Reply #49: This sounds EXACTLY like most death penalty cases

[ProudDad]

"On August 5, 1981, Workman, a destitute drug addict with a wife and 8-year-old daughter in Columbus, Georgia, robbed a Wendy’s restaurant with a .45 caliber semi-automatic pistol. During the robbery, an employee of the restaurant triggered a silent alarm after Workman granted her request to stand up to relieve a cramp in her leg. Three Memphis police officers, Ronald Oliver, Aubrey Stoddard, and Steven Parker, responded to the alarm. Upon their arrival, Workman attempted to flee across a nearby car park, but tripped on a curb and was cornered by the officers. Workman claims he then attempted to surrender but, as he was pulling his gun from his pants to give it to the officers, he was struck on the head with a flashlight. As a result of the blow, Workman claims that he involuntarily discharged the gun twice, once in the air, and then at a person who had fired at him. Workman escaped the immediate melee, but a civilian found him hiding under a truck. He was covered with blood from his head wound, and had a shotgun wound to his buttocks. At the scene of the shootout, Lt. Ronald Oliver lay dying from a bullet that passed completely through his body."

Poverty, the phony "war on drugs", a "creative" charge by the DA, lack of representation, suborned witnesses, intolerant, bloodthirsty society, pro-death jury (by law, they must be pro-death)...voila!!!

Good reason to oppose Richardson -- he's pro-death.