The Abolishment Movement

2008-01-24T07:32:00.000-08:00

Hello everyone. Sorry I havn't been around too much lately, but I have been busy writing, and posting on the forum, trying to keep the forum alive, since it's loaded with much information.
Hope you come back from time to time.
Thanks
Dee

URGENT REQUEST

2007-12-16T08:20:00.001-08:00

On Monday, December 17, 2007 at 12:00 pm and on, we are asking that calls be made to the SCI-Smithfield Prison in Huntingdon, PA - Telephone # 814-643-6520 to demand the status of my son, John Anthony Diaz - DS-4803 , who is being physically abused, deprived, provoked and written up for numerous unwarranted misconducts. These prisoners who are being held in solitary confinement have stated they are being deprived of food and have lost so much weight that they are now frail men. They have been forced to endure so much affliction that some have reverted to suicides and several others have attempted suicides which the officials have been trying to cover up. There have been grievances and law suits filed by these prisoners which have been neglected, destroyed or dismissed by Lisa Hollibough, Asst. to the Superintendent and others within the PA Dept.of Correction, Tel # 717-975-4918 .
Pennsylvania Department of Corrections 2520 Lisburn Road Camp Hill, PA 17001 Jeffrey A. Beard, PhD, Secretary mailto:jbeard@state.pa.us

The officials have also been shipping prisoners out who may have either been part of the abuses and/or witnessing everything. The sister, Angie Zheng, of one of the suicide victims and I are in the process of planning a demonstration at SCI-Smithfield in Huntingdon, PA in order to attract media attention and bring awareness of what is happening in the PA prisons and with the PA DOC, who we believe is part of a statewide problem involving abuses and deaths in PA Prisons. We hope that we can depend on your participation in this upcoming demonstration to expose a corrupt DOC in PA. Anyone wishing to assist in this planning may contact either:
Angie Zheng at zheng3238@comcast.net OR
Leonna A. Brandao nvopres@verizon.net - Tel (508) 941-5367
New Vision Organization, Inc.
Brockton, MA 02301http://mysite.verizon.net/bizuiard/newvisionorg2

Thank you
Leonna

A Great Comment

2007-11-26T10:42:00.000-08:00

On my recent article concerning Jailhouse Snitch Testimony, someone commented that if JHS testimony is allowed as evidence in courts, why isn't a lie detector?

Death Row Inmates Claim Jailhouse Snitch Testimony Got Them The Death Sentence

2007-11-24T14:55:00.001-08:00

Read the article here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/458320/death_row_inmates_claim_jailhouse_snitch.html

Happy Thanksgiving

2007-11-22T06:20:00.000-08:00

Wishing everyone a great day. Remeber our Nations prisoners today. Some who are truely ionnocent, some over sentenced, and most who are slaves to the prison industry.

Interview With Tony E. Ford, From Texas Death Row

2007-10-13T05:24:00.000-07:00

Read on...

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/401933/from_his_death_row_cell_in_texas_my.html

Interview With Texas Death Row Inmate "Ghost" and His supporter Samantha

2007-10-13T05:22:00.000-07:00

read on...

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/401887/interview_with_death_row_inmate_william.html

Alabama Execution Today

2007-09-27T05:31:00.000-07:00

Thomas Arthur is to be executed by the State of Alabama today, read on:
http://abolishmentmovement.freeforums.org/viewtopic.php?p=2857#2857

The Case Of Cleve Foster

2007-09-24T11:52:00.001-07:00

Another man has confessed to the crime, Yet "Sarge" waits his turn to die..read on..

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/384058/the_case_of_cleve_foster_another_innocent.html

Kenneth Foster Update

2007-08-30T09:30:00.000-07:00

From News 8 Austin TOP STORIES
Thursday August 30 2007 11:13 amx85
Parole board votes to spare condemned killer
8/30/2007 11:01 AMBy: Associated Press http://www.news8austin.com/content/top_stories/default.asp?ArID=191107

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles votedThursday to recommend that Gov. Rick Perry spare condemned prisonerKenneth Foster's life.Foster was to die in the state death chamber in Huntsville tonight forbeing the getaway driver in the 1996 attempted robbery and murder ofMichael LaHood in San Antonio.The vote from the seven-member board was 6-1. Perry doesn't have toaccept the highly unusual recommendation from the board, whose membershe appoints.There was no immediate response from the governor's office.The scheduled execution outraged death penalty opponents, whocriticized his conviction and sentence under the Texas' Law ofParties. That makes non-triggermen equally accountable for the crime.Foster would join a number of other condemned prisoners executed underthe statute, including one put to death earlier this year.

