Post by thinkinkmesa on May 31, 2009 21:38:37 GMT -5
There has been NO decision from Governor Strickland regarding Dan Wilson's clemency (#A260-074). He is scheduled for execution on Wednesday, June 3.
There is another opinion piece today, Sunday, May 31, in The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram that opposes the death penalty.
Make phone calls beginning Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. so he will hear you. IF the phone is busy -- keep trying!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep calling until we get his decision!!!
To ask Governor Strickland to commute Dan Wilson's death sentence:
Call the Governor's Office at: (614) 466-3555
Also, you can send emails referencing the two opinion pieces in this last week that have spoke against the execution!! The one from today's paper is below.
Email: Governor Strickland ted.strickland@governor.ohio.gov
& Jose Torres jose.torres@governor.ohio.gov
The Chronicle 05/31/2009, Page A01
OUR OPINION
Grim business
Endless developments in Wilson case shouldn’t make us at ease with execution
Daniel Wilson is scheduled to die June 3.
Think about that.
The words have been repeated so many times in news stories about Wilson that they have taken on the ordinariness of everything else in a routine rehash of basic facts, but there’s nothing ordinary about them.
Death does not arrive on a schedule in the ordinary course of events. It always arrives, but rarely so predictably.
Even the death of Carol Lutz, Wilson’s victim 18 years ago, did not arrive on a schedule. It was deliberate, yes, and awful and contemptible, but Wilson seems to have planned it in less than a day, not over months. He had met Lutz less than 24 hours before he killed her by setting fire to the gas tank of her car with her in its trunk in the parking lot of Elyria’s Northwood Junior High School.
Wilson has been condemned to death for 17 years, ever since a jury convicted and sentenced him. The state has moved methodically since then to carry out the sentence, fighting Wilson’s appeals, modifying its protocols to try to make his death painless and thus less objectionable, setting the date for his execution.
The date was set three months ago, and it arrives Wednesday, no less chillingly for all its slow-grinding pace.
We wish it would never get here. Not because we consider Wilson wrongly convicted. Nor because we give credence to the arguments that his brutal upbringing or his alcoholism makes him deserving of clemency.
We wish it would never get here because we don’t believe the state should execute anybody. We have many reasons, including the lack of uniformity in the way the death penalty is applied, whether by jurisdiction, race or income; the possibility that an innocent person could be executed; and the moral repugnance we feel at eye-for-an-eye justice.
We believe that the state would come closer to righteousness if it imprisoned Wilson for life rather than followed his act of execution with one of its own.
There is another opinion piece today, Sunday, May 31, in The Elyria Chronicle-Telegram that opposes the death penalty.
Make phone calls beginning Monday morning at 9:00 a.m. so he will hear you. IF the phone is busy -- keep trying!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Keep calling until we get his decision!!!
To ask Governor Strickland to commute Dan Wilson's death sentence:
Call the Governor's Office at: (614) 466-3555
Also, you can send emails referencing the two opinion pieces in this last week that have spoke against the execution!! The one from today's paper is below.
Email: Governor Strickland ted.strickland@governor.ohio.gov
& Jose Torres jose.torres@governor.ohio.gov
The Chronicle 05/31/2009, Page A01
OUR OPINION
Grim business
Endless developments in Wilson case shouldn’t make us at ease with execution
Daniel Wilson is scheduled to die June 3.
Think about that.
The words have been repeated so many times in news stories about Wilson that they have taken on the ordinariness of everything else in a routine rehash of basic facts, but there’s nothing ordinary about them.
Death does not arrive on a schedule in the ordinary course of events. It always arrives, but rarely so predictably.
Even the death of Carol Lutz, Wilson’s victim 18 years ago, did not arrive on a schedule. It was deliberate, yes, and awful and contemptible, but Wilson seems to have planned it in less than a day, not over months. He had met Lutz less than 24 hours before he killed her by setting fire to the gas tank of her car with her in its trunk in the parking lot of Elyria’s Northwood Junior High School.
Wilson has been condemned to death for 17 years, ever since a jury convicted and sentenced him. The state has moved methodically since then to carry out the sentence, fighting Wilson’s appeals, modifying its protocols to try to make his death painless and thus less objectionable, setting the date for his execution.
The date was set three months ago, and it arrives Wednesday, no less chillingly for all its slow-grinding pace.
We wish it would never get here. Not because we consider Wilson wrongly convicted. Nor because we give credence to the arguments that his brutal upbringing or his alcoholism makes him deserving of clemency.
We wish it would never get here because we don’t believe the state should execute anybody. We have many reasons, including the lack of uniformity in the way the death penalty is applied, whether by jurisdiction, race or income; the possibility that an innocent person could be executed; and the moral repugnance we feel at eye-for-an-eye justice.
We believe that the state would come closer to righteousness if it imprisoned Wilson for life rather than followed his act of execution with one of its own.