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On the outskirts of New Delhi, inside an anonymous concrete building and up a narrow stairway, Fauzia, 8, is making bindis. Dozens of small, colored fabric circle- and teardrop-shaped cutouts lie strewn on top of a wooden bed, next to a window. Next to the colored shapes, each the size of a fingertip, lie a scattering of colorful beads. Her hands moving quickly, Fauzia picks up a fabric circle, puts a dot of glue in its center, and then carefully places a bead or two on the glue. One bindi finished. Dozens to go.
The room is dark and close, but the window lets in the blinding light and stifling heat of a July afternoon.
Another narrow flight of stairs, a screen door, and then we are on the building’s roof. It is a concrete square no more than 20 feet by 20 feet. The space is packed with children, sitting cross-legged, knee-to knee. “Here,” he says, “Is the school.”
Is this a scene of hope? A poor girl spends part of the day working to bring in a few rupees for her family, which includes her mother and two sisters, one of them developmentally disabled. Part of the day, she spends in the upstairs school.
Or horror? A girl who can only go to school part-time spends up to seven hours a day making bindis instead of studying or playing.
Fauzia is better off than are many Indian children who do not go to school even part-time. Although primary school enrollment is almost universal for boys and 80 percent for girls, according to UNICEF statistics, enrollment shrinks over time. In secondary school, only 60 percent of boys are enrolled, as are 40 percent of girls.
The world’s child laborers number 250 million children, between the ages of 5 and 14, according to the International Labor Organization. About half of these children work full-time. About 120 million perform jobs that the ILO considers harmful or hazardous to their health and well-being. Asia is home to some 60 percent of all child laborers.
Since the mid-1980s, child labor has raced to the top of the international agenda. The new attention to this old problem is driven in part by fear that “globalization”—booming trade and flows of international finance—has increased exploitative work for children. Anti-World Bank and anti-IMF protesters from Seattle to Washington, D.C. to Prague to Quebec City cite child labor as one of the primary “evils” of globalization.
In the 1980s, European non-governmental organizations launched campaigns against carpets hand-made by children in India, Pakistan, Nepal and Morocco. When the campaigns began, both the carpet industry and the governments of those countries denied that child labor existed within their borders.
Later, these governments admitted that millions of children are doing work that is too harmful, or dangerous, for young bodies and minds. The ILO, UNICEF and other non-governmental organizations have conducted pilot projects to rescue children from slavery, war, and harmful work and put them into schools. In1999, the ILO’s more than 180 member countries unanimously adopted a convention calling for immediate action against the “worst” forms of child labor.
The next step is implementing the new standard. “Implementation,” says William E. Myers, a visiting scholar at the University of California at Davis and an internationally known expert on child labor and education, “is always the problem.”
Consider Fauzia, and her bindis. Is she working in one of the “worst” forms of child labor? If those bindis are exported for sale in a shop on University Avenue in Berkeley or in a Foster City shopping mall, should shoppers concerned about the girl buy her bindis—or boycott them? Could, or should, something else be done to help her?
The convention on the “worst” forms of child labor has been ratified by 61 countries, which is a record number for such a new convention. Each country that ratifies the convention must submit to the ILO within a year an action plan for eradicating the “worst” forms of child labor. Only a handful of countries have begun to put their action plans into place, according to the ILO. In South Asia, only Bangladesh and Sri Lanka have ratified the convention.
“Creating and ratifying the convention is the easy part,” said ILO Director General Juan Somavia when the convention was adopted in 1999. “The tougher part is finding ladders for them to climb out of the deep pits of violence and discrimination they live in.”
“Economic means are still one of the best ways to get a government’s attention,” according to one of the “child labor lessons” collected for a Stanford University conference in February 2001.
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Ill., has proposed legislation that would ban the import of all goods made by children.
And yet, most governments of developing countries have consistently opposed linking trade and provisions against child labor. They cite statistics, such as U.S. government estimates, showing that less than 5 percent of child laborers work in export industries. They also say linking trade with anti-child labor measures is protectionist.
Even many working children oppose linking trade and child labor. “We are against the boycott of products made by children,” said a manifesto adopted by a 1996 international meeting of working children in Kundapur, India.
Trade unions and other anti-child labor activists in the U.S. and Europe have at times openly opposed trade in child-made goods because they compete with products made by adult U.S. workers. But unions also point out that they have opposed child labor for more than 100 years, before trade in child-made products was as.
