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THE SANTA CLAUS KILLER
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In 1992, Charles Rhines brutally stabbed a doughnut-shop worker to death in South Dakota.


CHARLES RHINES is going to be executed in South Dakota’s death chamber for being a homosexual. It seems the jury in the case couldnt live with the fact that if they gave him a life sentence, he might have fun enjoying sex with other men. Huh?
An admitted homosexual, and murderer, it seems the jury was more pissed at the fact the defendant was gay in their quaint little “farming community.” One of the juror’s actually admitted saying such. . . Wait a minute… Huh? That’s right… and as if that isn’t a slap in the face of Lady Justice, the Supreme Court of the United States has outright REFUSED to step in and overturn the biased death penalty verdict and conviction by a jury clearly and publicly swayed by the man’s sexuality. 
Charles Rhines is going to be executed because he’s gay!
Of  course, there is an underlying murder that Mr. Rhines committed after being caught red-handed… burglarizing a doughnut shop by twenty-two-year-old Donnivan Schaeffer. As the victim pleaded for his life, Rhines slammed a knife into the base of his skull killing the victim instantly. Clearly it was an unspeakable act of violence, and it was done during the commission of a felony which made the defendant a candidate for the Death Penalty. 

First-degree murder is a Class-A Felony in South Dakota, punishable by life imprisonment. It’s the only Class-A (Worst Kind) felony in the state. According to the state legislature,  there must be mitigating circumstances in order to find a defendant eligible for the death penalty. Those cisrcumstances are pretty standard across the country. If a murder is committed by someone with a prior conviction of a Class-A or B-felony, or if the homicide was committed during the commmission of a crime (Like Burglary). South Dakota’s law actually outlines a sentence of death may be imposed by a jury if: “the murder was committed for the benefit of the defendant or another, for the purpose of receiving money or any other thing of monetary value.”
Clearly the crime meets the standard of the legislation. However, the jury in this case did not find such, instead sentencing Rhines for his sexual preference. Although it is said that Justice is Blind, this jury considered wether Rhines would be locked away having fun in prison with other males … implying he’d be having sex with them. So, they gave Rhines the death penalty to prevent percieved sexual behavior. This is evidenced by the fact Jurors sent the judge a note asking if Rhines would be housed in general population, or if he would “brag” to “young men” about his crime, maybe he’d even get married and have conjugal visits. They also had a problem with the defendant having a male cellmate. We know all this because myriad jurors made public declarations admitting that (get this) their homophobia warped their deliberations.




One juror said that sentencing a gay man to prison would be “sending him where he wants to go.” Another said Rhines “shouldn’t be able to spend his life with men in prison.” A third juror went farther: “There was a lot of disgust” in the jury’s diliberation room. “This is a farming community.”
So, this is an easy appeal, right? Bias is bias… yet, the Supreme Court didn’t see it that way…. ruling jury deliberations could be impeached if jurors were deliberating with racial bias. Thus the question must be asked… if racism can vacate a jury’s verdict… then shouldnt homophobia? America, I think we have a problem!
Story by: RJ Smith #TheRealRJSmith, #TheMasterofSuspense    www.rjsmith.net

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Wow, okay guys, well here I am just hours after seeing #CyndiLauper & #RobStewart on their North American Tour. If you have not see this yet, it may be the last time Rod or Cyndi come around. The performance itself was fantastic! Lauper took the stage in a mix of political statements and her top songs. But, the real show came when Rod took the black-and-white checkered stage, with lasers, awesome visuals on the big screens and great sound. Stewart was at his best. Look for the balloon drop near the end. I highly recommend this concert.

EVERYONE SHOULD READ THIS. My home cities of Miami Beach (South Beach), Fort Lauderdale and Key West are in trouble. The truth is, The Atlantic Ocean and waterways around Florida have risen and will continue! Our FLOODS & STORMS are no longer 100-year incidents… but occur every year now! In our mid-and-western states, our fields are suffering the worst draught in history, there is a water supply emmergency here in Florida. Our citrus farms aren’t producing plentiful bounties as in years prior. This is a huge problem because this state produces 90% of the world’s Orange Juice. Earth and most of the East and Southern Coasts of America are in serious trouble. We can no longer pretend Global Warming is not happening, look at all the disasters we’ve had over the last few years! Whether the planet is warming due to mankind’s activities on the planet or if this trend is a cyclical doesn’t much matter. It’s happening.

NASA has reported their satellite data has determined the ice of the Arctic is at its lowest point since 1979 and is quickly losing its perennial ice. As of June 2018, the ice-sheets have lost 621,371.192 (six-hundred and twenty-one thousand, three-hundred and seventy-one, point one nine acres… or the equivilent of one-million kilometers. The result has been an increase of water in the world’s oceans. The melting of the huge floating ice shelves and icebergsin the sea is predicted to raise sea levels significantly.

The rise may effect tectonic locations, subsidence of the land, tides, currents, storms, and so forth. Sea level rise is expected to continue for centuries. Because of the long response time for parts of the climate system, it is now estimated it’s too late to save low-lying areas … humanity is already committed to a sea-level rise of a whopping seven-and-a-hallf feet for each degree Celsius of temperature rise. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that the global mean sea level rise will continue during the 21st century, very likely at a faster rate than observed from 1971 to 2010.

