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Gary Etheridge speaks to the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles

Because, statistically ... I haven't a snowballs chance in hell to get a fair chance from this board, no insult intended ... I wish to remind each of you that are Mothers, Fathers, husbands or wives ... I have a new wife and I have two beautiful daughters from my former wife in my life, I have dozens of real friends that know me and value my life, as you reject deny my
petition with your nod to victims rights groups / victim advocates groups, keep in mind that YOU are a link in the chain of injustice and YOU help make my wife, my daughters victims to a murdered loved one. Someday YOU will stand before Jesus Christ to be Judged ... I PROMISE YOU YOUR GUILT is as significant as mine, in the Lords own words ! You serve a corrupt
administration and serve a biased system. Someday people will look back at the system you served and feel disgust and shame that our society / culture took so long to grow up out of this barbaric adolecence the USA struggles with which our ancestrial societies in Europe and around the world dispensed with because it was tried and tested AND FAILED !

I'm straight with Jesus, are you ? We ALL will die eventually. Let me end this thing by telling you WHY I want clemency.

Kill me on June 27th and I go to rest and await Jesus for Judgement ... who know how much longer I would live anyway ... I accept the inevitable, but grant me more time to lift my wife above this wreckage you contribute to, grant me time to explain to my daughters Brittany and Brandi that life doesn't have to be a painful dark crisis - but can be sweet and satisfying
and that there can be help in their times of crisis or failure. My wife Claudia Etheridge and my daughters Brittany & Brandi Etheridge are innocent ... they've done nothing against society or the law ... how the hell can you sit there and convince yourself that you serve the best interest of society by stamping your approval to state sanctioned killing. Your vote directely hurts the heart, mind and future of my wife Claudia, my daughters, my friends, FOR THEM I will endure life in this cage ... but if I were alone and not responsible for those who love me - I would eagerly embrace the rest and peace and finality of death.

Excerpt from the Final 3 Paragraphs of a draft letter to the Texas Board Of Pardons and Paroles that was never sent.
The letter was claimed by his wife Claudia after Gary's execution, as it was never sent and a new one was drafted.
 
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