Posted on 10/06/2006 2:03:29 PM PDT by kiriath_jearim
MIAMI -- Yahweh Ben Yahweh, a former cult leader linked to nearly two dozen gruesome killings in the 1980s, is seeking immediate release from parole supervision because he has advanced cancer and wants to "die with dignity," his lawyers said Friday.
Yahweh, 70, is asking U.S. District Judge Marcia Cooke to order the federal Parole Commission to make a quick decision on whether to terminate parole in his case. He lives in the Miami area.
"He is not a risk of flight. He is not a danger to the community. He is frail and he is dying," his attorney Jayne Weintraub said. "It's time for the bars to be removed."
Yahweh can no longer walk because of bone and nerve damage from the cancer, according to his doctor. "His prognosis is extremely poor and death appears imminent," Dr. Wynne A. Steinsnyder wrote in a Sept. 28 letter filed with the court.
Yahweh, a self-proclaimed "Black Messiah," served 11 years of an 18-year federal prison sentence for a racketeering conviction stemming from his role in up to 23 murders, some involving beheadings and severed ears and fingers.
He was born Hulon Mitchell Jr. in Oklahoma but changed his name to the Hebrew words for "God, son of God." His Nation of Yahweh boasted hundreds of followers who often dressed all in white. Yahweh preached a brand of racial and religious separatism for blacks and was accused of sending followers to kill "white devils" and bring back proof.
Yahweh was released from prison on parole on Sept. 26, 2001. His lawyers argue that under federal law his parole should be concluded because he has followed all the restrictions, including no contact with his former followers.
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Sounds like the self proclaimed "son of God" isn't doing too well.
Did any of his victims get to die with dignity?
Looks like Barry White...
ht/photorazzi
Death which none of us can avoid, is always dignified. Die in jail.
screw his dignity...let him die in prison and sooner the better!!!
Good ol' Yahweh Ben missed the entire black-muslim uprising in America cuz he was sitting in prison. I'm sure he would have found a way to profit from it all had he had access to his flock and a few tv cameras.
Some people just need killin'list.
It would be interesting and, no doubt, maddening, to know how much his incarceration, et al has cost us.
He's not in jail. He's on parole. But, why on earth is he not in jail? Unreal.
Looks like Barry White...
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Shame on you. Barry White looks a lot better...even though he's already dead. :)
Nope, his blasphemous name does NOT mean that. The Holy Name does not mean "God"; it's God's NAME. Human doesn't mean "Mad Dawg" and "Mad Dawg" doesn't mean human. Once again the newsies have no clue.
Not just no, but HELL no.
I remember his past pretty well, a real p.o.s.
He deserves to be in jail for the rest of his life.
He needs more cowbell.
Sounds like he ought to be in prison until he rots. What is wrong with our system that he was let out all? How did he get parole? shaking my head here......
Is it me or this article a little sugar coated? Didnt this piece of filth and his followers kill a lot of white people? I think they were involved in some savage anti white crimes. If an all white gang did to minorities what these scumbags did, we would never have heard the end of it. In any case, I am glad he is dying a painful death. I hope he lives a long time with his debilitation.
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