URGENT! xpost for Texas and all folk to stop wrongful execution!

who will, from anywhere, can do the action too! PLEASE!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=180x45613

thank you!!


peace

edit to fix implication is post to texans only

you always fight for the defenseless nofurylike. thank you.

:hi:

:loveya:


peace

spread the word!!

thank you!!

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and she had Mr. Foster's family on. One thing that the grandfather mentioned was that the actual shooter with whom Mr. Foster had been with that night was executed last year. He noted that it did not seem very reasonable to take two lives for the price of one. Not very reasonable indeed, but then again this is Texas.

K&R.

texas.


peace

just about broke my heart. A smart young lady who obviously adores her dad.

helps, a lot.

it is heartbreaking, isn't it?

we have to get them to stop this!!


peace and solidarity!

I was so impressed with the way he spoke and then, with the way she did. She was so clear.

She can't remember touching her father but only the glass between them.

This is a crime.

Nydesha Foster is amazing!
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you are right, sfexpat. this IS a crime.

we must stop it.

:kick:

I posted that article yesterday.

And, the law in question says 'he should have known' somebody was going to be murdered simply because they were robbing people.

WTF??

This is awful awful and I don't know how we can stop it.

thinking very hard about this, and many already standing up on this. that's why this time they ask for writing to legislators.

because, as you say, that governor is SHOCKINGLY, VULGARLY callous!! i swear, like *, asking him makes him do reverse. they are both sadists. love us begging, and to kick us when we beg. how to deal with sadists?!

thank you for posting about this, sandnsea! and for your support here!
please spread word: write texas legislators!


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The fact that the State of Texas has not commuted a death sentence in SIXTEEN YEARS. Except for the serial killer guy. Would that make people realize how bad things are? Could it be possible that not one mistake has been made in sixteen years??? (Or more for all I know)

It's a travesty. Twenty years, no commutations. How can they say this makes any difference in crime at all. It clearly doesn't.

the highest number of executions before that, and still outnumbers all other u.s. states.

from Death Penalty Information:

http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/

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Overall, from 1608 to the present, the leading executions states in the United States have been Virginia (1,375), Texas (1,152), New York (1,130), Pennsylvania (1,043), and Georgia (990).

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of course, those are the so-called legal executions. in just ten years, from 1899 to 1908, 959 were murdered by lynching. documented, ~2,500 African-Americans lynched just between 1882 and 1930....

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known as the texas killing machine. horrifying!!

i got some replies from legislators who are determined on this one.
here's hoping. chanting. praying....

sigh, ah?


thank you, sandnsea!

executions. Is there a context for that number? Because I remember it from Amy's show but don't remember 400 since when? :shrug:

see this:

August 22nd

http://www.protest.net/HIMC/calendrome.cgi?span=event&ID=822097&day=22&month=&year=2007&state_values=

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The death of Johnny Connor is scheduled for tonight.
If there is no stay, this will be the 400th execution in Texas since resumption of the death penalty in 1982. This milestone in Texas history must be condemned!

5:00-6:15 PM, Houston's Old Hanging Tree, corner of Capitol and Bagby downtown (behind Bayou Place and across from the Hobby Center) - join in the press conference and protest.

Sponsored by several groups, including Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, 8th Annual March to Stop Executions Committee (meets 2nd and 4th Mondays at 7 PM at the S.H.A.P.E. Communtiy Center at 3815 Live Oak at Alabama. Get involved in the struggle for justice. Help abolish the racist and anti-poor death penalty. We need your help, your participation, and your energy. Join us, please. For more info: Brother King at 713-521-0384 or Gloria at 713-503-2633.

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I don't think she commuted any either. So that looks like twenty years, and not one commutation. You know there had to be true innocents put to death.

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Ruben Cantu is legend, often told by death penalty abolitionists:

Did Texas execute an innocent man?
Eyewitness says he felt influenced by police to ID the teen as the killer
By Lise Olsen
July 24, 2006
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/3472872.html

Texas executed its fifth teenage offender at 22 minutes after midnight on Aug. 24, 1993, after his last request for bubble gum had been refused and his final claim of innocence had been forever silenced.

Ruben Cantu, 17 at the time of his crime, had no previous convictions, but a San Antonio prosecutor had branded him a violent thief, gang member and murderer who ruthlessly shot one victim nine times with a rifle before emptying at least nine more rounds into the only eyewitness — a man who barely survived to testify.

Four days after a Bexar County jury delivered its verdict, Cantu wrote this letter to the residents of San Antonio: "My name is Ruben M. Cantu and I am only 18 years old. I got to the 9th grade and I have been framed in a capital murder case."

