SAVE Prisoners on death row in Pennsylvania: Larry Rush's Project
Who is Larry Rush (aka Leroy Thomas)
Larry Rush (aka Leroy Thomas) is a jailhouse lawyer, on death row in Pennsylvania. He was taught the law by a former death row inmate, Steve Evens, from his cell every night from 10 pm until 6 am for months, and thereafter says he was "blessed with the mental guidance of Mumia Abu Jamal."
He has always maintained his innocence and fights for his life as well as others' on death row. He has decided to represent himself, at least until, he says, he is able to find "an attorney or law-firm who will represent him 100%."
He says: "I have overturned 25 lesser sentenced cases, 15 life cases, and help removed six (6) prisoners from death row; three (...) whom are back on the streets. I don't do legal work in vain."
Larry Rush's Project: Support and Legal Defense Fund for Pennsylvania Capital Case Prisoners
Larry Rush has decided to set up a web page with the intention of making it possible for Pennsylvania Capital Case Prisoners to receive direct support from the free world, and obtain the legal materials and publications that will help them stay up-to-date with the influx law. Importantly, the project also aims at obtaining the funds that are really needed for their case. Larry says he needs a US constitutional lawyer, hoping to remove 130 people from death row. He also says there are over 20 innocent people on death row in Pennsylvania. The website project is designed to help Pennsylvania Capital Case Prisoners as a whole.
Larry Rush appeals to all concerned Individuals, Organizations, - legal and non-legal - Law-Firms, Law Students, Attorneys, Law Professors, Criminal Legal Experts, Religious Establishments, Corporation, Companies, Universities of Law Schools, Families and Friends, and People of Understanding All Over the World.
What is the issue?
Larry says that Ninety-five percent (95%) of death row members in Pennsylvania (195) are without jobs and only receive $16.00 a month idle allowance, and whatever little financial support family and friends can help them with in order for them to get personal necessities and maintain some sense of living.
However, they no longer have books in their mini-law library, due to the fact that everything has been placed on computers, which one can only look up every seven to eight days for two hours. Having their own books would allow them to share information with one another without any restrictions whatsoever. As for the law reviews, Larry Rush says they do not receive them at all. They were getting them when Mumia Abu Jamal was on death row because he had a law firm sending them to him. But now that he is no longer on death row and out of this prison, they receive no law reviews.
He says: "It is very important that we stay up to date with the governance rules of law, which is always influx. Understand that I will never ask for that which we do not need, or could get on our own"
Why is it important?
Larry says:
There are so many prisoners on Pennsylvania’s death row whom
should have not been found guilty of first degree murder,
and most certainly not sentenced to death, and there is no doubt in my mind that with our own sufficiently paid attorneys and/or law-firms many of us would be freed from this living hell and not be subjected to a poisonous needle. And, there’s no doubt in my mind that with the right sufficiently paid attorney and/or law firm, Pennsylvania’s Statute and/or Decisional Law would be declared unconstitutional. I have already constructed a legal argument (that would remove at least 130 capital case prisoners from Pennsylvania’s death row) behind the following legal question:
WHETHER A SENTENCE OF DEATH CAN CONSTITUTIONALLY BE IMPOSED AFTER A JURY VERDICT OF GUILT OF FIRST DEGREE MURDER AND ROBBERY, AND THEN COMBINED TO ALLOW THEM TO FIND AS AN AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCE THAT “THE DEFENDANT COMMITTED A KILLING WHILE IN THE PERPETRATION OF A FELONY” UNDER 42 PA C.S.A. § 9711 (d)(6), WHEN THE JURY CONSIDERED AND REJECTED AS A NON-CAPITAL OFFENSE THAT “THE DEFENDANT COMMITTED A KILLING WHILE IN THE PERPETRATION OF A FELONY” DURING THE GUILT STAGE UNDER 18 PA C>S>C. § 2502 (b)(d)? (As a matter of law NO!)
WHETHER THE STATE OF PENNSYLVANIA ARBITRARILY AND CAPRICIOUSLY ALLOWS A JURY TO CONSIDER AS AN AGGRAVATING CIRCUMSTANCE THAT “THE DEFENDANT COMMITTED A KILLING WHILE IN THE PERPETRATION OF A FELONY” UNDER 42 PA C.S.A. § 9711 (d)(6) DURING THE SENTENCE PHASE, WHEN THE JURY CONSIDERED AND REJECTED A NON-CAPITAL OFFENSE THAT “THE DEFENDANT COMMITTED A KILLING WHILE IN THE PERPETRATION OF A FELONY” UNDER 18 PA C.S.A. § 2502 (b)(d) DURING THE GUILT PHASE, IN VIOLATION OF THE EIGHT AND FOURTEENTH AMENDMENT (As a matter of law YES!)
But as a capital case prisoner, my voice is not being heard! But you can help change this if you would just give what you can. I am pleading with the world -PLEASE HELP US!!!
How you can help Larry Rush?
Pennsylvania capital case prisoners need:
. Law books
. Law Reviews
. Publications
. Legal necessities
. Sufficient funds to litigate their cases.
He hopes someone from a law firm and/or a student from a law school in the US might help him with the legal material. If yourselves cannot do anything, but know someone who might, please forward this link. Thank you.
What Larry's friend Pam says
Larry has been crying out for years now for help, both legal and financial, but in the meantime he’s doggedly been working on his appeal as a self-taught lawyer. In fact, he’s gone a step further, and is helping others in the same situation on the Row. He’s a good friend, and I admire him immensely. Please help him. He needs all the help he can get.
Larry has been crying out for years now for help, both legal and financial, but in the meantime he’s doggedly been working on his appeal as a self-taught lawyer. In fact, he’s gone a step further, and is helping others in the same situation on the Row. He’s a good friend, and I admire him immensely. Please help him. He needs all the help he can get.
To contact Larry Rush by mail at the below address or via jpay - www.jpay.com
Larry Rush AM2728
S.C.I. – Greene
175 Progress Drive
Waynesburg, PA 15370-8090