Thursday 15 March 2012

Two inmates

The United States Penitentiary in Tucson Arizona has two notable inmates serving life imprisonment.

One of those is Steven Green, soldier with the 101st, serving in Iraq when he raped and killed 14 year old Abeer Hamza in front of her family before killing them too.  Six-year-old sister Hadeel, her father, Qassim Hamza Rasheed, and her mother, Fakhriya Taha Muhasen. 

Steven was arrested in the US, pleaded not guilty, and although Kentucky, where he was tried, has the death penalty, his crimes were not warranted serious enough for the maximum tariff. He was sentenced instead to Life imprisonment.

In his first interview Green was quoted as saying "I didn't think of Iraqis as humans"

The second notable inmate in Tucsons State Penitentiary is William Leonard Pickard. Wiliam, a marathon runner, now 67, was found guilty of conspiring to manufacture, distribute and dispense ten grams or more of a mixture or substance containing a detectable amount of lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD); and received two life sentences.

One guy making  recreational drugs is on equal punishment terms with a child rapist murderer?

How much better would the world and America be if: 

No more American soldiers were sent on Robber class Jihads to foreign countries.
And:
All drugs were decriminalized with production and supply being met by professional Government agency.

And in the meanwhile. Shame on America for wasting life in this way. Free William Pickard.