setbacks that combine over time to cause a major failure or disaster.
Origins and History
- Lingchi: The phrase historically derives from lingchi, an ancient Chinese method of torture and execution (often translated as "slow slicing") used from around 900 AD until it was banned in 1905 during Qing dynasty's legal reforms.
================================================================Dead Man Walking is a 1995 American crime drama film whose screenplay was based on the 1993
non-fiction book of the same name.As a representative of Amnesty International, I once met in person with Sister Helen Prejean,, the nun accompanying condemned prisoners to the gas chamber.
We simply shook hands when we met. Sister Helen told me she had decided to undertake that job because no one else was doing it. She continues to reported on Facebook on visits to death-row inmates and about accompanying them when they are executed. She is 87, one year younger than I am.
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15 Years Ago, Anders Breivik Massacred 77 People. Norway Is Determined to Treat Him Humanely.
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Here is something tasty available from the fresh, variable weekly menu my daughter in Florida issues to folks in that state Sending menu items here to West Virginia simply did not work out, so probably only Floridians actually have ready access.
