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Wednesday, 12 January 2011
CLEVE FOSTER HAS A STAY OF EXECUTION 11TH JANUARY 2011
HUNTSVILLE -- The U.S. Supreme Court gave a last-minute stay of execution Tuesday evening to a Desert Storm veteran and former Army recruiter convicted of raping and killing a Sudanese immigrant in Fort Worth in 2002.
Cleve Foster, 47, known as "Sarge" on Death Row, had eaten his final meal and was waiting to walk a few steps to the death chamber when the court's brief order was received just before 6 p.m., a prison spokesman said.
**see more at http://www.star
telegram.com/2011/01/11/2762454/ex-recruiters-execution-for-2002.html
Cleve Foster, 47, known as "Sarge" on Death Row, had eaten his final meal and was waiting to walk a few steps to the death chamber when the court's brief order was received just before 6 p.m., a prison spokesman said.
**see more at http://www.star
telegram.com/2011/01/11/2762454/ex-recruiters-execution-for-2002.html
Friday, 7 January 2011
EUROPE-Review of Council Regulation (EC) No.1236/2005 (lethal injection)
Jan. 6
EUROPE:
Review of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1236/2005 to include drugs used in the
lethal injection protocol
On 5 January 2011, a coalition of international non-governmental organisations
(NGOs), wrote to the European Commission to urge them to review and amend
Council Regulation (EC) No. 1236/2005, which controls the international trade
in equipment that could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, to include drugs used in the
lethal injection protocol.
On 26 October 2010, Jeffery Landrigan was executed by lethal injection for the
1989 murder of Chester Dean Dyer in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The
execution took place in spite of a US-wide shortage of sodium thiopental, the
anaesthetic agent in the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections in
Arizona. The Arizona Attorney General revealed that the sodium thiopental used
to execute Landrigan was imported from the United Kingdom.
The export of sodium thiopental from any European country to the US for the
purpose of lethal injections undermines not just the spirit and purpose of
Council Regulation (EC) No. 1236/2005, but also the EU’s policy of fighting
against the death penalty in countries where it still exists. Sodium thiopental
is the drug preferred by US authorities that still carry out the death penalty
with lethal injections.
The joint NGO submission outlined recommendations to the European Commission.
Specifically, to urge the Commission, in consultation with Member States and at
the earliest possible opportunity, to extend the scope of Council Regulation
(EC) No. 1236/2005 to control the trade in drugs used in lethal injections by:
(a) including sodium thiopental in its Annex III, thereby subjecting this drug
to the export control systems of EU Member States; and
(b) including a new ‘torture-death penalty end-use catch-all’ clause in the
Regulation, which would allow EU Member States to prohibit, on a case-by-case
basis, the trade of any item not listed in the Annexes of the Regulation but
that clearly have no practical use other than for the purposes of capital
punishment; or where there are reasonable grounds to believe that such items
would be used for the purposes of capital punishment. This catch-all clause has
been advocated by the UK government[1], and would enable EU Member States to
prevent exports of any drugs where there are reasonable grounds to believe that
such items would be used for the purposes of capital punishment.
These 2 measures would help ensure that any future exports of any drugs from
the EU (including sodium thiopental, and the other drugs currently used in the
lethal injection protocol: pancuronium bromide (Pavulon), potassium chloride,
and pentobarbital) would not be used for capital punishment, but only for
legitimate medical purposes.
The submission was endorsed by the following NGOs:
• Amicus, UK
• Amnesty International
• Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (ECPM), France
• International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
• International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture
(FIACAT)
• International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), UK
• Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights (MVFHR), US
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), US
• Omega Research Foundation (ORF), UK
• Penal Reform International (PRI), UK
• Reprieve, UK
• Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP), US
• World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP)
(source: PRI)
****************
U.S. Execution Drugs Supplied Secretly By British Companies
British companies have secretly supplied two previously undisclosed lethal
injection drugs for executing American prisoners, provoking calls for an
immediate export ban on the whole cocktail of drugs used on death row.
Documents from American authorities reveal that potassium chloride and
pancuronium bromide have been exported. Until now it was thought that only one
execution drug, sodium thiopental, was being supplied by a British company.
