RICHARD CARTWRIGHT EXECUTED!

[missingjr]

i tried posting last night and was unable to. maybe this will go through. my heart thoughts and prayers go out to richs family. for those that took his life, you will stand before god and you will be judged. you may have taken this mans life but you didnt take his soul.

[polly]

may you now rest in peace:

[oztash]

Rest in peace Rich..
To Ricky and Irene, please know that many many people are devistated by the murder of Richard, and the terrible lose for little rickky...

I will always remeber richard and his writting that opened my eyes to the terrible state of this world, and will pray for his daughter and mother..

Love from my family to yours.

Richard your now free to fly and with our hevenly father, and one day in the future, you will again hold your daughter in your arms..

Tasha

[catskillz]

Rest in peace.

Much strenght to irene, ricki and all involved.

Best catz

[Ninidi]

Rest in Peace, Richard.

As it is custom in Germany when an innocent man, woman or child is murdered I will lit a candle this evening and put it in our window. It will shine for you and your family!

[Lili]

May the angels watch over you dear Richard

[moghirl]

Oh, this is just so, so wrong Texas you are a mad, bad, sad place. I will never set foot in the USA whilst the death penalty is still in operation. Rest in Peace now Rich you are as free as a bird fly high and rejoice in your liberty. May god forgive them ....

[CCADP]

Former Chicagoan executed in Texas

May 20, 2005

BY MICHAEL GRACZYK
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HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- A former mechanic from Chicago was executed Thursday for the robbery and fatal shooting of a Corpus Christi man.

In a final statement, Richard Cartwright thanked his friends and family for their support.

''I want to apologize to the victim's family for any pain and suffering I caused them,'' he said. Then he urged his fellow Death Row inmates to ''just keep your heads up and stay strong.''

His mother, a sister and three friends were among the witnesses, some of them cried after he sputtered and gasped a couple of times.

''They killed a good man, an excellent man,'' his mother, Irene Rekitzke, said after he was pronounced dead at 6:16 p.m. ''Thank you God for taking him away from all this.

There were no witnesses from the murder victim's family.

Cartwright, 31, was the eighth Texas prisoner put to death this year and the second in as many days.

He was one of three men who duped Nick Moraida into thinking they were gay men offering to share beer with him at a beachfront park along Corpus Christi Bay in 1996. Instead, Moraida was stabbed then shot to death while being robbed of his watch and wallet containing between $60 and $200. His assailants hoped to use the money to buy drugs and alcohol.

Moraida's body was spotted by two fishermen the next morning.

Justices reject late appeal

Kelly Overstreet, 27, and Dennis Hagood, 28, are serving long prison terms. They agreed to plea bargains and testified against Cartwright.

Less than an hour before his scheduled lethal injection, the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a late appeal in which Cartwright's lawyers argued he was condemned by a Nueces County jury because of testimony Overstreet now insisted was false.

Overstreet originally placed much of the blame for the shooting on Cartwright, but in a written statement to Cartwright's lawyers earlier this month, Overstreet said he was ''upset at being turned in by Hagood and Cartwright.''

''I intentionally made Cartwright out to be the bad guy out of spite when in fact I am the one who was at the forefront of all events,'' Overstreet wrote.

Defense: He feared retaliation

In the appeal to the Supreme Court, Cartwright's attorneys argued that jurors relied on inaccurate information at the trial. And while not denying Cartwright fired the shots that killed Moraida, 37, the appeal said Cartwright participated in the robbery-slaying under duress because he feared retaliation from Overstreet, who had a reputation for violence.

''At most he merely followed orders from a violent person whom he was afraid of and who had already threatened him,'' the appeal said.

State attorneys argued it was ''incredible'' that Cartwright, armed with a gun, felt threatened by Overstreet, who had a knife. They also said Overstreet's new statements, which they called ''inherently unreliable,'' did ''nothing to establish actual innocence'' or undermine Cartwright's guilt.

''No credible explanation has been given as to why Overstreet waited eight years to come forward with his testimony,'' the Texas attorney general's office said in its response to the high court.

''I am just another statistic in the dubious title held by the State of Texas -- death penalty capital of the world,'' Cartwright, who declined to speak with reporters, wrote on an anti-death penalty Web site. ''There are many reasons that this is wrong, not the least of which is that I did not commit the crime for which I was convicted and sentenced to death.''

Mark Skurka, the trial prosecutor, said Cartwright ''was a mean guy, a hard guy.'' Cartwright previously had a two-year jail term in Illinois for a drug conviction.

Just before his trial, Cartwright wrote letters from jail to his partners urging them to all agree on a single story. The letters were intercepted by authorities.

''They were very incriminating,'' Skurka said. ''That helped hang him. We had the co-defendants, the accomplices, and we had to have corroborating testimony, and he provided it.'' AP

[CCADP]

from MoDAWG

[Lili]

Tracy has asked me to post the letter I've send to Texax governor this morning. This is not the first letter I've sent him, and surely wouldn't be the last!
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Good morning America, good morning Mr.Perry

Hi, it's me again!

This time I am not asking or begging for anything. Just want to tell that I am glad for you Mr. Perry and all good people of Texas, that when you wake up this morning and walk down the streets you will feel safer and more protected, now that you've killed Richard Cartwright.

