[GailA]

As the parent of a Murdered Child, please hold your expression of sympathy as the crime happened 26 yrs ago.

Crime victims get the shaft any way you go in the civilized world.

I paid taxes to have my Jeremy's killer go thorough two 30 day physche evals. His Juvy stay, before they decided to try as adult. 2 yrs in jail awaiting a BAD plea deal. Had to travel at MY expense to fight his parole hearing sites. Had to pay for his less than 'good behavior' prison time. His meals, medical care and any education he took.

No victim of violent crime should be forced to pay taxes to support the perps who did it.

He now walks a free man and I CCW.

I and Nikki's mom pay taxes to keep this CRETIN on TN DEATH ROW.

Ashley Nichole 'Nikki' Read, age 8, she would have been 33, in March. RAPED and KILLED by David Keen. nearly 25 yrs ago. He has been on TN Death Row for nearly 21 yrs. ALL State and Federal Appeals are FINISHED. DNA proved he raped her, he confessed he both raped and strangled her to death with her own shoe laces before he threw her little body in the river. Yet TN Gov Bill Halsam refuses to set an execution date or sign the execution warrant.

Nikki was raped, strangled with her own Shoelaces, wrapped tightly in her blanket and thrown in the river barely still alive, where she finally drown to death. we are going into the 26th year of waiting for Justice, is obscene.

2 juries decided and all appeals courts UPHELD that the Death Penalty was the right course of action. The Death Penalty.

david keen child rapist, murderer

615) 741-2001 bill.haslam@tn.gov

Tell TN Governor to do his Constitutional Duty, that 2 juries decided and all appeals courts UPHELD was the right course of action. The Death Penalty.

Nikki age 8

[PrairieLady2]

I know that yours isn’t a cry for sympathy, so I will offer empathy instead. Our family member was murdered in 2002, and while healing happens, it IS aggravated by the judicial system! The States are worse than the Federal Government.

Our ‘’trial’’ was at the Federal level, and our transportation and rooms were paid for via the government.

The last trial took place in 2004, and all appeals have been denied so we await what might never happen. An execution.

I’ve read so many accounts of the state governments causing further injury to murder victim survivors, that I had to stop! The prosecutors at the federal level saw themselves as speaking up for us, the family, but I’ve read accounts where plea deals so reduced sentences that it wasn’t worth going to trial for, and how prosecutors at the state level tend not to see themselves as acquiring justice on behalf of the injured families.

In any event, high profile trials cost millions whether they are death penalty cases, or not.

And I really AM sorry you lost your little one. In this country, at least till these days when it seems nearly anything goes, loosing a child in this manner was the worst thing that could happen to anybody. It’s a feeling and an impact like none other.

I do hope the marathon victims actually achieve victory, and that justice is truly served.