The most common argument against boycotts, however, is that they drive children out of the export sector—but not out of work. Children who leave export jobs often go to other work. When Harkin’s legislation was originally introduced, in 1993, garment manufacturers in Bangladesh fired tens of thousands of children. UNICEF found some laid-off garment workers in worse jobs, such as breaking bricks under the hot sun.
A backlash against the Harkin bill led to a breakthrough. Garment manufacturers promised to fire all their underage workers. The child workers then were sent to schools supported by the ILO, UNICEF, the Bangladesh government and garment manufacturers themselves.
The Bangladesh plan was the model for similar work-to-school plans in the soccer ball manufacturing industry of Sialkot, Pakistan; the rug-making industry of Lahore, Pakistan; the agricultural sector of the Dominican Republic; and in the coffee-growing sectors of six Central American countries.
The Central American programs are putting into practice several lessons from South Asia, according to Rijk van Haarlem, an ILO technical advisor who helped design the Bangladesh program and now is working on the Central American programs. One is that taking children out of work is not enough. The Central American program also delivers education and health care to children, campaigns against child labor, and helps families find alternative sources of income.
Supporters argue that the ILO/UNICEF/manufacturers program helped raise the profile of child labor in Bangladesh, and created schools where none existed previously. “The project generated enough interest in Bangladesh that in just two years child labor has become a major social issue in the country,” said A.K. Chowdhury, Bangladesh’s permanent ambassador to the United Nations, to a Stanford University conference in February 2001.
But critics say that the program is too expensive to help the vast majority of working children, who do not work in export industries. The way the project got started, and its implementation, resulted in 10,000 children in the new schools—only one-tenth the estimated number of children working in the garment industry before 1993.
And despite the program’s best efforts, children continue to work after school and even in the garment industry. Casualty lists from garment industry fires still include children. Last November, a fire in a factory in Narsingdi, 35 miles northeast of Dhaka, killed 52, including 10 children.
An ILO guide to child labor policy, printed last year, recommends children in harmful work, such as prostitution, should be removed from the job. But the report says that in less harmful situations, children might benefit from a part-time work, part-time school option.
Providing more and better education, however, has proven to be something most governments more readily promise than deliver.
In 1990, at an international conference in Jomtien, Thailand, governments from around the world pledged to provide “basic education for all” by 2000. “Ten years on,” said the non-governmental organization Oxfam International in a statement last year, “the international community has failed to keep the promise it made.”
In April, this year, many of the same governments “have not yet established the mechanisms to orchestrate their efforts and implement their strategies,” said John Daniel, UNESCO’s assistant director-general for education.
Some 125 million children, according to UNESCO, are not in school or drop out before finishing. In India, anti-child labor and school reform proposals vary greatly from state to state. Some states, such as Kerala, have strong primary education while others, such as Uttar Pradesh, lag.
Sometimes, a non-governmental organization can take the first step, by setting up a non-formal school in an area where the government has failed, according to Kiran Bedi, a pioneering social worker based in New Delhi. “Then people start asking, ‘Why doesn’t the government do its job?’” she says. “And then the government follows.”
Working children, however, need to have schools brought to them, and operated according to their needs, says Inderjit Khurana, the founder of more than 100 informal schools on railway platforms in Orissa. Later, they may be able to reenter regular schools, but many still need support so that they do not drop out.
Where Fauzia works, the arguments over international conventions and child labor laws, full-time and part-time education, seem far away. On the crowded roof floor, in school, she smiles shyly when asked what she hopes to do in the future. “I want,” she says in a strong voice, “to be a teacher.”
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At the time, humans were both predator and prey, residing in a richly diverse but rapidly transforming landscape full of formidable carnivores such as lions and giant hyenas.
Neanderthals had been widely successful long before modern man entered the fray. They were larger, stronger and even, with their larger brains, possibly smarter than their homo sapien relatives, yet they would not survive the next ice age. They would, like so many animals that have walked the earth, become extinct.
These modern men, our ancestors, could have so easily met the same fate, yet, according to Cameron and other modern scholars, an unlikely alliance contributed to our survival: the alliance between Man and Wolf.
