Execution date set for
September 14, 2005
Please come
to the next meeting
of the Committee to Free Frances Newton
6:30 PM
Wednesday
2620 Fountainview, Suite 113
713-266-7251
Application
for Postconviction Writ of Habeas Corpus
and Motion for Stay of Execution
(From July 29, 2005; this is a very large (59 page)
pdf file which you need Adobe
Acrobat to print.)
Resolution submitted to
City Council
(February 22, 2005; follow up March 1))
The Clemency
Petition which held off the December Execution Date
(pdf)
Flyer
with case information (html)
(or MS
Word doc; early February, 2005)
Frances Elaine Newton could soon be the first African American woman executed in modern Texas history despite resounding questions of whether she is guilty and whether she received a fair trial. Almost half of those on Texas' death row are African American yet they are only 12 per cent of the population. Newton is from Harris County, where the Houston Police Crime Lab has botched so many cases that even the police chief and a state senator have asked the governor to halt executions from Harris County.
Further contact: THE TEXAS DEATH PENALTY ABOLITION MOVEMENT
713-521-09629 or 713-503-2633 ~ AbolitionMovement@juno.com
Meetings first Tuesday of each month at S.H.A.P.E. Community Center, 3815 Live Oak at Alabama.
updated 2005-03-11