My name is Zolo Agona Azania

My name is Zolo Agona Azania.

I am a conscious citizen of the Republic of New Afrika and a political prisoner of war.

I am confined on Indiana's death row in the United States.

PROTOCOL FOR LETHAL INJECTION IN INDIANA

Persons Permitted To Be Present At The Execution Of Death Sentences:

(1) The Warden and any of his assistants who are necessary to assist him in the execution; (2) The prison physician;
(3) One (1) other physician;
(4) The spiritual advisor of the convicted person;
(5) The prison chaplain;
(6) Not more than ten (10) friends or relatives of the convicted person who are invited by the convicted person to attend.

I plead the human rights causes of others. I have been frequently been told to mind my own business.

My work is based on a higher understanding of justice, moral causes, including the demand for reparations and the ultimate liberation of my beloved people - both here and worldwide.

Execution Procedures:

The execution of the offender shall generally occur between 12:00 midnight and 1:00 a.m, local time, and no later than the hour before sunrise on a date fixed by the sentencing court. The execution must not occur until at least one-hundred (100) days after the conviction.

Media press self censorship about human rights abuse in the US is a common routine practice.

Death row is like a meat locker for society's sacrificial lambs.

I am not a criminal by any honest definition of the word.

Execution Of Death Sentence:

Once the offender is secured to the gurney, the I.V. Technicians will insert an angiocath into each arm, attach the necessary tubing and start an I.V. consisting of a saline solution.

New Afrikan people were systematically excluded from selection as jurors.

The prosecutor, among others, blamed the problem on a computer glitch, but racial discrimination is an integral part of the political process and it is very unlikely that this was a coincidence.

The Execution Order shall then be read to the condemned offender by an Assistant Superintendent or his designee.

Once this is completed, the Superintendent or designee will ask the condemned offender if he has any last statements or comments.

As regards my case, there was no pre-trial identification and a paraffin gunshot residue test showed that I had not fired a gun.

Once the "Proceed" command is given by the Superintendent or designee, the injection procedure will continue until the chemicals, all five (5) syringes, have been injected into the offender, and the person is presumed dead.

The judge had me shackled during the trial in front of an all-white jury.

The condemned prisoner is strapped to the death gurney. The first drug is sodium pentothal. A saline solution is then used to insure the tube is cleared out so the drugs won't mix because sometimes there's a chemical reaction where they can clog.

The court bailiff spoke to the jurors in the deliberation room on the orders of the judge, saying that they should be ready to be asked individually to state if their verdict is death. I was fortunate to find out about this ex-parte communication and the foreman of the jury gave a sworn affidavit confirming it.

The third one is pancuronium bromide. That is the muscle relaxer. The fourth syringe then pushes another saline solution through. The fifth syringe is potassium chloride. That is the toxic drug that stops the heart, then the person is presumed dead.

The jurors were allowed to consume alcohol during the trial.

Following the completion of the injection process, and a five (5) minute waiting period, the blinds to the witness area will be closed and the Physician advised.

The prosecutors knowingly used a false testimony and they covered up material evidence that did not favour their charge against me.

If the offender's heart has not stopped, the lights shall be dimmed, blinds opened, and the Superintendent or designee shall order the injection procedure to be repeated. After this procedure is completed, the blinds will once again be closed, and the Physician will again check for signs of life. The Physician shall then report his findings to the Superintendent or designee.

The strategy of criminalisation and isolation of political prisoners, which is the denial of their existence, partly allows the US to propagate the lie that US society has achieved social peace and that whatever dissent there is functions solely within the existent bourgeois democratic framework.

After the offender has been pronounced dead by the Physician, and the witnesses are gone, fingerprints will be taken, and the body shall be released to the County Coroner or designee, who will remove the body to the mortuary.

The US always accuses other nations of human rights violations, diverting attention from its own bloody hands.

October 25, 2000