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if-you-fan-a-fire · 7 months

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"STORY OF ROSENTHAL'S DEATH AND TRIAL OF CHAS. GIBSON," Toronto Star. October 4, 1913. Page 4. ---- How Accused Explained Human Blood Found on His Trousers. --- BROTHER'S BLOOD, GIBSON DECLARED --- Murder Was Particularly Brutal One at the Dead of Night. ---- ELI DUNKELMAN'S STORY ---- It Was Upon His Evidence That the Young Man Was Convicted. --- The story which involves the present plight of Charles Gibeon commenced with the finding of the battered body of Joseph Rosenthal at the foot of Strachan avenue on April 4, and will end, according to the decision announced, with Charles Gibson forfeiting his own life on October 8, one year and six months after the crime. The mills have ground slowly, but exceeding small. The body of Joseph Rosenthal was found early on the morning of April 6, 1912. He had been brutally slain some time Good Friday night. His skull had been crushed in by a block of cement weighing 14 pounds, which still against his head. His ribs had been crushed in by repeated blows from a hammer, and a rope was so tightly tied around his neck that the flesh almost hid it.

Dunkelman Discovered. The same morning Eli Dunkelman, after lying nearly all night unconscious, was taken to a hospital and hovered between life and death. In the meantime, Detective Cronin , following up another case, found Gibson hiding in a transformer electric station and took him in charge. For five days the whole detective department been occupied in the search for the mysterious "Smith" who had been known to have made an appointment to meet Rosenthal and Dunkelman at the Strachan avenue bridge on Good Friday night, for the purpose of transacting a deal in junk.

Suspicion had been thrown Gibson's way and the murder charge was Iaid. It was alleged that he admitted meeting the two dealers, and explained this by saying that the day before he had met two men in the Hydro-Electric yards and they had asked him if he would dispose of scrap metal for them. Gibson stated that he was merely a go-between for the two parties.

Dunkelman's Story. When Dunkelman had sufficiently recovered he testified at the inquest. He told of going to the Hydro-Electric with Rosenthal and meeting Gibson, declaring that no one else that no one else was present. He waited on the bridge, he said, while Gibson and Rosenthal, at Gibson's request, "went into the yards to make a deal." Half an hour later Gibson came back and he and Dunkelman went into the yards. According to Dunkelman, Gibson called his attention to the lightning, and as he looked up, he was struck on the head, regaining consciousness only the next morning. He identified Gibson at the inquest on May 8, at which the jury returned a declaring the "evidence pointed to Gibson as the perpetrator of the crime."

Jury Out Two Hours. Then came the actual trial in November, lasting two and one-half days, the jury reaching a verdict after a deliberation of two hours to the minute. Eighty-two witnesses were subpoenaed and 16 testified, the actual hearing of evidence tasting thirty-five hours and addresses of counsel and the summing up of Chief Justice Mulock occupying the remainder of the time.

The trial was dramatic. Aubey Bond, appearing for Gibson, made a desperate attempt to exclude the evidence. One of his arguments being that until one crime is proved against a prisoner evidence of a similar alIeged offence could not be put in. Crown Prosecutor Edmund Meredith declared that the killing of Rosenthal and the assault on Dunkelman were all part of the same transaction. Chief Justice Mulock admitted the evidence, granting a stated case on this point.

Charles Gibson finally took the stand and attempted to explain away the net work of circumstantial evidence the Crown had drawn around him, maintained that a man named Alec and another named Wilson were implicated in the affair. These were the two men he had introduced to Dunkelman and Rosenthal. With them he declared he waited on the bridge until the two junk dealers arrived, shortly afterwards leaving the four together and and going home himself. In contradiction of this Dunkelman declared there were only three men there that night - Rosenthal, Gibson, and himself.

Soldiers Backed Him Up. In this assertion Gibson was backed up by three soldiers of the Stanley Barracks. Two of them remembered seeing men on the bridge as they passed by. One of them agreed with Gibson that were more men than Rosenthal, Dunkelman, and Gibson in the party. "I saw four men standing at the bridge and there was another man going towards the city was the significant statement of another the officers. Yet Alec and Wilson were never located although he claimed to have made every search for them.

Other links in the chain of circumstances were given in explanation by the defence. For instance, the Crown proved that there was human blood on Gibson's trousers. The boy said this had fallen from a wound in the head of his small brother which he had bathed when the child ran in from the street where he had been struck down by a bicycle. Other like explanations were given.

All through the trial Gibson maintained the utmost commposure. Never a sign of emotion crossed his face. For hours he sat motionless in one corner of the prisoners box, with his head resting on his left arm, supported by the railing. He maintained this position when the verdict was announced. But in his cell he broke down, but soon recovered himself.

The Scene Shifted. Chief Justice Mulock allowed the case to go to a higher court to decide if he was right in admitting the evidence of Dunkelman, and the scene shifted to Osgoode Hall. Argument was heard in 1913, and decision was finally rendered in April, sustaining the trial judge and throwing out the appeal. Sir William Mulock then passed the death sentence in the May Assizes. No hope for commutation was held out.

Many became interested in the case of the twenty-car-old boy, convicted of murder, and the powers at Ottawa were appealed to in July shortly before the date set by the trial Judge for execution, a reprieve was granted till October 9. The hopes in the breast of the convicted slayer of Rosenthal were crushed this week by the announcement from the the capital that the law as pronounced by Chief Justice Mulock would be allowed to take its course. There are matter rests to-day.

