Thursday, April 07, 2005

Vernon Lee Evans

If you haven't already checked it out, I encourage you to stop by the blog of Vernon Evans. Evans is serving on death row in Maryland and recently received a stay of execution from an April 18 death warrant. This is the first blog I am aware of for an individual on death row. The blog is ghost written by Virginia Simmons who sends Vernon questions through the mail and then posts his responses.

Meet Vernon

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CarrieJ said...

As you can see, I deleted two comments. In the beginning of this blog, I noted that anyone was welcome to leave comments as long as they were constructive and were not abusive or vengeful. The first comment that I deleted was a vengeful, hateful statement against Vernon Evans and what the commentator felt should be done to him. The second was merely a commentary on the first which had no context without the first. I am the first person to champion the right to free speech. However, this is a private blog, run by a private citizen, and this comment was merely hateful and completely disgusting (it may have simply been meant to get a rise out of me or another reader).

I will continue to delete comments that are like this. I believe in constructive discourse, but hate and vengence, when expressed in this manner, are not constructive.