Friends,
As I am sure you all know, early next year we will need either a new television or a converter box in order to be able to watch television. Locked in a small death row cell, television provides a window to the world for prisoners. Most, if not all are indigent and would have great difficulty paying for a converter box. |
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Thomas D. Arthur today narrowly escaped execution for a third time, when the Alabama Supreme Court ordered an indefinite delay. He was scheduled to be executed at 6 p.m. tomorrow. Convicted for the 1982 contract-killing of Troy Wicker Jr. of Muscle Shoals, Arthur twice last year came within a day of being executed before being granted stays. |
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7/29/08: New motion containing confession by another party. A new motion has been filed in the Alabama Supreme Court. It contains the confession of an individual who has just come forward to confess that he is the one who committed the crime. He denies that he knows Tommy Arthur and was a juvenile at the time of the crime. More here. Update 7/30/08: B'ham News Editorial |
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UN Special Rapporteur Calls on the U.S. to Take Steps to Avoid Unlawful Killings
New York, June 30, 2008
The United Nations Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary
executions, Philip Alston, today called upon the United States to take immediate steps to
improve its system of military justice and to ensure that the death penalty is applied fairly
and justly in states such as Alabama and Texas. |
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Yesterday I had the distinct honor of a one on one meeting with United Nations Envoy, Philip Alston, special rapporteur on extra-judicial, summary or arbitrary executions and his team of three. |
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