Execution date set for
September 14, 2005
If there has not been a
stay of execution,
Vigils will be held all around the planet, and especially at the Walls
Unit, 815 12th Street at Avenue I, in downtown Huntsville, Texas.
From Houston, car caravan will leave the
S.H.A.P.E. Community Center,
3815 Live Oak at Alabama
713.521.0641
at 2:00
PM for Huntsville.
See the Texas Moratorium Network comprehensive listing of vigils around the state of Texas.
For other places holding vigils or actions, not only nationwide, but worldwide, search links like Amnesty International, National Black United Front, Campaign to End the Death Penalty, etc.
Search for one near you. Or hold your own, we are all together.
DOCUMENTS
Supplement
to Application for Commutation
(From August 26, 2005; this 8 page pdf file further
informs about the second gun.)
Application
for Commutation of Sentence
(From August 23, 2005; this 51 page pdf file tells
the entire story again, to another audience, the Board of Pardons and Paroles.)
Response
to Respondent's Motion to Dismiss
(From August 10, 2005; this 7 page pdf file includes
information about the second gun.)
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 2005-08-08
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