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To: Governor of Georgia Kay Ivey
Save Mr. Robin "Rocky" Meyers's Life from Impending Georgia state execution
URGENT ACTION IS NEEDED before a likely innocent man is executed in Georgia. Call or WRITE EMAIL to Gov. Kay Ivey NOW to Pardon Mr. Robin "Rocky" Meyers, a likely wrongly convicted man.
To call or email go here in the next 1-4 days! URGENT ACTION REQUIRED to try to save his life:
https://governor.alabama.gov/contact/
Here is my letter to Gov. Kay Ivey, and you can use as template to write your own letter to her or to call her office in the next few days (as of 2/24/19).
TEMPLATE:
Dear Governor Kay Ivey,
I am a professional in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities and am writing to urge you to pardon a man who is on death row and soon to be be executed if you will not intervene soon. His name is Robin “Rocky” Myers and he was convicted of an elderly woman Ludie Mae Tucker’s murder, a conviction handed to him by an all-white jury in Alabama. In fact, the judge overturned their lighter sentence recommendation and changed it to the death penalty, despite the jury did not recommend it.
Mr. Myers should be released from death row for the following reasons:
1) He has an intellectual disability and could not respond to police interrogations in a organized and sequential manner due to his disabilities.
2) Jurors in this trial have since come forward that they never were convinced he was guilty beyond doubt, but they had agreed to follow the hard-line jurors' call for him as "guilty" in order to save his life by compromising for life without parole; however, then the judge overruled their recommendation and instated the death penalty against jurors' wishes.
3) No DNA or palm/finger prints at the crime scene match Mr. Myers's prints.
4) People who said they saw him with stolen property are themselves convicted criminals and admit they changed their testimonies due to police promising at least one of them release from a separate crime of stealing a car if they would implicate Mr. Meyers. This act by the police is against the law.
5) A woman in the next room who overheard the murder said the man who asked to use her phone was not recognized by Ms. Ludie Mae Tucker as a known person. This doesn't fit for Mr. Meyers as being the murderer since Ms. Tucker KNEW Mr. Meyers as a nearby neighbor.
6) Due to his intellectual disabilities and poor attorney representation, he did not file appeal in time and the courts denied him the right despite his attempt to file late - even though he has a disability that explains his lack of understanding of his dire situation and his inability to read documents they mailed him while in prison.
7) Mr. Meyers has severe eczema (flaky skin); however, here too, no skin flakes were found at the scene of the crime. If he had murdered Ms. Tucker skin flakes would have been found at the crime scene -but they weren't.
For these reasons above, and more, as well as for reasons of basic human morality and decency, please pardon Mr. Meyers from death by execution in your state. Mr. Meyers could very likely be innocent, despite his conviction in court, and he deserves life and a retrial after police tampering with witnesses, and until he can prove his innocence.
This is not the first time an innocent person has been put on death row and later executed, as you should know.
Please contact his attorney, Kacey Keeton, by phone at: (334) 834-2099 AND/OR the Equal Justice Initiative at [email protected], on efforts to stay the execution due to the strong likelihood of Mr. Myers 's innocence despite being convicted of a horrible crime. This error of conviction could be due to many reasons, but likely in part also due to, in this case, Mr. Meyers's intellectual disability, his race, and and his low socioeconomic status - all three factors have likely played a role in the inability to properly afford quality legal defense for him to save himself from impending death.
Too many known factors in this case, including willful police tampering with a witness, point to his death penalty sentence as a wrongful conviction, and a retrial is warranted, or at the very least his life should be saved. Thank you for saving Mr. Robin "Rocky" Meyers life.
Respectfully,
Rebecca
To call or email go here in the next 1-4 days! URGENT ACTION REQUIRED to try to save his life:
https://governor.alabama.gov/contact/
Here is my letter to Gov. Kay Ivey, and you can use as template to write your own letter to her or to call her office in the next few days (as of 2/24/19).
