[PAA-Discuss] Press Conf & Protest @ DA's Home for 100 Harris Co. Executions

[Art Browning]

After the execution vigil from 5:30-6:20 at Shepherd and Westheimer, more to
do.

Art B.

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From: "Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement" <
abolition.movement at hotmail.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:03:22 -0500
Subject: [AbolitionMovement] Press Conf & Protest @ DA's Home for 100 Harris
Co. Executions

   * The only difference between me and James Byrd," Johnson said, "is that
I lived."
*
*100 Executions is a Disgrace!  *
*It is not Justice!  *
*It is Racist and Anti-Poor!*

The Committee for the October 27th 8th Annual March to Stop Executions is
announcing a *press conference and picket at the home of Harris County's
District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 7 PM,* one
hour after Lonnie Johnson is set to be executed in Huntsville.

 Johnson's execution, if not delayed, will be Harris county's *100th
execution *since executions were resumed in Texas in 1982.

 Harris county, if it were a state would be Number Two in the country for
executions, following the state of Texas.  Number Three is the state of
Virginia.

Please read the article from Monday's Houston Chronicle and following it
an excellent report on Harris County by Amnesty International.

 *Then make plans to join us on the tree-lined sidewalk in front of Chuck
Rosenthal's home at 7723 Pagewood.  The home is three blocks west
of Hillcroft and three blocks south of Richmond, in between Hillcroft and
Stoneybrook.

*
Invited speakers for the press conference are Assistant Minister Eric
Muhammad with Nation of Islam Mosque 45, the Texas Death Penalty Abolition
Movement, Harris County Green Party, the Texas Coalition to Abolish the
Death Penalty, prison activist Ray Hill, producer of S.O.S. Radio Brother
Zin and the family of Michael Richard, a mentally retarded man set for
execution on September 25.

*Chronicle story, July 22, 2007, 8:40PM*
*Tomball killer is set to be executed Tuesday
*http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4989379.html

And two AP stories from Houston Chronicle:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4990621.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4992940.html
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See also the Amnesty International report about Harris County's shameful
record:

 *UNITED STATES OF AMERICA*
*One county, 100 executions*
*Harris County and Texas -- A lethal combination

*
*http://preview.tinyurl.com/yp6vxr
*
and the AIUSA blog*: http://preview.tinyurl.com/2r6dnj

*

*ra*
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