The Abolitionist Action Committee: US Supreme Court is Site of Texas Execution Protest
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
AUGUST 29, 2007
9:32 AM
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CONTACT: The Abolitionist Action Committee
Art Laffin, 202-870-0607.
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US Supreme Court is Site of Texas Execution Protest
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WASHINGTON - August 29 -
WHO: Opponents of the Death Penalty
WHAT: Protest Against Executions
WHEN: 4:30 to 6pm EDT, Wednesday, August 29, 2007
WHERE: Sidewalk in front of the U.S. Supreme Court in Washington, DC
For more information and advance interviews, please contact Art
Laffin at 202-870-0607.
With a last minute appeal in the Texas case of Kenneth Foster pending
before the U.S. Supreme Court, Washington DC area protesters with
gather on the sidewalk in front of the High Court from 4:30pm to 6pm
EDT on Wednesday, August 29, 2007 to call for a halt to all scheduled
executions and for the abolition of the death penalty in the United
States. This protest is one of dozens taking place throughout the
nation with regard to the case of Kenneth Foster, who was sentenced
to death despite the fact that he was not a direct participant in,
nor did he anticipate, the murder for which he is to be
killed. Foster is scheduled to be executed in Texas at 6pm Central
time on Thursday, August 30, 2007. If all are carried out, Foster's
execution will be the third in as many nights in Texas this week.
"We remember the victims, but not with more killing," said event
organizer Art Laffin, himself a murder victim family
member. "Kenneth Foster is innocent of the murder of Michael LaHood.
The state of Texas has admitted that Foster did not commit the
murder. It is a simple matter of fact that Michael LaHood was killed
by Maurecio Brown, who has already been executed. The murder of
Michael LaHood occurred when Brown left the car that Foster was
driving and got into an altercation with LaHood. Foster had no prior
knowledge that Brown would carry out this killing, but under the
state's "Law of Parties" he was convicted and sentenced to die. We
cannot let this happen."
More information about Kenneth Foster and related protests is at
http://www.freekenneth.com/
Also being killed this week:
August 28 in Texas: DaRoyce Mosley is scheduled to be killed by the
people of Texas in revenge for the murder of Patricia Colter.
August 29 in Texas: John Amador is scheduled to be killed by the
people of Texas in revenge for the murder of Reza Ayari.
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