"ROSENTHAL'S SON ASKS MERCY FOR CHAS. GIBSON," Toronto Star. October 4, 1913. Page 5. ---- Writes Letter This Afternoon "In Accordance With Teachings of Hebrew Religion," Though He Believes Gibson Guilty. ----

Toronto, October 3, 1913. ---- Honorable W. T. White. Acting Minister of Justice, Ottawa, Ontario. Dear Sir:- As the son of the late Joseph Rosenthal, who was murdered by Charles Gibson in April, 1912, in this city, I request that you show, in your capacity as Minister of Justice, clemency to Charles Gibson, the convicted slayer of my father. Firmly as I am convinced that he is guilty, I, in accordance with and following the teachings of the Hebrew religion to show mercy to others, sincerely request that you use your power as Minister of the Department of Justice to commute his sentence to that of life imprisonment. I consider that thereby the ends of justice would be well served. Yours respectfully, HARRY ROSENTHAL.

The above letter was mailed this afternoon to the Minister of Justice by Harry Rosenthal, in an effort to have the convicted slayer of his father escape death on the gallows.

"My father is dead," said Mr. Rosenthal, "and while I am firmly convinced that Gibson was my father's murderer, I feel that his crime will be expiated if he spends the rest of his life in prison. It is an awful thing for a man to have to realize that he will never be free again; that he is to be penned up behind stone walls and iron bars for the rest of his life.

"Gibson is only a young man, and I believe that in asking that his sentence be commuted I am doing only what is human."

"GIBSON PETITION IN MANY CHURCHES ON THE SABBATH," Toronto Star. October 4, 1913. Page 1. ---- Seven Hundred of Them are Now Out, and Many are Signing. ---- ARCHBISHOP SIGNS PLEA FOR GIBSON ---- Solicitor Herb. Lennox and Rev. John McNeill are Going to Ottawa ---- TO MAKE A LAST EFFORT ---- Probably 15,000 People Have Already Signed Their Names to the Petitions. ----

"We, the undersigned citizens of the Province of Ontario, having learned that the Minister of Justice has declined to grant a new trial in the case of the King against one, Charles Gibson, who has been sentenced to be hanged on the 9th of October, 1913, for the murder of one, Rosenthal hereby most humbly request that the sentence of hanging be commuted to imprisonment for life. We believe, taking everything into consideration, that a commutation of sentence would be heralded with approval by the great mass of people of the Province, and would furthermore meet the ends of justice in a much more satisfactory manner than hanging young Gibson."

There are 700 of the above petition now in circulation, including some earlier ones, which contained, as well, an appeal for money. The number of signatures is not known, but there are hundreds on many. It is estimated that at least 15,000 names are secured already.

Believes Gibson Guiltless. Mr. C. F. Storey, of 122 Oak street, wants the petition returned no Iater by Monday. He has charge of them, and it is necessary that they be collected in a hurry.

"With Canon Greene, I hold an Anglican service every second Sunday In the prisons," said Mr. Storey The Star, "and in that way I became interested in the Gibson case.

"Do I think Gibson guilty?" "Personally, I do not. Anyway, he is onlya boy. He may know something, but I do not believe he killed the man.

"We are making arrangements," he added, "to have petitions in many churches to-morrow."

Going to Ottawa. "Among other prominent names on the petition to be presented to the Minister of Justice asking that Gibson's sentence be commuted," said Herbert Lennox, K.C., "is that of Arch-bishop McNeil, the Catholic Arch-bishop of Toronto.

"Rev. John McNeill and one of the Jewish Rabbis, probably Rabbi Jacobs, and myself are leaving for Ottawa tomorrow night to present the petition to the Department of Justice."

The letter published exclusively in The Star yesterday from Harry Rosenthal, the son of the murdered man, has had considerable effect. Many people to whom the petition had been presented and who refused to sign it signified their intention of singing to-day. The statement appears to be that if Rosenthal is asking clemency for the man whom he firmly believes murdered his father, then others not so interested should exhibit the same spirit of forgiveness.

Gibson himself has not yet recovered from the shock he received when told that a new trial had been refused him. He is still in a condition bordering on nervous collapse, and has had little to eat and scarcely any sleep since the news was broken to him by his spiritual adviser, the Rev. John McNeill. He believes, however, that his letter of yesterday and the number of petitions which are circulating will have some effect.

One at Osgoode Hall. Even at Osgoode Hall, the home of the courts, a petition is circulating, asking for a commutation of the sentence. Several of the officials have signed, but the barristers show no great eagerness to affix their signaturés.

Other places where petitions are being signed are: Fairweathers, Limited, Yonge street: Upper Canada Tract Society, Confederation Life Bidg.. Child's Restaurant, 158 Yonge: Spencer's drug store, King and Spadina: Owl drug store, Bloor and Spadina: Owl drug store. 2342 Queen east: McCainsh's book store, & College street; College cafe. Yonge and Cariton: Cafeterias, Yonge street.

Suggests Use In Churches People interested in the Gibson case, who wished to sign a petition for commuting his sentence to life imprisonment, failed to find these at some of the points advertised.