But how exactly did this come to be? What would turn wolves, stealthy and capable hunters that likely saw us as a food source at one time, into man’s best friend? That is the question that prompted the author to pen The Dog Master: A Novel of the First Dog, a captivating and rich narrative of the first human-canine alliance.
Unlike the ‘survival of the friendliest’ narrative supported by many much loved texts (including some that have been reviewed in this column over the years, such as Brian & Vanessa Hare’s The Genius of Dogs), Cameron’s book proposes an alternative evolution: a sudden evolution caused by a rare set of circumstances causing two species to need one another in a way their species otherwise wouldn’t have.
This theory of a more sudden evolution, an “evolutionary shortcut” from wolf to dog, is both compelling and well-reasoned. Cameron’s relatable storyline makes is all feasible, even likely. He creates a tapestry of small tribal cultures, peppered with origin stories of other human customs (from nail polish to hairstyles) that seem familiar, recognizable.
Yet, it is the discussion of the implication of this unlikely alliance on the human psyche that Cameron explores that is even more exciting. Cameron proposes that this first improbable relationship went on to influence our entire perspective of the animal kingdom.
As Penn State anthropologist Professor Pat Shippman puts it, “No other mammal routinely adopts other species in the wild — no gazelles take in baby cheetahs, no mountain lions raise baby deer…. Every mouthful you feed to another species is one that your own children do not eat. On the face of it, caring for another species is maladaptive, so why do we humans do this?”
Cameron answers this question abruptly: it was chance that led to this occurrence and its profound advantages that led to its continued and widespread practice among humans through the ages.
Though the structure of The Dog Master: A Novel of the First Dog can, at times, feel awkwardly and needlessly fragmented, it is, overall, a wonderful and worthwhile read that will leave you sad to turn the last page and daydreaming about it’s premise long after reading.
W. Bruce Cameron is the New York Times bestselling author of 8 Simple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter, The Dog Master, and the A Dog’s Purpose series. In 2011 he was named Columnist of the Year by the National Society of Newspaper Columnists. He lives in California. (Bio courtesy of Amazon.com)
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by Sarah Meikle | Sep 24, 2015 | All things dog, Book Reviews, Dogs Helping Humans, Interspecial Relationships, Stop and Laugh | 0 Comments
I thought I would give readers a break from the books about service dogs this issue (lest I bore you with my personal penchant for the subject) and review one of the most emotive, well-written dog books I have ever read, Susannah Charleson’s Scent of the Missing.
I hesitate to call Charleson’s narrative a “dog book”, though it is very much that, as it seems an unsubstantial categorization, and oversimplification, of such a dynamic and expertly crafted book.
Scent of the Missing is the story of Charleson’s partnership with Puzzle, her Golden Retriever, and their experiences training as a search and rescue team. It is a stirring memoire composed of elegant, palpable prose that moved me to both laughter and tears. It is an adventure story full of suspense and an insightful celebration of a woman partnering with a dog to create a life that her dog will love, a life full of purpose, skill and accomplishment.
Charleson’s tale sits astride a tapestry of other stories, other people’s stories: stories of missing teenage girls, missing children, and missing elders. Each story of the missing person is stitched with the threads of information passed on to rescuers and searchers by officials and facts and rumors garnished from local onlookers and passersby. The multitudes of missing cause the mind to swim in the murky waters of tragedy, of violence and hardship.
Some are found by the dog-human teams scouring the wilderness and neighborhoods, and returned safely home with sighs of relief and celebratory calls. More often than not, however, the mysteries the teams unravel by chasing scent and paw through brush and bramble end in travesty, in sadness, in the discovery of a cadaver, although even those discoveries are also celebrations of sorts. They are, at least, answers. They are conclusions. They mark the transition from “is” to “was” in the descriptions of the missing. They also, in an uncomfortable irony, mark the success of the search and rescue teams.
As such, you might expect such a read to be a fascinating but overwhelmingly morbid journey. Yet, Scent of the Missing is surprisingly uplifting and sweet.
Charleson artfully weaves her personal journey of growth and emotion through the magnanimous undertaking of training her dog Puzzle. She tenderly reveals the history that led her to seek out such lonesome work. Her sharing creates an intimacy that is relatable, though few have likely shared such experiences.
Charleson and Puzzle’s dedication, as well as the dedication of the other search and rescue human-dog teams they train and search with, is inspiring. It moves readers to pay homage to search and rescue teams everywhere.
