TO: Editor/Publisher
FROM: Zolo Agona Azania
#4969
RE: Press Release
THE LAW IS FOR EVERYBODY
Extinguishing a human
life by lethal injection is dressed up as a medical procedure,
but it is
actually a cold, calculated, ritual murder. The condemned is strapped
to
the death gurney.
The first drug is sodium pentothal. A saline solution
is then used to insure the tube is cleared out
so the drugs won't mix and
clog it from a chemical reaction. The third drug is pancuronium
bromide,
the muscle relaxer. The fourth syringe then pushes another saline
solution
through.
The fifth syringe is potassium chloride, the toxic drug that stops
the heart.
Following the injection process and a five-minute waiting period,
the blinds to the witness area are closed and the physician advised.
If
the offender's heart has not stopped, the lights are dimmed, blinds
opened,
and the superintendent or designee orders
the injection procedure to be
repeated, after which the blinds are once again closed and the
physician
checks for signs of life.
The physician then reports his findings to the
superintendent or designee.
U.S. capital punishment
is fatally flawed, an instrument of class warfare, organized and
designed
to permit an elite,
local and multinational, to operate without any constraint
from democratic human rights processes.
The guilt or innocence of an accused
is not figured into the equation of a higher meaning of justice because
it is considered less important to capital punishment proponents.
i was a Black man charged
with killing a police officer. There was no pretrial identification.
The
prosecutorial machinery knowingly used false testimony and covered up
material
evidence that did not support their charge against me.
A paraffin gunshot
residue test showed i had not fired a gun. The judge had me shackled
during
the trial in the presence of an all-white jury. The court bailiff spoke
to the jurors in the deliberation room on the orders of the judge and
said
they should be ready to be asked individually to state that their
verdict
is death. The forman of the jury gave a sworn affidavit confirming it.
Furthermore, the jurors were allowed to consume alcohol during the
trial.
How could i still be found
guilty? The criminal sanction system is anchored on procedural issues
rather
than guilt or innocence.
The law court judges hold that mere factual innocence
is no reason not to carry out a death sentence properly reached.
All that
the U.S. law requires is a fair trial, not a perfect one.
Think about it.
The law
is for everybody, including you.
Zolo
Agona Azania, 4963,
Indiana
State Prison,
P.
0. Box 41, Michigan City,
IN
46361


