Mississippi Death row prisoners looking for pals, please write a letter to
Ricky Chase #74170
Unit 29 bldg J
Parchman
MS 38738
USA
Quintez Hodges #R6937
Unit 29 J Bldg.
Parchman,
Ms. 38738
USA
Thomas Loden #K8126
Unit 29 J-Bldg.
Parchman,
Ms. 38738
USA
Tuesday, 28 February 2012
Pending Executions of of 24th february 2012
February
29* George Rivas Texas
29* Robert Moormann Arizona
March
7* Keith Thurmond Texas
8* Robert Towery Arizona
8 Dustin Briggs Pennsylvania
15* Timothy Stemple Oklahoma
16* Garry Allen Oklahoma
18 Briley Piper South Dakota
28* Jesse Hernandez Texas
29* Tommy Arthur Alabama
April
5 Michael Archuleta Utah----firing squad
12* Carey Grayson Alabama
18* Mark Wiles Ohio
26* Beunka Adams Texas
June
6* Abdul Hamin Awkal Ohio
6* Bobby Hines Texas
July
26* John Eley Ohio
August
1* Marcus Druery Texas
September
9-15 Roger Berget South Dakota
20* Donald Palmer Ohio
November
13* Brett Hartman Ohio
2013
January
16* Ronald Post Ohio
March
6* Frederick Treesh Ohio
May
1* Steven Smith Ohio
August
7* Billy Slagle Ohio
September
25 Harry Mitts Jr. Ohio
November
14 Ronald Phillips Ohio
2014
January
16 Dennis McGuire Ohio
29* George Rivas Texas
29* Robert Moormann Arizona
March
7* Keith Thurmond Texas
8* Robert Towery Arizona
8 Dustin Briggs Pennsylvania
15* Timothy Stemple Oklahoma
16* Garry Allen Oklahoma
18 Briley Piper South Dakota
28* Jesse Hernandez Texas
29* Tommy Arthur Alabama
April
5 Michael Archuleta Utah----firing squad
12* Carey Grayson Alabama
18* Mark Wiles Ohio
26* Beunka Adams Texas
June
6* Abdul Hamin Awkal Ohio
6* Bobby Hines Texas
July
26* John Eley Ohio
August
1* Marcus Druery Texas
September
9-15 Roger Berget South Dakota
20* Donald Palmer Ohio
November
13* Brett Hartman Ohio
2013
January
16* Ronald Post Ohio
March
6* Frederick Treesh Ohio
May
1* Steven Smith Ohio
August
7* Billy Slagle Ohio
September
25 Harry Mitts Jr. Ohio
November
14 Ronald Phillips Ohio
2014
January
16 Dennis McGuire Ohio
Sunday, 12 February 2012
PENDING EXECUTIONS AS OF 10TH FEB 2012
Please note that these dates are only tentative.
Execution dates known or thought to be considered SERIOUS are marked with a *.The designation indicates that an execution is considered more likely to be carried out.
Please note that this designation should in no way be construed as absolute. Stays can be granted or denied at the very last moment prior to an execution.
A name with no * designation may simply mean that not enough information is currently available to know whether the execution date is serious. In other words, please DO NOT automatically equate the fact that a name with no * designation means that his/her assigned execution date is not serious. It might, in fact, be (very) serious.
2012
February
15* Robert Waterhouse Florida
28* Anthony Bartee Texas
29* George Rivas Texas
29* Robert Moormann Arizona
March
6* Michael Ryan Nebraska
7* Keith Thurmond Texas
8* Robert Towery Arizona
15* Timothy Stemple Oklahoma
16* Garry Allen Oklahoma
18 Briley Piper South Dakota
28* Jesse Hernandez Texas
April
5* Michael Archuleta Utah----firing squad
18* Mark Wiles Ohio
26* Beunka Adams Texas
May
13-19 Eric Roberts South Dakota
June
6* Abdul Hamin Awkal Ohio
6* Bobby Hines Texas
July
26* John Eley Ohio
September
20* Donald Palmer Ohio
November
13* Brett Hartman Ohio
2013
January
16* Ronald Post Ohio
March
6* Frederick Treesh Ohio
May
1* Steven Smith Ohio
August
7* Billy Slagle Ohio
September
25 Harry Mitts Jr. Ohio
November
14 Ronald Phillips Ohio
2014
January
16 Dennis McGuire Ohio
Execution dates known or thought to be considered SERIOUS are marked with a *.The designation indicates that an execution is considered more likely to be carried out.
Please note that this designation should in no way be construed as absolute. Stays can be granted or denied at the very last moment prior to an execution.
A name with no * designation may simply mean that not enough information is currently available to know whether the execution date is serious. In other words, please DO NOT automatically equate the fact that a name with no * designation means that his/her assigned execution date is not serious. It might, in fact, be (very) serious.