Said Mr. Ewart Farquhar to The Star to-day:

"Petitions are announced in morning papers as being found as the Upper Canada Bible rooms. Confederation Life Building, and at Childs Restaurant for signature. I called at the Bible rooms and did not find any petition. At Childs one was dug up on my enquiring for it. I would suggest that the petitions be placed in the city churches tomorrow, with a prominent card calling attention to same. We would welcome one at Bond Street Congregational"

#toronto #sentenced to be hanged #commutation of sentence #appeal for clemency #capital punishment #death sentence #murder #gibson case #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada #antisemitism in canada #jewish canadians

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pilgrim1975 · 1 month

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Alphonse Brengard. Justice delayed, but not denied.

When New York cop-killer Alphonse Brengard walked his last mile at Sing Sing on September 6, 1934 it may have been with a firm sense of time and his crimes having finally caught up with him. Brengard died for a murder effectively committed years before, but he was not to wait in Sing Sing’s infamous ‘Death House’ for very long. After evading the law for several years after the shooting, Brengard…

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femmchantress · 7 months

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Some fascinating Louisiana news for y'all. So recently, the office of the Pope reached out to our (Catholic, Democrat) governor, John Bel Edwards, and implored him to grant some sort of clemency to our glut of death row inmates. Either converting their sentences to life in prison or pardoning them. John Bel, as a southern democrat, has been very silent on his view of the death penalty for most of his career - but now that he's term-limited out of running for governor again, he's become a very public supporter of abolishing it.

Our (Catholic, Republican) state attorney general, Jeff Landry, who is also the frontrunner in the upcoming gubernatorial election, is attempting to subvert the clemency appeal of death row inmates and prevent a single appeal from being heard. Both because he is an ardent supporter of the death penalty, and so that he can drum up political clout among the pro-death penalty conservative voters throughout Louisiana and minimize the chance of him not making the run-offs.

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blackpearlblast · 2 months

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Kevin Keith's 27 day hunger strike and the censorship around it

(most post body text copy-pasted from Death Penalty Action news email)

From prison, Kevin planned to manage a publicity campaign to call attention to his hunger strike and his demand for a just resolution to his case, however... the day he started his hunger strike, he was moved to solitary confinement. A prison executive came to see him...

First she demanded that he hand over all of his documents, his paper, stamps, envelopes and his pen. Then she informed him of a policy change: Prisoners on a hunger strike are not allowed to communicate with the outside world.

Kevin had told his lawyers and some members of the media of his plans, but that was it. I certainly had no details, and Kevin's brother Charles also had no details. Worse, there was no way to contact or even visit Kevin, because he was in the hole (solitary confinement).

Kevin held out for 27 days.

His lawyers came to check on him once a week to make sure he was OK, but that's it. No media responded to his plea. No celebrity supporters tweeted about his plight. We at Death Penalty Action had no information, and could therefore do nothing.

Even as Kevin drank copious amounts of water, he still was dehydrated. Kevin received intravenous hydration ten times, on the following dates:

February 7

February 12

February 14

Twice on February 16

Twice on February 18

Twice on February 22

And we had no idea.

Kevin says he found a spiritual benefit to the experience, but he stopped when the prison doctor warned him that he risked damaging his kidneys. They threatened him with being transferred to the hospital, restrained, and force-fed. At that point, he decided to end his hunger strike.

Kevin Keith is still waiting for Governor DeWine to act on his request for executive clemency. As you may recall, the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled against him back in November. It is unclear what additional legal avenues he has available to him.

to support kevin keith, you can sign his petition, send him money so that he can buy food to help as he recovers from his hunger strike, and watch his brother charles keith's 6 minute video on his experiences fighting the death penalty.

#death penalty #death penalty action #black lives matter #prison abolition #end the death penalty #petitions #dp #kevin keith #hunger strike #removed most text stylings because they tend to really bother my eyes as i've talked about but this is a lot of text #and that one sentence felt very important so i bolded it but if anyone needs plain version of it let me know i #very much understand.

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radiofreederry · 1 year

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Happy birthday, Nicola Sacco! (April 22, 1891)

An Italian immigrant to the United States and an anarchist, Nicola Sacco, along with Bartolomeo Vanzetti, was accused in 1920 of the murder of Alessandro Berardelli and Frederick Parmenter during an alleged armed robbery. They were convicted in 1921, amidst a trial riddled with xenophobia and anti-anarchist bias. The pair became a progressive cause celebre, with many public figures lobbying for clemency and many protests being held. In the end, after the appeals process was exhausted, Sacco was executed along with Vanzetti by electric chair. It is today accepted that the pair was wrongfully tried, convicted, and executed, and in 1977 Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis issued a proclamation declaring so.

#birthdays #nicola sacco

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o-uncle-newt · 9 days

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Enter Sir John (and Lord Peter)

This is basically a Sayers blog alongside a Finnemore blog at this point- and this is going to be mostly a Sayers post but also a bit of a window into my other detective fiction reading, which I don't really post about here but kind of want to. A bit of an experiment. (Also, some spoilers to a very old and AFAIK out of print book that I don't particularly recommend below, as well as a Sayers novel.)

So I have been reading a LOT of random old timey detective fiction recently, and at one point made a reading list based on having read the fabulous The Golden Age of Murder by Martin Edwards, which I highly recommend to basically anyone with even the faintest interest in the subject (and even more so to Christie and Sayers fans). ANYWAY, I made the list, then completely forgot where I got it from, ordered a bunch of books through the NYPL's interlibrary loan system, and somehow got all of them at once. So now I have a stack of books from five states on my dresser, many of which are first editions. One of those is my copy of Enter Sir John by Clemence Dane and Helen Simpson, which isn't only a first edition but literally has the pencil inscription by the original owner from Christmas 1928, when he bought/received the book. Gah I love reading other people's old books.