When all of the remaining ice covering Antarctica, Greenland, and the glaciers around the world melts, sea level will hav risen more than two-hundred and thirty feet. (230 feet). The ocean would cover all of Earth’s coastal cities. Our land areas would shrink significantly with some cities like Denver surviving. But, with Manhattan, Long Island, Washington D.C. and hundreds of other low lyinig cities, survival as we now know it will be a thing of the past. The livable cities will crowded with disbanded American’s from across the country. Resources will be strained and the country could very well sink into a world of crime, death and diseases.

In Fkorida, natural areaswill be the first to go. After just one or two feet of sea-rise, substantial natural areas in coastal Florida… where low-lying cities meets the sea will all be under water. At two feet of rise, water will close in on Naples municipal airport. A few residential areas around Fort Myers and Cape Coral will take on water. in Pinellas County, on the Gulf, barrier islands and low-lying Clearwater and Saint Petersburgh, Shore Acres and the Tampa Bay will all become more than problematic. Bayport Park in Hernando County will be gone! Fort Lauderdale’s challenges begin to crystallize as some of its priciest canalside and ocean real estate is threatened. The mainland-facing side of urban Miami Beach will be  inundated. The sea and higher waters in the Everglades would flood the entire lower area of the state. Gravity-driven canal and drainage systems will fail as the seas rises, stacking up rainfall inland. In the early 1980s, nuisance flooding in the Florida Keys happened less than once per year on average. By 2030, with sea level up to 7 inches, catastronic flooding will happen thirty to eighty times a year —say goobby to beach regions, they will no longer exist.

We are setting up an unsurvivable disaster that our kids and grandkids have to deal. They will lose power as the GRID will be flooded. That means no computers, cellphones, televisions,  or anythng that requires electricity. Gas wouldn’t be produced, cars would run out of it, The Stock Market will crash, and eventually be flooded and the food chain will certainly be scarce while much of the undeveloped world will be wiped out from water or starvation. –  RJ Smith

The Real RJ Smith #globalwarming #climatechange

THE SKINNY ON DYING WHILE INCARCERATED

An inmate at Winn Correctional Center, in Louisiana, which until recently was run by the Corrections Corporation of America.

Sign Outside the Infamous 193-Year-Old Prison Sing-Sing

About a dozen inmates die each day, according to the Justice Department. 4,400 jail and prison inmates die each year… a tally not including executions which are infrequent, numbering in the dozens each year and adding up to just a fraction of all other inmate deaths).

Most deaths occur in state prisons, where more than 3,300 died in 2012 alone. The Bureau of Justice Statistics outline that State prisons across the country have the largest populations, accounting for half of all inmates placed in custody each year.

In local jails, about a thousand more inmates die annually, however… the causes of  deaths were very different from those cited in state prisons. Suicide is reported to be the leading cause of death for inmates in local jails, accounting for a third of all deaths. Heart disease is the second-leading cause of death. Horrible prison food often found to contan mice droppings, roaches and bacteria cause a lot of illness and deaths. Perhaps because of the soy-rich menu, cancer is the leading cause of death. Heart disease and other illnesses are listed as the cause in most other deaths.

New York State’s Sing-Sing Penitentiary

California’s 166-year old San Quentin State Prison

Deaths in local jails tend to occur relatively quickly after the inmates arrive. About one in three suicides takes place within a week of the inmate’s arrival; more than half of these deaths occur the first month. More than 70-percent of inmates who died in local jails were not convicted at the time of death. Prisoners are much more likely to die in jail than to escape.

So, why does this happen? In 2010, the National Institute of Corrections released a report on jail suicides, outlining possible explanations for the problem. In short, they said, jails tended to exacerbate suicidal behavior: Experts theorize that two causes for jail suicide exist: (1) jail environments are conducive to suicidal behavior and (2) the inmate is facing a crisis situation. From the inmate’s perspective, certain features of the jail environment enhance suicidal behavior: fear of the unknown, distrust of an authoritarian environment, perceived lack of control over the future, isolation from family and significant others, shame of incarceration, and perceived dehumanizing aspects of incarceration. In addition, certain factors are prevalent among inmates facing a crisis situation that could predispose them to suicide: recent excessive drinking and/or drug use, recent loss of stabilizing resources, severe guilt or shame over the alleged offense, current mental illness, prior history of suicidal behavior, and an approaching court date. In addition, some iprisoners simply are (or become) ill equipped to handle the common stresses of confinement.

A Convict locked inside a 6X9 foot cell. He is writing on a see-through tpewiter which lays upon his steel bed. Some men languish away for decades in this walk-in-closet sized prison cell. Studies have shown that the Unites State’s wide use of solitary confinement causes severe mental damage.

Stateville Penitentiary is a maximum security state prison for men located in Crest Hill, Illinois, not far from the city of Chicago. It is part of the Illinois Department of Corrections.

Bland had attempted suicide before, confusion that a Waller County assistant district attorney said likely explained the decision not to place her on suicide watch. The World Health Organization says that communication among different staff members is crucial, adding that additional screening and observation are needed.

Thousands of people are dying behind bars each year as the prison population has exploded over the last few decades.

There are 2.2 million people incarcerated in America’s jails and prisons, a number that is four times the population in 1980. Harsh sentences of the 1980s and 1990s helped foster a situation where an increasingly large number of inmates are older than 50, and state health-care spending on inmates has skyrocketed. The federal prison population has similarly climbed. In state prisons, a little more than half of inmates were sentenced for violent crimes; one in five is there for property crimes like burglary, while about one in six is being held for drug crimes.

All told, one of every 108 adults in the United States was incarcerated in a prison or jail in 2012, according to the Justice Department. That same year, one in 50 adults were on probation or parole.

 

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