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Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality
    #5426763 - 03/21/06 06:40 PM (18 years, 11 days ago)

http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2006/03/in_afghanistan.html

In a key test of religious freedom in post-Taliban Afghanistan, reports the Times of London, a court in Kabul is trying 41-year-old Abdul Rahman and could sentence him to death. His crime? Being a Christian. Rahman was arrested last month after his family accused him of having renounced his Muslim faith, an offense punishable by hanging under the Afghan constitution. The judge in the case, Alhaj Ansarullah Mawlawy Zada, called his country's constitution perfect, and said Rahman deserved punishment for "teasing and insulating his family by converting."

Though the Afghan constitution enshrines Islam as the national religion, it includes human rights safeguards forbidding inhumane punishments. Even so, the prosecutor in the case is pretty sure he'll get a conviction. Rahman "would be forgiven if he changed back," to Islam, he said, but not otherwise. "We are Muslims and becoming a Christian is against our laws. He must get the death penalty." After this verdict, Rahman will have two shots at an appeal.

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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: porcupine]
    #5426818 - 03/21/06 06:52 PM (18 years, 11 days ago)

I thought the U.S. was supposed to fix that back in '01. I guess the wild-eyed tribal elders of Afghanistan still run the show somewhat


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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: porcupine]
    #5426858 - 03/21/06 07:00 PM (18 years, 11 days ago)

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"..........He must get the death penalty." After this verdict, Rahman will have two shots at an appeal.



The appeals process in Afghanistan doesn't sound promising.


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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: Ekstaza]
    #5433218 - 03/23/06 08:00 AM (18 years, 10 days ago)

Fucking Islam pigs kill human being because he have choice to believe in what he thinks is his new faith why Christian crusades don't kill those Islam pigs when they have chance.Thats fucked up i think they laws are to much 16 century ^^


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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: SCOBYSNACKS]
    #5433348 - 03/23/06 08:52 AM (18 years, 10 days ago)

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Fucking Islam pigs kill human being because he have choice to believe in what he thinks is his new faith why Christian crusades don't kill those Islam pigs when they have chance.Thats fucked up i think they laws are to much 16 century




Fucking Christian pigs jail human being because he have choice to grow and smoke harmless plant that don't harm nobody.Thats fucked up i think they laws are to much 16 century


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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: Seuss]
    #5435180 - 03/23/06 04:58 PM (18 years, 9 days ago)

:blush: i think plants are different thing then someone life bob


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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: SCOBYSNACKS]
    #5435196 - 03/23/06 05:03 PM (18 years, 9 days ago)

Not when growing said plants can land you in jail for life. Practically the same shit.


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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: SCOBYSNACKS]
    #5435201 - 03/23/06 05:06 PM (18 years, 9 days ago)

I don't know, some people get extremely long sentences for having a small amount of herb, to the extent that it pretty much is their life.

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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: SCOBYSNACKS]
    #5435217 - 03/23/06 05:08 PM (18 years, 9 days ago)

nope you don't get killed by weed or i don't heard by life sentence for having weed


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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: SCOBYSNACKS]
    #5435353 - 03/23/06 05:51 PM (18 years, 9 days ago)

Maybe you should get out more...

http://www.norml.org/index.cfm?wtm_view=&Group_ID=4575

http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/st...0306?hub=Canada

http://www.bluebus.org/archives/20041118_man_gets_55_yea.php

http://www.mapinc.org/drugnews/v04.n1212.a10.html

http://www.erowid.org/plants/cannabis/cannabis_media8.shtml

http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/cu/cu56.html


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In 1997, there were more than 700,000 marijuana arrests in the United States--the largest number in U.S. history, and 87% were for possession, not trafficking. That same year, 30 people were doing life terms for marijuana. It is estimated that there are now about 60,000 people in prison or jail for various levels of marijuana offenses. Over 37,000 were cases where marijuana was the only drug involved, and over 15,000 people are believed to be behind bars for possession alone (not sale) of marijuana. These figures all grew while the president was Bill Clinton (the man who toked but didn't inhale). And all signs are that the current government of George Bush (the man who says he drank but didn't snort) is committed to intensifying such attacks even further.

In Alabama, cultivating marijuana can carry a sentence of life in prison, and a second conviction for selling marijuana carries a fixed sentence of life in prison without possibility of parole. In Indiana, "knowingly visiting a place where drugs are used" carries a sentence of up to 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine--effectively criminalizing all kinds of public and social gatherings.

