Inside These Books Are The Lives Of People

There are books written about us, many books.

Yet you won’t see them, unless you are a lawyer, and even a few of the professionals can’t comprehend what is on the inside.

We, who the millions and billions of words are written about know everything, the ink may as well be our blood.

We have been called the inmate, the incarcerated, the prisoner.

Once in a while, word of us reaches you.

Because film and reports and television and twisted books have spun you around until you say up is down, we make matters plain.

Cautioning you, not begging you to read the story of those refusing to be damned, you are invited to reality.

Zolo Agona Azania Has No Justice After 25 Years

A trial judge had dismissed (dropped) the death penalty in his case.

10 May 2007 Indiana Supreme Court (USA) by a 3-2 vote, reversed the fast and speedy trial judgment of the trial court and remanded for a new penalty phase trial, for the third time.

“We find that neither the delay nor any prejudice that Azania may suffer from it violates his constitutional rights. The State may continue to seek the death penalty.”

This case has landed in the highest of courts in Indiana. Most cases are studied and rejected for consideration. This case was seen as good, necessary for a decision. Yet three judges on the panel argued for the third penalty of death trial procedure to begin after several trials failed during two and a half decades. These trials failed due to corruption such as all White juries systematically in place to allow prejudice to flourish. In America, it is proven in custom and law that this is illegal and has been used against African people as institutional racism. For that reason, the 20^th century US legal framework was fully transformed by Civil Rights laws and legislation.

Two judges, justice Boehm and Rucker, dissented on the Indiana State Supreme Court in the Azania case.

Mr. Boehm cited cases going back to 1890 and the hallmark Furman v. Georgia case from the era of the penalty of death being suspended in 1972. Life sentences were ruled for instead. [In only four years, 1976, the US government's Supreme Court turned around and allowed prisons to execute people once more.]

In one case Mr. Boehm cites, Knight v. Florida, from 1999, rules judicially that courts have described imprisonment under threat of impending execution as “horrible” “dehumanizing” and exacting “a frightful toll” frequently leading to suicide attempts and insanity.

Mr. Rucker, in dissenting, said “â?¦Azania’s constitutional rights to a speedy trial and due process would be violated if the State continues to seek a death sentence.”

We have been calling for the facts to be seen for what they are.

The passage of time, no matter factually how a legal case, or for that matter the facts of an alleged offense unfolded, presents difficulties.

Read and reflect on Zolo Agona Azania and some 2.5 million others of us in America’s Prison Nation.

On page one you will meet us.

We dare you– it’s all in the books.

25 December 2007
From Exile,
Bankole
www.geocities.com/exiledone2002

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Zolo Agona Azania #4969
Indiana State Prison-Death Row
P.O. Box 41
Michigan City, Indiana 46361
USA

Resource: http://www.zoloazania.org/
Related Article: Zolos in America and a Burden of Proof