Proof? A known murderer has been permitted to write video scripts for and enjoy a live show of a local band…
(ANSA) – Perugia, September 16 – Amanda Knox, the US student appealing a 26-year conviction for the 2007 murder of British flatmate Meredith Kercher in Perugia, has written a video script for a band based near her prison.
The band, Hands of Times (H.O.T), said Knox had “always had a passion for music and poetry” and had often seen them at student gigs before the Kercher case.
H.O.T., an emerging band from Orvieto, are playing a gig Saturday in the women’s section of Perugia’s Capanne prison where Knox has been detained since her conviction in December 2009.
This is how you serve hard time in Italy? The question is not who has been bought but who has not been bought.
EDITOR’S NOTE: On October 3, 2011, Amanda Knox was acquitted of the murder of Meredith Kercher and released from prison.
The American journalism system is completely fucked up. My proof? A nonsensical moron is allowed to write for Seattle’s only newspaper.
@1: The American journalism system pays Charles next to nothing at a job that provides a stepping stone to nowhere. Perfect.
Seriously Charles – an imprisoned person is not allowed to write?
To write is to think, and you of all people would advocate that a conviction means a cessation of thinking, let alone writing?
This is pretty stupid. She wrote a letter to a band and you are using this as an example of how corrupt the Italian justice system is? Very strange. If you want to point out how corrupt the Italian justice system is you could more accurately point to Knox’s almost certain innocence of the crime she was convicted of and the way that prosecutors have treated her and her family
Good Morning Charles,
Yeah, I just read that in the Seattle Times. Struck me as odd. Well, I guess she gotta have something to do.
I’d be willing to donate $20 toward a fund to fly Charles to Italy so he can fuck Amanda Knox and get it out of his system.
Count me in, Banna – but only if he promises not to come back.
Need I remind you that Casey Anthony walked and stands to make millions because she murdered her baby ?
indeed, charles, the only reason she’s convicted and in prison is because of who has not been bought. if you’re being ironic, cut it the fuck out.
@6 – Charles already tried that. There’s some Stranger article from way back, not long after the thing happened, when Charles goes to Perugia, takes photos, writes drivel, and in between lines he’s beating off to thought of dead Kircher’s body bc he can’t get close enough to Knox.
Forget this?
http://youtu.be/N5Ts4M3irWM
This episode seems like inappropriate privileges and leniency for someone serving time on a murder conviction. Still, if one were inspired to write about problems with systems of incarceration, getting to attend a concert in prison is both hardly without precedent – see Cash, Johnny – and not nearly so worrisome as a lot of the things that happen in our prisons, most notably our culture’s acceptance of prison rape.
On the other hand, this post would make a lot more sense if you were to replace “known murderer” with “convicted murderer”. The case against Amanda Knox is, according to what I’ve read, remarkably weak, and her conviction is widely predicted to be overturned on appeal.
Murderers write the best lyrics.
Too bad Amanda isn’t a murderer …
Why I’m Not a Liberal, #6346:
Isn’t it crazy how Seattle gets all crazy about a middle class college girl studying and partying in Italy being sentenced to prison for a crime she didn’t commit, but doesn’t care a bit about a black man sentenced to die in Georgia this week for a crime he didn’t commit?
Keep it real, Seattle!
Sorry, Zepol, but you’re full of sh!t. Amanda Knox gets attention locally because she’s from Seattle, and I’ve seen plenty of activism about Troy Davis (though I can’t recall whether I’ve seen any at The Stranger).