Reading other people's old books in general is fun- reading this particular one was more of a mixed bag. The pacing was kind of weird, the mystery was kind of thin (and the motive was... PECULIAR for a 21st century reader, a mix of oddly progressive and deeply, deeply problematic depending on how you look at it), and the characterization of most of the characters was pretty thin. The atmosphere of the small-time theatrical setting was fun, and the detective, Sir John Saumarez, is reasonably entertaining. To go through, and mildly spoil (you'll see why shortly), the plot- someone is found dead who had been known to have previously quarrelled with a woman in the past, under circumstances which make it clear that this woman had both motive, means, and opportunity. The woman is arrested and her trial is attended by a man with a title who is struck by her and feels compelled to work on her behalf. He works hard to find the actual killer when the trial goes poorly for her, and realizes that he is in love with her and confesses his feelings to her.

Sound familiar?

For context, Enter Sir John was published two years before Dorothy L Sayers's Strong Poison, and to be transparent I fiddled a bit with the timing and phrasing to make the synopsis as CLEARLY correlated as it is (he doesn't confess his feelings to her until after he's gotten her off the murder charges, she's actually in the room when the murder victim is found, she actually is convicted and her conviction is overturned on appeal, among other changes). If the above plot sounds interesting and you HAVEN'T read Strong Poison, just skip and read Strong Poison because it does the whole thing SO much better. For one thing, the mystery is better- this was Dane and Simpson's first mystery, and while I largely enjoyed Dane's earlier novel Regiment of Women (which I may post my thoughts about sometime), this book just didn't really work for me. It's technically fair play, I guess, but there aren't a whole lot of actual suspects or clues (there aren't many suspects in Strong Poison either, but there are many more clues and there's a much more robust structure).

The other major difference, and this is pretty important because it's at exactly the point where the two books are so similar, is that the characterization of the romance in Enter Sir John is REALLY NOT GOOD. Sure, as Sayers noted in her 1929 introduction to her Omnibus of Crime anthology, love interests in detective novels are often shitty and this isn't necessarily significantly worse than certain others I have read. But while there do seem to be attempts to describe the suspect's personality in a way that makes her sound more honest, frank, straightforward, etc (the kinds of ways that Harriet Vane comes across later in Strong Poison), she also comes across really naive and dumb, and really doesn't have a whole lot to do in the book at all to counteract that impression. On the plus side... she isn't AS racist as some other people, I guess? (This plays into the motive, which I can describe in the comments for people- it's too annoying to get bogged down in.) But anyway, Sir John largely (apparently? it's not characterized super well) is compelled by her and falls in love with her because of her striking appearance and her good breeding and gentility or whatever, and it's all just super awkward. (Also, there's the same "oh no I didn't realize you were proposing" awkwardness in this book as in Regiment of Women, which does it MUCH better and for MUCH better characterization-related reasons. In this book it's just kind of skin-crawling to read.)

Anyway, why have I made you all read about why I didn't particularly like a not-super-easy-to-find book that you were unlikely to ever read anyway? Well, partly because it's an interesting curiosity- and because as I was reading I was like "what the hell, how did Sayers get away with this?" So I cracked open my copy of The Golden Age of Murder again and in its description of the book realized that it mentions that Sayers and Simpson were friends and that Enter Sir John is of interest as an inspiration to Strong Poison, which in retrospect is probably why I put it on my list in the first place.

But I'm still left with some lingering questions. While the actual murder plot and motive are entirely different, this particular throughline on the part of the detective is really STARTLINGLY similar, not least because Sir John Saumarez has some distinctive surface resemblances to Wimsey. For one thing, the method used to trap the killer (casually having them be part of a reenactment/discussion of the way the murder took place) is used by Sayers in Strong Poison as a ruse that Wimsey uses to try to catch Harriet Vane out, if there's anything to catch (when he "casually" brings up the murder-for-book-profits mystery plot idea he had). For another, like Wimsey later would in Strong Poison, Saumarez has a whole inner monologue about how he has only a month to solve the case (though in his case it's before the suspect is executed, and in Wimsey's case it's the IMO more plausible situation of being before the retrial occurs).

All that being considered, one major difference is, of course, that at the end of Strong Poison Wimsey and Harriet don't get engaged, and Saumarez and the suspect (whose name I don't even remember, if I'm being honest, she REALLY wasn't that memorable) do. But Sayers famously wrote that she wanted to use this book to marry Wimsey off! If she had followed through, and still used this same book as a way to do it, would she have literally lifted, if substantially improved, this plotline from her friend's book in order to do it? She was such an original writer- would she have borrowed so significantly from another writer to finish off a series that she had worked so hard on, even if it was one she was wearying of?!

It's interesting, because I wrote in a previous post about how it feels like after writing the Omnibus of Crime intro, including how bad mystery romance plots are, she dared herself to do it better. Reading this book makes me wonder if she read THIS PARTICULAR BOOK and decided she wanted to do it better. Which would be fascinating whether that was a decision that she made before she'd decided to continue the series after this book or afterward- before, in which case she'd be wholesale lifting the plot but at the same time elevating it lol I feel like I'm writing crossword clues) just by virtue of better writing and characterization in both that plot and the mystery that surrounded it, or after, in which case one of her ways of elevating it would de facto BE changing the ending to make it less corny and awkward, and writing a detective romance which is actually psychologically plausible and satisfying rather than just pairing pants and a skirt, so to speak.

