Types of Profiteers & Victims of SSRIs

[Guest guest]

Some of the groups of individuals/businesses who (at

varied times and in myriad ways) profit from the

approval & overprescribing of SSRI antidepressant

psychotropic drugs worldwide are as follows...

1. Privately owned or administered penal institutions

2. International pharmaceutical manufacturers &

distributors

3. Pharmaceutical/Retirement fund shareholders

4. Doctors, Researchers, Educational institutions

5. Hospitals, psychiatrists, pharmacies

6. Investment fund managers

7. FDA officials & political appointees

8. Law enforcement & penal institution personnel

9. Divorce litigants

10. Lawyers

11. Judges

12. Historical political parties seeking to

marginalize or exterminate oppositional individuals.

13. Some grandparents of children who's mother or

father are prescribed psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs

14. Welfare agencies & beneficiaries

15. care agencies

16. Profiteers from " helping " a disfunctional family

caused by adverse effects of SSRI psychotropic drugs.

17. Malicious caregivers who choose to use SSRIs to

marginalize, muffle, or remove a victim patient.

18. Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy perpetrators

19. Medical facility & retirement home administrators

which choose not to expose employed malicious

caregivers who are increasing patient numbers &

company profits by increasing facility throughput by

speeding up.

Some types of people who are harmfully affected by the

overprescribing of SSRI antidepressants worldwide are

as follows...

1. Unsuspecting polypharmacy medicated patient

victims

2. Adverse-drug-affected patients given SSRIs

3. Family members such as children

4. Family members such as spouses, siblings & parents

5. Schoolmates

6. Coworkers

7. Bed partners such as infants of an SSRI-induced

sleepwalker

8. Random contacts/victims of an " axon pruned "

patient suffering REM deprivation and vasoconstriction

from an SSRI.

9. Society members in general who don't understand

why world seems to be increasingly violent.

10. Post-partum mothers suffering common depressed

mood due largely to hormonal changes after delivery

11. Teenagers undergoing hormonal life transition

stage changes

12. Elderly undergoing depressed mood from common

deminishing memory ailments concurrent with routinely

unmonitored self-administered SSRI psychotropic

prescriptions.

13. Uninformed victims of vasoconstrictive effects

from SSRI prescription medication.

14. Individuals seeking legitimate penal institution

reform or legitimate capital punishment reform.

15. Young people through high school age or of child

bearing age medicated to mediate normal hormonal

changes.

16. Loved ones & legitimate caregivers of SSRI

patients

17. Sufferers of multiple concurrent life

tragedies/setbacks which normally exhibit depressed

mood

18. Victims who incorrectly believe that DMS is

currently appreciably & scientifically reliable and

therefore incorrectly believe DSM categorical

diagnosis is largely valid.

--- Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

>

> Wonder what the pills were?

>

>

>

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10309622.htm?1c

>

> Posted on Wed, Dec. 01, 2004

>

>

>

> Killer running out of appeals

>

> If the execution of Banks occurs tomorrow, it

> will be Pa.'s first since 1999.

>

> By Amy Worden and Schiavo

>

> Inquirer Staff Writers

>

>

> Just more than 22 years ago, a state prison guard

> armed with a semiautomatic rifle burst into the

> Wilkes-Barre trailer where his ex-girlfriend lived,

> embarking on the worst killing rampage by an

> individual in Pennsylvania history.

>

> When Banks surrendered eight hours later, 13

> people - five of them Banks' young children - were

> dead. Many of the victims were shot in the head as

> they slept.

>

> After a two-decade-long appeal process, including

> eight years in federal court that led to two U.S.

> Supreme Court denials, Banks, 62, is scheduled to

> die by lethal injection tomorrow night at the State

> Correctional Institution at Rockview near State

> College.

>

> Amid a flurry of last-minute appeals by Banks'

> attorneys, a Commonwealth Court judge issued a stay

> pending action by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court -

> which has ruled against Banks three times before.

> Banks' brother, , says he is " resigned to the

> inevitable, " and one of his attorneys said that, at

> this point, there were few legal avenues left. " We

> have a limited number of options remaining, " said

> Wiseman, an attorney with the Federal

> Defender's Office in Philadelphia.

>

> If the execution is carried out, Banks will be the

> first person to be put to death in Pennsylvania

> since Heidnik, the Philadelphia " House of

> Horrors " killer convicted of murdering two women,

> was executed in 1999. And he would be only the

> fourth put to death since the state reinstated the

> death penalty in 1978.

>

> With the execution date set, family members of Banks

> and his many victims have been forced to relive

> their painful experience.

>

> Banks says he is " angry because the system

> knows " his brother " wasn't competent when he

> committed the crime " - one of the issues being

> raised by defense attorneys.

>

> " I don't know why they have to have his life in

> their hands, " he said. " Revenge in this country

> seems to be more prevalent than ever. We are

> becoming barbarians. "

>

> But Ray Hall, whose 24-year-old son, Hall

> Jr., was killed by Banks as he walked down a

> Wilkes-Barre street, believes that Banks is

> deserving of lethal injection.

>

> " He was fit to live with three women, to have kids, "

> Hall said yesterday. " He was fit enough to get a

> job. He knew what he was doing, all right. "

>

> .

>

> At the time of the killing rampage, Banks, then 40,

> was on leave from his job at the state prison in

> Camp Hill, near burg. He had been ordered to

> seek help after threatening suicide while perched in

> his guard tower.

>

> Back home in Wilkes-Barre, Banks' personal life was

> a complex tangle of relationships with four women

> and five children. That summer, he lived with three

> women - and four of his children - at the same time

> in his Wilkes-Barre home, while a fourth girlfriend,

> with whom he broke up before the shooting, lived in

> a nearby suburb with a fifth child.

