WASHINGTON - December 1 - A busload of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA) activists is traveling to Raleigh, N.C. in order to demonstrate and hold a vigil protesting the execution of Kenneth Boyd, which is scheduled to take place on Friday, Dec. 2, at 2 a.m. EST. If Boyd is executed, it will be the 1,000th execution carried out in the United States since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976. AIUSA has also sent a letter to North Carolina Governor Michael Easley him to commute Boyd's sentence.

The activists will be departing AIUSA's DC Office at 12:45 p.m. today and is expected to arrive at the vigil in Raleigh by 7:30 p.m. The execution is scheduled to take place at 2 a.m. EST.

WHO: Amnesty International USA and other death penalty abolitionists

WHAT: Busload of activists to vigil protesting Kenneth Boyd's execution, the 1,000th execution since death penalty reinstatement in 1976.

WHEN: Bus departs TODAY, Thursday, Dec. 1, at 12:45 p.m.

12:45 p.m. -- Amnesty International USA office, 600 Pennsylvania Ave. SE, Washington, D.C. (This is one block from the Eastern Market metro stop. The bus will be on Pennsylvania or pulled around the corner on 6th Street.)

1:30 p.m. -- Commuter Lot, Fairfax County (Occoquan, Va.), on Hwy 123 North, just off I-95 (Exit 95 onto 123 North and take first left into large commuter lot at Old Bridge.)

2:30 p.m. -- Spotsylvania Mall in Fredericksburg, Va. (137 Spotsylvania Mall Rd. Meet by Hecht's Department Store's main entrance.)

3:45 p.m. -- St. Mark's Church, 520 North Boulevard, Richmond, Va. (Abolition Bus riders are allowed to park in the parking lot behind the church.)

7:30 p.m. -- Prayer service; Pullen Memorial Baptist, 1801 Hillsborough Street, Raleigh, N.C.

8:30 - 9 p.m. -- Candlelight procession from prayer service to Central Prison along Western Blvd., Raleigh, N.C.

9 p.m. - 2:30 a.m. -- Execution night prison vigil for Kenneth Boyd and the victims. Central Prison, 1300 Western Blvd., Raleigh, N.C.

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