democracy. and to disrupt a style of leadership, which we give over our power to folks. to understand that we, in fact, have the power. we expect too much from them. once we exult them, like dr. king didn t say, i wish sir good marshall was in montgomery. we look for the flaws and say, oh, i made you this great image and i find out that you don t wash your feet that well. i mean, it looked to break down people rather than lift ourselves up. absolutely. so eddie, this conversation, especially what you re just talking about, the two of you. what has happened to us? why have so many americans lost the memory of what this country was and still is, and ignore what the country still is? you know, it s a really important point. i think, and i m following here, who has a new book coming out. he says we re in a second lost cause. we re in the mist of a second
to be the right hand of god. doctors repeatedly said ferguson, does not know right from wrong. and in psychiatric oval weighings over the yeaweighin - evaluations he was described as a disturbed person with retarded intellectual ability and floor ridley psychotic. his execution had twice been stayed but in may the florida supreme court rejected his lawyer s appeal for a stay ruling that ferguson was mentally competent. in its ruling the court concluded that most people would characterize ferguson s prince of god belief in the vernacular as crazy. does not mean someone who holds that belief is not competent to be execute. before his death by lethal injection, ferguson spoke his last words. i just want everyone to know that i am the prince of god and i will rise again. that s all. in 1986 supreme court justice author good marshall found that executing the insane is savage and inhumane.