Most will likely be surprised to learn that all search and rescue teams are volunteers. These hardworking, lifesaving teams, often heed the call to action across great distances, often even flying to locations at their own expense. They enthusiastically brave river crossings, snakes, prickers and formidable landscapes into the unknown. They tear themselves from the warmth of their beds in the middle of the night to don boots and suits made for hardship. They time themselves until their responses have them in their cars careening toward those in need in a handful of minutes.
The training the search and rescue teams undergo is equally awe-inspiring. They systematically stage scenarios that will present their dogs with the challenges they may encounter on future searches. They take turns being the “cadaver” waiting to be found, often crammed into uncomfortable, dirty, creepy places while they wait in the hopes of being found. They learn to distinguish between the smells of dead animals and humans. They resign themselves to pausing their searches as the light of day fades only to wrack their brains all night reliving the search of the day to ensure they handled the burden of their responsibility effectively.
You may be wondering where in this the laughter is found. I can only assure you it is there. It is in the minutia of every description of Charleson’s actions and feelings and the exploits of Puzzle as she learns.
Scent of the Missing is a page turner, a book that will keep you reading long after the time you intended to go to sleep; a book that beckons you to steal away a few more pages when you wake, though you know your morning schedule doesn’t allow for leisure reading time.
For those more partial to audiobooks, Scent of the Missing can also be found on Audible and it is brilliantly narrated by the author herself. Her dulcet tones of Charleson’s voice highlights her poetic, lush and lyrical writing style. Her timing is impeccable, perfectly digestible and impassioned, poignant, and weighted with emotion.
Whether you chose to hear it or read it, Scent of the Missing is a pure joy that you will be reluctant to finish. It is an adventure you won’t want to end; one you might not have expected to relish so much, considering the subject matter, but that you assuredly will. Enjoy.
Sarah Meikle is a life-long dog lover and the founder and executive director of Diggity Dogs Service Dogs in Shelburn Falls, MA, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization that specializes in psychiatric and medical alert service dogs. Kiwi, her gorgeous rescue mutt, inspires her daily.
by Sarah Meikle | Jul 31, 2015 | All things dog, Book Reviews, Dogs Helping Humans, Interspecial Relationships | 0 Comments
Most mothers struggling to relate to their teenage daughter would not immediately think that fostering a service dog puppy would be the answer to their problems. Yet, for Sharron Kahn Luttrell, it was.
Having lost their family dog several years ago, Luttrell was suffering from ‘doggie deficit disorder’, but was reluctant to commit to another dog on her own as her two teenagers were about to graduate from high school and ‘leave the nest’. Unsure that she would want all of the responsibilities of a dog that might live for ten to fifteen years would entail, Luttrell decided to become a weekend foster for a N.E.A.D.S. (National Education for Assistance Dogs Services) service dog in training. Enter Daisy, a yellow lab with an infectious smile and goofy disposition, a little ray of sunshine, a bundle of joy.
Luttrell’s memoir Weekends with Daisy documents her experience as a weekend foster for a Daisy, who is raised and trained by an inmate, Keith, in a nearby prison during the week. Through this unlikely partnership between a stay at home mother of two and a convicted felon serving a decades-long sentence, Luttrell explores the nature of compassion, redemption, forgiveness, and kindness with refreshing candor and a healthy dose of self-deprecating humor.
Weekends with Daisy is a story about the transformative role dogs play in our lives and a testament to the simple power of sloppy kisses and furry affection. It is the tale of how the love of a pup can break through carefully constructed defense mechanisms and teach us about love, loss and patience.
As the Executive Director of a local service dog organization, Diggity Dogs Service Dogs, I am fortunate enough to see such transformations occur often. Of course, our dogs create such change in the lives of our clients, which is to be expected. However, they also do so for our foster volunteers.
Just last week, I sat watching six dogs frolicking in the grass with one of our fosters, a woman I have known for roughly six months when she began to tell me how much she has learned from the service dog in training that she has been fostering for even less time than that.
I was not surprised by her words, as the transformation in her seemed obvious to me. There was a light-hearted calmness to her that was not there when we first met. She seemed, quite simply, at ease.
