European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes August 1978 William Buckley this was a venture in cons Litu on a grisly a few observations 1 i have a letter from John Evans who his address As Box Holmon he advises me that he is scheduled to be electrocuted in the first week in and i have verified that this is and that the crime was Murd that Evans is and i have that Evans declines to Appeal his Case one More acknowledges his guilt and is prepared to he has not got into the business of clamouring for his after the Fash Ion of the late whose will was finally done in Utah last year athwart the Doest want to be because reasonable limits the of the general nation the eve worm Nixon sent to 1 Carey didst have to resort to device because Bis veto of the capital punishment Bill was sustained by a single voted capital candidate Allard Lowenstein Doest favor capital r recognizes the occasional a Nice id  2 the existing Law Jerome Rosen policeman in Leav boy and a 111 hours of court ruled by York devoted jew and life because he happens to find it person ally distasteful neither of these he believes it is the popular method of electrocution is Barbaric in that it deprives thousands and thousands of people of the Opportunity for a healthier and extended this can be done by using the organs of a person that is facing an unavoidable death by exe there is a better method of exec one that is far More because the immense Benefit to my proposal is that my execution be e on an operating table so that my vital ans can be removed for donation to the t number of people that Are so urgently ii i am writing to plead for your help i support in getting the legislature to Lickly enact a Law that will give a coned Man the Choice of the a Foreman i Mode of execution i have and the state of Ala Ami does lot pass Laws on a moments and is in any Case unlikely to pass e Law requested by the germ of a Good t  a convicted person be to Wilkins a Finne As she cannot understand the impulse to idolize the killer of her and she complains that the state paid for the Legal education of Jerry the jew while she is paying from her savings As a Secretary for the Legal education of her 20yearold Jerry the jew is actually up for it is generally accepted that reasons will be found to put off a hearing for the very Good reason that governor who is running for is poorly situated to Grant you against the recommendation o a Carey granted a parole after the Attica uprising to a convict who had killed a fellow Conict and in due course the paroled Man went on to kill two a few months Carey had told the legislature of the state of new which is elected to pass the if it Reen acted a capital punishment would simply Pardon everyone sentenced Black achievers must not forget masses our Mutual responsibility was the of the recent annual National Black i fund held in conferees addressed the question Black people the permanent under conference was addressed by Black urn minister Louis who i the conferees that too Many Blacks attain personal wealth abandon the leaving them to fend for Colum co finally or skin is you Are constantly aware of that and youre the target of abuse and he whether you Are in a suburban ranch Home or a City your taste of music will elicit response from the it will Arent those Blacks noisy people some lib eral Friend will proclaim How colourful or spirited you even the most inno cent of Whites can listen to and repeat the Pat phrases and snap group judgments that stereotype even among it is fashionable to urge that the Black Community bring a better and More responsible behave is about among its since the unfairly or is judged by the conduct of in such a judgment is Burden some on the but in our imperfect it has an just As Whites seem to forget the decent and adult behaviour of a thousand negroes in the criminal act of Blacks have berated the negro whose behaviour seems inconsiderate or exploitative in racial terms As having Vio lated his responsibility to the upward mobility and improvement of the race fitments themselves in their poverty and it was Farrakhan assertion that these Middle class Blacks became so Happy with the status symbols of the Good so enamoured with being in the company of privileged people and near to those at the that they forget their re the question has surfaced in private Dis Cussion circles whether a can retain Black at the heart of the question is the suggestion that one Mot have come bom the Depths of poverty to have had a genuine Black sex in whether you Are there will be among us negro just As there Are slumlords who Arffa but How much of their Lack of i the living conditions of their ten to just being stingy or being White or Black no one can i claim that ones race or previous it condition is a reliable predictor of i it is a human certainty have Good and bad people of the Black who does not care plight of other human beings or i prove men of society As a whole Tea deserving of Community support Tatj other but the Issue is not any Blacks moving up out of poverty i move one out of american s has a history of differential Ward whatever their its As difficult for a Black d lawyer to Flag a taxi in certain i hoods As it is any poor t currency of race Wii abandon the civil rights struggle there is a race problem in an cause they Are example of self Are living in a pitiable world i Sion and the purposeful efforts Whites to overcome invidious j Lions have always been More Gle to insure a few but a struggle i conditions that systematically pie of equal Opportunity and Standardo a Pinkem up raid in the r umm sum