>

> Banks said his brother received only pills when

> he sought treatment from a mental-health clinic

> after the suicide threat. He said that on the night

> before the killings, his brother was taking those

> pills and drinking gin.

>

> Shortly before 3 a.m. on Sept. 25, 1982, armed with

> an AR-15 assault rifle, Banks entered the home where

> his former girlfriend, their son, her mother and her

> nephew lived. Witnesses said he left the

> blood-spattered mobile home yelling: " Now I'm going

> to get them all. "

>

> Banks then went to his house eight miles away and

> killed eight more people - three girlfriends and

> their five children.

>

> On his way out, Banks shot Hall and another stranger

> outside the house before surrendering to police. The

> other victim, Olson, lived to testify against

> him.

>

> In June 1983, Banks was convicted and sentenced to

> die for 12 counts of first-degree murder and one

> count of third-degree murder.

>

> Defense attorneys contended that Banks was insane

> and not competent to stand trial, arguments they

> continue to make in their last-ditch attempt to save

> his life.

>

> Prosecutors countered that Banks is neither insane

> nor mentally retarded.

>

> Those arguments surfaced again yesterday in

> Commonwealth Court, where Judge Bonnie B. Leadbetter

> issued a stay of execution that expires once the

> state Supreme Court acts.

>

> The stay was granted after lawyers for Banks'

> mother, Yelland, argued that he is too mentally

> ill to pursue clemency. They want Leadbetter to

> allow Yelland to pursue clemency even though her

> attorney did not file by the Oct. 15 deadline.

>

> Defense attorney Cristi Charpentier said later that

> she welcomed the reprieve, even if it is conditioned

> on what the higher court will do.

>

> Also Tuesday, the state Supreme Court dismissed one

> of Banks' last-minute appeals. Still to be ruled on

> by the court is whether Banks can seek further

> post-conviction appeals - which a lower court denied

> because Banks missed the September deadline.

>

> Ray Hall said he was confident that the execution

> would move forward and plans to witness it with his

> son's widow, Theresa, whose daughter was about a

> year old at the time of the murder. She said she has

> awaited Banks' execution ever since. " It's been such

> an ordeal, " Theresa Hall said.

>

> .

>

> In the last two years, the death penalty has been

> the subject of intense scrutiny across the nation in

> every branch of government from state legislatures

> and governors to the U.S. Supreme Court.

>

> In 2003, prompted by several cases in which innocent

> people were sentenced to death, Illinois Gov.

> commuted the death sentences of 167 death-row

> inmates to life in prison.

>

> Last spring, New York's death-penalty statute was

> ruled unconstitutional.

>

> Connecticut is scheduled in January to execute its

> first inmate since 1960, reviving debate over the

> death penalty in that state.

>

> There are 233 inmates on death row in Pennsylvania,

> the fourth-highest number in the nation. There were

> 244 two years ago, but the courts have vacated some

> sentences and reduced others to life in prison, said

> McNaughton, a spokeswoman for the state

> Department of Corrections.

>

> Gov. Rendell, who has signed 26 death warrants since

> taking office in January 2003, said last week that

> he supports the death penalty for the most heinous

> crimes and that he counts Banks' killing spree as

> one of those.

>

> " In Mr. Banks' case, I'm for the death penalty, " he

> said. " I believe it fits. "

>

> Nonetheless, the group Pennsylvania Abolitionists

> United Against the Death Penalty launched a

> letter-writing and phone-call campaign this week

> asking Rendell to pardon Banks.

>

> The group plans to hold demonstrations throughout

> the state, including at Rendell's Philadelphia

> office at Broad and Walnut Streets tomorrow.

>

> Luzerne County prosecutors, however, are hopeful

> that Banks' execution will go ahead as scheduled,

> ending 21 years of appeals.

>

> " We are looking forward to closure and some sense of

> resolution in a matter which involved the brutal

> senseless slayings of 13 innocent people, " Luzerne

> County District Attorney Lupas said. " It is

> time for the jury's decision to be carried out. "

>

> Contact staff writer Amy Worden at 717-783-2584 or

> aworden@.... This article contains

> information from the Associated Press.

> Executions in Pa.

> Three prisoners have been put to death in

> Pennsylvania since the commonwealth reinstated

> capital punishment in 1978.

>

> May 2, 1995. Zettlemoyer, 39, of Selinsgrove,

> kidnapped and shot to death a Sunbury man scheduled

> to testify against him in a burglary trial.

>

> Aug. 16, 1995. Leon Moser, 52, of Media, murdered

> his former wife and their two daughters outside a

> Montgomery County church after Palm Sunday services.

>

> July 6, 1999. Heidnik, 55, tortured and killed

> two women in his Philadelphia home. Known as the

> " House of Horrors " killer, Heidnik raped and

> tortured a total of six women in his basement in the

> late 1980s.

>

> Execution Evolution

>

> In 1834, Pennsylvania became the first state to

> abolish public hangings, the execution method of

> choice since colonial days. For decades afterward,

> counties hanged prisoners inside county jails. In

> 1913, the state assumed responsibility for

> executions, and the electric chair replaced the

> gallows. From 1915 to 1962, 350 people were

> electrocuted at Rockview State Prison. The method

> was changed to lethal injection in 1990.

>

> Death Row

>

> As of yesterday, 233 inmates awaited execution in

> Pennsylvania - the nation's fourth-largest death row

> behind California, Texas and Florida. Condemned men

> in Pennsylvania are held in state prisons at Greene

> and Graterford; women await execution at Muncy State

> Prison.

