Governor Bush has just signed the death warrant, for Johhny Robinson at Florida State Prison, on the 4th February and 6pm. Please keep him in our prayers and thoughts.

Kyla,

He will be in our prayers.

By the way, I posted the letter you and I discussed today.

Patti

KYLA YOU KNOW HE WILL BE IN MY PRAYERS

and in mine :(

Here is some information I just got in my email about him, I thought you would like to know Kyla.

softie


FLORIDA EXTERMINATION SCHEDULED - TAKE ACTION!

Johnny Robinson
6pm, February 4, 2004


Johnny Robinson, 51, is scheduled to be exterminated by the people of
Florida at 6 p.m. on Feb. 4 in revenge for his murder of Beverly St. George
in August 1985.
FADP is
awaiting further details in this case, including if there are any possible
legal actions yet to be taken.

Visit http://www.fadp.org/robinsonwarrant.html to read the Execution Order
and the case information from the perspective of the State.

Additional detailed (and regularly updated?) information is also available
at http://www.johnnyrobinson.us/



BACKGROUND INFORMATION

Governor Jeb Bush signed the execution order for Johnny Robinson on
December 18, 2003, thus ensuring him and his family a very merry Christmas
and dragging the family of the victim into yet another round of painful
memories and the false promise that they will feel better after Robinson is
killed. Yeah, right. No amount of killing will bring back Beverly St.
George, the victim in this case, nor could any killing equal her value.

Johnny Robinson and his co-defendant (who received a life sentence in
exchange for his testimony against Robinson) were both involved in a
horrible crime. According to legal records, the two men tell conflicting
stories. One received a lesser sentence in exchange for his testimony
against the other. Which one is telling the truth? The one who was the
first to agree to testify against the other?

Is RACE a factor? Johnny Robinson is an African American man on death row
in Florida for the murder of a white woman. He was tried by an all-white
jury in 1986. That conviction stood, but he was granted a re-sentencing
because the prosecutor had injected comments into his arguments that could
have inflamed racial prejudice among the jurors. He was re-sentenced to
death in 1989 by a jury of 11 whites and one black. Johnny Robinson was
tried in St Johns County. Between 1976 and 1987, 33 white people and 25
black people were murdered in the county. Three people, including Johnny
Robinson, received death sentences. All had been convicted of crimes
against whites. Robinson's appeal lawyers also raised evidence that in the
wider Seventh Judicial Circuit, within which St Johns is one of four
counties, murders with white victims were about 13 times more likely to
result in a death sentence than in cases where the victim was black, and a
black who kills a white is over 35 times more likely to receive a death
sentence than a black who kills a black.

It is clear that both defendants were present at the time Beverly St.
George was killed, and it is proper that both defendants be punished and
that society be protected from them. Imprisonment is severe punishment,
and society has been safe from these killers ever since they were
apprehended. Killing one of them almost twenty years later is both
unnecessary and a waste of tax payer dollars.


TAKE ACTION!

Please write a polite (hand written, if possible) note to Governor Jeb
Bush, asking that he adopt a consistent attitude with regard to the
sanctity of life. Ask Bush to commute Robinson's death sentence to Life
Without the Possibility of Parole, and that he do similarly for all
prisoners under sentence of death in Florida.

In a recent meeting with Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
(FADP), Governor Bush admitted that "You cannot have complete equality of
sentencing for every circumstance - this is not possible..." Remind the
Governor that Floridians want a legal system that treats people fairly and
equally, without regard to race, politics, money or geography. If fewer
than 1% of death-eligible murderers actually get the death penalty, then
Florida should resort to the alternative, Life Without Parole, in ALL cases.

And remember: We remember the victims, but NOT with more killing!

WRITE TO:

Governor Jeb Bush
The Capitol
Tallahassee, FL 32399-0001
phone: (850) 488-4441
fax: (850) 487-0801
fl_governor@eog.state.fl.us

PLEASE SEND COPIES (OR A LETTER TO THE EDITOR) TO YOUR LOCAL NEWSPAPER. IF
WRITING FROM OUT-OF-STATE, SEND TO:

Tallahassee Democrat
P.O. Box 990
Tallahassee, FL 32302
tdedit@taldem.com


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SENT BY:


Abraham J. Bonowitz
Director (FADP)

Thankyou so much for that softie. I am involved with some stuff happening for Johnny Robinson now, and I have to write up a petition, and was going to print all his legal stuff out, cause I wasnt very familiar with the case, but what you have written has just helped me alot, and now I can put it in email and send that out to everyone.