Anyway- decidedly mediocre book that I don't particularly recommend, but one that made me ask some questions that I had a lot of fun pondering! I also had fun writing this, and am considering doing another one on Leo Bruce's The Case for Three Detectives, which was tremendously fun as a pastiche of Wimsey as well as Poirot and Father Brown.

#dorothy l sayers #lord peter wimsey #wimsey #harriet vane #enter sir john #clemence dane #helen simpson #classic mystery fiction #also worth noting- hitchcock directed an adaptation of this called murder!#i'm not especially excited about this #murder! is just what it's literally called #if you've seen it and it's any good let me know!

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lunas-nargle · 7 months

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chapter fifteen of "meddle about" series brian o'connor x reader

xv. sentenced

At the end of the day, Dom still ended up in handcuffs.

Y/n sat between Brian and Mia as they waited for the judge to sentence Dom. Monty sat beside Mia, holding her hand soothingly, Y/n holding the other tightly, as they tensely stood up as instructed, watching the judge walk to his seat.

"Please be seated." someone said, letting everyone sit back down. Brian put his arm around the back of Y/n, trying to provide some comfort to her.

"Please rise, Mr. Toretto," the judge said. Dom silently stood. "I've listened to the testimony...and taken into special consideration...Agent O'Conner's appeal of clemency on behalf of Mr. Toretto, that his actions directly resulted in the apprehension of known drug trafficker, Arturo Braga." Y/n felt her stomach and lungs squeeze as the judge continued. "However, this judiciary finds that one right does not make up for a lifetime of wrongs,"

Y/n let out a shaky breath. Hearing this, Brian moved his arm that was wrapped around Y/n.

"And as such I find that I am forced to level the maximum sentence under California law."

Brian couldn't hear anymore. He stood up, and walked off upset.

"Dominic Toretto," the judge said, as a tear slid down Y/n's cheek. "You are hearby sentenced to serve 25 years to life at the Lompoc maximum security prison system without the possibility of early parole. This court is adjourned."

#brian o'conner #brian oconner x reader #fast and furious #fast and furious x reader

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talonabraxas · 18 days

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The Heptameron Conjuration of Jupiter

Another somewhat more involved prayer can be adapted from the Heptameron, a grimoire of spirit invocation attributed to Peter de Abano. A translation of the Heptameron by Joseph H. Peterson is available at Esoteric Archives. Rather than appealing to Jupiter himself, this invocation approaches the spirit by appealing to other spirits in the same cosmic hierarchy. The Heptameron also involves facing and calling upon spirits of the different directions. You can think of this type of prayer as locating yourself within the Great Chain of Being so as to best position yourself to appeal to a particular spirit.

This particular invocation invokes the planetary archangel of Jupiter, known as Sachiel (or Tzadkiel). The Heptameron planetary invocations are prefaced by invocations of angels of the relevant level of heaven in the four directions. Above the fifth heaven (the sphere of Mars) there are no angels of the air, so the prayers to Jupiter have more general prayers to a higher God rather than to a specific retinue of angels. An abbreviated ritual for appealing to the angel of Jupiter could go as follows:

[Facing East:] O great and most high God, honored world without end.

[Facing West:] O wise, pure and just God, of divine clemency, I beseech thee most holy father, that this day I may perfectly understand and accomplish my petition, work, and labor; Thou who livest and reignest world without end, Amen.

[Facing North:] O God strong and mighty from everlasting.

[Facing South:] O mighty and merciful God.

[Continuing to face South:] I Conjure and Confirm upon you, ye holy Angels, and by the name Cados, Cados, Cados, Eschereie, Eschereie, Eschereie, Hatim, Ya, strong founder of the worlds, Cantine, Jaym, Janic, Anic, Calbot, Sabbac, Berifay, Alnaym: And by the name Adonay, who created Fishes, and Creeping things in the waters, and Birds upon the face of the earth, and flying towards Heaven, in the fifth day; and by the names of the Angels serving in the sixth host, before Pastor, a holy Angel, and a great and powerful Prince; and by the name of his Star, which is Jupiter, and by the name of his Seal, and by the name Adonay, the great God, creator of all things; and by the name of all Stars, and by their Power and Virtue, and by all the names aforesaid, I conjure thee, Sachiel a great Angel, who art chief ruler of Thursday, that for me thou labour, [speak your own petition or request here]. —Heptameron, XXII. Considerations for Thursday,

"Assembly of Gods around Jupiter's Throne" Talon Abraxas

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savvylittlecoxswain · 21 days

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How to Throw Your Coxswain in the Water

Rob Colburn via row2k

“For most coxswains, being thrown in is the perfect end to a perfect day, and they enthusiastically join in. There are always a few dissidents who allow trivial fears of hypothermia, toxic runoff, or impalement on a submerged log, to cause them to resist. Coxswain escapes are serious and time-consuming; once loose, they can wedge themselves like hermit crabs into impossibly small crevices in the luggage compartment of the bus or under the sink in the training room, and -- depending on how much weight your cox has had to cut for the race -- it will cost you at least half of a box of fig newtons to lure them out again.