TEMPLATE:
Dear Governor Kay Ivey,
I am a professional in the field of intellectual and developmental disabilities and am writing to urge you to pardon a man who is on death row and soon to be be executed if you will not intervene soon. His name is Robin “Rocky” Myers and he was convicted of an elderly woman Ludie Mae Tucker’s murder, a conviction handed to him by an all-white jury in Alabama. In fact, the judge overturned their lighter sentence recommendation and changed it to the death penalty, despite the jury did not recommend it.
Mr. Myers should be released from death row for the following reasons:
1) He has an intellectual disability and could not respond to police interrogations in a organized and sequential manner due to his disabilities.
2) Jurors in this trial have since come forward that they never were convinced he was guilty beyond doubt, but they had agreed to follow the hard-line jurors' call for him as "guilty" in order to save his life by compromising for life without parole; however, then the judge overruled their recommendation and instated the death penalty against jurors' wishes.
3) No DNA or palm/finger prints at the crime scene match Mr. Myers's prints.
4) People who said they saw him with stolen property are themselves convicted criminals and admit they changed their testimonies due to police promising at least one of them release from a separate crime of stealing a car if they would implicate Mr. Meyers. This act by the police is against the law.
5) A woman in the next room who overheard the murder said the man who asked to use her phone was not recognized by Ms. Ludie Mae Tucker as a known person. This doesn't fit for Mr. Meyers as being the murderer since Ms. Tucker KNEW Mr. Meyers as a nearby neighbor.
6) Due to his intellectual disabilities and poor attorney representation, he did not file appeal in time and the courts denied him the right despite his attempt to file late - even though he has a disability that explains his lack of understanding of his dire situation and his inability to read documents they mailed him while in prison.
7) Mr. Meyers has severe eczema (flaky skin); however, here too, no skin flakes were found at the scene of the crime. If he had murdered Ms. Tucker skin flakes would have been found at the crime scene -but they weren't.
For these reasons above, and more, as well as for reasons of basic human morality and decency, please pardon Mr. Meyers from death by execution in your state. Mr. Meyers could very likely be innocent, despite his conviction in court, and he deserves life and a retrial after police tampering with witnesses, and until he can prove his innocence.
This is not the first time an innocent person has been put on death row and later executed, as you should know.
Please contact his attorney, Kacey Keeton, by phone at: (334) 834-2099 AND/OR the Equal Justice Initiative at [email protected], on efforts to stay the execution due to the strong likelihood of Mr. Myers 's innocence despite being convicted of a horrible crime. This error of conviction could be due to many reasons, but likely in part also due to, in this case, Mr. Meyers's intellectual disability, his race, and and his low socioeconomic status - all three factors have likely played a role in the inability to properly afford quality legal defense for him to save himself from impending death.
Too many known factors in this case, including willful police tampering with a witness, point to his death penalty sentence as a wrongful conviction, and a retrial is warranted, or at the very least his life should be saved. Thank you for saving Mr. Robin "Rocky" Meyers life.
Respectfully,
Rebecca
Why is this important?
Mr. Robin "Rocky" Meyers should not be executed for many reasons (as stated in my above letter) suggest he is innocent of this crime, and only a Governor pardon can save him.
He was convicted by an all-white jury, and some jurors now state they did not expect the judge to overrule their recommendation and give him the death penalty, as they had wanted him to only be convicted for life without parole to save his life due to high pressure from other jurors who would not budge on seeing him as guilty. More about his trial and his possible impending death by execution can be read here: https://www.thenation.com/article/robin-rocky-myers-death-penalty-alabama/
He was convicted by an all-white jury, and some jurors now state they did not expect the judge to overrule their recommendation and give him the death penalty, as they had wanted him to only be convicted for life without parole to save his life due to high pressure from other jurors who would not budge on seeing him as guilty. More about his trial and his possible impending death by execution can be read here: https://www.thenation.com/article/robin-rocky-myers-death-penalty-alabama/