I first met this foster when she attended an orientation event our Shelburne Falls training center. (All of Diggity Dogs’ service dogs in training are fostered by local volunteers while being training and anyone interested in fostering one of them must first participate in a three to four hour orientation before they are eligible to be matched with one of our dogs.) It is remarkable that she was there at all, really, as she had spent most of her life terrified of dogs.
However, as she began to work less, now partially retired, she had a strong desire to give back, to help others in some way. After reading an article about our organization she decided that she wanted to do that by volunteering for our growing local non-profit. And so, despite her fears, she applied to our foster program.
Since then, she served as a loving relief (temporary) foster for several of our dogs in training, before finally agreeing to foster one of our “wonderful washouts”, a dog that will not be graduating as a service dog (primarily because of her very high prey drive and attraction to everything that moves.) Amazingly, it was this dog – a dog that required far more patience and effort than any of our other dogs in training – which she credits for teaching her the most.
As we sat on her porch watching the dogs in fading daylight, she explained how the patience and compassion that the experience has instilled in her has had a positive affect on her family too. It has spilled over into her marriage and her relationships with her children and grandchildren.
Her words fill me with joy, as I had suspected that being a foster volunteer for our program had been instrumental in creating the changes I have seen in her. To me, she has become someone who can happily roll with whatever life serves up. She is quick to laugh and seems less anxious, less fearful; more confident. She seems to be enjoying life more, having more fun. Not because she is doing things that are more fun, but because her perspective has shifted. It is subtle but marked difference from the woman I met in late 2014.
As we do so, I wonder whether Luttrell’s experiences led to her fostering again or to get a dog of her own. Once home, I Google her name and quickly find her website where I am delighted to discover that she has continued to foster for N.E.A.D.S.. Luttrell has, in fact, fostered a total of ten dogs, five of whom graduated and five she dubs “fabulous flunkies”.
Unfortunately, not all dogs trained in service dog organizations will go on to make great service dogs. It is the frustrating reality of the industry. However, I love knowing that Luttrell’s passion for fostering has obviously not been dampened by this fact, just as I love the fact that our fosters regularly ask for another foster dog once the one they have had with them for the last six to twelve months graduates. Yes, there is usually an adjustment period, as they learn to love their new four-legged friend. They always differ in some ways from the pup they just reluctantly said goodbye to, but they are inevitably won over again by each new dog, as their differences bring new joys, new laughter, new insights into the world and themselves.
My foster’s experiences, and the experiences of the characters in Weekends with Daisy, remind me that life’s biggest lessons often come from surprising sources and that, sometimes, it is when you set out to teach that you actually learn the most.
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John Moon, left, director of National Education for Assistance Dog Service, with a black Labrador retriever named Rainbow that was trained by NEADS, and veteran Aaron Helstrom, with his service dog, Tucker, attend a briefing Tuesday on Capitol Hill. (SUBMITTED PHOTO)
I was delighted to see that funds are finally being allocated formally for training service dogs for veterans. Considering the shocking and heartwrenching fact that twenty-two US veterans commit suicide every day, it is long overdue. Hopefully it is just the beginning.
CARTER-FINLEY STADIUM/RALEIGH It’s the most-watched college football game of the year in North Carolina, and both teams are desperate to win it — not just for bragging rights, but to keep their long-shot bowl hopes from becoming even more improbable.
N.C. State (3-4, 0-4 ACC) is looking for its first ACC win under first-year coach Dave Doeren, and in fact its first win of any kind since September. UNC (2-5, 1-3) has just snapped a four-game losing streak with a 34-10 win over Boston College seven days ago.
The weather is sunny and mild and perfect, and the Wolfpack is showing off its new 50-yard-line logo with a red map of the state and a wolf’s head covering the Eastern Piedmont.
It’s another hard-fought one but this time the Tar Heels make the big plays on defense, holding on for the 27-19 victory.
The Wolfpack gets on the board first, four plays after Juston Burris intercepts a Bryn Renner pass at the UNC 24. Brandon Mitchell goes around right end for six yards with 12:47 left in the first before Niklas Sade adds the conversion.
The Tar Heels cut it to 10-7 on a two-yard pass from Marquise Williams to Quinshad Davis followed by Thomas Moore’s conversion at 4:41 to complete an eight-play, 74-yard drive.
Renner puts the Tar Heels ahead at 1:59, four plays after UNC takes over at NCSU 29 after a fake punt attempt doesn’t make it back to the line of scrimmage. Moore converts.