One of the rowers -- someone big and who is impervious to appeals for clemency (such as your five seat) must keep firm hold of the coxswain from the moment the shell returns to the dock. It is not enough simply to run a trailer strap through the gussets of his or her jacket -- coxswains can gnaw right through those. If things are busy on the dock, and no one can be spared for sentry duty while the shell is washed down and put away, temporarily empty the equipment box. (Most coxswains can be made to fit as long as you fold them properly, and if enough rowers stand on the top to press it down. Remember to punch some holes in the lid)

One very cold day early in the season, the winning coxswain of a crew which shall remain nameless (it's not the one you're thinking), succeeded in getting the drop on his rowers, forcing his exhausted crew to chase him on race-tired legs. He got as far as the soccer fields before they tackled him, dragged him down to the boathouse, stripped him to the essentials, and threw him in. They then lined up on the edge of the dock and pushed h im in again every time he tried to climb out. He had turned a very satisfactory shade of blue before they relented.

They made their point.

#hey I need y’all to read this article please #like desperately need you all to read this #I’m begging #bobby moch #the boys in the boat #boys in the boat #boys n boats #bobby and his boys #article #quotes #row2k #coxswain #rowing

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humansofnewyork · 2 years

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(8/13) “I remember the night Obama got elected. Very few times in the history of my stay in prison, would something so earth-shattering happen, that it would lift the spirits of the whole compound. But it was one those nights. 11 o’clock is normally a dead time in prison. But everyone was gathered around the TV in the common area. And when he walked out on that stage in Chicago, and gave that speech, with Michelle and the kids at his side, every last inmate was silent. No dominos were being slammed. There was no hyperness, no activity. It was completely still. It was hope. That’s what his entire campaign had been about: ‘Hope, hope, hope.’ And we felt it. We felt, finally: a guy who understands what’s going on in here. The overcriminalization. The overincarceration. The racial disparities. Were we hoping he’d repeal the mandatory minimum? I’d be lying if I didn’t say that. But the clemency program was something. It was more than anyone else had done. Me and Dino finished that application in record time. I included all my petitions for appeal. I included letters from friends and family who knew me, before the meth. Then I included one final letter, to Obama. I appealed to the man himself, and my belief that he was a decent human being. I explained my diagnosis. I told my entire story, then I sent it off. I knew there wasn’t much of a chance. I was competing against every guy, in every facility, across the country. Every crack offender got sentenced to 100x the weight of cocaine. There were probably one hundred thousand more people deserving than me. And each petition was 100 pages long. They didn’t have time to study each one closely, I knew that. They’d be trying to find one reason to disqualify you. One single reason. A few months later I got a call from a lawyer at the clemency initiative. She said my file was about to be reviewed, but first they’d need an opinion from my sentencing judge: the scumbag with the golf club. They reached out to him, and a few days later they got his response. She read it to me over the phone: ‘Good conduct in prison is no reason for a sentence reduction. I recommend a firm denial.”

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if-you-fan-a-fire · 2 years

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"Pour grossière indécence," Le Soleil. October 21, 1942. Page 4. --- Un fonctionnaire, convaincu de grossière indécence et d'actes socratiques, a été condamné à une amende de $50 hier après-midi, en Cour du recorder. Il avait été arrêté il y a une quinzaine de jours par le détective Charles Fiset, de l'escouade des moeurs. Le recorder a usé de clémence envers lui en ne l'envoyant pas en prison parce que ce séjour aurait sans doute fait perdre son emploi à l'individu. Ce dernier promit solennellement de s'amender.

[AL: He was arrested for attempting to procure sex with another, younger man.]

#ville de québec #gross indecency #socratic acts #appeal for clemency #recorder's court #first time offenders #policing morality #regulation of morality #vice squad #quebec city #fines and costs #canada during world war 2 #crime and punishment in canada #history of crime and punishment in canada

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forgwater · 2 years

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Demons in a Convent

Demon AU -Historical-

Demon AU by @jackplushie

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You stand before the judge.

You have been accused of one of the highest crime possible.

Damaging a precious religious artifact.

It doesn't matter of it was intentional or not, maybe you even got framed. What matters in this instance is that you're alone with no one on your side.

The people scorn as they look at you. They accuse you of being a heathen, of serving dark lords. Of betraying them... as if they didn't betray you first.

"NO!" you cry out as you are dragged away. But they don't listen. They've branded you as an enemy, as a blight upon them and they want you gone.

"They should have a rock tied around their neck and thrown into the river to drown!" screams an angry man.

"Get them to confess first!" adds a woman.

"Send them to the convent!" a figure raises above the rest. Clad in black with a veil to cover their face.

Before anyone can interrupt, they continue "We are but merciful folk, isn't that right?" they look about the courtroom. Many people hang their heads in shame. "Is this wretched sinner not worthy of salvation?" they add.

You would have been more offended, were they not trying to save your life.

"I will take personal care to make sure they are back on the right path. So, I appeal to your kindness and love of the other and humbly ask for clemency on the convicts behalf." the figure finishes their speech with a bow and begrudgingly, the people accept.

Now you find yourself on the road towards the convent, accompanied by your mysterious "benefactor". Unfortunately, you haven't been able to speak because of the guards surrounding you both.

When you finally reach what is to be your new home, the guards remain outside. And you enter the old, crumbling building together.

The atmosphere quickly changes as the doors close. The stranger looks at you as they produce an old looking tome from their bag, bringing it closer to you as they begin to speak:

"Take it." they command.

"Why?" you hiss, disbelief laced with caution in your tone.

"I said I'll set you on the right path, didn't I?" now you can see that they are grinning. "Take it." they urge you again.

"What is it?" you question.

