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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    Karl Eugene Chamberlain is the inmate this article is about.

    Experience: I watched my friend executed on death row
    Let's see if The Guardian approves my post.


    The inmate referenced is Karl Eugene Chamberlain...... "Convicted and sentenced to death in the August 2, 1981 rape-murder of Felecia Prechtl.

    Chamberlain was a resident of the same apartment complex and had gone to the victim's apartment under the pretense of borrowing sugar. Chamberlain left the apartment and returned minutes later with duct tape and a rifle. Chamberlain entered the apartment, displayed the weapon to the victim, and forced the victim into a bedroom. Chamberlain taped her hands and feet, and sexually assaulted her. Chamberlain took the victim into the bathroom and shot her one time in the head with a .30 caliber rifle, then left."

    The link below includes a photo of the victim.

    http://www.cncpunishment.com/forums/...ull=1#post7941
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    Quote Originally Posted by Heidi View Post
    Let's see if The Guardian approves my post.
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    Why my post was deleted.

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    "I realize this may sound harsh, but as a father and former lawman, I really don't care if it's by lethal injection, by the electric chair, firing squad, hanging, the guillotine or being fed to the lions."
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    So it's against their community standards, and is "offensive," simply to lay out the facts of the crime?

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    What It’s Like to Be Married to a Convicted Killer on Death Row

    Rosalie and Oscar Bolin have been married for 18 years. Oscar sends her love letters and hand-drawn cards practically every day, and Rosalie has kept them all.

    “I couldn’t bear to throw any of them away. I couldn’t. I think the art of love making is probably in these cards,” Rosalie Bolin told ABC News' "20/20."

    But the couple has never lived together. In fact, they are only allowed to see each other twice a week.

    That’s because Oscar lives on death row at Florida State Prison in Raiford, Florida.

    Watch the full story on ABC News' "20/20" on Friday, Aug. 21 at 10 p.m. ET.

    Oscar is a convicted serial killer, who has been awaiting execution 19 years. He was found guilty of the 1986 murders of 25-year-old Natalie Blanche Holley, 26-year-old Teri Lynn Matthews and 17-year-old Stephanie Collins. Each woman was found dumped on the side of a road in the Tampa, Florida area, stabbed multiple times.

    But Oscar’s convictions don’t bother Rosalie because she truly believes her husband is innocent.

    “I never, never, ever thought for a second that he was guilty of those three murders,” Rosalie told “20/20.”

    In fact, for the 20 years, Rosalie has been on a mission trying to prove Oscar didn’t do what a court said he did.

    “The evidence to me doesn’t support a conviction. It does not. Oscar Bolin, for me, has not received a fair trial,” she said.

    Rosalie, who is a full time licensed private investigator and mitigations specialist on other cases, first met Oscar when she was working as a lawyer’s assistant assigned to his case over 20 years ago.

    Though at the time she was the wife of a prominent Tampa attorney and lived a lavish lifestyle with their four young daughters, she wanted more from her own marriage, and Oscar caught her eye immediately.

    “A door opens. There's this young man standing there. His back is towards me and he turns around. He says, 'Who are you?' I said, ‘I'm here to help you,’ and I think I said, ‘I'm your angel,’” Rosalie told “20/20” about their first meeting in an interview that first aired Nov. 1996.

    Over a two-year period, Oscar and Rosalie became close. Rosalie said she would bring him depositions and ask him to underline things that were inconsistent. She said the endless hours of study leaded her to the conclusion that he was innocent.

    “This was not a situation where she came in naïve or ignorant to the system or the circumstances,” Oscar told “20/20” in 1996.

    Rosalie’s husband divorced her and he was given primary custody of their four young daughters, then-aged 6 to 14, while she kept parental rights and liberal visitation. She and Oscar then married, not only out of their growing love, but also in a sort of legal maneuver. They hoped the marriage would bring more media attention.

    ABC News’ “20/20” was there for the wedding in 1996. Oscar and Rosalie exchanged vows over speaker phone while Rosalie wore her wedding dress and a photo of Oscar stood in for him. Instead of a honeymoon, the newlywed couple was in a courtroom when Oscar was given a death sentence for one of the murders.

    Almost two decades later and after numerous appeals and convictions totaling seven murder trials in all, Rosalie still supports her husband, who she drives to see twice a week.

    “He doesn’t belong there. He just doesn’t, and when you know someone’s innocent, it’s the worst place to be, you know? And when you can’t do anything to help them,” Rosalie said.

    Despite the fact that Oscar spends 23 hours a day by himself in a six-foot by nine-foot cell, Rosalie said he is a wonderful husband, though not a traditional one.

