Petition to Deny Parole for Brian M. McCarthy

Mon, 8 Dec 2008 06:59 UTC

On September 1, 1986, Katherine Hawelka, a 19 year old college sophomore died after a brutal attack on the campus of Clarkson University in Potsdam, NY at the hands of Brian M. McCarthy. He viciously attacked her as she was walking on campus. He raped and strangled her, beating her so severely that she was unrecognizable due to the head and face trauma she sustained. She never regained consciousness after this heinous attack. Brian McCarthy had just been released on parole three months prior to this attack.

Her convicted murderer, Brian McCarthy, plead guilty on Thursday, August 13, 1987 and was convicted to 23 years to life for her murder. He was denied parole at his first hearing in 2009. New York State law allows for subsequent parole hearings every 24 months. Every two years, my brother, mother, sister and I meet with the Victim Impact Unit of NYS Corrections Dept to make formal statements to ask for his parole to continue to be denied. Every 24 months we recount the horrific details for her murder and the lack of remorse and repeated offenses that her killer has shown while in prison. Every 24 months, we remind them that in one of his parole hearings, he didn’t even know Katy’s name when asked about his victim. We remind them of the beautiful life that he took and how we miss her every day.

Every 24 months we present our ongoing online petition to the board as a way to remind them that she is not forgotten, and we demand justice for the life he took. Justice demands that he be made to spend every day of his life in prison for taking the life of an innocent victim.

Justice for the lebanese people / العدالة للشعب اللبناني

Sun, 8 Dec 2019 11:04 UTC

In Lebanon, children die at the door of hospitals, because parents do not have enough money to pay for their children’s hospitalization.
In Lebanon, some children grow up and have not yet entered school.
In Lebanon, waste has spread to the streets because there is no environmentally friendly plan to get rid of the issue of waste and pollution.
In Lebanon, there is no social assistance system that is required to provide nutrition, housing, clothing and necessary medical care for those below the poverty line.
In Lebanon, the judiciary is political and unfair, judges in Lebanon are rightly right if the accused is weak and powerless, and are silent about those who stole the Lebanese treasury, which has led to poverty and starvation of the Lebanese people.

Therefore as The Lebanese-Swiss Association for human right protection, we are honoured to send the cry of the Lebanese people to the world for their help by demanding a lawsuit to the International Criminal Court in The Hague,to hold human and financial crimes that have been and continue to be practiced against the Lebanese people.

في لبنان، تموت الأطفال على أبواب المستشفيات، لعدم توفّر المال الكافي لدى الأهل، لدفعه مقابل دخول أطفالهم إلى المستشفى.
في لبنان، يكبر بعض الأولاد و يترعرعون في الوطن و هم لم يدخلو إلى مدرسة بعد.
في لبنان، عمّت النفايات الشوارع بسبب عدم وجود خطّة صديقة للبيئيّة للتخلص من موضوع النفايات و التلوّث.
في لبنان، لا وجود لنظام المساعدة الإجتماعية الذي يلزم بتأمين التغذية و المسكن و الملبس، لمن هم دون خطّ الفقر.
في لبنان، القضاء مُسيّس و غير نزيه، قضاء ليس عادلاً، بل معدّلاً، فإن القضاة في لبنان يصدحون بالحق إذا كان المتهم ضعيفاً لا حول له ولا قوّة، و هم نفسهم القضاة الصامتون عن محاسبة من سرق الخزينة اللبنانية ممّا أدّى إلى فقر و تجويع الشعب اللبناني.

لذلك يشرفنا بإسم الجمعية اللبنانية السويسرية لحماية حقوق الإنسان، بأن نرسل صرخة الشعب اللبناني للعالم، للمطالبة برفع دعوى قضائية لدى المحكمة الدولية في لاهاي، من أجل محاكمة السياسيين اللبناننيين على الجرائم الإنسانية و المالية التي مورست ولا تزال تمارس بحق الشعب اللبناني.

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Petition to Deny Parole for Brian M. McCarthy

Justice for the lebanese people / العدالة للشعب اللبناني