North Carolina Death Row Inmate Writes Letter About Life of 'Leisure'

Send him to Texas for the "express lane".

Why don't these prisoners work all day? They should work at least an 8hr shift doing something beneficial for society.

I can not even afford medical insurance and he get it free

That's why they should go back to busting rocks and working most of the day without any recreation, just work, why is it like it is, if you want to deter crime then stop making prison life so attractive. It's wasting our tax money and just plain stupid, our system needs reevaluated and there needs to be no sympathy for cold blooded killers!!!!!!!!!!!!!

What is the point of medical care for a man on DEATH row.

you get what you ask for. we are so concerned that we might hurt somone who is not guility, that we are willing to pay any price. now, if you try to change the system back to punishment instead of trying to make the prisoner a functioning member of society, it will be found to be cruel treament. we have made it so there is no reason for the animals to correct their behavior. change how they live, eat, sleep , health care, and inter-acting with others. all cells would one person cells steel on 3 sides, bars on front, concrete floors/ceilings. each with ss toilet and one ss bed frame/ 4" mattress. meals to be passed out in the cells. outside exercise would be a priviledge and of short duration in small numbers (lottery of who goes when) , basic education would be broadcast over internal radio system (no reward just personal growth) only reading/picture (mandatory) crime convicted of encased in ss wall behind plaxiglas. only basic healthcare free, major healthcare paid for by family and friends - provided by teaching hospitals (find out who really cares for them) in prison jobs may be available provided they are qualitified - earnings would go into trust fund for when they get out. standard fee/rates for maintaining paid out of their earnings. differnet crime types housed in same areas death row have 1 year for appeals, then sentenced carried out on day 366. (firing squad - all high tech auto - 1 gun 6 rounds -5 are dummines) after their release record sealed - caught again go to death row (crimes against humanity) except they get 2 years to convince appeals board as why not to be shot, if caught a third time - get head of the line privilledge for death row with 60 day limit. OR MAYBE WE JUST ELECT THEM TO A PUBLIC OFFICE - NOT MUCH DIFFERENCE EXCEPT THE ELECTED OFFICALS DRESS NICER

No money around for free lunch programs at schools, yet these creeps get hot meals? Feed them cereal for breakfast, and cheese and balogna sandwiches for lunch and dinner. Make them drink tap water as their beverage.

I worked at Central Prison as a nurse for a year and death row was the sweetest deal, and nicest part of the prison!! They are safe from the other inmates and spoiled. But... don't worry, the guy from your neighborhood who smoked some pot is getting whats coming to him in general population.

Transfer him to Texas

Two words---General Population.

"I laugh at you self righteous clowns and I spit in the face of your so called justice system. The state of North Carolina has sentenced me to death but it's not real," he wrote.

"North Carolina State Representative Paul Stam told WTVD that the letter is a travesty of justice. He said that it is more likely that Hembree will die of natural causes than of the death penalty."

No. This letter is not a travesty of justice. This letter is an honest assessment of a reprobate man of the absurdities and travesty of the judicial system which serves the lawyers instead of upholding the civilization (morals and ethics) of the culture and body politic that they allegidly serve.

That's domestic-imperialism for you -- the criminals are well cared for and the honest, working folk are taxed out of their homes and businesses to serve this corrupt socio-economic political system. Truth is the culture and body politic are exploited and victemized.

I have to salute this wretched animal for honestly writing of the clear absurdities of his treatment.

I regret that what this assessment is lamentably correct. It will take 20 years before the lawyers are through with him and have collected whatever is possible from the system.

To me this is fundamentally unconstitutional and unconsciencable.

He is right. Federal judges have passed so many rulings in favor of treatment of prisoners that the system has turned into something of a joke. Also, our legal system feeds off of itself by allowing ten years of appeals even in cases where it is cut n dry. Prisons are breeding grounds for lawlessness and the young kids are taught by pros who still directly control their operations on the outside even though they are inside. It is easier to buy drugs in prison than on the streets. Now that is something to think about.

I've worked in a prison before. Worked.. I quit because I could not work there and enforce such a life on CONVICTED CRIMINALS. It is such a shame that they love that life, but it is our own fault for providing such a cozy free place for them to spend their years. Our legal system is a joke.

When I was High School age... in the 70s... I lived in Huntsville TX, home of the Texas prison system. At that time, the prisoners worked. They did data entry work for State agencies. There was manufacturing that produced cleaning products used by the TX school systems. There were prison owned farms and ranches. Inmates learned skills that would help them after release. It was voluntary, you didn’t have to work if you didn’t want to, but most did work because they were paid small wages that allowed them to purchase personal items. The prison system actually turned a profit for the State, instead of costing the taxpayers.

“In 1980 federal district judge William Wayne Justice issued a ruling in a class action case, Ruiz v. Estelle, filed by inmates in 1972. Justice's ruling, which determined that conditions of confinement violated the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution (the prohibition of "cruel and unusual punishment")”

They should cut off his TV and the AC because of his letter. Then the other inmates will kill him for that!

I don't even know what to say, except that his death sentence should be carried out right away.

Welcome to the United States, where convicted murderers get three meals a day and free healthcare and young families working four jobs get evicted. Land of the free, home of the brave!

My reply to Danny Hembree
Dear sir, I wake every morning and can watch my children get ready for school and tell them good bye, I can feel the soft touch of a woman when ever I choose, I can go outside and feel the warmth of the sun or the chill in the cold winters wind, I can drive my car, drive my boat, take a crap and bath without some one watching me through a glass peep hole, I do not fear being shanked by people around me, and I to have a 70 inch tv to watch and can choose the program I wanna see....most important thing is...I can sleep at night knowing I never raped and killed a 17 year old girl just starting her life. Guess we both have it made =)

Yep got to love the people who made this all possible. The guilty live it up in life and the innocent just suffer.

Still think they all should be making little rocks out of big rocks, planting trees in the desert, or digging irrigation ditches by hand. Better yet, let them work in underground coal mines with hand tools. Two meals aday. Oatmeal in the morning and balonga in the evening. TV, AC all goes away.

Prison isn't supposed to be a place you want to go, but one to avoid