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abolition.movement@hotmail.com</a>><br>Date: Mon, 23 Jul 2007 18:03:22 -0500<br>Subject: [AbolitionMovement] Press Conf & Protest @ DA's Home for 100 Harris Co. Executions<br><br> <div style="width: 655px;">
<div style="padding: 0px 15px 0px 0px; float: left; width: 490px;"> <div> <div> <div> <div> <div><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><strong> <div><font color="#000033" face="arial black" size="5">The only difference between me and James Byrd," Johnson said, "is that I lived."
</font></div></strong></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><strong>100 Executions is a Disgrace! </strong></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><strong>It is not Justice! </strong></font></div>
<div><font color="#0000ff" size="5"><strong>It is Racist and Anti-Poor!</strong></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff"></font> </div> <div><font color="#0000ff">The Committee for the October 27th 8th Annual March to Stop Executions is announcing a
<u>press conference and picket at the
home of Harris County's District Attorney Chuck Rosenthal on Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 7 PM<em>,</em></u> one hour after Lonnie Johnson is set to be executed in Huntsville.<br><br> </font></div> <div> <div><font color="#0000ff">
Johnson's execution, if not delayed, will be Harris county's <u>100th execution </u>since executions were resumed in Texas in 1982.<br><br> </font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff">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.
<br><br></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff">Please read the article from Monday's Houston Chronicle and following it an excellent report on Harris County by Amnesty International.<br><br> </font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff">
<strong><u>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.<br><br></u></strong></font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff">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.</font></div> <div><font color="#0000ff"></font> </div> <div><span><font color="#ef4d15"><b><span style="font-weight: bold;">
Chronicle story, </span>July 22, 2007, 8:40PM</b><br></font></span><span><strong><font size="5">Tomball killer is set to be executed Tuesday<br></font></strong></span><font size="3"><span><span style="font-style: italic;">
<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4989379.html">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/4989379.html</a><br><br>And two AP stories from Houston Chronicle:<br><span style="font-style: italic;">
<a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4990621.html">http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4990621.html</a></span><br><span style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4992940.html">
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/4992940.html</a></span><br></span></span></font></div><div><div><div><div><em>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</em></div> <div>See also the Amnesty International report about Harris County's shameful record:
<br><br> </div> <div align="center"> <div><b>UNITED STATES OF AMERICA</b><br><b>One county, 100 executions</b><br><b><i>Harris County and Texas -- A lethal
combination<br><br></i></b></div></div><b><a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/yp6vxr">http://preview.tinyurl.com/yp6vxr</a><br></b><br>and the AIUSA blog<b><span style="font-weight: bold;">: <a href="http://preview.tinyurl.com/2r6dnj">
http://preview.tinyurl.com/2r6dnj</a></span><br><br></b></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote><div><font color="#a040ff" face="comic sans ms" size="3"><strong>ra</strong></font></div>