Dick Gregory, calls for a new hearing for Frances Newton.

"They're going to kill her, and you so called righteous people are going to sit back and let it happen."

WEDNESDAY, Sept. 14
Vigils all across the state, especially in Huntsville at The Walls Unit. LEAVE HOUSTON at 2pm from SHAPE Community Center, 3815 Live Oak at Alabama
713-521-0641

Houston City Council

PRESS RELEASE,
Sept. 6, 2005

SUPPORTERS
(Gordon Quan's Petition):

Ada Edwards, Gordon Quan, Carol Alvarado, Adrian Garcia, Carol Mims Galloway, Mark Goldberg, Ronald Green, and M.J. Khan (writing his own letter); -- we all call for the mayor and remaining council members to speak out!

Ron Mock Confronted 713-942-0365 (Black United Front) Chronicle article

Previous call to Houston City Council's Conscience

VIDEO & AUDIO FILES

$$$ needed! Please consider this when asking for DVDs, T-shirts, postcards etc.

This DO YOU KNOW? leaflet gives key items about the case. Share it.
Here is an RTFversion This second file can be downloaded and printed by most text programs like WORD. It will be useful as you ask people to sign the postcards. (Both intended to print on one side of regular size sheet of paper.)

Support letters can be sent to:
Frances Newton, #922
Mountain View Unit
2305 Ransom Road
Gatesville, TX 76528

Call the S.H.A.P.E. Community Center
3815 Live Oak at Alabama
713-521-0641

See the MATERIALS web page. Committee members take note -- Flyers here...

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.

What to DO?

New actions planned, new materials available.

1. Get and mail a postcard to Governor Rick Perry (see Materials); distribute to people you know.

2. See Coming Events for more to do.

3. Be creative! Help in your own way. Call or write the media. Ask questions in public. Bring it up at church. Help show the DVD of interviews with Frances.

AUDIO & VIDEO FILES ONLINE

PHOTO by Sofia in Austin, 27 August 2005

Frances Newton's mother, Jewel Nelms

Minister Robert Mohammed announces weeklong fast

LETTERS from Ramsey Clark to President, Governor, and Board.

(News Items, including
Sept 12 AUSTIN American Statesman editorial
KWTX-TV, Waco
Sept 9 Austin Chronicle, Sept 7 Channel 2 articles.)

LEGAL DOCUMENTS

Supplement to Clemency Petition (August 26, 2005)
adds to the document below, with many details about the second gun. -- 8 page PDF file

Application for Commutation of Sentence (August 23, 2005) submitted to the Governor and the Board of Pardons and Paroles. -- 51 page PDF file.

Motion for Stay and Writ of Habeas Corpus (July 29, 2005) The entire sorry story, told in 59 pages; PDF needs Adobe Acrobat to read and print.

Further Legal Document (August 10, 2005): The Question of the Second Gun (apparently suppressed evidence)

DEATH PENALTY INFORMATION CENTER ARTICLE

CALL 713.266.7251
say: I want to help save Frances Newton.

If you have watched the DVD, and were moved by the segment from The 700 Club (interview with Frances Newton transcript) you can contact them here:
700 Club Feedback

Case History
(print this for a flyer)

LINKS and SUPPORT
includes Action items:
1. Amnesty
2. NCADP

If you can, please consider sending a donation to help cover the costs of postcards, DVDs, bus rides to the demonstration in Austin, and other needs in this drive to save the life of an innocent person.