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Ledell Lee, d. April 20, 2017, Put to Death by a Dishonest Court

4/21/2017

 

Ledell Lee has been put to death
    By a dishonest court,
As justice hijacked bared its teeth,
    One stolen court seat short.

Tried and convicted, yet remained
    Much question of his guilt,
Incongruities unexplained,
    Doubt-thickened sludge from silt.

The trial which first convicted him
    Known faulty, if not fraud,
The evidence, untested, slim,
    But justice spared no rod.

Ledell Lee vowed his innocence,
    But lately Alabama
A-frenzy rushed to drive souls hence,
    The bitterest means of trauma

Called forth to open up the door
    Twixt this world and the next,
While death is proved no metaphor
    In legalistic text.

By a majority of one,
    And that the stolen seat,
Lethal injection swiftly done
    Proved justice can be beat.

Ledell Lee, silent, did not curse
    The men of that cabal,
Conspiracy of murderers,
    But said nothing at all.

The highest court in all the land,
    Itself a band of thugs,
Never impartial, lent its hand
    Administering the drugs.

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