A Political Execution?

2007-08-28T08:51:00.000-07:00

Read about it here:

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/356970/the_case_of_kenneth_foster_jr_texas.html

Please Sign This Petition

2007-08-28T08:49:00.000-07:00

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/banning-jailhouse-snitch-testimony-in-capital-punishment-cases

Two Death Row Inmates Hunger Strike In Protest Of Their Executions

2007-08-24T05:54:00.000-07:00

Set to be executed just one day after another, two Texas death row inmates begin hunger strike..

http://readthisurl.com/hungerstrike

The Execution Of Kenneth Foster Jr.

2007-08-15T05:19:00.000-07:00

Because of the scheduled execution of Kenneth Foster, and the controversy surrounding this case I am going to re post this May, 2006 article

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/233797/the_execution_of_kenneth_foster_jr.html

How Long Does A Death Row Inmate Spend On Death Row?

2007-08-15T05:16:00.000-07:00

Two Texas Inmates Have Short Visits On Texas Death Row
read on:
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/340780/how_long_does_an_inmate_spend_on_death.html

New Evidence In Texas Death Row Case

2007-08-06T12:56:00.000-07:00

New Evidence Proves Greg's Innocence..read on

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/337083/new_evidence_could_free_texas_death.html

Lonnie E. Johnson To Be Executed By Texas

2007-07-21T05:01:00.001-07:00

Johnson claims it was self defense

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/321204/lonnie_earl_johnson_to_be_executed.html

2007-07-19T05:32:00.001-07:00

Technorati Profile

2007-07-17T07:28:00.000-07:00

Troy Davis recieved a 90 Day STAY of execution, because of witnesses who have recanted their testimony

2007-07-11T07:00:00.000-07:00

Ruiz Was Granted A Reprieve Just An Hour Before Execution
Mitigating Evidence Was Never Heard By The Jury

Rolando Ruiz to be The 19th Inmate Executed By Texas

2007-07-09T09:46:00.000-07:00

Rolando Ruiz To Be 19th Prisoner Executed By Texas

Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Declines Ruiz's Appeal

Texes has scheduled another execution to take place on Tuesday, July 10. 2007, bringing the number of executions in Texas to 19 this year. Rolando Ruiz will be executed by lethal injection for the murder of Theresa Roderiquez, 29 in San Antonio Texas. Ruiz was paid $2,000 for the murder for hire scheme of Roderiquez's husband and brother in law in 1992. According to The American-Statesman they were to split a $400,000 life insurance policy. Ruiz has been on death row for 12 years.

Although Ruiz's guilt is not in question, he claimed his appeal lawyer C. Wayne Huff was so bad that he would have been better off with no lawyer at all. According to The American Statesman, Ruiz's lawyer Morris Moon said "he may ask the federal courts to review Friday's decision". According to Ruiz's last appeal he was stated by The American Statesman as saying it "was doomed to failure on the day it was filed".

Last October an investigation by the Austin American Stateman found errors in the filing of appeals, and several judges believe some inmates should be given a second chance, but Fridays ruling stated inmates on death row are limited to one appeal, stated Chuck Lindell, staff writer for the American Statesman.

Ruiz had a violent past which included attacks on his girlfriend, aggrevated robbery, and attacks on fellow inmates and correction officers while incarcerated. Ruiz is reported to have been the enforcer for a violent prison gang, according to The American Stateman's report.

The American-Staemen also reported that Ruiz had a troubled childhood, with a "mentally unstable mother who sent him on drug buying trips, and who tried to kill herself several times, once in front of her first grade son". According to court records The American Staesman reported that Ruiz was determined to having trauma -induced brain damage, and had a violent and suicidal personality.

Texas leads the nation in executions this year, and more inmates are scheduled to be executed later this summer.Lonnie Johnson, Kenneth Parr, Johnny Conner, Daroyce Mosley, John Joe Amador, and Kenneth Foster all have execution dates.