Sade trims the margin to one on a 38-yard field goal with 14:48 left in the second, finishing an eight-play, 48-yard drive.
Sade connects again from 44 at 10:31, putting the Wolfpack up 16-14 at the end of an eight-play, 37-yard excursion.
UNC took the lead again on a 59-yard halfback pass from Ryan Switzer to Davis at 9:43 left in the half, completing a four-play, 75-yard drive. Moore’s boot makes it 21-16.
Sade cuts it to 21-19 on a 28-yard field goal that completes a 10-play, 78-yard drive at 4:50 of the third.
Moore misses a 42-yard field-goal attempt on the first play of the fourth quarter. But the Tar Heels stretch the lead to eight with 11:19 left, as T.J. Logan goes in from 14 yards out to end an eight-play, 67-yard drive before Moore misses the kick.
Brian Walker intercepts a Mitchell pass at the State 44 with 10:53 remaining. The Wolfpack gets one more possession that ends at its own 49, and after getting the ball back with 13 seconds left gets off two plays but no further than the UNC 24.
Williams rushed 17 times for 51 yards and completes eight of 15 passes for two TDs without an interception for UNC. Eric Ebron catches nine passes for 70 yards.
Mitchell becomes the first State QB to rush for over 100 yards in a game since 1976, finishing with 105 yards on 21 carries and completing 10 of 22 passes for 130 yards with two interceptions. Shadrach Thornton carries 22 times for 90 yards.
UNC coach Larry Fedora: "Believe me, this team and this university and all of our fans take a lot of pride in that — tremendous amount of pride. As far as I know, it's always been ‘The Tar Heel State’ and always will be."
Doeren: “Anytime you lose a game like that, a very hard-fought game, it came down to mistakes for us. We threw the ball to them too many times in the second half, forcing some passes. We ran the ball effectively, but we dropped a couple of balls we didn’t catch and threw a couple of balls we shouldn’t have thrown. There was just not much margin for error when you play like that.”
Ebron: “If we don't have your respect already, we’re going to keep on taking it until the point where you have no choice but to respect us. I mean, this is our state. Our win ratio to their losses, I mean, we're killing them. You've just got to let them know whose state this really is.”
Mitchell: “We came out and executed. We just didn’t make big plays when we needed to. I was costing my team a victory. I had two turnovers in key situations when we had a chance to do take the lead. I would have pulled myself (in the fourth quarter), too. I need to make plays.”
That the Tar Heels can still cook up a winning season if they run the table, and that the Wolfpack needs to find a win, any win, and pretty soon.
The sun has risen and set more than 4,000 times over Raleigh's Central Prison since Frank Chandler was brought there in shackles and handcuffs on July 20, 1993, to spend the rest of his life on death row. Unless Gov. Mike Easley offers clemency this week, the 32-year-old Michigan native will likely be dead by the time many of you read this story. Chandler is scheduled to be executed by injection early Friday morning for the Dec. 12, 1992, murder of Doris Poore, an elderly woman who Chandler says he killed by accident when she startled him in the darkness during a burglary of her Surry County home.
On Monday morning, with perhaps less than 90 hours left to live, Chandler came to the prison visiting room to talk about his plight. Chandler, who stands 5-foot-9 and weighs around 300 pounds, is a large man, but his round, boyish face makes him look more like Beaver Cleaver than a menacing death row inmate. He wears his blondish-red hair in a crew cut. His hairline is slightly receding and his huge arms have several visible tattoos including a well-drawn barbed wire bracelet on his left wrist, which Chandler said he did himself.
"I've been here 11 years, and I've grown used to the idea, if that makes any sense," he said, his words spoken slowly and thoughtfully through steel bars and a wire-mesh glass partition. "I've pretty much, you know, grown used to the idea that I'll die here."
Ken Rose, executive director of the N.C. Center for Death Penalty Litigation, and Chandler's lawyers remain hopeful that Easley will spare Chandler's life.
Although he's received no relief from appeals courts, a clemency petition sent to Easley last month by Chandler's appellate lawyers paints a picture of a case fraught with error. In addition to Chandler's claim that he killed Poore by accident, an element that means he did not have premeditation or deliberation before his crime, Chandler's defense lawyer at trial, Terry Collins, now disbarred, was a troubled man who had previously used illegal drugs with the state's key witness, jailhouse informant Jeffrey Kyle Wilson, who shared a cell with Chandler.