    “I can’t ever expect him to change the oil in my car or take the garbage out or … go to the movies,” Rosalie said. “It’s none of those things … He puts me on an emotional pedestal, you know. He listens. He’s there, completely, one hundred percent. He’s not distracted … Nothing’s more important than I am.”

    When it comes to physical intimacy, there are no conjugal visits allowed on death row, so Oscar and Rosalie have never consummated their relationship. But Rosalie said it doesn’t matter to her.

    “I find it very interesting why people would be interested in my sex life,” Rosalie said. “It’s no one’s business, and you know, that’s not part of our relationship.”

    As a licensed private investigator, Rosalie is working to help her husband and others who claim they are innocent of their crimes.

    “I just want people to listen that there are innocent people who are wrongfully convicted. It happens,” Rosalie said.

    But Oscar did plead guilty to kidnapping and raping a woman at gunpoint 27 years ago. When police came to arrest him for the murders of the three young Tampa women, he was in Ohio serving 25 to 75 years in Ohio for kidnapping and rape.

    “I was a very angry man 27 years ago. Twenty-seven years later, would I do the same thing? No. I have learned a few things since then,” Oscar said.

    “Oscar did accept responsibility. He pled guilty to that crime,” Rosalie said. “And I believe – ‘cause I know Oscar very well – if he had committed these three murders, he would have pled to something other than death. And never did that. He’s always professed his innocence.”

    Rosalie and Oscar blame investigators for putting him on death row. Oscar can’t say where he was on the nights of the three murders, but he strongly denies killing anyone.

    In the next few weeks, Bolin will have two new hearings: one about a claim that another serial killer confessed to one of the murders and the other about whether the work of a discredited FBI agent should have an impact on Bolin's convictions.

    “I started this back on February the third 1995, and I’m going to finish it. I will finish this,” Rosalie said. “I don’t know how my story will end but it can never be said in the text that I didn’t try.”

    http://abcnews.go.com/US/married-con...ry?id=33181075
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    British pen pal visits US killer granted stay of execution

    A British man who has written to a convicted killer in the US for 25 years is visiting his pen pal.

    Jan Arriens, from Bishop's Castle in Shropshire, planned to visit Mike Lambrix, who was set executed on 11 February.

    Lambrix - who was sentenced to death for the murder of a couple in Florida in 1984 - was given a stay of execution last week.

    Mr Arriens says he will now be travelling with renewed optimism.

    "I'm looking forward to the trip now, whereas before it was really a bit of an ordeal and very trying," he said.

    "Now I can go in a totally different frame of mind, be much more positive and share things with him that in a way wouldn't have been possible otherwise."

    Stay of execution

    The Quaker-founded LifeLines supports prisoners on death row through letters and hopes Lambrix's death sentence will be dropped.

    "Anything is possible at this stage. The likelihood of execution has decreased, but it's still very real," Mr Arriens said.

    Mr Arriens, who last saw Lambrix 12 years ago, said he almost cancelled the trip after the execution date was put back, but felt it was important to carry on with his previous plans.

    "I think that at this sort of time suddenly people become much less news-worthy and he could feel very isolated, so I thought it was precisely the time to stay in touch with him and keep supporting him," he said.

    "He's been through some very difficult days and experiences, and I'll be interested to talk to him about that - how he's coped with all the pressures on him and what it's meant to him in terms of the meaning of life."

    http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-shropshire-35516300
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    I knew there was a reason I couldn't stand the Quakers (Friends). In 1991, when I was in high school, they came and gave a speech on how to dodge the draft. That wouldn't be so bad if it wasn't REQUIRED attendance. (Deerfield Academy, Deerfield, MA) I walked out and caught quite a bit of shit for it. I haven't liked them since and one must remember that they are the cause of the modern penal screwup. It was the FRIENDS that got the idea that if you put someone alone in a room with a bible he would recognize the error of his ways. And so to this day we have men proclaiming to the parole boards and any anti that will write it down that they have found Jesus and they are above all of us; that they don't ever believe in killing. I say screw the damn Quakers and I'll be the first to scream "We Shall Overcome" at their pacifist asses with a barrage of eggs and used toilet paper.

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    Years ago I used to chat online on face party to a uk lady called Sandie, this was around 2001 I think. We chatted about all kinds of things including her attraction to guys on death row. At the time I dismissed it as the feelings of a lonely, caring lady, still do in a way, although I do question it. Imagine my surprise that she is on the Internet and has made headlines for her love of some of these men.

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    Video from this link is about a group of people in the UK that write to death row inmates.

    https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-engla...ath-row-inmate

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