Post by CCADP on Jul 31, 2005 7:52:33 GMT -5
Typical tabloid; over-sensational reporting of Scott Peterson's CCADP webpage. Funny thing is they originally wanted an exclusive ! ? ! and wanted me to contact Scott's mom to get pics for this that had never been seen before....anyway; of course we expect Scott to get this kind of treatment; but this article seems more suited to the Weekly World News than even the Post 
DEAD MAN WHINING
By HEATHER GILMORE
July 31, 2005 -- Poor baby.
The first words from death-row devil Scott Peterson are a sappy mix of gratitude and petty grumbling — including how he refuses to reply to fan mail because of an "irritating" handful of people messing with his letters.
"At mail call, I am encouraged by, and enjoy hearing from people," Peterson waxes on his new Web page. "I wish I could respond to express my gratitude . . . However, people having sold my notes, and sometimes fabricating content, preclude me from doing so."
Peterson — who was sentenced to death by electric chair in May for killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn baby, Connor — wrote the note in his 42-square-foot cell on death row in the East Block of San Quentin State Prison on July 21.
The week before, he moved to death row from the California jail's orientation center.
He sent the letter to Tracey Lamourie, co-founder of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which runs a site that includes pages from 500 condemned killers.
Peterson approved the look of the page — www.ccadp.org/scottpeterson.htm — and its link to a Manhattan center whose mission is to exonerate innocent felons.
His page also links to sites devoted to advocating pretty-boy Peterson as a victim of the justice system.
Peterson begins his note, "For me, the amount of support we have received is just incredible. Those who have decided to reach out to our family have made such a difference."
He also thanks supporters for their "thoughtfulness and benevolence."
But despite such support, it appears he's becoming less popular with death-row groupies.
His weekly fan-mail load had dropped from three dozen letters to an average of two or three, said San Quentin administrative assistant Sgt. Eric Messick.
"We screen each letter for security reasons but not for intimate language — it's just too common from women who write," said Messick.
On his Web page, Peterson writes of his pen pals: "In every conversation among our family there is always the mention of your thoughts and letters. I am tremendously appreciative of your kindness."
When not penning trite thank-you notes, Peterson spends almost all his time in a fifth-floor barred cell that looks out to a narrow walkway and railing called a "suicide bar" — installed to prevent condemned murderers from throwing themselves to their deaths.
Peterson gets a hot breakfast, usually Farina, and a bag lunch with sandwiches, fruit and trail mix. Dinner is Mexican, Italian or a burger, plus a packet of sugar-free Kool-Aid.
"No one is allowed sugar, they've been known to ferment it to make prison wine called 'pruno,' " said Messick.
Peterson is allowed a TV, radio and CD player in his room and no more than 10 books.
Peterson has a handful of pre-approved visitors and gets 90 minutes in the concrete exercise yard three times a week.
But he appears to be adjusting to his bleak surroundings.
"It sure is tough here, but [Peterson] seems to be adapting as well as can be," Messick said.
Lamourie agrees that Peterson "seems to be adjusting OK," but also is "looking forward to fighting on appeal."
But Messick thinks Inmate No. V72100 will "be here until the day he dies."
www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/51128.htm
DEAD MAN WHINING
By HEATHER GILMORE
July 31, 2005 -- Poor baby.
The first words from death-row devil Scott Peterson are a sappy mix of gratitude and petty grumbling — including how he refuses to reply to fan mail because of an "irritating" handful of people messing with his letters.
"At mail call, I am encouraged by, and enjoy hearing from people," Peterson waxes on his new Web page. "I wish I could respond to express my gratitude . . . However, people having sold my notes, and sometimes fabricating content, preclude me from doing so."
Peterson — who was sentenced to death by electric chair in May for killing his wife, Laci, and their unborn baby, Connor — wrote the note in his 42-square-foot cell on death row in the East Block of San Quentin State Prison on July 21.
The week before, he moved to death row from the California jail's orientation center.
He sent the letter to Tracey Lamourie, co-founder of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, which runs a site that includes pages from 500 condemned killers.
Peterson approved the look of the page — www.ccadp.org/scottpeterson.htm — and its link to a Manhattan center whose mission is to exonerate innocent felons.
His page also links to sites devoted to advocating pretty-boy Peterson as a victim of the justice system.
Peterson begins his note, "For me, the amount of support we have received is just incredible. Those who have decided to reach out to our family have made such a difference."
He also thanks supporters for their "thoughtfulness and benevolence."
But despite such support, it appears he's becoming less popular with death-row groupies.
His weekly fan-mail load had dropped from three dozen letters to an average of two or three, said San Quentin administrative assistant Sgt. Eric Messick.
"We screen each letter for security reasons but not for intimate language — it's just too common from women who write," said Messick.
On his Web page, Peterson writes of his pen pals: "In every conversation among our family there is always the mention of your thoughts and letters. I am tremendously appreciative of your kindness."
When not penning trite thank-you notes, Peterson spends almost all his time in a fifth-floor barred cell that looks out to a narrow walkway and railing called a "suicide bar" — installed to prevent condemned murderers from throwing themselves to their deaths.
Peterson gets a hot breakfast, usually Farina, and a bag lunch with sandwiches, fruit and trail mix. Dinner is Mexican, Italian or a burger, plus a packet of sugar-free Kool-Aid.
"No one is allowed sugar, they've been known to ferment it to make prison wine called 'pruno,' " said Messick.
Peterson is allowed a TV, radio and CD player in his room and no more than 10 books.
Peterson has a handful of pre-approved visitors and gets 90 minutes in the concrete exercise yard three times a week.
But he appears to be adjusting to his bleak surroundings.
"It sure is tough here, but [Peterson] seems to be adapting as well as can be," Messick said.
Lamourie agrees that Peterson "seems to be adjusting OK," but also is "looking forward to fighting on appeal."
But Messick thinks Inmate No. V72100 will "be here until the day he dies."
www.nypost.com/news/nationalnews/51128.htm
