CALIFORNIA PAROLE BOARD RECOMMENDED AND THE GOVERNOR IS CONSIDERING PAROLE FOR A VICIOUS KILLER

After reading the following piece by Dena Sam, I hope my readers will contact Gov. Brown’s office and urge him to reject the parole for Michael Martin (Prison inmate no. C04686). Please make your voice heard even if you do not live in California. Just Google up Governor of California Office, then click on ‘Contact’ and submit your email. Please do so before January 17.

THE LAST REAL MEMORY
By Dena Sam

PACOVILLA Corrections blog
January 7, 2013

My last real memory of my husband, Victor Sam, was from the evening I came home from the hospital. On August 13, 1977 I gave birth to our first and what would become our only child. Because of complications with the delivery, I was required to stay in the hospital for 7 days. That night as I got ready for bed, Victor lay in bed with his son snuggled up close to his face.

That is the wonderful image I have held close to my heart.

Not the terrible images that were shown in court–The images of my husband, dead, shot in the head from a sawed off shot gun. Nor the newspaper articles that went on for 2 years describing every detail of Michael Martin’s decision to kill Victor. The decision that was made when Victor’s Correctional Officer ID was found in his wallet.

Michael A. Martin not only killed my husband, he killed a Correctional Officer, a Correctional Officer who was proud of who he was. Victor was proud to be a Correctional Officer, proud to be a father and proud to be a husband. Because of Michael Martin’s dislike for all Correctional Officers, my husband lost his life.

Now, the parole board has decided that it is OK that Victor is dead and that a Correctional Officer was killed. They have requested Michael Martin’s release. Taking a human life is never forgiving. But to take the life of one of those, that proudly serves each day, to protect us from the very type of person Michael Martin is, those killers should never be released.

Please help me in my efforts to keep Michael A. Martin (inmate #C04686) in prison. Please email or write Governor Brown and ask him to veto Michael Martin’s release. All correspondence must be submitted to Governor Brown’s office no later than Jan 17, 2013.