ACLU: Kill Off The Children - But Make Sure You Let Killers Live

The ACLU in its infinite stupidity has again chimed in on the wrong side of the issue. This time it has to do with another execution. In their ignorance, they are again fighting to keep a convicted murderer from receiving the needle that he so richly deserves.

In 1983, Vernon Evens, Jr was convicted for brutally murdering 2 motel clerks in Baltimore County Maryland. The ACLU has decided to intervene. They do this, all the while strongly opposing ANY restrictions on the wide use of murder as population control and a method of contraception. Killing off the innocent for the sake of keeping killers alive. That’s logic for you.

Here are the facts of the case derived from an actual appeals court decision on his case.

Vernon Lee Evans, Jr., was hired by Anthony Grandison to kill Cheryl and David Scott Piechowicz. The Piechowiczes were scheduled to testify as witnesses against Grandison in a federal narcotics case. Grandison agreed to pay Evans $9,000 for carrying out the murders.

The Piechowiczes worked at the Warren House Motel in Baltimore County, Maryland. On April 28, 1983, Susan Kennedy, the sister of Cheryl Piechowicz, was working in Cheryl’s place along with Scott Piechowicz in the motel lobby. On that day, Evans, not knowing the Piechowiczes, entered the motel with the purpose of eliminating the couple on Grandison’s behalf. After a short wait, Evans shot Scott Piechowicz and Susan Kennedy in the motel lobby. Evans fired nineteen bullets at the victims with a MAC-11 machine pistol equipped with a silencer or noise suppressor. The victims died from multiple gunshot wounds.

Evans was arrested and charged with federal and state crimes. In November 1983, he was convicted in federal district court, along with Grandison, Janet Moore, and Rodney Kelly, of witness tampering and interfering with the Piechowiczes’ civil rights to be witnesses in a judicial proceeding. Evans was sentenced to life and ten years in prison, with the sentences to be served consecutively.

In 1984, Evans was tried on state charges in the Circuit Court for Worcester County, Maryland. Specifically, Evans was tried for two counts of first degree murder, conspiracy to commit murder, and the use of a handgun in the commission of a felony or crime of violence.

During the state trial, the prosecution offered overwhelming incriminating evidence against Evans through a number of witnesses. The most damaging testimony came from Charlene Sparrow, who was Evans’ girlfriend at the time of the murders. Sparrow testified that she accompanied Evans and Janet Moore to the Baltimore City Jail two days before the shooting. At the jail, Evans and Moore met with Grandison, who was awaiting his federal drug trial. Sparrow then inspected the reception desk area of the Warren House Motel. She reported to Evans concerning the people working there and the presence or absence of security features. Sparrow also obtained a room at the motel with Evans’ funds at his request. On the day of the murders, Evans told Sparrow to wait for him in the car behind the motel. Just before Evans walked to the motel, Sparrow looked inside the brown canvas bag he was carrying and saw a machine gun. Some ten to fifteen minutes later, Evans returned to the car, gave the smoking MAC- 11 machine pistol to Sparrow, and asked her to wipe it down. Evans had also told her that he would receive $9,000 “if he knocked both of them off.” Evans and Sparrow went to the mall that night to spend part of the proceeds from the murders.

Other witnesses also supplied incriminating testimony as to Evans’ central role in the murders. For example, Moore testified as to her and Evans’ visit to Grandison at the jail two days before the killings. Calvin Harper testified concerning the day of the murder and the two days leading up to it. Harper’s testimony included a description of Evans’ acquisition of the machine pistol used in the crime from Rodney Kelly and Evans’ statement that he liked the gun. Several other witnesses were able to place Evans in the motel lobby during the time immediately preceding the murders. For example, Etta Horne, who worked at the motel, identified Evans as the man she saw sitting in the motel lobby shortly before the murders. Helen Kondilidis, who had entered the motel shortly before the murders, also identified Evans as the man she saw sitting in the lobby.

The jury found Evans guilty of each of the crimes with which he was charged. The jury then sentenced Evans to death on each murder count. Evans was sentenced to life in prison for the conspiracy conviction and twenty years in prison for the handgun offense. These non-capital sentences were to run consecutively to each other, as well as consecutively to Evans’ federal sentences of life and ten years.

See a complete listing of his appeals and their decisions from my source here.

After 23 years of appeals, no court has found sufficient evidence to over-turn his death sentences. Yes sentences, 2 of them.

The ACLU can’t claim that their new poster child is an innocent victim of our vindictive society, so what is their approach now? They are challenging the method by which he will be put to death.

In a suit filed Friday in Baltimore Circuit Court, the ACLU, the Baltimore City Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and the Maryland Citizens Against State Executions said that procedures by the Maryland Division of Correction “dangerously call for administration of two exceptionally painful paralytic agents and … fail to provide for continuous administration of anesthetics …”

The ACLU also contends that the DOC uses an additional drug in the lethal injection that was not approved by the General Assembly. SOURCE

This man was paid to kill. This man killed in cold blood. There is no doubt that he committed this crime or dispute of the facts of the case, yet the ACLU and the NAACP are fixated on allowing guilty murderers to live while they advocate the ending of innocent human life.

We are entering a dangerous period of time. We are going to be in a position where a pre-natal exam will reveal potential birth defects and those children will be terminated solely because of these test results. Keep in mind that these test results have often been wrong or wrongly interpreted.

These same tests have yielded healthy babies to parents who were willing to have the child with the developmental diseases or defects. So what’s next? Will we be able soon to tell the hair and eye color of unborn children? Will we be given the option of aborting those children who will not be born with the correct hair and eye color? People, we are starting to tread into dangerous waters.

China mandates that a second pregnancy MUST be terminated. The only exceptions are if you put the child up for foreign adoption, or the child dies. This is the reason why so many people adopt Chinese children. And if you notice, they are ALL girls.

Our culture of death is hypocritical. We have laws that say if you commit murder, you get the needle, yet these murderers go out and commit the crime anyway. Then they get to spend 20+ years on death row on the taxpayers’ dime while their appeals (also taxpayer funded) play out. Then they know groups like the ACLU, NAACP, Amnesty International, and other loony leftist groups petition the courts on their behalf claiming that the death penalty is cruel and unusual. But these are the same people who will advocate the death of unborn children under the guise of choice.

Death is death. Question is… was it deserved?