A death factory in Florida leads to another

Florida's notorious youth prison, the Arthur G. Dozier School for Boys, was so brutal that the state pays millions of men there for their suffering.

And it was carried out on Tuesday.

The 54 -year -old Michael Bernard Bell was at least the 10th former Dozier inmate that Florida killed. William van Poyck, who was executed in West Palm Beach in 2013 due to murder at a prison guard in West Palm.

Nine others remain sent there in the death cell of 34. Boys who visited the Dozier School in rural Marianna and her counterpart in Südflorida, the Okeechobee School for Boys, killed up to 114 people – maybe more.

Amazing statistics

These astonishing statistics raise the question of whether troubled teenagers dozier were far worse than at the beginning. The reporter of the reporter Leonora Lapeter Anton from Marshall Project The Investigative Criminal Justice was also published in the Tampa Bay Times.

Like some others in the death cell, Bell pleaded that Dzier brutalized him. He said they had forced him to fight against larger boys at least six times, put the results on the results and whip him with a leather strap until he bleeded into the torture chamber as a “white house”.

None of governor Ron Desantis, who rejected grace (as usual, without comment) or at the Supreme Court of Florida, which has become the most renowned and predictable death factory of the nation.

Bell's execution is a sign that should be ashamed of Florida, what happened to Docier. It tied Florida's modern record for executions in a single year, eight, eight by the governors Bob Graham in 1984 and Rick Scott in 2015.

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Desantis will have a new annual record for itself with a ninth fatal injection, which was set on July 31. He had left the office in six and a half years in six and a half years at the current pace after he had carried out 48 executions, more than any other governor, since the records were kept.

Bell was the 26th inmate, which died this year by execution, one more than the entire last year. The executions were in 10 states, with Florida eight of them or 30%of most of a state.

Florida's eight executions this year are as many as the next two highest states, South Carolina and Texas. No reason is given for the dramatic increase in the frequency of executions. According to the death penalty information center, 30% of fewer death rulings are imposed across the country across the country.

Public enthusiasm for the death penalty disappears how the juries are reflected. But Desantis' increases. “Law and Order” are powerful words in republican primary elections.

Guilt not questionable

There is no reasonable doubt that Bell committed the crimes for which he died and not to imply that the murders were justified.

He waited with an attack weapon for a man whom he incorrectly killed for the death of his brother and a companion in Jacksonville. Later he confessed three more murders and spent more than half of his life in the death cell – 29 years.

There is also no doubt that the state's own revenge murders do nothing to prevent murders. And there is every reason to assume that they are more likely to help to afford violence than understreams of society.

It is known that youthful brains are immature and that a child, as so many dozier boys did, can later be represented violence in life. Of course, there is no way to prove how this took place in Bell or another specific person, but it would be inhumane to ignore the possibility.

Bell informed the Marshall project that an employee had sexually attacked him. He said he saw rapes behind a building and in the bathroom and heard screams from other boys who were raped at night. The lonely adult on duty ignored or slept a large part of it, he said. Other former inmates told similar accounts.

Dozier changed him

“I know that Michael has never been the same since this Dozier School,” said an aunt. “This boy came home damaged.”

Artha Gillis, a forensic psychiatrist in California who studies 147,000 young people, told the Marshall project that the school taught the violence of the boys.

“I would say that it is definitely reasonable and plausible to say that the conditionation in this environment is exposed to a higher risk of enacting other people who were fatal,” said Gillis.

Bell was 15 years old when he spent four months in Dozier because he stole a car in 1986. He later spent three years in prison for robbery.

Dozier operated from 1900 to 2011, when it closed as a response to persistent evidence of blows, bonds, solitary confinement, rapes and death. Researchers then discovered human remains and 55 non -marked graves.

After the legislator apologized last year, it was authorized to repair up to 20 million US dollars for survivors who were at DOCIER between 1940 and 1975, and checks for $ 21,253.98 are now sent to 926 applicants.

This parameter of Bell, whose last words on earth were grateful to the condition.

“Thank you for not having the rest of life in prison,” he said.

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