Youtube petition campaign to save Kenneth Foster

persiancowboy — Mon, 20 Aug 2007 19:59:58 EDT

I am asking everyone who has a webcam to record a statement and upload it to YouTube saying why Texas Governor Rick Perry and the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles should stop the execution of Kenneth Foster on August 30, 2007. I hope people who make video statements will also send an email to Perry with a written message and a link to the video. This is the first time someone has used a video petition to stop an execution. So please post your video and be part of history.

Death Penalty for driving a car?

persiancowboy — Mon, 06 Aug 2007 03:50:40 EDT

On August 30, 2007, Texas, the state that executes more people than any in the country, plans to deliver a lethal injection to Kenneth Foster, Jr. While this may seem like nothing out of the ordinary for a state that will perform its 400th execution this summer, Kenneth's case is unique. He killed no one. The state of Texas will be the first to admit this. It seems unthinkable that a man who did not even touch the gun that ended the life of Michael LaHood, Jr. on August 14, 1996 in San Antonio, Texas would be sent to his death for such a crime. What makes this possible is gross misuse the Law of Parties. As the Austin Chronicle has put it, he was in "the wrong place at the wrong time." A number of states have laws that enable prosecutors to hold those merely present at the scene of a crime legally responsible. Texas is the only state that applies this statute in capital cases, making it the only place in the United States where a person can be factually innocent of murder and still face the death penalty.

Posts with the tag kenneth foster

Youtube petition campaign to save Kenneth Foster

Death Penalty for driving a car?