>

> SOURCES: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections;

> Death Penalty Information Center, Washington;

> Inquirer staff

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Some of the groups of individuals/businesses who (at

varied times and in myriad ways) profit from the

approval & overprescribing of SSRI antidepressant

psychotropic drugs worldwide are as follows...

1. Privately owned or administered penal institutions

2. International pharmaceutical manufacturers &

distributors

3. Pharmaceutical/Retirement fund shareholders

4. Doctors, Researchers, Educational institutions

5. Hospitals, psychiatrists, pharmacies

6. Investment fund managers

7. FDA officials & political appointees

8. Law enforcement & penal institution personnel

9. Divorce litigants

10. Lawyers

11. Judges

12. Historical political parties seeking to

marginalize or exterminate oppositional individuals.

13. Some grandparents of children who's mother or

father are prescribed psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs

14. Welfare agencies & beneficiaries

15. care agencies

16. Profiteers from " helping " a disfunctional family

caused by adverse effects of SSRI psychotropic drugs.

17. Malicious caregivers who choose to use SSRIs to

marginalize, muffle, or remove a victim patient.

18. Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy perpetrators

19. Medical facility & retirement home administrators

which choose not to expose employed malicious

caregivers who are increasing patient numbers &

company profits by increasing facility throughput by

speeding up.

Some types of people who are harmfully affected by the

overprescribing of SSRI antidepressants worldwide are

as follows...

1. Unsuspecting polypharmacy medicated patient

victims

2. Adverse-drug-affected patients given SSRIs

3. Family members such as children

4. Family members such as spouses, siblings & parents

5. Schoolmates

6. Coworkers

7. Bed partners such as infants of an SSRI-induced

sleepwalker

8. Random contacts/victims of an " axon pruned "

patient suffering REM deprivation and vasoconstriction

from an SSRI.

9. Society members in general who don't understand

why world seems to be increasingly violent.

10. Post-partum mothers suffering common depressed

mood due largely to hormonal changes after delivery

11. Teenagers undergoing hormonal life transition

stage changes

12. Elderly undergoing depressed mood from common

deminishing memory ailments concurrent with routinely

unmonitored self-administered SSRI psychotropic

prescriptions.

13. Uninformed victims of vasoconstrictive effects

from SSRI prescription medication.

14. Individuals seeking legitimate penal institution

reform or legitimate capital punishment reform.

15. Young people through high school age or of child

bearing age medicated to mediate normal hormonal

changes.

16. Loved ones & legitimate caregivers of SSRI

patients

17. Sufferers of multiple concurrent life

tragedies/setbacks which normally exhibit depressed

mood

18. Victims who incorrectly believe that DMS is

currently appreciably & scientifically reliable and

therefore incorrectly believe DSM categorical

diagnosis is largely valid.

--- Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

>

> Wonder what the pills were?

>

>

>

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10309622.htm?1c

>

> Posted on Wed, Dec. 01, 2004

>

>

>

> Killer running out of appeals

>

> If the execution of Banks occurs tomorrow, it

> will be Pa.'s first since 1999.

>

> By Amy Worden and Schiavo

>

> Inquirer Staff Writers

>

>

> Just more than 22 years ago, a state prison guard

> armed with a semiautomatic rifle burst into the

> Wilkes-Barre trailer where his ex-girlfriend lived,

> embarking on the worst killing rampage by an

> individual in Pennsylvania history.

>

> When Banks surrendered eight hours later, 13

> people - five of them Banks' young children - were

> dead. Many of the victims were shot in the head as

> they slept.

>

> After a two-decade-long appeal process, including

> eight years in federal court that led to two U.S.

> Supreme Court denials, Banks, 62, is scheduled to

> die by lethal injection tomorrow night at the State

> Correctional Institution at Rockview near State

> College.

>

> Amid a flurry of last-minute appeals by Banks'

> attorneys, a Commonwealth Court judge issued a stay

> pending action by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court -

> which has ruled against Banks three times before.

> Banks' brother, , says he is " resigned to the

> inevitable, " and one of his attorneys said that, at

> this point, there were few legal avenues left. " We

> have a limited number of options remaining, " said

> Wiseman, an attorney with the Federal

> Defender's Office in Philadelphia.

>

> If the execution is carried out, Banks will be the

> first person to be put to death in Pennsylvania

> since Heidnik, the Philadelphia " House of

> Horrors " killer convicted of murdering two women,

> was executed in 1999. And he would be only the

> fourth put to death since the state reinstated the

> death penalty in 1978.

>

> With the execution date set, family members of Banks

> and his many victims have been forced to relive

> their painful experience.

>

> Banks says he is " angry because the system

> knows " his brother " wasn't competent when he

> committed the crime " - one of the issues being

> raised by defense attorneys.

>

> " I don't know why they have to have his life in

> their hands, " he said. " Revenge in this country

> seems to be more prevalent than ever. We are

> becoming barbarians. "

>

> But Ray Hall, whose 24-year-old son, Hall

> Jr., was killed by Banks as he walked down a

> Wilkes-Barre street, believes that Banks is

> deserving of lethal injection.

>

> " He was fit to live with three women, to have kids, "

> Hall said yesterday. " He was fit enough to get a

> job. He knew what he was doing, all right. "

>

> .

>

> At the time of the killing rampage, Banks, then 40,

> was on leave from his job at the state prison in

> Camp Hill, near burg. He had been ordered to

> seek help after threatening suicide while perched in

> his guard tower.

>

> Back home in Wilkes-Barre, Banks' personal life was

> a complex tangle of relationships with four women

> and five children. That summer, he lived with three

> women - and four of his children - at the same time

> in his Wilkes-Barre home, while a fourth girlfriend,

> with whom he broke up before the shooting, lived in

> a nearby suburb with a fifth child.

