HuffPost Live host Marc Lamont Hill, who in April tweeted happy birthday to his “brother,” convicted cop-killer Abu Mumia-Jamal, is commenting about the death of Billy Slagle. On death row in Ohio after being convicted of murder in 1988, Hill doesn’t believe Slagle got a fair shake:
Billy Slagle was not innocent. But he was still the victim of a system that failed him. He did not deserve to die. http://t.co/U80ZDPXutS
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2013
Slagle was a victim? What about the person he killed? That’s the “victim.”
Even the PROSECUTOR asked the governor to spare Billy Slagle's life. Yet no mercy was given by Governor Kasich.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2013
Billy Slagle was 18 years old, had an abusive childhood, and a history of substance abuse issues. http://t.co/U80ZDPXutS
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2013
Even the guilty deserve protection, humane treatement, and mercy. Poverty, illness, race, or gender should not render us death eligible.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2013
The above tweet received this response:
@marclamonthill Those things didn't get him the death penalty, the fact that he killed somebody did.
— Kathy H. (@rynlyn) August 5, 2013
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Hill’s tweets on this topic included this misrepresentation:
https://twitter.com/marclamonthill/status/364422228546301952
Read the article and it’s clearly stated that Texas faces running out of the execution drug not because they’re using it all to execute convicted murderers, but because the current supply will have to be discarded next month because it will have reached its expiration date, and no alternatives have been found.
One more comment from Hill:
Prison is the only form of public housing that the government has truly invested in over the past five decades.
— Marc Lamont Hill (@marclamonthill) August 5, 2013
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