When news of that chemical's export to America surfaced, it caused such
condemnation that the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, unveiled new export
controls on the drug forbidding its use in executions.
Now new documents from the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation (CDCR) show that at least one British firm has been providing it
with all the drugs it uses as part of a three-drug cocktail in lethal injection
executions.
Inmates on death row are initially injected with sodium thiopental, which is
capable of inducing unconsciousness in a few seconds. Then pancuronium bromide
is administered, causing paralysis of respiratory muscles, before potassium
chloride is given, which stops the inmate's heart, causing death by cardiac
arrest. Opponents argue that the effect of dilution or the improper
administration of thiopental is that the inmate dies an agonizing death through
suffocation due to the paralytic effects of pancuronium bromide and the intense
burning sensation caused by potassium chloride.
Campaigners were demanding last night that Cable ban the export of pancuronium
bromide and potassium chloride to the U.S., claiming that assisting state
executions contravenes the government's commitment to the global abolition of
the death penalty.
Clive Stafford Smith, the director of Reprieve, which campaigns against the
death penalty, said: "The U.K. has been providing California with all 3 of its
execution drugs. It is vital that Cable imposes export controls on the other 2
drugs as well."
Arizona used sodium thiopental made in Britain to execute an inmate in October.
Britain's wider role in facilitating America's death penalty comes as the U.S.
copes with a national shortage of the drugs used in lethal injections. On
Friday, Oklahoma circumvented the problem by killing a death-row inmate with a
drug cocktail that included a sedative usually used to put down animals.
The documents also reveal that California has imported a massive batch of
sodium thiopental. It ordered 521g of sodium thiopental, made by
Berkshire-based Archimedes Pharma, before the British government announced the
new export controls 3 weeks ago. The CDCR said it had bought the drug through a
distributor for $36,415 (£23,000), not directly from Archimedes Pharma, which
denies exporting the chemical. It means that California has bought enough
sodium thiopental to kill 85 people.
A number of British people are on death row in the state including Kenny Gay,
50, from Swindon. He has faced execution in California for 25 years after being
convicted of killing a Los Angeles police officer.
Emails from the Arizona authorities to the CDCR have also caused anger among
campaigners.
"The shipment [was] processed expeditiously to us as it was for the purpose of
executions and not for use by general public," said an Arizona official.
(source: Free Internet Press)
EUROPE:
Review of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1236/2005 to include drugs used in the
lethal injection protocol
On 5 January 2011, a coalition of international non-governmental organisations
(NGOs), wrote to the European Commission to urge them to review and amend
Council Regulation (EC) No. 1236/2005, which controls the international trade
in equipment that could be used for capital punishment, torture or other cruel,
inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment, to include drugs used in the
lethal injection protocol.
On 26 October 2010, Jeffery Landrigan was executed by lethal injection for the
1989 murder of Chester Dean Dyer in Phoenix, Arizona, United States. The
execution took place in spite of a US-wide shortage of sodium thiopental, the
anaesthetic agent in the three-drug cocktail used in lethal injections in
Arizona. The Arizona Attorney General revealed that the sodium thiopental used
to execute Landrigan was imported from the United Kingdom.
The export of sodium thiopental from any European country to the US for the
purpose of lethal injections undermines not just the spirit and purpose of
Council Regulation (EC) No. 1236/2005, but also the EU’s policy of fighting
against the death penalty in countries where it still exists. Sodium thiopental
is the drug preferred by US authorities that still carry out the death penalty
with lethal injections.
The joint NGO submission outlined recommendations to the European Commission.
Specifically, to urge the Commission, in consultation with Member States and at
the earliest possible opportunity, to extend the scope of Council Regulation
(EC) No. 1236/2005 to control the trade in drugs used in lethal injections by:
(a) including sodium thiopental in its Annex III, thereby subjecting this drug
to the export control systems of EU Member States; and
(b) including a new ‘torture-death penalty end-use catch-all’ clause in the
Regulation, which would allow EU Member States to prohibit, on a case-by-case
basis, the trade of any item not listed in the Annexes of the Regulation but
that clearly have no practical use other than for the purposes of capital
punishment; or where there are reasonable grounds to believe that such items
would be used for the purposes of capital punishment. This catch-all clause has
been advocated by the UK government[1], and would enable EU Member States to
prevent exports of any drugs where there are reasonable grounds to believe that
such items would be used for the purposes of capital punishment.