Source:
The American-Statesman
http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/07/07/0707habeas.html

Troy A. Davis, To Be Executed By Georgia

2007-07-02T13:21:00.001-07:00

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/301054/supports_of_death_row_inmate_troy_anthony.html

Troy Davis has an execution date with the state of Georgia.

He will be injected with lethal injection for a crime that was not proven beyond a reasonable doubt. This man was clearly railroaded to a racist death row.

Read about his case here:

http://lethal-injection-florida।blogspot.com/

Scott Panetti

2007-06-28T09:25:00.000-07:00

By ARIANE de VOGUEJune 25, 2007
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that the State of Texas cannot put to death a mentally ill death row inmate even though he claims he doesn't fully understand why he is being executed.
Scott Panetti, who has battled mental illness for years, brutally murdered his estranged wife's parents, Joe and Amanda Alvarado. A jury found him competent to stand trial for the murders and a judge allowed him to represent himself in court.

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At his trial each day, Panetti wore a cowboy hat, bandana and boots. He rambled incoherently and contended that it was one of his own alternate personalities who had committed the crime. He attempted to subpoena Jesus Christ.
The jury found him guilty and he was sentenced to death in 1995. After years of appeals, Panetti's case reached the Supreme Court in April, when the justices heard arguments about whether Panetti can be executed if he doesn't fully understand that representatives of the State of Texas will put him to death for his crime.
Keith Hampton, a lawyer for Panetti said, "We believe he has to have a rational understanding as to why he is being executed -- otherwise society is denied a sense of retribution for his crime."
Panetti's lawyers wanted the justices to settle on a definition of mental illness for the purpose of competency for execution.
In 1986 the Supreme Court found in Ford v. Wainwright that the Eighth Amendment's prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment forbids the execution of individuals suffering from insanity and identified several reasons why the court found execution of the insane to be unconstitutional.
The court questioned the value of executing a person who does not comprehend why he is being put to death. Panetti's lawyers wanted the court to clarify that ruling and define a test for establishing insanity in this context.
Attorneys from the State of Texas representing the state's Department of Criminal Justice argued against Panetti. In briefs, the lawyers supported Panetti's death sentence writing, "No judge or jury has ever found him incompetent" and citing testimony by a psychiatrist who observed that Panetti understood why he was facing capital-murder charges, and the significance of the punishment he was going to receive.
In briefs, lawyers also argued that there is evidence that Panetti was being "deliberately manipulative" to "create the impression of mental illness."
Supporters of the death penalty, like Professor John McAdams of Marquette University, say they are weary of arguments made by Panetti and supported by groups such as the Counsel for American Psychological Association and the Counsel for National Alliance on Mental Illness.
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McAdams argued, "Once you let the psychologists loose they can explain why no one is responsible for anything." He is worried about a so-called competency for execution test saying, "it sounds like a huge incentive to play dumb and pretend to have illusions. It rewards people shrewd enough to fake mental illness."
But advocates for the mentally ill argue that Panetti's case is important because while an individual might be determined competent to stand trial, he may suffer from a mental disorder that makes him later unable to understand his execution.
The American Psychological Association has proposed that if a court finds that a prisoner has a mental disorder that prohibits him from understanding the nature of the punishment, the "sentence of death should be reduced to a lesser punishment."
Ronald Honberg of the National Alliance on Mental Illness says that despite the Supreme Court's holding in the Ford, there is still a real problem with the standards courts use to define mental illness. Honberg says, "there are lots of people on death row how have mental illness, there are only a few who are escaping the death penalty."

http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Politics/Story?id=3195845&page=1

Executed

2007-06-28T05:16:00.000-07:00

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/294518/patrick_bryan_knight_dead_man_laughing.html

Gilberto Reye's Executed by Texas

2007-06-23T11:03:00.001-07:00

17th Inmate Executed By Texas

http://readthisurl.com/execution

Lionell Roderiguez is Executed By Texas

2007-06-22T04:24:00.001-07:00

16th Inmate executed By Texas

http://readthisurl.com/roderiguez

Richard Rameriz, Interview With Stela, His Friend

2007-06-14T15:19:00.001-07:00

Read on..http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/274976/interview_with_stela_supporter_and.html

Dead Man Laughing, Texas Inmate Holds Joke Contest

2007-06-14T09:34:00.001-07:00

http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/266661/death_row_inmate_wishes_to_be_dead.html