YEAH A TOME ON THE HISTORY OF VIRGINIA MURDERING ITS PEOPLE by DALE BRUMFIELD, IS A REMINDER BUT WHAT WE NEED IS AN ACCOUNTING OF THE INCIDENT OF RICHARD BOGGS By William Thorpe

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The author Dale Brumfield, has provided us with a recount of Virginia's savage history in his recent CLOSING THE SLAUGHTER HOUSE book, a work on The Commonwealth of Virginia killing people. Any statement on history, provides perspective, as such Dale Brumfield's work on Virginia's practice of executions or killing people gives us that. When a society, State, or in this instance The Commonwealth of Virginia kills a person, the manner or process is subsequently given and ascribed a legal character independent and irrespective of the death fact, which exist for itself regardless and independent of process, so the only thing relevant about the death fact then is process, with its if outside of legality, a murder. As such accounting of the death fact is within and on the terms of process. The Commonwealth of Virginia murdered, Richard Boggs upon conviction of capital murder. Richard Boggs, a 21year old white male was convicted of the murder and robbery of Ms. Treeby Shaw, an 87 year old widow,from Portsmouth, Virginia, affirmed by The Virginia Supreme Court in BOGGS v. COMMONWEALTH 229 Va. 501 (1985). The subsequent execution of Richard Boggs by The Commonwealth of Virginia for the capital murder of Ms. Treeby, despite its revelatory existence as data point in Mr. Brumfield's compendium on Virginia's killing of people, is actually inconsequential within the specifics of the anti-death penalty debate, argument and movement, as intended by Mr. Brumfield.Instead what the Boggs incident does provide is the clear and unambiguous point, that a JUSTICE INFRASTRUCTURE, purportedly existing to distinguish legality, is actually a cover, a masquerade, exposing the savagery beneath Virginia's civilized veneer. In a January 19, 2023 work titled, NPR UNCOVERED SECRET EXECUTION TAPES FROM VIRGINIA MORE REMAIN HIDDEN, Chiara Eisner told us that the Commonwealth of Virginia virtually murdered Richard Boggs, because if a "legal" killing is a distinction of PROCESS, then the taped killing of Boggs by Virginia as revealed by Ms. Eisner was murder. Its this, incident, with this murder that we ask author Dale Brumfield, along with THE DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER, that their unwavering focus is also directed. Ms. Eisner's reporting revealed that those Virginia Department of Corrections prison officials tasked with the killing of Richard Boggs carried it out in violation of and outside of the defined process, that made killings of people by The State legal. Ms. Eisner tells us, (and I paraphrase) prison officials carrying out the killing of Richard Boggs were not in and didn't have phone contact with the Governor of Virginia, who at that time was Douglas Wilder, The first Black Governor of a State since reconstruction. As an aside and an irony, that the violation of the law occurred under the authority of Virginia's first Black Governor considering the central thesis of Mr. Brumfield's work, that Virginia's use of the death penalty was a mechanism of controlling its Black citizens is inescapable. What those tapes of the killing of Richard Boggs show is, how it was nothing but murder, because of the violation of THE PROCESS. Maintaining contact with THE GOVERNOR OF VIRGINIA DURING STATE KILLING OR EXECUTIONS IS MANDATORY BECAUSE THE GOVERNOR HAS FIAT AUTHORITY TO INTERRUPT AND CALL OF THE KILLING. Being out of contact with The Governor means the killing is occurring extra-judicially, outside of the process that makes it legal and without that veneer of legality, which for a subjective of a type of Virginia's history is nothing more.

By William Thorpe

I'm William Thorpe Virginia exiled me to the Texas prison system. I'm solitary confined at the Wainwright Unit and if you feel any kinda way about this work contact me by Securus email using the Texas prison number #2261982