These 2 measures would help ensure that any future exports of any drugs from
the EU (including sodium thiopental, and the other drugs currently used in the
lethal injection protocol: pancuronium bromide (Pavulon), potassium chloride,
and pentobarbital) would not be used for capital punishment, but only for
legitimate medical purposes.
The submission was endorsed by the following NGOs:
• Amicus, UK
• Amnesty International
• Ensemble Contre la Peine de Mort (ECPM), France
• International Federation for Human Rights (FIDH)
• International Federation of Action by Christians for the Abolition of Torture
(FIACAT)
• International Harm Reduction Association (IHRA), UK
• Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights (MVFHR), US
• National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers (NACDL), US
• Omega Research Foundation (ORF), UK
• Penal Reform International (PRI), UK
• Reprieve, UK
• Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (TCADP), US
• World Coalition Against the Death Penalty (WCADP)
(source: PRI)
****************
U.S. Execution Drugs Supplied Secretly By British Companies
British companies have secretly supplied two previously undisclosed lethal
injection drugs for executing American prisoners, provoking calls for an
immediate export ban on the whole cocktail of drugs used on death row.
Documents from American authorities reveal that potassium chloride and
pancuronium bromide have been exported. Until now it was thought that only one
execution drug, sodium thiopental, was being supplied by a British company.
When news of that chemical's export to America surfaced, it caused such
condemnation that the Business Secretary, Vince Cable, unveiled new export
controls on the drug forbidding its use in executions.
Now new documents from the California Department of Corrections and
Rehabilitation (CDCR) show that at least one British firm has been providing it
with all the drugs it uses as part of a three-drug cocktail in lethal injection
executions.
Inmates on death row are initially injected with sodium thiopental, which is
capable of inducing unconsciousness in a few seconds. Then pancuronium bromide
is administered, causing paralysis of respiratory muscles, before potassium
chloride is given, which stops the inmate's heart, causing death by cardiac
arrest. Opponents argue that the effect of dilution or the improper
administration of thiopental is that the inmate dies an agonizing death through
suffocation due to the paralytic effects of pancuronium bromide and the intense
burning sensation caused by potassium chloride.
Campaigners were demanding last night that Cable ban the export of pancuronium
bromide and potassium chloride to the U.S., claiming that assisting state
executions contravenes the government's commitment to the global abolition of
the death penalty.
Clive Stafford Smith, the director of Reprieve, which campaigns against the
death penalty, said: "The U.K. has been providing California with all 3 of its
execution drugs. It is vital that Cable imposes export controls on the other 2
drugs as well."
Arizona used sodium thiopental made in Britain to execute an inmate in October.
Britain's wider role in facilitating America's death penalty comes as the U.S.
copes with a national shortage of the drugs used in lethal injections. On
Friday, Oklahoma circumvented the problem by killing a death-row inmate with a
drug cocktail that included a sedative usually used to put down animals.
The documents also reveal that California has imported a massive batch of
sodium thiopental. It ordered 521g of sodium thiopental, made by
Berkshire-based Archimedes Pharma, before the British government announced the
new export controls 3 weeks ago. The CDCR said it had bought the drug through a
distributor for $36,415 (£23,000), not directly from Archimedes Pharma, which
denies exporting the chemical. It means that California has bought enough
sodium thiopental to kill 85 people.
A number of British people are on death row in the state including Kenny Gay,
50, from Swindon. He has faced execution in California for 25 years after being
convicted of killing a Los Angeles police officer.
Emails from the Arizona authorities to the CDCR have also caused anger among
campaigners.
"The shipment [was] processed expeditiously to us as it was for the purpose of
executions and not for use by general public," said an Arizona official.
