| SEPTEMBER/OCTOBER, 2004 |
| The Daily has published its sixtieth "Tipton" story. Click Here. It seems two capital murderers--Daniel Wade Moore and Ulysses Charles Sneed--had an altercation in County jail. I've discussed Mr. Sneed before on this website. If you're interested in knowing about Mr. Sneed, then try here, or here. He's guilty as sin of capital murder, and is in County jail only because he was given a second trial on a ridiculous technicality having to do with legally required editing of his confession for use in a combined trial. He's waited almost five years for that second trial, sitting in Morgan County jail instead of death row. Moore and Sneed both did their crimes in the setting of crack cocaine. Both murders were utterly senseless. Brutal. Cold-blooded. Sherman Powell wants Moore to be taken out of the general jail population, because it poses a danger to him. Powell also wants Moore taken out of jail to see a medical doctor because he's not sleeping well. But then, Sherman Powell also wants the judge to just let Moore go free, where he poses a danger to everybody, including himself. Sherman Powell is asking Judge Glenn Thompson to protect poor Daniel from those bad boys down at the jail. He's telling his friend Glenn that the poor boy just needs to be sent home, get him some Valium, and he'll be fine. The Daily published Daniel Wade Moore saying he hoped Judge Thompson will do the right thing and turn him loose because it's all been hard on his family. And purely as a favor to Brother Powell, Thompson might well turn him loose. But it won't be the right thing. It won't be justice. Instead, it will be the blatant flaunting of justice in the service of small-town politics. And by the way, Judge, it's been hard on our family, too. |