[PAA-Discuss] FW: URGENT Execution Alert from TCADP

Thu Sep 15 17:32:51 EDT 2011

Do it NOW! We called and the young lady there said she is the only one taking calls and they are keeping a tally – don’t need your info. Said they are getting lots of calls. Lee

From: TCADP [mailto:info at tcadp.org] 
Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2011 3:32 PM
To: Lee Loe
Subject: URGENT Execution Alert from TCADP

 Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty <https://org2.democracyinaction.org/o/1972/images/tcadp_execution_alert.jpg> 

Dear Lee,

URGENT! TX Gov. Perry has left Lt. Governor David Dewhurst in charge of today's execution while he is out of the state. Please CALL DEWHURST RIGHT NOW to ask him to stay the execution of Duane Buck, which is scheduled for 6pm Central time tonight. CALL NOW! 512 463-0001

Background on this case is in the below action that NCADP sent out the other day. Please call now! 

Also, AFTER you call, read this: A Victim's Plea For Clemency For Duane Buck  <https://tcadp.ejusadb.org/sites/tcadp.ejusadb.org/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6993&qid=307108>  from today's Washington Post.

STOP ACTION AFTER 7pm CDT Tonight (Thursday).

Thank you for taking action!

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>From NCADP <https://tcadp.ejusadb.org/sites/tcadp.ejusadb.org/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6999&qid=307108> :

Dear Supporters,

On May 5, 1997, Mr. Buck was convicted of capital murder in Harris County for the July 1995 shooting deaths of Debra Gardner and Kenneth Butler. A third person, Phyllis Taylor, was also shot, but survived her wound. Ms. Taylor has forgiven Mr. Buck and does not wish to see him executed.

During Mr. Buck’s trial, the prosecutor elicited improper testimony from Dr. Walter Quijano that the fact that Mr. Buck was African-American increased the likelihood of his being dangerous in the future. (In Texas, a jury must make a finding of future dangerousness as a prerequisite for a death sentence.) The State urged the jury in its closing argument to rely on Dr. Quijano’s testimony. The jury did so, found that Mr. Buck would be a future danger, and he was sentenced to death.

After Mr. Buck’s trial, on June 9, 2000, in a highly-unusual move, then-Attorney General John Cornyn issued a press release calling for the retrial of six individuals who had been sentenced to death based on improper introduction of, and reliance on, race as a factor in sentencing. Mr. Cornyn identified Mr. Buck’s case as one of those six cases. Then-Attorney General (now Senator) Cornyn stated that Texas would not contest federal appeals in those six cases and that if the attorneys for the six identified defendants amended their appeals to include objections to Dr. Quijano’s testimony, the Attorney General would not object.

In the other five cases, courts granted new sentencing trials to the inmates to allow them fair trials untainted by consideration of race. Duane Buck is the only one of the six death row inmates whose racially-tainted death sentence stands. Mr. Buck now faces execution on September 15, 2011.
On September 9, a former prosecutor in Mr. Buck's case joined Phyllis Taylor, the surviving victim, to call for the Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Perry to intervene.

If Mr. Buck is executed, not only will Texas have violated the constitution, it will have violated its citizens’ basic moral values by permitting an execution to be carried out that is based on an individual’s race. 
Please join former ADA Linda Geffin, former Harris County District Judge Lupe Salinas, State Senator Rodney Ellis, and surviving victim Phyllis Taylor, in urging state officials to intervene before it's too late. 

Sign the petition at http://chn.ge/qGuvLW <https://tcadp.ejusadb.org/sites/tcadp.ejusadb.org/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6995&qid=307108> 

Video of interview with surviving victim, Phyllis Taylor: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xaxotc241BQ <https://tcadp.ejusadb.org/sites/tcadp.ejusadb.org/modules/civicrm/extern/url.php?u=6996&qid=307108> 

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