Cases and articles

Even those not generally a fan of Penn & Teller politics,you may find this is pretty interesting. After the first two minutes or so (which contains the requisite Penn & Teller strong language), the potentially offensive material subsides and there's not much else that could be considered vulgar. Contains some video interview snippets of Dudley Sharp, Mark Klaas, Rick Halperin and others.

Executioners administering lethal injections in Arkansas will follow methods used by "medical paraprofessionals" to ensure that condemned inmates are unconscious before delivering the two final drugs to carry out the death penalty, a revised state protocol says.
The state attorney general's office offered the revised lethal injection procedures as part of an effort to lift federal court stays of execution against inmates challenging the method.

By Adrianne Appel

BOSTON, Jun 8 (IPS) - After more than a decade of DNA tests, appeals and waiting on death row, Texas prisoner Michael Blair is likely to be exonerated soon, further undermining public confidence in the infallibility of the U.S. death penalty system.

Recent extensive DNA tests on microscopic hair samples established no link between Blair and a child who was murdered in 1993, according to state prosecutors.

ACTION #1

Contact Gov. Tim Kaine RIGHT NOW by telephone and/or fax and politely
ask him to grant clemency (show mercy) to Percy Walton by commuting his
death sentence to life without the possibility of parole. If you live
in Virginia, be sure to start by stating your name and the place where
you live.

Gov. Tim Kaine
Phone: (804) 786-2211
Fax: (804) 371-6351

NOTE: You can e-mail Gov. Kaine via his web page, but in order to
stress the urgency of this matter we are urging more personal/tangible
contact at this time.