>

> Banks said his brother received only pills when

> he sought treatment from a mental-health clinic

> after the suicide threat. He said that on the night

> before the killings, his brother was taking those

> pills and drinking gin.

>

> Shortly before 3 a.m. on Sept. 25, 1982, armed with

> an AR-15 assault rifle, Banks entered the home where

> his former girlfriend, their son, her mother and her

> nephew lived. Witnesses said he left the

> blood-spattered mobile home yelling: " Now I'm going

> to get them all. "

>

> Banks then went to his house eight miles away and

> killed eight more people - three girlfriends and

> their five children.

>

> On his way out, Banks shot Hall and another stranger

> outside the house before surrendering to police. The

> other victim, Olson, lived to testify against

> him.

>

> In June 1983, Banks was convicted and sentenced to

> die for 12 counts of first-degree murder and one

> count of third-degree murder.

>

> Defense attorneys contended that Banks was insane

> and not competent to stand trial, arguments they

> continue to make in their last-ditch attempt to save

> his life.

>

> Prosecutors countered that Banks is neither insane

> nor mentally retarded.

>

> Those arguments surfaced again yesterday in

> Commonwealth Court, where Judge Bonnie B. Leadbetter

> issued a stay of execution that expires once the

> state Supreme Court acts.

>

> The stay was granted after lawyers for Banks'

> mother, Yelland, argued that he is too mentally

> ill to pursue clemency. They want Leadbetter to

> allow Yelland to pursue clemency even though her

> attorney did not file by the Oct. 15 deadline.

>

> Defense attorney Cristi Charpentier said later that

> she welcomed the reprieve, even if it is conditioned

> on what the higher court will do.

>

> Also Tuesday, the state Supreme Court dismissed one

> of Banks' last-minute appeals. Still to be ruled on

> by the court is whether Banks can seek further

> post-conviction appeals - which a lower court denied

> because Banks missed the September deadline.

>

> Ray Hall said he was confident that the execution

> would move forward and plans to witness it with his

> son's widow, Theresa, whose daughter was about a

> year old at the time of the murder. She said she has

> awaited Banks' execution ever since. " It's been such

> an ordeal, " Theresa Hall said.

>

> .

>

> In the last two years, the death penalty has been

> the subject of intense scrutiny across the nation in

> every branch of government from state legislatures

> and governors to the U.S. Supreme Court.

>

> In 2003, prompted by several cases in which innocent

> people were sentenced to death, Illinois Gov.

> commuted the death sentences of 167 death-row

> inmates to life in prison.

>

> Last spring, New York's death-penalty statute was

> ruled unconstitutional.

>

> Connecticut is scheduled in January to execute its

> first inmate since 1960, reviving debate over the

> death penalty in that state.

>

> There are 233 inmates on death row in Pennsylvania,

> the fourth-highest number in the nation. There were

> 244 two years ago, but the courts have vacated some

> sentences and reduced others to life in prison, said

> McNaughton, a spokeswoman for the state

> Department of Corrections.

>

> Gov. Rendell, who has signed 26 death warrants since

> taking office in January 2003, said last week that

> he supports the death penalty for the most heinous

> crimes and that he counts Banks' killing spree as

> one of those.

>

> " In Mr. Banks' case, I'm for the death penalty, " he

> said. " I believe it fits. "

>

> Nonetheless, the group Pennsylvania Abolitionists

> United Against the Death Penalty launched a

> letter-writing and phone-call campaign this week

> asking Rendell to pardon Banks.

>

> The group plans to hold demonstrations throughout

> the state, including at Rendell's Philadelphia

> office at Broad and Walnut Streets tomorrow.

>

> Luzerne County prosecutors, however, are hopeful

> that Banks' execution will go ahead as scheduled,

> ending 21 years of appeals.

>

> " We are looking forward to closure and some sense of

> resolution in a matter which involved the brutal

> senseless slayings of 13 innocent people, " Luzerne

> County District Attorney Lupas said. " It is

> time for the jury's decision to be carried out. "

>

> Contact staff writer Amy Worden at 717-783-2584 or

> aworden@.... This article contains

> information from the Associated Press.

> Executions in Pa.

> Three prisoners have been put to death in

> Pennsylvania since the commonwealth reinstated

> capital punishment in 1978.

>

> May 2, 1995. Zettlemoyer, 39, of Selinsgrove,

> kidnapped and shot to death a Sunbury man scheduled

> to testify against him in a burglary trial.

>

> Aug. 16, 1995. Leon Moser, 52, of Media, murdered

> his former wife and their two daughters outside a

> Montgomery County church after Palm Sunday services.

>

> July 6, 1999. Heidnik, 55, tortured and killed

> two women in his Philadelphia home. Known as the

> " House of Horrors " killer, Heidnik raped and

> tortured a total of six women in his basement in the

> late 1980s.

>

> Execution Evolution

>

> In 1834, Pennsylvania became the first state to

> abolish public hangings, the execution method of

> choice since colonial days. For decades afterward,

> counties hanged prisoners inside county jails. In

> 1913, the state assumed responsibility for

> executions, and the electric chair replaced the

> gallows. From 1915 to 1962, 350 people were

> electrocuted at Rockview State Prison. The method

> was changed to lethal injection in 1990.

>

> Death Row

>

> As of yesterday, 233 inmates awaited execution in

> Pennsylvania - the nation's fourth-largest death row

> behind California, Texas and Florida. Condemned men

> in Pennsylvania are held in state prisons at Greene

> and Graterford; women await execution at Muncy State

> Prison.

>

> SOURCES: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections;

> Death Penalty Information Center, Washington;

> Inquirer staff

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Some of the groups of individuals/businesses who (at

varied times and in myriad ways) profit from the

approval & overprescribing of SSRI antidepressant

psychotropic drugs worldwide are as follows...

