Black History Month: "The Project" DAY 13 (492 hits)
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Submitted by sicosemen (View user info) at 2006-02-17 07:14:00 EST
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We salute you Michael Taylor.
Michael Taylor, a black man, faces execution in Missouri on Feb. 1, 2006 for one count of first-degree murder. In March of 1989, Kansas City resident Taylor and his accomplice, Roderick Nunley, kidnapped and raped 15-year-old Ann Harrison, then stabbed her to death. The two had been drinking alcohol and smoking marijuana prior to the crime.
As of this moment, Taylor's Feb. 1 execution has been stayed; however, there is a risk that the stay will be lifted as the original execution date approaches.
Taylor pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree murder, forcible rape, armed criminal action, and kidnapping. He received the death penalty for the murder charge in spite of his guilty plea. The prosecutor in the case refused to offer a plea bargain, a decision that Taylor claimed was racially motivated. The first judge to sentence Taylor, Judge Alvin Randall, accepted Taylor's guilty plea. Randall sentenced Taylor to death, but Taylor appealed, claiming that Randall had been drinking prior to sentencing. Though the Missouri Supreme Court vacated the judgment, the replacement judge sentenced Taylor to death as well.
Taylor had requested the opportunity to withdraw his guilty plea after he was forced to face sentencing by a different judge than the one before whom the initial guilty plea was entered. The Missouri Supreme Court denied him this. However, in a dissenting opinion the court's Chief Justice wrote that when the court had vacated Randall's judgment, the entire judgment (i.e. "the plea, the verdict or findings, and the adjudication and sentence") was dismissed. This would mean that Taylor was due an opportunity to enter a new plea. The Chief Justice also argued that under State v. Davis the substitution of one judge for another in sentencing requires the consent of the defendant. Taylor did not consent to the replacement judge.
Although a Special Judge appointed by the Missouri Supreme Court found that Taylor's lawyer was not ineffective, it is certainly unusual for a defendant who has not been offered a plea bargain to plead guilty. Taylor's only chance not to be sentenced to death lay with a sober Judge Randall, yet even that was not available to him.
In addition, the prosecutor involved in Taylor's case, Jackson County Prosecutor Al Riederer, had a practice during his 12 years in office of seeking a sentence of life without parole in dozens of instances when defendants pleaded guilty to murder - except in this case when the defendants were black and the victim was white. There were other heinous murder-rape cases involving multiple victims where the same prosecutor agreed to guilty pleas in exchange for life without parole, but in those cases, either the accused were white or the victims were black.
In light of the many unjust circumstances surrounding Taylor's guilty plea and the pursuant sentencing, it is unacceptable for Michael Taylor to be executed.
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This is classic, really. Let me give you some specifics about this man and his case before I really go off. He raped and stabbed this girl to death. Before he stabbed her he repeatedly shoved her head into the toilet while raping her. Sounds to me as if there is a fetish of sorts, but I will not venture there now.
Furthermore, while incarcerated, Michael Taylor murdered his cell mate. Yup, you got it. What could he possibly be asking for his death row to be lifted for? Then he turns around and tells us that he is doing this for "all the people on death row." If you have to ask why you are death row in the first place herein is the problem. If you killed someone, perhaps you could make a plea for life in jail versus the death penalty. He's killed someone twice, once within the confines of a cell with no weapons.
This truly displays the barbaric traits that this man possesses. Cold blooded murder in the first degree twice to me constitutes a professional felon. This man obviously has no peril thoughts about others life. He does have class; however, we are shown this by his rape. Can anymore be said than the actions and choices of such an indignant?
Thank you, Michael Taylor, for giving the black community a good name.
Mugshot time...
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Submitted by JonnyX (user info) at 2006-02-17 16:58:29 EST (#)
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Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-17 08:13:05 (#)
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Gentleman, Calm down, please. There is only two more weekdays left in the month. That means you will have to suffer through this for two more days.
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uhh, today is the 17th, not the 24th, slappy
That guy looks like a Wayans brother - which is proof enough to execute him.
Submitted by JoeAverage (user info) at 2006-02-17 13:30:54 EST (#)
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Fry him and then make him read this:
http://www.ubersite.com/m/18763
Submitted by freebie (user info) at 2006-02-17 12:11:42 EST (#)
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Needs more famous people
Submitted by indoninja (user info) at 2006-02-17 11:11:53 EST (#)
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These crack me up, because I picture some kid looking up "black history month" for a report and finding guys like this to do a report on.
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-17 10:17:58 EST (#)
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shit sorry, 7 more days...
Submitted by MistressFist (user info) at 2006-02-17 09:46:35 EST (#)
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they should flay him alive
Submitted by sicosemen (user info) at 2006-02-17 08:13:05 EST (#)
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Gentleman, Calm down, please. There is only two more weekdays left in the month. That means you will have to suffer through this for two more days.
Submitted by r0fl (user info) at 2006-02-17 07:45:29 EST (#)
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Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-17 07:37:06 (#)
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I know you are going to keep doing this until the month is over.....
But it's starting to get kind of old
I'm not sure this was "Worth reading," but these were old more than a week ago. I'll round up because I'm in a good mood.
Submitted by HighVoltage900 (user info) at 2006-02-17 07:37:06 EST (#)
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I know you are going to keep doing this until the month is over.....
But it's starting to get kind of old.