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My Statement in Response to the State

Loaded on June 15, 2000 published in Prison Legal News June, 2000, page 8
Filed under: Eulogies, Death Penalty/Death Row, Death Penalty. Location: Texas.
by Kamau "Ponchai" Wilkerson

[The following is an excerpt from "My Statement in Response to the Setting of an Execution Date and the State of Texas' Plan to Murder Me," by Ponchai Kamau Wilkerson]

The 13th Amendment abolished slavery "...except as punishment for crime whereof the party shall have. been …

 

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