(source: Free Internet Press)
Monday, 3 January 2011
Terrance Taylor
(Source) ELISH DELAPROSER AND TERRANCE BOWMAN-TAYLOR
Innocent man trapped in the system Prison Address TERRANCE TAYLOR #0539901 Central Prison 1300 Western Boulevard Raleigh, NC 27606
Thursday, 30 December 2010
Ohio: Hunger strike of the Lucasville uprising prisoners - starting Monday, Jan. 3
Go to this link WORDPRESS
Dear family members, friends and supporters of the Lucasville uprising prisoners,
Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar), Jason Robb and Namir Mateen (James Were) will start a hunger strike on Monday Jan. 3 to protest their 23-hour a day lock down for nearly 18 years. These four death-sentenced prisoners have been single-celled (in solitary) in conditions of confinement significantly more severe than the conditions experienced by the approximately 125 other death-sentenced prisoners at the supermax prison, Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. They are completely isolated from any direct human contact, even during "recreation". They are restricted from certain kinds of good ordering including gold weather items for the almost unbearably cold condtions in the cells. They are denied access to computer databases they need in order to prepare their appeals. It has been made clear to them that the outcome of their annual "security level reviews" is pretermined, as one reads, "...regardless of your behavior while confined at OSP." Prisoners w
hose death sentences were for heinous crimes are able to win privileges based on good behavior, but not the death-sentenced Lucasville uprising prisoners.
Meanwhile out in the world, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted additional due process rights to some of the Gauantanamo prisoners, some death-sentenced prisoners have been exonerated or had their sentences commuted, an evidentiary hearing was ordered for Troy Anthony Davis, and prisoners in Georgia are engaging in a non-violent strike for improvements in a wide range of conditions. So the four death-sentenced Lucasville uprising prinsoners have decided that being punished by the worst conditions allowable under the law has gone far enough, especially since their convictions were based on perjured testimony. They are innocent! They were wrongfully convicted! They are political prisoners. This farce has gone on far too long and their executions loom in the not too distant future. These brave men are ready to take another stand. We ask that you get ready to support them.
The hunger strike will proceed in an organized manner, with one prisoner, probably Bomani Shakur starting on Jan.3. The hunger strike becomes official after he has refused 9 meals. Therefore the plan is that 3 days later, Siddiquie Abdullah Hasan will start his hunger strike and 3 days later, Jason Robb will follow. Namir Mateen has a great willingness to participate and plans to take part to the extent that his diabetes will allow.
On the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Saturday, Jan. 15, we will be holding a press conference about the hunger strike and other issues pertaining to Ohio State Penitentiary. Details of time and location are being worked out. There will very likely be a brief rally near the gates of OSP, as we have in previous years to honor Dr. King, to protest the death penalty and to protest the farce of the Lucasville uprising convictions. There will probably be one or more vans and/or a car caravan to OSP for the event. Stay tuned for more information.
Please forward this to other people you think would be interested, here in Ohio, around the country and around the world.
Dear family members, friends and supporters of the Lucasville uprising prisoners,
Siddique Abdullah Hasan, Bomani Shakur (Keith LaMar), Jason Robb and Namir Mateen (James Were) will start a hunger strike on Monday Jan. 3 to protest their 23-hour a day lock down for nearly 18 years. These four death-sentenced prisoners have been single-celled (in solitary) in conditions of confinement significantly more severe than the conditions experienced by the approximately 125 other death-sentenced prisoners at the supermax prison, Ohio State Penitentiary in Youngstown. They are completely isolated from any direct human contact, even during "recreation". They are restricted from certain kinds of good ordering including gold weather items for the almost unbearably cold condtions in the cells. They are denied access to computer databases they need in order to prepare their appeals. It has been made clear to them that the outcome of their annual "security level reviews" is pretermined, as one reads, "...regardless of your behavior while confined at OSP." Prisoners w
hose death sentences were for heinous crimes are able to win privileges based on good behavior, but not the death-sentenced Lucasville uprising prisoners.
