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Saturday, March 25, 2023

Victim Services

Victim Services

If you can't find, exactly, what you need call your closest victim's organization and they will help.

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Marcy's Law - 1 in 3 American now lives in a state with Marcy's law, giving crime victims meaningful and enforceable constitutional rights equal to the rights of the accused.

https://www.marsyslaw.us/about_marsys_law

Marsy's Story

https://www.marsyslaw.us/marsys_story

Victims' Voices

https://www.marsyslaw.us/victims_voices

Victim's Rights Laws by State

https://www.elitelitigationgroup.com/legal-resources/victims-rights-laws-by-state/

VINE the nation's most reliable and confidential source for updated custody status and criminal case information. Register and stay informed

https://www.vinelink.com/#state-selection

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline

Call or Text*: 988 Chat: https://988lifeline.org/chat

Battered Women’s Justice Project Call: 800-903-0111 x 1

Bureau of Indian Affairs Indian Country Child Abuse Hotline

Call: 800-633-5155

Childhelp National Child Abuse Hotline

Call or Text*: 800-4-A-CHILD (800-422-4453)

Chat: https://childhelphotline.org

CRIME STOPPERS USA - anonymous crime reporting, often with a reward

1-800-222-TIPS CSUSA.org

local chapters, here:

https://www.crimestoppersusa.org/programs/locate-a-program/

Cyber Civil Rights Initiative Intimate Image Abuse Helpline

Call: 844-878-2274

Disaster Distress Helpline Call or Text*: 800-985-5990

Female Genital Mutilation/Cutting Survivor Support Line

Call: 877-751-0880

IdentityTheft.gov

English: https://identitytheft.gov

Español: https://robodeidentidad.gov

Legal Assistance for Survivors of Sexual Assault (LASSA)

(844) 303-SAFE (7233), Option 1

love is respect (dating abuse) Call: 866-331-9474

Text*: LOVEIS to 22522

Mothers Against Drunk Driving Call: 877-MADD-HELP (877-623-3435)

National Center for Missing & Exploited Children

Call: 800-843-5678

National Center for School Crisis and Bereavement

Call: 877-536-2722

National Crime Victim Bar Association: Finding an Attorney https://victimbar.org/finding-an-attorney

National Domestic Violence Hotline

Call: 800-799-7233

Text*: START to 88788 TTY: 800-787-3224

National Elder Fraud Hotline

Call: 833-FRAUD-11 (833-372-8311)

National Human Trafficking

Hotline Call: 888-373-7888

Text*: 233733

Chat: https://humantraffickinghotline.org/chat

National Organization of Parents Of Murdered Children

Call: 888-818-POMC (888-818-7662)

National Organization for Victim Assistance (NOVA)

Call: 800-TRY-NOVA (800-879-6682)

National Resource Center on Domestic Violence

Call: 800-537-2238

National Runaway Safeline Call: 800-RUNAWAY (800-786-2929)

Chat: www.1800runaway.org

National Sexual Assault Hotline Call: 800-656-HOPE (800-656-4673)

Chat: https://hotline.rainn.org/online

Español: https://hotline.rainn.org/es

Office for Victims of Crime Resource Center

Call: 800-851-3420 TTY: 301-240-6310

RAINN (Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network)

the nation's largest anti-sexual violence organization

800-656-HOPE (4673)

ReportFraud.ftc.gov

English: https://reportfraud.ftc.gov

Español: https://reportefraude.ftc.gov

Safe Helpline (sexual assault support for the DoD community)

Call: 877-995-5247

Chat: www.safehelpline.org

StrongHearts Native Helpline

(domestic, dating, and sexual violence support for Native Americans)

844-7NATIVE (844-762-8483) Chat: https://strongheartshelpline.org

Substance Abuse & Mental Health Services Administration

National Helpline Call: 877-662-HELP (800-622-4357) TTY: 800-487-4889

Texas Crime Victims Legal Assistance Network

https://www.texasvictimnetwork.org/survivors-victims

The Trevor Project

(crisis intervention/suicide prevention for LGBTQ youth)