"A grimoire." their tone is airy and nonchalant, you get the slight impression that they are toying with you.

"Why?" you ask stubbornly.

"It might help you." the figure purses their lips "But it'll cost you." they warn.

"...And what do you want for it?"

"Oh, you don't have to give me anything." they smile "It's them you'll have to pay."

And as unsure as you are you take the book and the figure vanishes.

What have you gotten yourself into?

#demon au #twst demon au #twst au #twst #twst x reader #twisted wonderland x reader #disney twst #twst wonderland #twisted wonderland #disney twisted wonderland

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cloudcountry · 10 months

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IKEMEN FRANCHISE MASTERLIST !!

unconventional otome game love interest traits each guy would have

ikemen vampire . . .

guessing their love languages (headcanons of the mansion residents. ~450 words.) — guessing their love language based on the very little information i have about them oops

yearning (isaac newton x reader. ~1k words.) — you fall asleep on isaac's shoulder while he's working.

lipstick marks (mozart, arthur, vincent, & isaac x reader. ~400 words) — you leave a lipstick mark on him, how scandalous!!!

an artist's dilemma (vincent x reader. ~500 words) — vincent sees a masterpiece in you.

painting with vincent (vincent x reader. ~300 words) — after a long day, you find solace in vincent.

lover of flowers (arthur & isaac x reader. ~1k words) — arthur is enamored with the reserved florist & isaac stumbles about her.

hair clips are my love language (ikevamp characters headcanons. ~800 words) — giving the suitors some of my hair accessories.

comte and a vampire hunter (comte de saint germain x reader. ~500 words) — you run into comte (or rather, he runs into you) after you kill a vampire.

mozart & the wire brooch (mozart x reader. ~250 words) — you give mozart a gift.

vlad and the florist (vlad x reader. ~250 words) — it seems you and the florist you met a long time ago have the same idea.

cooking with will (shakespeare x reader. ~300 words) — you teach will how to find his way around the one room in his villa he never uses: the kitchen.

bakery date with theo (theodorus x reader. ~300 words) — theo "takes you out for a walk." (read: takes you out on a date to a bakery.)

baking an apple pie (isaac newton x reader. ~450 words) — Isaac's been working hard lately, so you take Arthur's advice and make him a tasty treat!!

little things they love about you (suitors x reader. ~1,000 words) — the little things they love about you.

shakespearean serenades (shakespeare x reader. ~600 words) — theo yells at you to wrangle your lover. said lover is trying his best to serenade you.

ikemen prince . . .

self care (yves kloss x reader. ~1k words.) — you're supposed to be doing your skin care routine right now, but teasing yves sounds much more appealing.

small moments with rio (rio ortiz x reader. ~500 words.) — sweet moments with rio C:

guessing their love languages (headcanons of the ikepri characters. ~600 words.) — guessing their love language based on the very little information i have about them oops

dance with me (clavis lelouch x reader. ~400 words.) — you dance with clavis in the rain.

breakfast for you (clavis & yves x reader. ~300 words.) — yves is trying to make you breakfast, but clavis has other plans.

unusual protection (clavis lelouch x reader. ~350 words.) — clavis takes the fall for you, and you're left wondering why.

snowed in with clavis (clavis lelouch x reader. ~1,000 words.) — you get snowed in with clavis. shenanigans ensue.

christmas cookies to save kingdom! (gilbert von obsidian x reader. ~800 words.) — you and gilbert make christmas cookies together!!

sledding with cyran (cyran rose x reader. ~400 words.) — you go sledding with cyran.

ikemen revolution . . .

pet names (zero, edgar, kyle, & harr x reader. ~400 words.) — you call some of the ikerev suitors a pet name for the first time.

the winter itch (kyle ash x reader. ~300 words.) — you call on your favorite doctor to help you out with some chilly problems.

happy birthday (blanc & kyle x reader. ~400 words.) — blanc and kyle attend your after party. (a birthday gift for vivi!!)

soft kyle ash (kyle ash x reader. ~350 words.) — soft kyle ash, your favorite doctor.

the black army pines (black army x reader. ~350 words.) — some mildly embarrassing things that have happened to you while a certain black army member was pining for you.

baking with luka (luka clemence x reader. ~400 words.) — you decorate a gingerbread house with luka.

decorating with zero (zero x reader. ~500 words.) — you and zero put up holiday decorations in red army headquarters together.

love like a heart is no love at all (edgar bright x reader. ~2,000 words.) — edgar contemplates you.

over and over again (blanc lapin x reader. ~2,000 words.) — to blanc, you are the change he needed, and your pressing secret won't change that.

ikemen villains . . .

shopping with ellis (ellis twilight x reader. ~300 words.) — you ask ellis to come shopping with you, and he agrees.

ikemen sengoku . . .

hot springs (yoshimoto x reader. ~350 words.) — you visit the hot springs with yoshimoto.

you are the world (mitsunari x reader. ~1000 words.) — domestic bliss with your husband, mitsunari!!

mystic messenger . . .

snowball fight for love! (saeyoung choi x reader. ~500 words.) — you take saeyoung completely off guard with a snowball to the back of the head!

#🐙! blog things #masterlist #auburn talks ikevamp <3 #auburn talks ikepri <3 #auburn talks ikerev <3

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tomorrowusa · 9 months

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Donald Trump picked a bad state to meddle in an election.

