Democracy NOW! 29 August 2007
Former President Jimmy Carter and South African archbishop Desmond Tutu have urged Texas to stop Thursday’s scheduled execution of death row prisoner Kenneth Foster. Meanwhile, Foster’s attorney has filed a last minute appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles meets today to decide Kenneth Foster’s fate. We speak with Liliana Segura of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.
Rangel Shuts the Door on Kenneth Foster
By Ben Davis, Dissident Voice, 29 August 2007
We know that unjust laws like the “law of parties” are applied only to the voiceless and never to the powerful with their lawyers and policy advisers. But this doesn’t change the fact that those with power should speak out when their influence could make the difference. Or that it is long past time to call for a halt to the Civil Rights catastrophe that is the Texas killing machine, the fulcrum of the moral abyss that is the U.S. penal system. And if we cannot count on our elected officials to make this cry for justice heard, it will be up to us, at the grassroots — the kind of people represented so well Monday at Charles Rangel’s office — to make it heard.
What you can do:
Call the Governor and the Texas Board and urge them to grant clemency to Kenneth Foster:
Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles:
Phone (512)406-5852
Fax (512)467-0945Gov. Rick Perry
Phone (512)463-1782
Fax (512)463-1849To get involved, go to www.freekenneth.com or email nyc@nodeathpenalty.org.
Ben Davis is a member of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty in New York City. Read other articles by Ben.