Monday, December 12, 2005

Cory Maye Case: Sickening Injustice

The Agitator: "Cops mistakenly break down the door of a sleeping man, late at night, as part of drug raid. Turns out, the man wasn't named in the warrant, and wasn't a suspect. The man, frigthened for himself and his 18-month old daughter, fires at an intruder who jumps into his bedroom after the door's been kicked in. Turns out that the man, who is black, has killed the white son of the town's police chief. He's later convicted and sentenced to death by a white jury. The man has no criminal record, and police rather tellingly changed their story about drugs (rather, traces of drugs) in his possession at the time of the raid. Cory Maye is now on death row in Mississippi." If this exact same scenario were to happen to my husband or myself, we would also be sitting on death row, b/c nothing would stop either of us from protecting each other and our child if we believed our home had been invaded. We would not own several guns if we didn't feel that way. How obscenely ridiculous is it that Maye received the death penalty for protecting his child and himself from what he believed was a home invasion? This is a complete miscarriage of justice b/c: "It's a shame when a cop who makes an innocent mistake dies as a result. It's worse than a shame when the homeowner who was the victim of that innocent mistake, and who shot the cop in good-faith and reasonable belief that he was shooting an intruder, is sentenced to death for it."
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