Perhaps Trump thought he could could get a pardon, if convicted, from a GOP governor in Georgia. But thanks to reforms enacted as a result of a Depression era scandal, the governor is only very indirectly involved in the pardons process.

[G]etting a pardon in Georgia is not just a matter of persuading a governor to grant clemency. People convicted of state crimes are eligible to apply for pardons only five years after they have started serving their sentences. Even then, it not the governor who decides but the State Board of Pardons and Paroles. And while criminals can ask the parole board to commute sentences right away, the board “will consider a commutation of a sentence imposed in other than death cases only when substantial evidence is submitted” showing “that the sentence is either excessive, illegal, unconstitutional or void” and that “such action would be in the best interests of society and the inmate.” The board’s five members are appointed by the governor to seven-year terms, an effort to insulate them from political pressure.

So if convicted under Georgia law, Trump is toast.

Here's why the governor has no power over pardons except to appoint the parole board.

Georgia set up its restrictive system after Gov. Eurith D. “Ed” Rivers was implicated in a cash-for-pardons scandal in the 1930s. Time magazine reported in 1941 that the governor’s chauffeur “frequently went to prison camps of Fulton County with pardons already signed and asked to see prisoners.” While charges were eventually dropped after Mr. Rivers was acquitted once and had two mistrials, a new pardon system was created in the wake of the scandal.

Trump will probably try to move the trial to a federal court.

Could Donald Trump’s Georgia case be moved to federal court? He has that right

With all of Trump's legal troubles, you would think he'd pay his lawyers. But even after raising a quarter of a billion dollars from his loser followers, he is stiffing his lawyers.

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Regardless, Trump and his co-conspirators have until midday August 25th to turn themselves in at the Fulton County Jail in Georgia for booking.

Sheriff: Trump and co-defendants will be booked at Fulton County jail

Keep in mind, defendants can turn themselves in at any time. The jail is open 24/7.

#donald trump #georgia #election meddling #trump's indictments #trump's legal problems #trump stiffs his lawyers #pardons are hard to get in georgia #fulton county jail #lock him up!#gop presidential nomination #election 2024 #Youtube

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Thread by Alec Karakatsanis from June 15, 2021:

This the story of one of the most remarkable cases in U.S. history, and you’ve probably never heard of it. The story of what the U.S. government did to Ezell Gilbert is important because it explains how our legal system works as well as any case I have ever seen.

In 1997, Ezell Gilbert was sentenced to more than 24 years in federal prison in a crack cocaine case. Because of mandatory sentencing (treating crack 100 times as severely as powder), he was put in a cage for a quarter century, and even the judge said this was too harsh.

At sentencing, Gilbert saw an error that increased his sentence by about **ten years** based on a misclassification of a prior conviction. In 1999, without a lawyer, he filed a petition complaining about the mistake. The Clinton DOJ opposed him, and a court ruled against him.

Ten years later, the Supreme Court issued a ruling in another person’s case, confirming that Gilbert had been correct about the error in his case. A public defender helped him file a new petition for immediate release from prison back to his family. He had served his time.

But Obama/Holder DOJ argued to a federal judge that even if his sentence was illegal, Gilbert must remain in prison. They said the “finality” of criminal cases was too important to allow prisoners to file more than one petition, even if the first one was wrongly denied.

The federal judge sided with Obama/Holder, and Ezell Gilbert remained in a cage even though everyone agreed he was now in prison illegally. He had the audacity to hope that courts would follow the law.

A federal appeals court disagreed with Obama/Holder, and in June 2010, three judges set Gilbert free after more than 14 years in prison.

The judges rejected the DOJ’s argument as a departure from fairness and common sense. They said that it could not be the law in the U.S. that a person had to serve a prison sentence that everyone admitted was illegal. Ezell Gilbert went home and stayed out of trouble.

Here’s where it gets interesting. There are many people like Gilbert in federal prison whose sentences are illegal. Did you know that? Instead of rushing to ensure that thousands of people illegally separated from their families were set free, DOJ decided to fight and appeal.

The Obama/Holder DOJ argued: If prisoners were allowed to file more petitions, the “floodgates” would open and many others — mostly poor, mostly Black — would have to be released. They asked a larger group of judges to reverse Gilbert’s victory.

In 2011, a larger group of judges, led by a Republican majority, agreed with Obama/Holder that the “finality” of sentences was too important to allow prisoners to be released on a second rather than first petition, even if the prisoner was correct all along.

Ezell Gilbert was rearrested and sent back to prison to serve out his illegal sentence in a cage. media.ca11.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub/f…

An 87-year-old Republican judge wrote a dissent. Having served in WWII, he called the explicit decision to illegally keep a human being in jail “shocking.” He wrote that a “judicial system that values finality over justice is morally bankrupt.”

Addressing Obama/Holder argument directly, he said: “[T]here are many others in Gilbert’s position — sitting in prison serving sentences that were illegally imposed. We used to call such systems ‘gulags.’ Now, apparently, we call them the United States.”

Major media ignored Ezell Gilbert’s case at the time.

In 2013, two years after sending him back to a cage, Obama granted Gilbert clemency, and the media praised Obama for his leniency. Tens of thousands of other human being remained in prison illegally. You’ve never heard their names.

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#haven't found any tumblr posts about this yet and i know it's an old thread but holy shit #ezell gilbert #incarceration #prison industrial complex #war on drugs #antiblack racism #racism #criminalization #prison #prison abolition #private prisons #sentencing inequality #us politics #politics

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