Wilson provided the key aggravating testimony that led to Chandler receiving a death sentence. In exchange for his testimony, Wilson was given relief in his own case and paid a $2,500 reward, information that was not shared with the jury.
"Within weeks of the conclusion of Mr. Chandler's trial, the prosecutors entered into a plea bargain with Mr. Wilson, under which he received substantial sentencing concessions and recommended that a reward be paid to Mr. Wilson," the clemency petition reports. "The SBI delivered a check to Mr. Wilson in the amount of $2,500."
Collins' secretary, Debbie Collins, also recently told Chandler's appellate lawyers that "Mr. Collins regularly neglected his capital murder clients."
In 1995, the district attorney who prosecuted Chandler, James Dellinger, was removed from office by the Superior Court due to improprieties in office, a fact defense lawyers say "strengthens the claim that Mr. Chandler's conviction resulted from prosecutorial misconduct."
Easley, a former attorney general and prosecutor, is not inclined to use his power of clemency often. While governor, Easley has allowed 17 men to be executed, just twice granting clemency. Easley has signed off on three executions this year and a dozen since he last granted clemency in a January 2002 case.
"Everybody tries to wish for the best," Chandler said. "I'm like this, I expect the worst and hope for the best."
Chandler says he believes in God, but he says God has "given man free will. He doesn't intervene as much as people would like to think that He does. He leaves that in our hands to handle amongst ourselves. So [my life] rests with the governor."
Chandler, who grew up in Mt. Airy, says he mistakenly broke into Poore's house hoping to steal some marijuana.
"I honestly didn't believe there was anyone home in the house; I honestly didn't," Chandler said. He testified that he knocked on doors and windows "to make sure there wasn't nobody home. Nobody ever answered the doors. Nobody ever turned the light on."
When Poore awoke and startled him in the darkness, Chandler said he inadvertently swung his arm, hitting her in the head and causing her death. He was prosecuted as a capital defendant because Poore's death occurred during the commission of another felony, in this case a burglary.
"I'm regretful that it happened," Chandler said. "I'm very sorry. I'm sorry for the loss for the family members. I've caused them a lot of pain. It's something I wish I had never done, but it's not something that you take back... .
"I'm not really in a position to do anything to try to make it up to the family," he said. "What can I do?"
As he gets closer to his date, Chandler, the youngest of Franklin and Lorene Chandler's 12 children, says he is being treated well by his fellow inmates on "the row" and by prison staff.
"All the fellas on the row, we're a pretty tight family," he said. "We try to look out for one another best we can. The staff have been all right. They're going the little extra mile for me making sure I get my visits and stuff. Everything's all right. I ain't got no complaints."
Whenever executions draw near, Chandler said things around the row get more quiet. "It's a quiet time," he said. "You say good bye to 'em in your own way. Time to reflect, try and remember them and wish 'em a good journey."
Last month, Chandler remembers his goodbye to Charles Wesley Roache, who was executed Oct. 22. "I remember exactly what I said to Charles," Chandler said. "I just told him I loved him as my brother; told him I'd see him."
Chandler says he doesn't believe in the death penalty, that it "serves no purpose" and "it's strictly for vengeance." He said substance abuse is often a factor in capital cases. Chandler said he was drunk at the time of his crime.
Spending more than 11 years on death row may be terrible, but Chandler said he decided to make the best of it when he got there. To pass the time he does "a whole lot of reading." In the last few days he has received visits from his parents and siblings.
"There's not a choice," he said. "You have to cope. You have to deal with it. If you deal with it in a positive manner then you can make the best of what you have."
Even if he's granted clemency, Chandler will never be released from prison. Roache, who was executed last month, opted to drop his appeals and face execution.
"I prefer to live," Chandler said. "Even if you're in prison there's still things that you can accomplish. It's what you make of it."
While packing my bags and getting ready to fly to another beautiful European destination, I figured I’d share the rest of my Paris photos. My Paris trip will be one for the books. First of all because it was my first, real solo travel, and not to mention because of all the media madness that happened after I came home. Sort of fun, mostly awkward. Let’s just say I never in my wildest dreams expected it to get that big. Anyways, back to my beloved Paris and my photos:
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