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 Capital P
     
            
              Fry me?Fuck you!
 Fingered by philanthropic felons,
 their first deal for freedom before
 floating back to forcing pharmaceuticals into fragile fingers,
 a fine fate for the forsaken.
 
          
            
              Texas prosecutors violated the rights
                        of convicted murderer Delma Banks when they failed to
                disclose that their main witness against
                        him, Charles Cook, was a convicted felon and a paid informant,
                      Banks’ lawyer told the Supreme Court. 
            
              Lethally inject me?Level your lies on yourselves,
 licentious litigators and larcenous lawmen,
 all leading libertine lives while
 leveling charges on lamentable lambs with lost livelihoods,
 a low look at laudable laymen.
 
          
            
              In 1998, after 17 years of appeals,
                                Banks' lawyers discovered police notes that showed  
                           Cook had been coached by police on
                                  how to testify. The police gave Cook details of the
                          murder case as
                          well, lawyers say. 
            
              Shoot me?“
                Sure,” you say,
 supposing that such sacrifice suppresses me,
 securing salvation for souls since spirited away.
 Seems simple since your sins aren’t so sobering to society;
 Such a swell system for sycophantic swine.
 
          
            
              Throughout
                                    23 years of court fights, the parents of Richard
                          Whitehead have waited
                                                      for                 what they see
                          as justice. The Whiteheads were waiting at
                                                          a Texas prison one night in
                                                          March, prepared to watch
                                      their son's killer die. They insist the case against
                                                          Banks is                 solid,
                          and that there is no reason to delay the case again. Capital P, by Paul
             Cales, © October 2003  previous | poetry 
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