Call: 866-488-7386 Text*: START to 678678

Chat: https://thetrevorproject.org/webchat

Tribal Resource Tool:

Resources for Survivors of Crime and Abuse www.tribalresourcetool.org

U.S. Department of Justice Elder Abuse Initiative English: www.justice.gov/elderjustice/find-support-elder-abuse

Español: www.justice.gov/elderjustice-espanol

VictimConnect

(live anonymous referrals and support for victims of crime)

Call or Text*: 855-4-VICTIM (855-484-2846)

Chat: https://victimconnect.org/get-help/victimconnect-chat

Victims Engagement and Services Line

(U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement)

Call: 833-383-1465

Victim Resources Database (National Crime Victim Law Institute)

https://ncvli.org/victim-resources-database

WomensLaw.org Email Hotline

English: https://hotline.womenslaw.org

Español: https://hotline.womenslaw.org/es

* Message and data rates may apply for text hotlines.

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge

First published, 2001

The Death Penalty: Neither Hatred nor Revenge

From: Dudley Sharp, independent researcher, death penalty expert, former opponent, 832-439-2113, Houston, Texas, CV at bottom

Death penalty opponents say that the death penalty has a foundation in hatred and revenge. Such is a false claim.

In the US, a death sentence requires judges and jurors who have no connection to the case, the defendant must be presumed innocent unless or until found guilty, beyond a reasonable doubt, the punishment options are pre-determined by the legislature and judges nor jurors have any other options, but those passed into law, and is the only sanction with super due process (1), all of which negate revenge.

The pre trial, trial. appellate and executive clemency/commutation processes offer much greater time and human resources to capital cases than they do to any other cases, meaning that the facts tell us that defendants and convicted murderers, subject to the death penalty, receive much greater care and concern than those not facing the death penalty – the opposite of a system identified with either hatred or vengeance.

Revenge requires no guilt nor a crime. The law requires both, if sanction is imposed.

Unlike revenge, those directly affected by the crime are not allowed to be fact finders in a legal case.

Calling executions a product of hatred and revenge is simply a way in which some death penalty opponents attempt to establish a sense of moral superiority. It can also be a transparent insult which results in additional hurt to those victim survivors who have already suffered so much and who believe that execution is the appropriate punishment for those who murdered their loved one(s).

Far from moral superiority, those who call capital punishment an expression of hatred and revenge are often exhibiting their contempt for those who believe differently than they do. Instead, they might reflect on why others believe it is a just and deserved sanction for the crimes committed.

The pro death penalty position is based upon those who find that punishment just and appropriate under specific circumstances. Retributive justice, not too harsh and not too lenient, as opposed to revenge.

Those opposed to execution cannot prove a foundation of hatred and revenge for the death penalty any more than they can for any other punishment sought within a system such as that observed within the US – unless such opponents find all punishments a product of hatred and revenge – an unreasonable, unfounded position.

Far from hatred and revenge, the death penalty represents our greatest condemnation for a crime of unequaled horror and consequence. Lesser punishments may suffice under some circumstances. A death sentence for certain heinous crimes is given in those special circumstances when a jury finds such is more just than a lesser sentence.

Less justice is not what we need.

A thorough review of the criminal justice system will often beg this question: Why have we chosen to be so generous to murderers and so contemptuous of the human rights and suffering of the innocent victims and future victims?

The punishment of death is, in no way, a balancing between harm and punishment, because the innocent murder victim did not deserve nor earn their fate, whereas the murderer has earned their own, deserved punishment by the free will action of violating societies laws and an individual’s life and, thereby, voluntarily subjecting themselves to that jurisdiction’s judgment.

1) Texas Death Penalty Procedures
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/11/texas-death-penalty-procedures.html

and

THE DEATH PENALTY: LEAST ARBITRARY & CAPRICIOUS:

Both the guilty & the innocent have the greatest protections
http://prodpinnc.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-death-penalty-neither-arbitrary-nor.html

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