Uncensored 5/22/05

UNCENSORED FROM TEXAS DEATH ROW

by Clinton Young

May 22, 2005

Greetings to all!

Today is the 22nd of May. It is currently 1:06 a.m.

I have been meaning to sit down and write this all weekend.

Richard was executed on the 19th of May. I saw him at visitation a couple of days before his date. I spoke to him a little bit.

You know as I sit here writing this, I can’t think of anything to write. I mean, it really is as if he is still here.

The prison keeps us so isolated and doesn’t inform us if someone has a date or if they die or not. We have to find out from the free world.

There have been times I have been talking to people and they ask me where a certain person is housed at.

I tell him “Man, they killed that dude like 3 months ago”.

The reply was “no s**t? D**n, I didn’t even know”. 

It is done very clean and quiet. Plus Texas kills so many, that it isn’t that big of a deal to the public really, as far as the media goes. The “familiarity breeds comfort.”

I have noticed that when they go to kill a guy in New England, it makes the front page of the USA Today. Though if it isn’t a high profile case in Texas, it doesn’t even make the state by state section!

I’ve seen Richard’s mother walking around at visit. I wondered what was going through her mind. I also wondered how would my mother handle my execution.

My heart goes out to Richard’s family.

I did not know him that well. When I first moved next to him on F-Pod Level 3, I did not talk to him for the first couple of hours; as I was burning up from the pepper spray.

He asked me if I wanted to write an article for Uncensored about the Use of Force. That is what kicked off our conversation.

We went to outside recreation together. We ware in separate cages as Death Row inmates can’t have contact with each other through the bars.

We talked about hometowns, families, cars, women, our cases, the difference from when he was growing up compared to when I was growing up, and how to resist the oppression tactics of the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Through conversation we realized we had a lot in common. Then two weeks later he received his date to die.

We had talked a lot in those two weeks. I told the guy in the cell next to me “That is it. I am not talking to no one else. Every time I start to get cool with someone, they end up with a date.” Truthfully, it happens so much that it has become apart of life down here.

Speak of the devil. The guy in the cell next to me just asked me if they killed Wolfe. I told him, “yeah, on the 18th they did”.

His reply was “D**n, I didn’t even know he had a date.” He had seen an article about it in the paper.

It seems to only be getting worse. An article was put out on March 17, 2005 about a wider Death Penalty Lawyer Pool! It stated that former Prosecutors with NO experience as Defense Lawyers could qualify to represent death penalty cases!

That is like having the person that shot you, give you CPR! They became prosecutors because they want to punish.

Friedrick Nietzshe state, “Distrust all in whom the impulse to punish is powerful!”

The House Criminal Jurisprudence Committee Chairman Terry Keel, R-Austin, actually stated that the House Bill 265, which would allow prosecutors to defend Capital cases would actually make Texas standards “the best in the Nation in terms of qualifications.”

Now the last for words are the ones to pay attention to. “in terms of qualification!” Yeah, they will be qualified, but that is about it! Qualified to help Texas kill us faster! 

There is a guy here, I won’t mention his name as I do not have his permission to do so, but the prosecutor in his case was busted for using Methamphetamines while in public office! He was shooting up between court breaks!!! “I inject your honor! I mean object.” : )

In other news, some attention has been shined on a possible wrongful execution. Cameron Willingham, whom was executed February 17, 2004 for his alleged role in a fire that resulted in the death of his three kids. It seems that due to new forensic evidence, that the fire was accidental. The same evidence which helped free Ernest Willis after 17 years of being on death row. Though Mr. Willis got off after Cameron got executed. I guess the state figured that they got to get one before they give one.

Well, back to Richard. All those that tried to help him, Don’t give up. He would want you all to keep fighting. There is strength in numbers.

I will be placing articles now, as much as possible. My case is still in the State Courts. Nothing has been ruled on yet. Though I still have a lot to write about, as I will be posting information about my case, death row, etc….. Pretty much the same as Richard did. Though I will also drift to other issues as well.

The next article I write will be about the family of the victims in the case that resulted in me coming to death row, as well as the emotional impact it had on myself from seeing them and know that they think that I was the one responsible for their loved ones death.

I was not the shooter in this case and can actually prove this fact. I will also be posting polygraph test results which showed the co-defendant lied as well as other statements from people who overheard the co-defendant brag about getting away with murder.

I am going to go ahead and bring this to an end. 

I leave as I came.

Stand Tall, Fade All, Never Fall.

Clinton Young

#999447

Polunsky Unit

Death Row

3872 F.M. 350 S.

Livingston, TX 77351

All contributions are most welcome! Thank you!