A dozen years after his execution, a Houston Chronicle investigation suggests that Cantu, a former special-ed student who grew up in a tough neighborhood on the south side of San Antonio, was likely telling the truth.

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and Carlos De Luna in 1989

Did Texas Execute Carlos De Luna For Somebody Else’s Crime?
http://blogs.amnestyusa.org/death-penalty/archive/2006/06/28/bf3e8dsvvygk.htm

The Chicago Tribune has published a fascinating series addressing the case of Carlos De Luna, executed in Texas in 1989 for the 1983 murder of Wanda Lopez. The Tribune, in a three part series that concluded yesterday, presents evidence to support the claim that a man named Carlos Hernandez may in fact have been responsible for the murder. De Luna named Hernandez as the man responsible for committing the crime, but investigators failed to follow up this lead, despite the fact that Hernandez was already known to them, and prosecutors during the trial implied that he was simply a figment of De Luna's imagination.

From the Chicago Tribune:

‘The newspaper investigation, involving interviews with dozens of people and a review of thousands of pages of court records, shows the case was compromised by shaky eyewitness identification, sloppy police work and a failure to thoroughly pursue Hernandez as a possible suspect. These revelations, which cast significant doubt over De Luna's conviction, were never heard by the jury.'

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and Cameron Todd Willingham in 2004

Was an innocent man executed in Texas?

http://www.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/anderson.cooper.360/blog/2007/04/was-innocent-man-executed-in-texas.html

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Terry Washington, a mentally retarded man of thirty-three with the communication skills of a seven-year-old....

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and the disgraceful list goes on and on....

BUT:

the very eery case of dubyah and henry lucas.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Lee_Lucas

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Henry Lee Lucas' sentence was commuted to life in prison in 1998 by then-Governor George W. Bush. His was the only death penalty case among the 153 that came across Bush's desk in his tenure as Texas Governor in which he intervened and commuted the death sentence.

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texas death machine: george w. and henry lee
by David McGowan - December 28, 2000
http://www.disinfo.com/archive/pages/dossier/id419/pg1/index.html

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In nearly 140 scheduled executions that the governor has presided over, in only one case has he granted clemency and spared the condemned man from his appointment with the executioner.

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Only a few media accounts made mention of the fact that Governor Bush had, in fact, intervened to stop the scheduled execution of a condemned man in June 1998. Virtually none of these accounts, however, made mention of who the recipient of this commutation was. And the recipient was, it should be noted, no garden-variety criminal. No, this was a very special case indeed, for the man whose life was spared by 'Law & Order' George was none other than serial killer Henry Lee Lucas. Lucas is not a garden-variety serial killer: he is probably the most prolific, and arguably the most brutal, serial killer in the American crime annals.

Why then was it this man, and he alone, who received clemency from the governor? Why has there been a nearly complete blackout of this story in the media? Why, for that matter, has there been no mention of it by any of Bush's presidential rivals, Republican or Democrat, despite its obvious power as a weapon in the current campaign?

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sadly, of the many juvenile and mentally retarded convicted offenders executed by texas, several were during Ann Richards' tenure. she did a couple of stays, but never commuted any of the 50 executions that took place in that time. alas....

from wikipedia:

Among other death penalty cases, those executed while Richards was Governor were Johnny Frank Garrett, a man whom Amnesty cited as being "extremely mentally impaired, chronically psychotic and brain-damaged." The organization further states that a mental health expert described Garrett as "one of the most virulent histories of abuse and neglect...I have encountered in 28 years of practice."

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thank you, sandnsea! please keep spreading the word!!
and yes, i agree with you: :cry:


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... a vanishingly small minority in the state.

But boy would it be nice for the state to give up one of the foundation-blocks of its barbarism.

Every execution is wrong....it's all evil....so many deaths...playing God with human lives...

Will call in the A.M.....thank you.

:loveya:


peace~

calling this one wrongful. so rushed. they ARE ALL WRONGFUL!

hey, you, great! thanks!

:loveya:


peace!

thank you!


peace and solidarity

everyone can really do all of the actions in the Texas forum OP
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=180x45613
except call the numbers for texas residents. but it looks like the best thing everyone can do is this:

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You can also send an email to Governor Perry

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/tmn/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=12310&t=kenneth.dwt

and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles, which is also being sent to members of the Texas Legislature ... saying you want him to stop the execution of Kenneth Foster.

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xposted from the texas forum thread.

again, emlev, thank you for calling this to my attention. i see i wasn't clear on that.


peace and solidarity!