Whenever the Abolitionists mention about
innocent people who had been freed from death row, they never want to mention
anything about repeat offenders. There is one man who was released from death
row and has been able to go free and kill again. Not at all a good propaganda tool
for Abolitionists who want to use the term, ‘innocent on death row’ to fool the
public into preserving killers. The next time, if any abolitionists want to
mention innocent on death row, tell them about Joseph Green Brown, I got the
information and photo from crimelibary.
September
18, 2012 8:33 PM By Cora Van Olson
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Joseph
Green Brown
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Joseph
Green Brown, 62, spent 13 years of his life fighting a 1973 conviction for the
rape and murder of Earlene Treva Barksdale, a crime for which Florida
sentenced him to death. In 1973 Brown was only 23 and a drifter. He had come to
the attention of investigators for confessing to to sexually abusing a woman
during the commission of a robbery at the Tampa airport the same day as the
murder. When Barksdake’s husband passed a lie-detector test, suspicion shifted
to Brown. On appeal Brown’s conviction was overturned in 1986 based on
evidence that prosecutors had allowed a co-defendant to perjure himself.
Prosecutors could have retried Brown, but in 1987 opted instead to release him.
A free
man, Brown found God, changed his name to Shabaka, and, as a motivational speaker,
spoke out against the death penalty, retelling many times the story of how his
execution was stayed just 15 hours before it was scheduled. The Daily Mail quoted an interview in which Brown
said, “I’m against killing, period, whether the violence is by individuals, the
state, or armies in warfare. All life is sacred.”
In
a turn of events that has shocked his friends and family, however, Brown was
placed under arrest in North Carolina on September 14, 2012, for the
first-degree murder of his wife of 20 years, Mamie Caldwell Brown, 71, whose
body was discovered in their home on September 13, after police were called to
check on her. Marcus Williams, a cousin of Mamie Brown, told reporters
that the couple seemed happy and that her family didn’t worry about Brown’s
past, adding, “He didn’t seem like a threat. He was upfront about everything.
He was always smiling and trying to help people. He was a motivational speaker.
He liked to warn people what could happen in the legal system.” Joyce Robbins,
another relative of Mamie’s, said that she stared at Brown in the courtroom and
that “He had a blank look. I don’t know that person. I’ve never seen him
before.”
Brown
will be held without bond until a preliminary hearing on September 26, 2012. It
is hoped that prosecutors in North Carolina will handle Mamie Brown’s case more
competently than Florida officials handled that of Barksdale thirty-nine years
ago.
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