Meanwhile out in the world, the U.S. Supreme Court has granted additional due process rights to some of the Gauantanamo prisoners, some death-sentenced prisoners have been exonerated or had their sentences commuted, an evidentiary hearing was ordered for Troy Anthony Davis, and prisoners in Georgia are engaging in a non-violent strike for improvements in a wide range of conditions. So the four death-sentenced Lucasville uprising prinsoners have decided that being punished by the worst conditions allowable under the law has gone far enough, especially since their convictions were based on perjured testimony. They are innocent! They were wrongfully convicted! They are political prisoners. This farce has gone on far too long and their executions loom in the not too distant future. These brave men are ready to take another stand. We ask that you get ready to support them.
The hunger strike will proceed in an organized manner, with one prisoner, probably Bomani Shakur starting on Jan.3. The hunger strike becomes official after he has refused 9 meals. Therefore the plan is that 3 days later, Siddiquie Abdullah Hasan will start his hunger strike and 3 days later, Jason Robb will follow. Namir Mateen has a great willingness to participate and plans to take part to the extent that his diabetes will allow.
On the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Saturday, Jan. 15, we will be holding a press conference about the hunger strike and other issues pertaining to Ohio State Penitentiary. Details of time and location are being worked out. There will very likely be a brief rally near the gates of OSP, as we have in previous years to honor Dr. King, to protest the death penalty and to protest the farce of the Lucasville uprising convictions. There will probably be one or more vans and/or a car caravan to OSP for the event. Stay tuned for more information.
Please forward this to other people you think would be interested, here in Ohio, around the country and around the world.
Monday, 27 December 2010
POLUNSKY UNIT DEATHROW BIRTHDAY CARD LIST
Please consider sending a birthday card to those in Polunsky Unit Death row, the whole list of all Polunsky unit deathrow prisoners can be found on the EATDP website please go to the WEBSITE The List for January Birthdays are as follows
JANUARY
01st - Travis Green 999373
03rd - John Gardner 999516
5th - Marvin Wilson 999098
6th - Rulford Aldridge 000973
08th - Lee Taylor 999344
08th - Louis Perez 999328
9th - Carl Blue 999151
12th - Willie Washington 000856
13th - Larry Estrada 999259
16th - Humberto Leal 999162
(execution date July 7th)
19th - Rooseveit Smith 999530
22nd - Anthony Haynes 999330
23rd - Tracy Beatty 999484
23rd - Abel Ochoa 999450
25th - Michael Yowell 999334
26th - Juan Segundo 999520
26th - Moises Mendoza 999498
26th - John Adams 999278
28th - Carlos Trevino 999235
30th - John Balentine 999315
30th - William Mason 999040
JANUARY
01st - Travis Green 999373
03rd - John Gardner 999516
5th - Marvin Wilson 999098
6th - Rulford Aldridge 000973
08th - Lee Taylor 999344
08th - Louis Perez 999328
9th - Carl Blue 999151
12th - Willie Washington 000856
13th - Larry Estrada 999259
16th - Humberto Leal 999162
(execution date July 7th)
19th - Rooseveit Smith 999530
22nd - Anthony Haynes 999330
23rd - Tracy Beatty 999484
23rd - Abel Ochoa 999450
25th - Michael Yowell 999334
26th - Juan Segundo 999520
26th - Moises Mendoza 999498
26th - John Adams 999278
28th - Carlos Trevino 999235
30th - John Balentine 999315
30th - William Mason 999040
Sunday, 12 December 2010
P.U.R.E. REPORT (panthers united for Revolutionary education)
The P.U.R.E.Report Newsletter was founded by Eric Cathey, A Texas Deathrow prisoner. The Aim is to bring you information on the conditions of imprisonment, Legal education of the Death Penalty, Social Issues within the world and a complete insight within the minds of those held captive on Texas Infamous Deathrow
The first issue of this newsletter was september 2010 and can be downloaded from the pure report website, or to the right of this blog. Issue 2 will be ready for downloading on friday 17th december either from here or the pure report website
The first issue of this newsletter was september 2010 and can be downloaded from the pure report website, or to the right of this blog. Issue 2 will be ready for downloading on friday 17th december either from here or the pure report website