A possession conviction can carry a sentence of 20 years hard labor in a Louisiana prison. Cultivating a single plant in your home can carry a prison sentence of 15 years in Missouri. You can get life in prison in Montana if you share marijuana from your plant with someone else. Other states where simply growing your own marijuana plants can get you life in prison include Oklahoma and Rhode Island. Federal penalties as well can get you life in prison for cultivating over 100 plants. In some states, the police can take your car if you are found with any marijuana in it. Countrywide, the "one strike you're out" rule means that a family can be evicted from federal housing projects if even one member is found with a joint of pot.




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EIGHT years ago Douglas Lamar Gray bought a pound of marijuana in a room at the Econo Lodge in Decatur, Alabama. He planned to keep a few ounces for himself and sell the rest to some friends. Gray was a Vietnam veteran with an artificial leg. As a young man, he'd been convicted of a number of petty crimes, none serious enough to warrant a prison sentence. He had stayed out of trouble for a good thirteen years. He now owned a business called Gray's Roofing and Remodeling Service. He had a home, a wife, and a two-year-old son. The man who sold him the drug, Jimmy Wilcox, was a felon just released from prison, with more than thirty convictions on his record. Wilcox was also an informer employed by the Morgan County Drug Task Force. The pound of marijuana had been supplied by the local sheriff's department, as part of a sting. After paying Wilcox $900 for the pot, which seemed like a real bargain, Douglas Lamar Gray was arrested and charged with "trafficking in cannabis." He was tried, convicted, fined $25,000, sentenced to life in prison without parole, and sent to the maximum-security penitentiary in Springville, Alabama -- an aging, overcrowded prison filled with murderers and other violent inmates. He remains there to this day. Under the stress of his imprisonment Gray's wife attempted suicide with a pistol, survived the gunshot, and then filed for divorce. Jimmy Wilcox, the informer, was paid $100 by the county for his services in the case.




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The war on drugs, launched by President Ronald Reagan in 1982, began as an assault on marijuana. Its effects are now felt throughout America's criminal-justice system. In 1980 there were almost twice as many violent offenders in federal prison as drug offenders. Today there are far more people in federal prison for marijuana crimes than for violent crimes. More people are now incarcerated in the nation's prisons for marijuana than for manslaughter or rape.

In an era when the fear of violence pervades the United States, small-time pot dealers are being given life sentences while violent offenders are being released early, only to commit more crimes. The federal prison system and thirty-eight state prison systems are now operating above their rated capacity. Attempts to reduce dangerous prison overcrowding have been hampered by the nation's drug laws. Prison cells across the country are filled with nonviolent drug offenders whose mandatory-minimum sentences do not allow for parole. At the same time, violent offenders are routinely being granted early release. A recent study by the Justice Department found that in 1992 violent offenders on average were released after serving less than half of their sentences. A person convicted of murder in the United States could expect a punishment of less than six years in prison. A person convicted of kidnapping could expect about four years. Another Justice Department study revealed that almost a third of all violent offenders who are released from prison will be arrested for another violent crime within three years. No one knows how many violent crimes these released inmates commit without ever being caught. In 1992 the average punishment for a violent offender in the United States was forty-three months in prison. The average punishment, under federal law, for a marijuana offender that same year was about fifty months in prison.

Even legislation aimed at reducing violent crime has been subverted by the legal underpinnings of the drug war. According to a report by the Center on Juvenile and Criminal Justice, California's much-heralded "three strikes, you're out" law has imprisoned twice as many people for marijuana offenses as for murder, rape, and kidnapping combined.






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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: Shroomism]
    #5435441 - 03/23/06 06:29 PM (18 years, 9 days ago)

Mark Emery could spend life in a prison

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Edited by Shroomism (03/23/06 07:30 PM)

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Re: Man arrested for becomming Christian, could receive the death penality [Re: ClammyJoe]
    #5436070 - 03/23/06 09:36 PM (18 years, 9 days ago)

someone was sent to jail in America for life for posession of two OUNCES of weed.

fuck Islam? Well then you'd better fuck America too. You CAN be sentenced to death for selling weed, legally, it just doesn't happen.

Now yes it's much more extreme that he's getting death for his religion, but many people get life for their religions in America, if their religious views involve the use of plants.

The guy I'm referring to had to have his leg amputated in jail due to inadequate care but eventually his sentence was overturned though. He was also a paraplegic. Using for medical marijuana. A corrupt cop involved in selling drugs testified that all the people that he knew that possessed 2 ounces were dealers, not users. The cop got shot and died.

Something like that. Look up Jim Montgomery.
Texas sent someone to jail for 93 years for growing one plant. There are several states that can send you to prison for life for just one plant, as well.
http://www.thehempire.com/index.php/cann...hibition_part_4


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