Death Penalty
Judge Delays Execution, Blasts ‘Insane System’ to Determine Sanity
Posted Aug 22, 2008 6:08 AM CST
By Debra Cassens Weiss
A federal judge has delayed the execution of a Texas inmate and blasted the “insane” system to determine whether he is sane enough to be put to death.
Jeffery Lee Wood, who sometimes spells his name as Jeffrey, was less than six hours away from execution when U.S. District Judge Orlando Garcia issued a stay, the Houston Chronicle reports. The judge appointed a psychiatrist to examine Wood and two lawyers to represent him.
Wood’s lawyers say he is delusional and thinks he is the victim of a Freemason conspiracy, the New York Times reports.
Wood was sentenced under a Texas law that authorizes the death penalty for accomplices to crimes that result in a murder. Wood was sitting in the getaway car when his accomplice shot and killed a gas station cashier.
Garcia said the state had argued Wood had to make a “substantial showing of incompetency” before a court could appoint a lawyer and psychiatrist to make his case.
"With all due respect," the judge wrote, "a system which requires an insane person to first make a 'substantial showing' of his own lack of mental capacity without the assistance of counsel or a mental health expert, in order to obtain such assistance is, by definition, an insane system."
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keng
Aug 25, 2008 1:33 PM CST
Good job Judge. You are absolutely right!
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Steve
Aug 29, 2008 9:13 PM CST
A Freemason conspiracy? There should be some checking done to make out if this guy was connected to any Freemasons in his area.
The Masonic Order has given the US 14 Presidents. A 15th was a member of a Masonic Youth Society. Most US Presidents are alleged masons.
In 1996, Thomas Hamilton committed the Dunblane Massacre. Hamilton had deep links to a Masonic circle.
In 1998, it was discovered that 200 Judges and over 1000 magistrates in the United Kingdom were Freemasons. Others wouldn’t say if they were Masons or not.
Tony Blair is a Freemason and so is the Pope (They shared a Masonic handshake in the Pope’s visit to the UK).Gordon Brown is a Freemason, according to many sources.
Out of all 12 of Israel’s Prime Ministers, 8 of them are Freemasons. The Supreme Court building of Israel has Masonic symbolism all over it.
JFK was assassinated on a Masonic date (November 22) in a Masonic area. The man with the most to gain, Lyndon Johnson, was a Freemason. He appointed Earl Warren (Freemason) to head an investigation with three other Freemasons on board (One a future president and another a current influential senator).
In 1776, a Jesuit professor known as Adam Weishaupt founded the “Order of the Illuminati” in Bavaria. In 1777, the Illuminati infiltrated Freemasonry and Adam Weishaupt became a Mason. They became a secret society within a secret society. Today, Freemasons are an incredibly powerful secret society.
The All-Seeing Eye is a Masonic/Illuminati symbol. On the US dollar, an all seeing eye is present. At the base of the eye is a code of roman numerals. When translated and added up, they equal 1776. The birthyear of the Illuminati.
To see who is really running this global conspiracy, however, we must look at the founder and icon of the Illuminati. Adam Weishaupt.
Adam Weishaupt was educated by Jesuits and became a Jesuit who taught at Roman Catholic canon law at a Jesuit university. He supposedly ‘left’ the Jesuits, but based on how the Pope is a Freemason, I believe his Jesuit ties were probably maintained.
The Vatican/CatholicChurch is controlled by the Society of Jesus, a Roman Catholic secret society run by a man known as “The Black Pope”. The Jesuits can be connected to the French Revolution, the wars in Europe, the Civil War, the Lincoln assassination, the Gunpowder Plot, the crusades, the inquisition, the “Thirty Years’ War”, 9/11, Oklahoma City, the Iraq war, Russia/Georgia conflict, London Bombings, Madrid Bombings, the Irish massacre, the Hungary/Serbia war, the Stalin regime, Vietnamese military Junta, and Communist Cuba. The Vatican/Jesuit network controls everything.
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