Life After Death: The Shocking True Story of a Innocent Man on Death Row

number is eight. Succeed and the lion carries you to heaven on its back. Fail and it swallows you.
    Please consider voting for Dustin McDaniel’s opponent, even if you’re usually not a big fan of the Green Party. Every vote McDaniel does not get is a message that you do not approve of what he’s doing. Dustin McDaniel is the heart of the problem. He is the driving force behind all that is wrong with this case. He will have the entire local establishment backing him. If there is going to be a difference, then you must make it. Please vote. Please send him a message. Don’t let him win. You stopped Fogleman dead in his tracks. Perhaps you can do the same to McDaniel.
    O CTOBER 16
    It seems like the World Series is being played later and later in the year. I don’t mind, for the most part. Baseball is a summer game, played when it’s hot and nasty outside—which is why the play-offs have that incredibly “special” feel when you see them in autumn. It gives them a whole different aura because it’s cool or cold and late at night—the exact opposite of regular-season baseball games. It causes that fluttery, excited feeling in the pit of your stomach that makes you giddy and happy to be alive. The whole world becomes simple, easy, uncomplicated. It’s like you’re a child again. I don’t want to know statistics or numbers and records. I just like the autumn magick. That said, November games are just wrong. October is perfect; November is too late. Baseball season should not be nine months long.
    Someone recently asked me if there were other innocent people on Death Row in Arkansas. The answer is yes. There are two, besides me. There used to be three, but one was executed.
    O CTOBER 25
    Halloween is this week, and
It’s the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown
is coming on two nights back to back. They’re airing it on both Thursday and Friday. Does time pass as quickly for you out there as it does for me in here? For me it seems like the month of May was just a few weeks ago, and the year went by so fast it’s stunning.
    At any rate, the ancient Celtic people called Halloween “Samhain,” which means “summer’s end.” That’s because they only recognized two seasons (summer and winter) instead of the four we have today. Halloween was the transition point from summer to winter. It’s also the time to honor our family members and ancestors who have died. In fact, that’s why it’s called Halloween. It’s a shortening of “All Hallows’ Eve,” which is what people call Halloween. November 1 is to honor the saints, and November 2 is to honor departed family members. In Mexican culture they have big “Day of the Dead” celebrations. Catholics walk through cemeteries saying prayers for the dead while priests sprinkle the graves with holy water. The Chinese set aside the entire month of August as “ghost month” to honor their dead.
    The archangel who presides over these things is Azrael. He’s commonly known as the “Angel of Death,” although I think that sounds a little scary to most people. Azrael not only escorts the dead to heaven but also helps the living get through the grieving process. We can also give him the emotions and states of mind we’ve outgrown, so that we can move forward. Azrael takes away fear, doubt, anger, worry, stress, and resentment. If it stands in the way of your developing a closer relationship with the Divine, Azrael will remove it.
    N OVEMBER 4
    As you’ve most likely heard by now, we’re going back to court. Jason, Jessie, and I will all be there at once, and a new judge will hear all the evidence. In the opinion handed down by the Arkansas Supreme Court, the judges pretty much slapped down all the absurd jabber that Dustin McDaniel and company offered. Someone described it as a “sweeping victory” for us. Of course, this doesn’t mean you’ll see any actions of honesty, integrity, or sanity come from the attorney general’s office in the near future. They’ll continue to do as they’ve always done. They’ll fight to defend a corrupt trial until the state goes bankrupt. The statement they released to the media says it’s their constitutional duty to defend the guilty verdict. Perhaps I’m wrong here, but I thought their duty was to defend justice. Their comment was pretty revealing.
    At least we no longer have to deal with Burnett. I never thought I’d actually be hoping that Burnett would win a senate seat, but when he did I breathed a sigh of