Emergency Protest--Stop Death Row Torture!

Apr 8 2006 - 2:00pm
Apr 8 2006 - 4:00pm

Event Description:

from GLORIA RUBAC  grubac{at}prodigy.net:

Do you believe that prisoners should be treated humanely, whether in Abu Ghraib, Guantanamo or on Texas death row?

Do you think that the 400 men on Texas death row were sentenced to death and not to torture?

NOW IS YOUR CHANCE TO STAND UP FOR JUSTICE! WILL YOU TAKE IT?

PLEASE, PLEASE, JOIN US THIS SATURDAY, APRIL 8, IN LIVINGSTON, TEXAS!

1st Ever Rally in Downtown Livingston For Humane Conditions on Death Row

2:00 rally at the Polk County Courthouse, 101 W. Church St. (Highway 190, a dozen blocks east off Highway 59), in Livingston (see link to map below)

3:00 caravan to the Polunsky Unit for a spirited demonstration directly across the highway from death row--with chanting, speakers and live music from Houston's "Tropic Blue"

Bring banners, signs, drums, bullhorns, balloons and whistles

There are 400 men sentenced to death in Texas. They live at the Polunsky Unit outside of Livingston. The conditions are horrific. There is total isolation and sensory deprivation, which is causing serious mental illnesses and depression. Men are attempting suicide, giving up appeals, and losing the will to live and fight their cases. Some wail and cry at night, some do not bathe, some babble incoherently, and some refuse to leave their cell, even to see their own attorney. Conditions are cruel but NOT unusual for Texas. This must change!

Car caravans:

  • Houston--meet at 12 noon at S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak
  • Austin--meet at 10:00 AM at the LBJ Library, corner of Dean Keeton and Red River on the UT campus

We are demanding:

  • Group recreation
  • Religious services
  • A work program
  • Arts and crafts program
  • Decent and prompt medical care
  • Access to television
  • Nutritious food in adequate proportions
  • An end to guard brutality, sensory deprivation, 23-hour lock down and total isolation!

Sponsored by Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, the Texas Moratorium Network, Texas Students Against the Death Penalty, the Campaign to End the Death Penalty and the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

For Houston information call Sister Njeri at 713-237-0357 or email Abolition.Movement{at}hotmail.com

For Austin information call 512-417-7741 or email cedpaustin{at}gmail.com

For information from the courageous prisoners fighting for decent conditions: http://www.drivemovement.org/

STOP DEATH ROW TORTURE NOW!


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