1. Privately owned or administered penal institutions

2. International pharmaceutical manufacturers &

distributors

3. Pharmaceutical/Retirement fund shareholders

4. Doctors, Researchers, Educational institutions

5. Hospitals, psychiatrists, pharmacies

6. Investment fund managers

7. FDA officials & political appointees

8. Law enforcement & penal institution personnel

9. Divorce litigants

10. Lawyers

11. Judges

12. Historical political parties seeking to

marginalize or exterminate oppositional individuals.

13. Some grandparents of children who's mother or

father are prescribed psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs

14. Welfare agencies & beneficiaries

15. care agencies

16. Profiteers from " helping " a disfunctional family

caused by adverse effects of SSRI psychotropic drugs.

17. Malicious caregivers who choose to use SSRIs to

marginalize, muffle, or remove a victim patient.

18. Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy perpetrators

19. Medical facility & retirement home administrators

which choose not to expose employed malicious

caregivers who are increasing patient numbers &

company profits by increasing facility throughput by

speeding up.

Some types of people who are harmfully affected by the

overprescribing of SSRI antidepressants worldwide are

as follows...

1. Unsuspecting polypharmacy medicated patient

victims

2. Adverse-drug-affected patients given SSRIs

3. Family members such as children

4. Family members such as spouses, siblings & parents

5. Schoolmates

6. Coworkers

7. Bed partners such as infants of an SSRI-induced

sleepwalker

8. Random contacts/victims of an " axon pruned "

patient suffering REM deprivation and vasoconstriction

from an SSRI.

9. Society members in general who don't understand

why world seems to be increasingly violent.

10. Post-partum mothers suffering common depressed

mood due largely to hormonal changes after delivery

11. Teenagers undergoing hormonal life transition

stage changes

12. Elderly undergoing depressed mood from common

deminishing memory ailments concurrent with routinely

unmonitored self-administered SSRI psychotropic

prescriptions.

13. Uninformed victims of vasoconstrictive effects

from SSRI prescription medication.

14. Individuals seeking legitimate penal institution

reform or legitimate capital punishment reform.

15. Young people through high school age or of child

bearing age medicated to mediate normal hormonal

changes.

16. Loved ones & legitimate caregivers of SSRI

patients

17. Sufferers of multiple concurrent life

tragedies/setbacks which normally exhibit depressed

mood

18. Victims who incorrectly believe that DMS is

currently appreciably & scientifically reliable and

therefore incorrectly believe DSM categorical

diagnosis is largely valid.

--- Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

>

> Wonder what the pills were?

>

>

>

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10309622.htm?1c

>

> Posted on Wed, Dec. 01, 2004

>

>

>

> Killer running out of appeals

>

> If the execution of Banks occurs tomorrow, it

> will be Pa.'s first since 1999.

>

> By Amy Worden and Schiavo

>

> Inquirer Staff Writers

>

>

> Just more than 22 years ago, a state prison guard

> armed with a semiautomatic rifle burst into the

> Wilkes-Barre trailer where his ex-girlfriend lived,

> embarking on the worst killing rampage by an

> individual in Pennsylvania history.

>

> When Banks surrendered eight hours later, 13

> people - five of them Banks' young children - were

> dead. Many of the victims were shot in the head as

> they slept.

>

> After a two-decade-long appeal process, including

> eight years in federal court that led to two U.S.

> Supreme Court denials, Banks, 62, is scheduled to

> die by lethal injection tomorrow night at the State

> Correctional Institution at Rockview near State

> College.

>

> Amid a flurry of last-minute appeals by Banks'

> attorneys, a Commonwealth Court judge issued a stay

> pending action by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court -

> which has ruled against Banks three times before.

> Banks' brother, , says he is " resigned to the

> inevitable, " and one of his attorneys said that, at

> this point, there were few legal avenues left. " We

> have a limited number of options remaining, " said

> Wiseman, an attorney with the Federal

> Defender's Office in Philadelphia.

>

> If the execution is carried out, Banks will be the

> first person to be put to death in Pennsylvania

> since Heidnik, the Philadelphia " House of

> Horrors " killer convicted of murdering two women,

> was executed in 1999. And he would be only the

> fourth put to death since the state reinstated the

> death penalty in 1978.

>

> With the execution date set, family members of Banks

> and his many victims have been forced to relive

> their painful experience.

>

> Banks says he is " angry because the system

> knows " his brother " wasn't competent when he

> committed the crime " - one of the issues being

> raised by defense attorneys.

>

> " I don't know why they have to have his life in

> their hands, " he said. " Revenge in this country

> seems to be more prevalent than ever. We are

> becoming barbarians. "

>

> But Ray Hall, whose 24-year-old son, Hall

> Jr., was killed by Banks as he walked down a

> Wilkes-Barre street, believes that Banks is

> deserving of lethal injection.

>

> " He was fit to live with three women, to have kids, "

> Hall said yesterday. " He was fit enough to get a

> job. He knew what he was doing, all right. "

>

> .

>

> At the time of the killing rampage, Banks, then 40,

> was on leave from his job at the state prison in

> Camp Hill, near burg. He had been ordered to

> seek help after threatening suicide while perched in

> his guard tower.

>

> Back home in Wilkes-Barre, Banks' personal life was

> a complex tangle of relationships with four women

> and five children. That summer, he lived with three

> women - and four of his children - at the same time

> in his Wilkes-Barre home, while a fourth girlfriend,

> with whom he broke up before the shooting, lived in

> a nearby suburb with a fifth child.

>

> Banks said his brother received only pills when

> he sought treatment from a mental-health clinic

> after the suicide threat. He said that on the night

> before the killings, his brother was taking those

> pills and drinking gin.

