Day 13 - Issue a Public Apology
I have previously written a public apology post on this blog, so I feel it is only right that I link that post now.
16 July 2013
15 July 2013
The Death Penalty–Pre Meditated Murder
In September 2011 I wrote about the death penalty, my views on the same and in particular about Troy Davis who was due to be executed in Georgia that day. That post can be found here. Despite an international outcry and overwhelming support, he was executed.
Troy Davis had to undergo three different execution dates. The first time in 2008 he had already been strapped down before a stay was granted, the second in September 2011 when he was strapped down, then removed, only for four hours later to strapped back down and killed.
Do we really call ourselves civilised?
Today in Georgia another man is due to be executed. His guilt for the crimes committed is not in question here. Warren Hill is mentally disabled. This has been agreed by seven different experts and his death would violate the US Constitution. In 2002 the Supreme Court ruled that you could not execute a person who was intellectually disabled. Yet that is exactly what is happening today.
Like Troy Davis, Warren Hill has also had to undergo previous execution dates. In July 2012 he was given a stay of execution only ninety minutes before it was scheduled to take place. In February of this year he was again due to be executed. He had been sedatives to calm him, had said goodbye to his family then again, thirty minutes prior to the execution, it was again stayed. Five months later he again faces the execution chamber.
This isn’t justice, this is torture.
To find out more about Warren Hill and send a message to the Attorney General of Georgia asking the Supreme Court to intervene, PLEASE click here.
Will it make a difference if you sign? Maybe it will, maybe it won't. I have signed it. Because my heart and my soul tells me too. Because if you sit in the sidelines your whole life, you can't participate in what happens. I have a voice, and I'm using it.
What Do You Miss?
Day 12 - What Do You Miss?
I was going to talk about my dad on this post. He died so many years ago now and I still miss him so much. It is a subject very near to my heart however and is something I don’t really want to use for a blog challenge. I’ll choose something else.
I miss that time in your childhood when you believed in magic and fairies and that Narnia wasn’t just in a book, it was a real place. Before the real world collides with you and you have to “grow up”; before cynicism and skepticism enter the equation.
I always believed in magic when I was a child and would have loved to have been part of the generation growing up with Harry Potter. I loved the books as an adult and would have been completely obsessed as a little girl.
When you believe in magic you also believe that anything is possible. I wanted to be a model, bless me. At that time in your life no one tells you that you are too fat, too short, not pretty enough etc etc. That is the time in your life that people say “Of course you can be!”
I really miss that innocence. I may still be that girl who is lost inside her own head a lot of the time, but at least back then I believed in magic. That part of me has grown up now.
But you know what? I still believe in fairies ;)
Beth http://tinkerbellandthelostgirls.blogspot.co.uk/
Claire http://lifeonadifferentlevel.blogspot.co.uk/
Claire http://lifeonadifferentlevel.blogspot.co.uk/
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