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Living Memory
Remember when? Sometimes that is how it happens, at others it’s ‘he did that’ or ‘she said this.’ These things occur during family...

Scott
Aug 14, 2021


Loss & Love
This is a story of friendship, love, betrayal, condemnation, absence, reunion, redemption, acceptance, loss and love again. Love changes...

Scott
Mar 2, 2021


Observations
What one can observe on any given day within the confines of a pod on Death Row in North Carolina would, I think, both confuse and...

Scott
Jan 3, 2021


ESSE QUAM VIDERI
Esse Quam Videri This was what was prominently displayed behind the judge as I endured the tedious boredom that accompanied my weeks...

Scott
Nov 28, 2020


Ponder This (Part 1)
This post is part of an ongoing series: Part 2: Harmless Error Part 3: Reasons Why These are the women and men who currently reside on...

Scott
Jan 27, 2020


Take That Moment
What would you say to someone, if you thought it was the last time you see them? I guess it would also depend on whether it was a general...

Scott
Mar 31, 2019


Sed Quis Custodient Ispos Custodes
Connick v. Thompson, October 16, 2010 officially gave credence to, and legitimized, what has been the unspoken but long known and...

Scott
Mar 17, 2019


Perspectives on a Connotation
Absurdities come with existing on Death Row. I do not mean all the usual antics you would expect of the depraved and mentally challenged...

Scott
Feb 18, 2019


Brief Interludes
Routines, schedules, compliance ... The institutionalization of an independent mind, a life. No matter an individual's will to resist,...

Scott
Jan 16, 2019


Friendship
"Freund" has always be a difficult concept for me. It is expressed to us initially as other describe and explain, but as we begin to...

Scott
Nov 16, 2018


John Grisham and the Death Penalty
On October 14th, an opinion piece by the best-selling author John Grisham was published in the Raleigh newspaper News & Observer and it...

Scott
Oct 25, 2018
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