California is rushing to re-instate the death penalty, not so that wanton criminals can be kept off the street, but so that innocent men of color can be assassinated in the death chamber.

Kevin Cooper is a prime example of an innocent black man, who was targeted to provide cover for a crime committed by three white men who were allegedly federal drug informants. Joshua Ryen, the surviving victim of a massacre at his family’s house said the perpetrators were three white men and NOT Cooper. A neighbor who saw the perpetrators leaving the scene said they were white; The witnesses at a bar near the crime scene who saw the perpetrators, covered in blood, at the bar that night said they were white, Five jurors who were tricked by prosecutorial misconduct into convicting Cooper now believe he’s innocent and that the killers were white. Eleven justices also believe that there is overwhelming exonerating evidence.

So why is Cooper being executed for a crime he didn’t commit? Since he’s innocent, the only answer is that some government leaders get kicks out of killing blacks for crimes they didn’t commit. An execution is pre-meditated. The State of California does not have the right, under either the state or U.S. Constitutions, to kill an innocent man. Therefore, the execution is murder in the strongest sense of the word and every person with the power to stop the killing in the state government, from the governor to the executioner, is an accomplice to cold blooded murder. It is not excusable homicide when they know he’s innocent and they do know it.

California isn’t the only state that is planning to use the death penalty as a population control device to murder innocent blacks. Take for example the case of Mumia Abu Jamal, a reporter who probably knew enough to get in some officials face. The police kept arresting and harassing their prime witness to make her falsely testify. She later recanted and was arrested for daring to tell the truth. Their other witness wasn’t at the murder scene, according to everyone that scene. Will Mumia be killed by the State of Pennsylvania? Maybe. If he is, every official in that state should serve time as an accomplice to murder.

Georgia is also trying to execute an innocent man. . In Georgia, it doesn’t matter that Troy Davis is innocent. He’s just another innocent black ripe for the slaughter. When witnesses are forced by the police to lie but later recant their testimony as false and coerced, it should send up red flags that the government wants a man dead. Basically, there is no evidence other than the coerced false statements to connect Troy Davis to the murder of Allen MacPhail.

Under the principles established in the Nuremburg trials, every person in the system has the duty to stop the murder of the innocent. The principles of these trials free everyone in the system from following orders and procedures and give them a right to say “No” to killing Jamal, Cooper or Davis.

When innocence is irrelevant to the whether a prisoner is executed, then the justice system is broken and there is no justice in America. When the innocent are executed, the real culprits are outside of the prisons. The real criminals are the ones calling the shots. The innocent prisoners are sacrificial lambs. To execute Cooper, Jamal or Davis is to betray the American Revolution and the principles upon which this country was founded. The executions are themselves acts of treason against the United States of America