>

> Shortly before 3 a.m. on Sept. 25, 1982, armed with

> an AR-15 assault rifle, Banks entered the home where

> his former girlfriend, their son, her mother and her

> nephew lived. Witnesses said he left the

> blood-spattered mobile home yelling: " Now I'm going

> to get them all. "

>

> Banks then went to his house eight miles away and

> killed eight more people - three girlfriends and

> their five children.

>

> On his way out, Banks shot Hall and another stranger

> outside the house before surrendering to police. The

> other victim, Olson, lived to testify against

> him.

>

> In June 1983, Banks was convicted and sentenced to

> die for 12 counts of first-degree murder and one

> count of third-degree murder.

>

> Defense attorneys contended that Banks was insane

> and not competent to stand trial, arguments they

> continue to make in their last-ditch attempt to save

> his life.

>

> Prosecutors countered that Banks is neither insane

> nor mentally retarded.

>

> Those arguments surfaced again yesterday in

> Commonwealth Court, where Judge Bonnie B. Leadbetter

> issued a stay of execution that expires once the

> state Supreme Court acts.

>

> The stay was granted after lawyers for Banks'

> mother, Yelland, argued that he is too mentally

> ill to pursue clemency. They want Leadbetter to

> allow Yelland to pursue clemency even though her

> attorney did not file by the Oct. 15 deadline.

>

> Defense attorney Cristi Charpentier said later that

> she welcomed the reprieve, even if it is conditioned

> on what the higher court will do.

>

> Also Tuesday, the state Supreme Court dismissed one

> of Banks' last-minute appeals. Still to be ruled on

> by the court is whether Banks can seek further

> post-conviction appeals - which a lower court denied

> because Banks missed the September deadline.

>

> Ray Hall said he was confident that the execution

> would move forward and plans to witness it with his

> son's widow, Theresa, whose daughter was about a

> year old at the time of the murder. She said she has

> awaited Banks' execution ever since. " It's been such

> an ordeal, " Theresa Hall said.

>

> .

>

> In the last two years, the death penalty has been

> the subject of intense scrutiny across the nation in

> every branch of government from state legislatures

> and governors to the U.S. Supreme Court.

>

> In 2003, prompted by several cases in which innocent

> people were sentenced to death, Illinois Gov.

> commuted the death sentences of 167 death-row

> inmates to life in prison.

>

> Last spring, New York's death-penalty statute was

> ruled unconstitutional.

>

> Connecticut is scheduled in January to execute its

> first inmate since 1960, reviving debate over the

> death penalty in that state.

>

> There are 233 inmates on death row in Pennsylvania,

> the fourth-highest number in the nation. There were

> 244 two years ago, but the courts have vacated some

> sentences and reduced others to life in prison, said

> McNaughton, a spokeswoman for the state

> Department of Corrections.

>

> Gov. Rendell, who has signed 26 death warrants since

> taking office in January 2003, said last week that

> he supports the death penalty for the most heinous

> crimes and that he counts Banks' killing spree as

> one of those.

>

> " In Mr. Banks' case, I'm for the death penalty, " he

> said. " I believe it fits. "

>

> Nonetheless, the group Pennsylvania Abolitionists

> United Against the Death Penalty launched a

> letter-writing and phone-call campaign this week

> asking Rendell to pardon Banks.

>

> The group plans to hold demonstrations throughout

> the state, including at Rendell's Philadelphia

> office at Broad and Walnut Streets tomorrow.

>

> Luzerne County prosecutors, however, are hopeful

> that Banks' execution will go ahead as scheduled,

> ending 21 years of appeals.

>

> " We are looking forward to closure and some sense of

> resolution in a matter which involved the brutal

> senseless slayings of 13 innocent people, " Luzerne

> County District Attorney Lupas said. " It is

> time for the jury's decision to be carried out. "

>

> Contact staff writer Amy Worden at 717-783-2584 or

> aworden@.... This article contains

> information from the Associated Press.

> Executions in Pa.

> Three prisoners have been put to death in

> Pennsylvania since the commonwealth reinstated

> capital punishment in 1978.

>

> May 2, 1995. Zettlemoyer, 39, of Selinsgrove,

> kidnapped and shot to death a Sunbury man scheduled

> to testify against him in a burglary trial.

>

> Aug. 16, 1995. Leon Moser, 52, of Media, murdered

> his former wife and their two daughters outside a

> Montgomery County church after Palm Sunday services.

>

> July 6, 1999. Heidnik, 55, tortured and killed

> two women in his Philadelphia home. Known as the

> " House of Horrors " killer, Heidnik raped and

> tortured a total of six women in his basement in the

> late 1980s.

>

> Execution Evolution

>

> In 1834, Pennsylvania became the first state to

> abolish public hangings, the execution method of

> choice since colonial days. For decades afterward,

> counties hanged prisoners inside county jails. In

> 1913, the state assumed responsibility for

> executions, and the electric chair replaced the

> gallows. From 1915 to 1962, 350 people were

> electrocuted at Rockview State Prison. The method

> was changed to lethal injection in 1990.

>

> Death Row

>

> As of yesterday, 233 inmates awaited execution in

> Pennsylvania - the nation's fourth-largest death row

> behind California, Texas and Florida. Condemned men

> in Pennsylvania are held in state prisons at Greene

> and Graterford; women await execution at Muncy State

> Prison.

>

> SOURCES: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections;

> Death Penalty Information Center, Washington;

> Inquirer staff

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

>

[Guest guest]

Some of the groups of individuals/businesses who (at

varied times and in myriad ways) profit from the

approval & overprescribing of SSRI antidepressant

psychotropic drugs worldwide are as follows...

