I’m a vocal proponent of the death penalty, and I often write about the inhuman animals that have been condemned to die, and the crimes they committed to deserve the death penalty.
As such, I get a lot of anti-death penalty commentors on my site. A lot of them (they are almost always women, and frequently from Western Europe) appear to be death row groupies — women who have fallen for these killers, rapists, and child molesters.
These women become pen pals to these deathrow inmates, often flying thousands of miles to meet them in prison. Many of these women fall in love with their new pen pals. A common theme is that they all believe their inmates are innocent men, condemned by a corrupt justice system.
One defense lawyer, who asked not be named, said some women, who might lead dull everyday lives, seemed to be attracted by the thrill of danger and the glamour of being associated with a convicted killer.
How pathetic. How sad.
But who are these women?
Agnes-Lisa from Frankfurt, Germany — Agnes-Lisa is a big fan of Ron Howard, who was executed in Texas on Oct 6, 2005 for killing a cop.
But that didn’t stop Agnes-Lisa from believing he was a good guy who was simply wrongly convicted:
Our history turned out to be something very different than I had imagined. It is not like I merely help someone. Instead, I found a very close and precious friend who helps me at the same time. A friend who I never want to let go.
During these past seven and a half years, Ron and I have gone through a lot together. In our letters, “we” have lived through seven and a half years of life in Texas’ jails and prisons,
Only when I sit in the visitation room, only when Ron enters, the tension and fear lessen, and the sun comes out. I feel at ease, it is almost like coming home. Texas death row has made me fear the authorities, wardens, the jail personnel. My friend who is being kept in maximum security, who is deemed too dangerous to be living, is my safe haven.
Wow. Agnes-Lisa, you are one very emotionally disturbed young lady. Please stay in Germany.
Then there is Lene from Stavanger, Rogaland (Norway) (also known as Cassi at LostVault.com, a prisoner-penpal groupie forum).
Lene is a rabid prisoner penpal, claiming that she writes letters every single day. One of her current Deathrow boyfriends is Lee Andrew Taylor (pictured at right).
What crime did Lee get “unjustly” convicted of? While serving a life sentence for Aggravated Robbery, Taylor fatally stabbed another black inmate multiple times with an 8″ home-made weapon. Taylor and one co-defendant had engaged in a fight with the victim due to racial tension between Taylor and the victim. Taylor was a member of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas.
Nice guy, eh? Someone you’d want your daughter to visit and make friends with in prison?
Lene has also befriended Bobby Lee Hines.
Bobby had a long juvenile history of crime, including beating up an 80-year old lady from his church. He had just been released to a 10-year probation for burglary of a building, and then in the same month (Oct of 1990), Bobby robbed and murdered 26-year old Michelle Wendy Haupt. She was stabbed repeatedly with an ice pick and strangled with a cord inside her apartment in Dallas. Hines was staying next door to Haupt, with the complex’s maintenance man, who had master keys to all units. Items from her apartment were found in his possession, and he had scratches on his face and neck from his struggle with Haupt.
Details of his crimes and the evidence against him found here.
Hines’ appeals have all been on the defense that he is mentally retarded…not that he didn’t do it…they don’t even try to claim that he didn’t do it. But that doesn’t stop his Lene from crying that he is “innocent” on her MySpace site:
Bobby Lee Hines is wrongfully convicted and has spent 14.5 years on death row for a crime he didn’t commit.
Sigh. How sad. How pathetic.
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UPDATE: the MSN MySpace site has been taken down. The pages probably exist in Google cache or the Internet archives; I don’t really care enough to look.
And if you are working on the “case” lol, the execution is inevitable. There’s a link below to the letter she keeps referring to on every board she can find, if there is any question about what side I am on. Obviously, not the murderer-loving side. Honestly, when do you find the time to investigate in between coddling murderers?
This is a sad phenomenon that seems to be the current trend. They all profess them to be innocent too. How insane is that? The ones from Europe don’t bother me as much as the American weirdos. They watch our news, they see the crimes committed, and they choose not just an inmate, but one on death row? They must not have any life whatsoever.
Left by DeaWelsh on November 21st, 2005 at 10:18 am