Bravo! You've made this world a better and happier place murdering Richard by injection and all those small children in my country, Iraq, and other places by bombs. "What a wonderful world" you've created! Enjoy your morning coffee!

Richard is gone to a better place. Here are still his little beautiful daughter, his brave and loving Mom to continue bearing the punishment!

Just have a quick look at this link:
ccadp.proboards40.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=cases&thread=1116424228&start=0

Huh, made your coffee taste bitter,,sorry for that inconvenience..

See how many people all over the world are grieving and shedding tears for this man and his family? Do you think if you were to die (please note, it is not my wish at all!) same would happen? No, deep down your hart you know that only your family and friends would be really touched. I feel sorry for you Mr. Perry!

To be continued..



With no regards,

Lili

Belgrade, Serbia
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Now I see I made some grammar and spelling mistakes, but I really don't care..

btw, you are not supposed to write to governor if you are not from USA..as the home telephone is required filed I've entered phone number of Microsoft office ..

[CCADP]

Another TEXECUTION. Texans, are you PROUD???

Texecution: (noun) 1.) An execution in the State of Texas;
2.) An execution with little or no hope of reprieve.
[ See also: Texecuted (verb) and Texecutioner (noun) ]
(Dave's definition for our Texecuted phrase )...

Its not facetious.

Its just SO true....

Rest in Peace Richard - you made a difference.

[CCADP]

This poem by Jorge Cordova, executed in 1999; speaks to the mood surrounding the Texecution/Murder of Richard Cartwright last night.

In honor of both Jorge Cordova and Richard Cartwright; both murdered by the State of Texas; I present this poem :


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"Death By Law Is Not The Solution..."
« Thread started on: Today at 08:03am »<br>KING'S ANCIENT FLAW
A poem by executed death row prisoner Jorge Cordova
www.ccadp.org/jorgecordova.htm

DEATH BY LAW IS NOT THE SOLUTION
FOR WITHIN THE HEART BREEDS CONTEMPT AND REVOLUTION
ONE MAN KILLS, ANOTHER DIES,
WHILE THE STATE CREATES A NEST OF LIES:
"KILL HIM, KILL HER, SLAUGHTER ALL,
AND SOCIETY WILL BENEFIT OVERALL!"

THE MAN ON THE STREET LIVES HAND TO MOUTH,
IN THESE CONFEDERACY STATES OF THE SOUTH;
THE MAN IN HIS CASTLE WITH HIS BELLY FULL,
TAKES ALL HIS SUBJECTS FOR A FOOL:
"JOIN ME IN THE TRIUMPH TO SLAUGHTER THE BEAST,
AND I'LL SURELY SHOW YOU HOW TO ENJOY A FEAST!"

WITHOUT ANY POWER OR KNOWLEDGE OF WORDS,
THE PRISONER POET IS SURROUNDED BY SWORDS.
HIS CONQUERED BODY, BURIED AND SLAIN,
BUT HIS SPIRIT HE KNOWS, NO DESPOT WILL GAIN;
THO' A THOUSAND LASHES WILL BRING FORTH SORROW,
THE RESILIENT SPIRIT, ONLY THINKS ON THE MORROW.

FROM THE JAWS OF THE LION, HE'S NO STRENGTH TO RUN FREE,
AND WITH GRIP OF ITS CLAWS, ONE CAN SURELY AGREE;
WITH NO RELIEF IN THE HALLS, NO RECOURSE IN THE LAW,
BUT THE DESPOT KNOWS ONE THING, A KING'S ANCIENT FLAW:
WHEN THE PEASANTS ARE RALLIED,
WITH PITCHFORKS HELD HIGH,
TO MOUNTAINS HE'LL HARRY, WITH A FAINT AND A SIGH.

Jorge Cordova was executed under "King" George W Bush

[freerob]

Dear Rich,

Such a dreadful and wasteful loss.

God Bless You.

[sclcookie]

Texas can't even get his age right. Rich was 35 years old.

I'm adding this and more to Rich's last Uncensored:

I know everyone is anxious to hear about yesterday. I’m going to give you a short little something right now. I have a lot to say, but this is just going to be a short summary at the moment.

I had my last visit with Rich yesterday. He was so strong. He was a whole lot stronger than I was. Instead of comforting him, he comforted me.

He must have known how hard I was going to take all of this. I worked so hard to help save his life and feel as if I failed.

One of the last things he told me was “We did it”. He was talking about changing many many people’s views on the death penalty.

Hell, I didn’t think I did enough. I know everyday I would try to get his articles to new people and hoped that I would get it to the right people to have some influence.

I’ve been so angry about all these newspaper articles making Rich sound so guilty. I think the article that was up last night after Rich was executed did more justice. On reading it, you see where his co-defendant’s were lying. Though it still had him as guilty, reading between the lines, if you have some kind of sense, you see how innocent he was.

He did not shoot that man and was real sorry he was a part if the robbery.

Rich is, not was, is a good man. He would say he was selfish, but he was the most selfless person I’ve met in a long, long time.

more to come……..

hugggz,
Suzanne

[CCADP]

thank you so much for everything Suzanne ...