1. Privately owned or administered penal institutions

2. International pharmaceutical manufacturers &

distributors

3. Pharmaceutical/Retirement fund shareholders

4. Doctors, Researchers, Educational institutions

5. Hospitals, psychiatrists, pharmacies

6. Investment fund managers

7. FDA officials & political appointees

8. Law enforcement & penal institution personnel

9. Divorce litigants

10. Lawyers

11. Judges

12. Historical political parties seeking to

marginalize or exterminate oppositional individuals.

13. Some grandparents of children who's mother or

father are prescribed psychotropic drugs such as SSRIs

14. Welfare agencies & beneficiaries

15. care agencies

16. Profiteers from " helping " a disfunctional family

caused by adverse effects of SSRI psychotropic drugs.

17. Malicious caregivers who choose to use SSRIs to

marginalize, muffle, or remove a victim patient.

18. Munchausen-syndrome-by-proxy perpetrators

19. Medical facility & retirement home administrators

which choose not to expose employed malicious

caregivers who are increasing patient numbers &

company profits by increasing facility throughput by

speeding up.

Some types of people who are harmfully affected by the

overprescribing of SSRI antidepressants worldwide are

as follows...

1. Unsuspecting polypharmacy medicated patient

victims

2. Adverse-drug-affected patients given SSRIs

3. Family members such as children

4. Family members such as spouses, siblings & parents

5. Schoolmates

6. Coworkers

7. Bed partners such as infants of an SSRI-induced

sleepwalker

8. Random contacts/victims of an " axon pruned "

patient suffering REM deprivation and vasoconstriction

from an SSRI.

9. Society members in general who don't understand

why world seems to be increasingly violent.

10. Post-partum mothers suffering common depressed

mood due largely to hormonal changes after delivery

11. Teenagers undergoing hormonal life transition

stage changes

12. Elderly undergoing depressed mood from common

deminishing memory ailments concurrent with routinely

unmonitored self-administered SSRI psychotropic

prescriptions.

13. Uninformed victims of vasoconstrictive effects

from SSRI prescription medication.

14. Individuals seeking legitimate penal institution

reform or legitimate capital punishment reform.

15. Young people through high school age or of child

bearing age medicated to mediate normal hormonal

changes.

16. Loved ones & legitimate caregivers of SSRI

patients

17. Sufferers of multiple concurrent life

tragedies/setbacks which normally exhibit depressed

mood

18. Victims who incorrectly believe that DMS is

currently appreciably & scientifically reliable and

therefore incorrectly believe DSM categorical

diagnosis is largely valid.

--- Jim <mofunnow@...> wrote:

>

> Wonder what the pills were?

>

>

>

http://www.philly.com/mld/philly/news/10309622.htm?1c

>

> Posted on Wed, Dec. 01, 2004

>

>

>

> Killer running out of appeals

>

> If the execution of Banks occurs tomorrow, it

> will be Pa.'s first since 1999.

>

> By Amy Worden and Schiavo

>

> Inquirer Staff Writers

>

>

> Just more than 22 years ago, a state prison guard

> armed with a semiautomatic rifle burst into the

> Wilkes-Barre trailer where his ex-girlfriend lived,

> embarking on the worst killing rampage by an

> individual in Pennsylvania history.

>

> When Banks surrendered eight hours later, 13

> people - five of them Banks' young children - were

> dead. Many of the victims were shot in the head as

> they slept.

>

> After a two-decade-long appeal process, including

> eight years in federal court that led to two U.S.

> Supreme Court denials, Banks, 62, is scheduled to

> die by lethal injection tomorrow night at the State

> Correctional Institution at Rockview near State

> College.

>

> Amid a flurry of last-minute appeals by Banks'

> attorneys, a Commonwealth Court judge issued a stay

> pending action by the Pennsylvania Supreme Court -

> which has ruled against Banks three times before.

> Banks' brother, , says he is " resigned to the

> inevitable, " and one of his attorneys said that, at

> this point, there were few legal avenues left. " We

> have a limited number of options remaining, " said

> Wiseman, an attorney with the Federal

> Defender's Office in Philadelphia.

>

> If the execution is carried out, Banks will be the

> first person to be put to death in Pennsylvania

> since Heidnik, the Philadelphia " House of

> Horrors " killer convicted of murdering two women,

> was executed in 1999. And he would be only the

> fourth put to death since the state reinstated the

> death penalty in 1978.

>

> With the execution date set, family members of Banks

> and his many victims have been forced to relive

> their painful experience.

>

> Banks says he is " angry because the system

> knows " his brother " wasn't competent when he

> committed the crime " - one of the issues being

> raised by defense attorneys.

>

> " I don't know why they have to have his life in

> their hands, " he said. " Revenge in this country

> seems to be more prevalent than ever. We are

> becoming barbarians. "

>

> But Ray Hall, whose 24-year-old son, Hall

> Jr., was killed by Banks as he walked down a

> Wilkes-Barre street, believes that Banks is

> deserving of lethal injection.

>

> " He was fit to live with three women, to have kids, "

> Hall said yesterday. " He was fit enough to get a

> job. He knew what he was doing, all right. "

>

> .

>

> At the time of the killing rampage, Banks, then 40,

> was on leave from his job at the state prison in

> Camp Hill, near burg. He had been ordered to

> seek help after threatening suicide while perched in

> his guard tower.

>

> Back home in Wilkes-Barre, Banks' personal life was

> a complex tangle of relationships with four women

> and five children. That summer, he lived with three

> women - and four of his children - at the same time

> in his Wilkes-Barre home, while a fourth girlfriend,

> with whom he broke up before the shooting, lived in

> a nearby suburb with a fifth child.

