Too Cruel Not Unusual Enough edition by Kenneth E Hartman Literature Fiction eBooks
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Across the United States, locked tight behind high walls of deadly electrified fences, are more than 41,000 men and women sentenced to die. These are their stories of brutality and beauty, of violence and virtue, of the neverending quest of all human beings to make sense of the lives they are leading. Life without the possibility of parole, the other death penalty, is a sentence condemned by virtually all other countries embraced here in the land of the free. If you're interested in the truth about crime and punishment in America this anthology of writings from behind the walls is a must for you. If you care about the Constitution's prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment, this collection should be for you. If you value writing straight from the heart, stories that hit hard, literature that leaves you breathless and thinking, this book was written for you.
Too Cruel Not Unusual Enough edition by Kenneth E Hartman Literature Fiction eBooks
This is bound to be an important resource in discussions about the death penalty. For very good reasons, life without the possibility of parole is considered by convicts living out that sentence to be nothing but a slow, painful form of death. By any civilized standard, it's a cruel and unusual punishment that is forbidden in most developed countries. Unfortunately, those who support abolition of the death penalty have made a devil's tradeoff: save prisoners from the execution chamber, but condemn them to useless, degraded lives which will end only when they're carried out feet first.It's something of a miracle that the men and women whose writings fill this volume have managed to keep themselves sane, turn their lives around, and accomplish great things in spite of every possible impediment being placed in their way. Hear the voices of these peple condemned to a living death, hear their hopes, their despair, their regrets and remorse, and ask yourself when punishment becomes barbaric revenge that's unworthy of a civilized country in the 21st century.
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These are comments from Michael Smokey Wilson, who is a Juvenile Lifer in PA. I sent him Too Cruel, Not Unusual Enough and this is what he wrote. He has given me his permission to post this and can be contacted at the address below
"I have finished the book "Too Cruel and Not Unusual Enough." I have found it to be a remarkably outstanding explosive reading especially for people in the larger community who do not understand the plight of those sentenced to LWOP. There should be a procedure in place to redress every legal situation in this country when people have demonstrated real remorse and their behavior has also conformed to the rules of the D.O.C. "So then what is the real purpose of rehabilitation one should ask?
I do give credit to each of those writers who contributed to making that book possible and for their honesty clearly expressing profoundly without any doubts in their own works what I means to be serving LWOP. Their stories and experiences locked away for the remaining part of their lives with no way or opportunity to redeem themselves or show that they are not the worst or most awful act they may have done."
Michael Smokey Wilson, AF2695, Graterford Prison, Box 244, Graterford, PA 19426
Understanding is the key to action, and in these touching, moving essays and poems Kenneth E. Hartman and fellow editors John Purugganan and Robert C. Chan bring us inside the walls, inside the cells of men and women condemned to the awful fate of Death Without Parole. The pieces in this collection were found through a national contest and provide those of us lucky to be outside with a look inside a world most of us will never see. Like other reviewers here, I encourage the reader to read, reflect, and then take to heart the call to action in this book, a call to find an end to this unconscionable mode of punishment, made all the more unspeakable because of the arbitrary manner in which it is applied. The book will surely open your eyes; the book may make you uncomfortable; the book can surely move you to action.
“Too cruel, not unusual enough”
Thailand is considering replacing the death penalty by LWOP or life imprisonment without parole. The horror of this form of punishment is known only to those who experience it. A recent book composed mostly by LWOP prisoners themselves, gives some understanding of what is involved in imprisonment until death. One prisoner describes the situation of LWOP prisoners in a few words, “Life under LWOP is breathing, but not living”.
The prison writers are unanimous in being unable to understand how such a cruel punishment was conceived, or how it is being applied ever more frequently, even to children and for minor non-violent offenses, such as stealing three golf clubs.
The sentencing is summary under the mantra that LWOP is not a death penalty, and mistakes can be rectified afterwards. The sentences are passed without the supposed legal safeguards required for a death sentence. Nor are there the same possibilities of post sentence review, so that the theoretical possibility of review is not a real possibility.
The prison regime of LWOP is dehumanized and hopeless. Prisoners are soon forgotten by the outside world, whether their relatives or friends. The expectation is that they will die as soon as possible so as to free up more prison space for the increased LWOP prison population.
LWOP prisoners age quickly. “The incidence of chronic, age-related diseases skyrockets among older prisoners. We are sclerotic, arthritic, and cancerous far more than people of the same age outside the prison walls.”
In the US factories are migrating to low-wage countries; the prison industry is multiplying and LWOP prisoners promise long term employment for the companies which undertake the commercial administration of this inhuman industry. In Thailand, private hospitals, private education, and of course private housing are making many rich. The Government has already floated the idea that privatisation of prisons will be the next gold rush. Read this short book to see what will come with LWOP.
“All forms of the death penalty need to be discarded in a truly just society”
TOO CRUEL, NOT UNUSUAL ENOUGH, Kenneth E. Hartman, The Other Death Penalty Project, California, 2013; available on
This is bound to be an important resource in discussions about the death penalty. For very good reasons, life without the possibility of parole is considered by convicts living out that sentence to be nothing but a slow, painful form of death. By any civilized standard, it's a cruel and unusual punishment that is forbidden in most developed countries. Unfortunately, those who support abolition of the death penalty have made a devil's tradeoff save prisoners from the execution chamber, but condemn them to useless, degraded lives which will end only when they're carried out feet first.
It's something of a miracle that the men and women whose writings fill this volume have managed to keep themselves sane, turn their lives around, and accomplish great things in spite of every possible impediment being placed in their way. Hear the voices of these peple condemned to a living death, hear their hopes, their despair, their regrets and remorse, and ask yourself when punishment becomes barbaric revenge that's unworthy of a civilized country in the 21st century.
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