Meanwhile in Alabama

[Celerity]

Two cases highlight America's ongoing inability to deliver equal justice under the law

https://thedailyedge.substack.com/p/meanwhile-in-alabama

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Five months ago, former pastor Mack Charles Andrews, a brutal serial child rapist called one of his victims from inside his prison and threatened to kill her. This week, an Alabama judge set him free after serving just 5 1/2 years of a 15-year sentence. Shay Walker, the victim Andrews threatened, is now an actor and filmmaker living in New Orleans. She told Alabama.com this week that she was expecting to face Andrews at a November parole hearing. She was given no warning that he was about to be released. Originally identified as “Jane,” Walker first spoke to Alabama.com in 2015. She endured multiple forms of molestation and sexual violation by Andrews beginning at the age of 7 and was raped by him on her father’s grave at the age of 9. She continued to attend his church and was abused by him until the age of 12.

As Alabama.com reported at the time:



In reality, he was sentenced to just 15 years. Today, following his sudden release, he is walking free, not even subject to the regulations of a parolee.

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The treatment of Mack Charles Andrews, who is white, stands in stark contrast to that of Nathaniel Woods, a Black man executed by the State of Alabama in 2020, despite a public outcry.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2020/03/17/before-nathaniel-woods-execution-sister-victim-begged-mercy/5064934002/

Woods was executed for the murder of three police officers in 2004, despite the fact that even prosecutors acknowledge that he didn’t pull the trigger. As USA Today also noted: “The confessed shooter, Kerry Spencer, who is himself on death row, has said Woods was ‘actually 100% innocent.’” Before Woods’s execution, Kimberly Chisholm Simmons, the sister of one of the 2004 victims called Jo Bonner, chief of staff to Alabama’s Republican Governor Kay Ivey. Bonner told Simmons she should expect a call back.

The call never came. Nathaniel Woods was killed by lethal injection on March 5, 2020, at Holman Correctional Facility in Alabama.

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[vercetti2021]

1. I'm shocked

Not really. This disgusting creature deserves an unmarked plot 6 feet under

[Bettie]

2. All I got tonight is

this. Stupid motherfuckers. What is wrong with them?

No humanity, certainly none of that 'Christianity" they love to ascribe to themselves.

Monsters.

[fantase56]

3. Calling Dexter Morgan.........

Your services are needed.....

[Celerity]

5. 10 new episodes on Showtime this fall, shame this piece of dogshit won't be in one

'Dexter': Everything We Know About the Showtime Revival

https://www.etonline.com/dexter-everything-we-know-about-the-showtime-revival-159373

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[AZ8theist]

4. WTF is with Alabama and their love for child rapists??

Roy Moore??

This so-called "pastor"??

Seriously?

[maxrandb]

6. Well, this is not a good explanation

but in majority Retrumplican areas in this country, the people that vote Retrumplican would say that, at age 7, the girl tempted this "christian man of faith".

Haven't you heard the story of Jezebel?

How about Salome, who supposedly at age 11, danced so provocatively for King Herod that he gave her John the Baptists head on a platter?

BTW, it's not just Alabama. It's Retrumplican majority areas from Maine to California and Florida to Washington.

See, in their minds, this 7 year old girl tempted him with her "feminine wares".

The sooner we acknowledge that, the sooner we can begin to stop pretending that Retrumplicans are a normal opposition set of political policies that can be nogotiated with.

[AZ8theist]

7. THAT'S DISGUSTING.

As an avowed atheist, I probably know the Buy Bull better than most Christians. I've read the nonsense countless times..

(it's been said that the best recruitment tool for atheists is the bible itself....)

But the fact that Buy Bull "stories" and "fables" allow 21st century human beings to justify child rape ABSOLUTELY REPUGNANT.

It's NO DIFFERENT from a Taliban putting a woman in a bag because he's afraid of being "tempted" by her face.

Christians ARE NO FUCKING DIFFERENT THAN TALIBAN.

FUCK ALL RELIGION. IT WILL CAUSE HUMAN EXTINCTION.

[maxrandb]

8. Well, we did have a POS

who bragged about grabbing girls by the "Hoo-Haa", and talked lustily about his preteen daughters breasts and bragged to Howard Stern that the former First Ladies ass "was all mine", and how he wished he could "date" his own daughter

Do I need to mention that 74 million of our "fellow Americans" voted to keep him in power?

I'm not sure that fact is not even more disgusting.

I think it was Napoleon that said; "religion is what keeps the poor from eating the rich"

[live love laugh]

9. One more successful vote suppression effort by RepubliQkkkans. nt