>

> Banks said his brother received only pills when

> he sought treatment from a mental-health clinic

> after the suicide threat. He said that on the night

> before the killings, his brother was taking those

> pills and drinking gin.

>

> Shortly before 3 a.m. on Sept. 25, 1982, armed with

> an AR-15 assault rifle, Banks entered the home where

> his former girlfriend, their son, her mother and her

> nephew lived. Witnesses said he left the

> blood-spattered mobile home yelling: " Now I'm going

> to get them all. "

>

> Banks then went to his house eight miles away and

> killed eight more people - three girlfriends and

> their five children.

>

> On his way out, Banks shot Hall and another stranger

> outside the house before surrendering to police. The

> other victim, Olson, lived to testify against

> him.

>

> In June 1983, Banks was convicted and sentenced to

> die for 12 counts of first-degree murder and one

> count of third-degree murder.

>

> Defense attorneys contended that Banks was insane

> and not competent to stand trial, arguments they

> continue to make in their last-ditch attempt to save

> his life.

>

> Prosecutors countered that Banks is neither insane

> nor mentally retarded.

>

> Those arguments surfaced again yesterday in

> Commonwealth Court, where Judge Bonnie B. Leadbetter

> issued a stay of execution that expires once the

> state Supreme Court acts.

>

> The stay was granted after lawyers for Banks'

> mother, Yelland, argued that he is too mentally

> ill to pursue clemency. They want Leadbetter to

> allow Yelland to pursue clemency even though her

> attorney did not file by the Oct. 15 deadline.

>

> Defense attorney Cristi Charpentier said later that

> she welcomed the reprieve, even if it is conditioned

> on what the higher court will do.

>

> Also Tuesday, the state Supreme Court dismissed one

> of Banks' last-minute appeals. Still to be ruled on

> by the court is whether Banks can seek further

> post-conviction appeals - which a lower court denied

> because Banks missed the September deadline.

>

> Ray Hall said he was confident that the execution

> would move forward and plans to witness it with his

> son's widow, Theresa, whose daughter was about a

> year old at the time of the murder. She said she has

> awaited Banks' execution ever since. " It's been such

> an ordeal, " Theresa Hall said.

>

> .

>

> In the last two years, the death penalty has been

> the subject of intense scrutiny across the nation in

> every branch of government from state legislatures

> and governors to the U.S. Supreme Court.

>

> In 2003, prompted by several cases in which innocent

> people were sentenced to death, Illinois Gov.

> commuted the death sentences of 167 death-row

> inmates to life in prison.

>

> Last spring, New York's death-penalty statute was

> ruled unconstitutional.

>

> Connecticut is scheduled in January to execute its

> first inmate since 1960, reviving debate over the

> death penalty in that state.

>

> There are 233 inmates on death row in Pennsylvania,

> the fourth-highest number in the nation. There were

> 244 two years ago, but the courts have vacated some

> sentences and reduced others to life in prison, said

> McNaughton, a spokeswoman for the state

> Department of Corrections.

>

> Gov. Rendell, who has signed 26 death warrants since

> taking office in January 2003, said last week that

> he supports the death penalty for the most heinous

> crimes and that he counts Banks' killing spree as

> one of those.

>

> " In Mr. Banks' case, I'm for the death penalty, " he

> said. " I believe it fits. "

>

> Nonetheless, the group Pennsylvania Abolitionists

> United Against the Death Penalty launched a

> letter-writing and phone-call campaign this week

> asking Rendell to pardon Banks.

>

> The group plans to hold demonstrations throughout

> the state, including at Rendell's Philadelphia

> office at Broad and Walnut Streets tomorrow.

>

> Luzerne County prosecutors, however, are hopeful

> that Banks' execution will go ahead as scheduled,

> ending 21 years of appeals.

>

> " We are looking forward to closure and some sense of

> resolution in a matter which involved the brutal

> senseless slayings of 13 innocent people, " Luzerne

> County District Attorney Lupas said. " It is

> time for the jury's decision to be carried out. "

>

> Contact staff writer Amy Worden at 717-783-2584 or

> aworden@.... This article contains

> information from the Associated Press.

> Executions in Pa.

> Three prisoners have been put to death in

> Pennsylvania since the commonwealth reinstated

> capital punishment in 1978.

>

> May 2, 1995. Zettlemoyer, 39, of Selinsgrove,

> kidnapped and shot to death a Sunbury man scheduled

> to testify against him in a burglary trial.

>

> Aug. 16, 1995. Leon Moser, 52, of Media, murdered

> his former wife and their two daughters outside a

> Montgomery County church after Palm Sunday services.

>

> July 6, 1999. Heidnik, 55, tortured and killed

> two women in his Philadelphia home. Known as the

> " House of Horrors " killer, Heidnik raped and

> tortured a total of six women in his basement in the

> late 1980s.

>

> Execution Evolution

>

> In 1834, Pennsylvania became the first state to

> abolish public hangings, the execution method of

> choice since colonial days. For decades afterward,

> counties hanged prisoners inside county jails. In

> 1913, the state assumed responsibility for

> executions, and the electric chair replaced the

> gallows. From 1915 to 1962, 350 people were

> electrocuted at Rockview State Prison. The method

> was changed to lethal injection in 1990.

>

> Death Row

>

> As of yesterday, 233 inmates awaited execution in

> Pennsylvania - the nation's fourth-largest death row

> behind California, Texas and Florida. Condemned men

> in Pennsylvania are held in state prisons at Greene

> and Graterford; women await execution at Muncy State

> Prison.

>

> SOURCES: Pennsylvania Department of Corrections;

> Death Penalty Information Center, Washington;

> Inquirer staff

>

> [Non-text portions of this message have been

> removed]

>

>

>

>