2012
February
15* Robert Waterhouse Florida
28* Anthony Bartee Texas
29* George Rivas Texas
29* Robert Moormann Arizona
March
6* Michael Ryan Nebraska
7* Keith Thurmond Texas
8* Robert Towery Arizona
15* Timothy Stemple Oklahoma
16* Garry Allen Oklahoma
18 Briley Piper South Dakota
28* Jesse Hernandez Texas
April
5* Michael Archuleta Utah----firing squad
18* Mark Wiles Ohio
26* Beunka Adams Texas
May
13-19 Eric Roberts South Dakota
June
6* Abdul Hamin Awkal Ohio
6* Bobby Hines Texas
July
26* John Eley Ohio
September
20* Donald Palmer Ohio
November
13* Brett Hartman Ohio
2013
January
16* Ronald Post Ohio
March
6* Frederick Treesh Ohio
May
1* Steven Smith Ohio
August
7* Billy Slagle Ohio
September
25 Harry Mitts Jr. Ohio
November
14 Ronald Phillips Ohio
2014
January
16 Dennis McGuire Ohio
Friday, 1 April 2011
PURE REPORT NEWSLETTER
Thursday, 31 March 2011
Texas caught illegally dispensing lethal injection drugs under the name of a hospital that closed 30 years ago
Texas caught illegally dispensing lethal injection drugs under the name of a hospital that closed 30 years ago; lawyers seek federal lawsuit
Posted by Evelin Petes on Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 12:12.The
Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has today been reported to the US Attorney General Eric Holder for illegally purchasing and dispensing lethal injection drugs under the name of a hospital that closed in 1983.In a letter to Holder and to the Texas Department of Safety, lawyers for death row prisoner Cleve Foster describe how the state's prison agency has been purchasing controlled substances – including drugs used for lethal injections – under a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration certificate assigned to Huntsville Unit Hospital, which has not existed for 30 years. "[A]s a result, we believe that TDCJ is unlawfully in possession of and unlawfully dispensing controlled substances," the lawyers write.
Under US drug laws, DEA registration numbers must be renewed every three years. Yet Foster's legal team, Maurie Levin and Sandra Babcock, have discovered that the TDCJ “has failed to advise the DEA for the past twenty-eight years of the fact that the Huntsville Unit Hospital no longer exists," or to admit that what actually exists at that location is a prison unit with a warden "purchasing and dispensing controlled substances".
The lawyers further report that Texas’s drugs are not kept at a pharmacy or by a DEA-registered handler: "At no point is an appropriately licensed or authorized practitioner involved in the dispensing process, and at no point is a prescription written to transfer the controlled substances to a member of the execution team”.
Levin and Babcock have asked Attorney General Holder to direct the DEA to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation, noting "the potential for abuse is rampant." If violations are found, they request the immediate revocation of agency registration and seizure of the ill-obtained drugs. Any such action would disrupt Texas’s busy execution schedule; seven executions are slated for August, with Cleve Foster due to die on April 5.
Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith said:
“Every day, the US capital punishment system looks more ridiculous. If the Texas Department of Criminal Justice can’t even manage to obey the law, why on earth should they be granted the extraordinary power to kill prisoners?”
For more information please contact Katherine O’Shea at Reprieve’s Press Office katherine.oshea@reprieve.org.uk / 020 7427 1099 / 07931592674.
Notes for Editors:
Reprieve, a legal action charity, uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve investigates, litigates and educates, working on the frontline, to provide legal support to prisoners unable to pay for it themselves. Reprieve promotes the rule of law around the world, securing each person’s right to a fair trial and saving lives. Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and has spent 27 years working on behalf of people facing the death penalty in the USA.
Reprieve has represented, and continues to represent, a large number of prisoners who have been rendered and abused around the world, and is conducting ongoing investigations into the rendition and the secret detention of ‘ghost prisoners’ in the so-called ‘war on terror.’
Posted by Evelin Petes on Thursday, 31 March 2011 at 12:12.The
Texas Department of Criminal Justice (TDCJ) has today been reported to the US Attorney General Eric Holder for illegally purchasing and dispensing lethal injection drugs under the name of a hospital that closed in 1983.In a letter to Holder and to the Texas Department of Safety, lawyers for death row prisoner Cleve Foster describe how the state's prison agency has been purchasing controlled substances – including drugs used for lethal injections – under a Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) registration certificate assigned to Huntsville Unit Hospital, which has not existed for 30 years. "[A]s a result, we believe that TDCJ is unlawfully in possession of and unlawfully dispensing controlled substances," the lawyers write.
Under US drug laws, DEA registration numbers must be renewed every three years. Yet Foster's legal team, Maurie Levin and Sandra Babcock, have discovered that the TDCJ “has failed to advise the DEA for the past twenty-eight years of the fact that the Huntsville Unit Hospital no longer exists," or to admit that what actually exists at that location is a prison unit with a warden "purchasing and dispensing controlled substances".
The lawyers further report that Texas’s drugs are not kept at a pharmacy or by a DEA-registered handler: "At no point is an appropriately licensed or authorized practitioner involved in the dispensing process, and at no point is a prescription written to transfer the controlled substances to a member of the execution team”.
Levin and Babcock have asked Attorney General Holder to direct the DEA to conduct a prompt and thorough investigation, noting "the potential for abuse is rampant." If violations are found, they request the immediate revocation of agency registration and seizure of the ill-obtained drugs. Any such action would disrupt Texas’s busy execution schedule; seven executions are slated for August, with Cleve Foster due to die on April 5.
Reprieve Director Clive Stafford Smith said:
“Every day, the US capital punishment system looks more ridiculous. If the Texas Department of Criminal Justice can’t even manage to obey the law, why on earth should they be granted the extraordinary power to kill prisoners?”
For more information please contact Katherine O’Shea at Reprieve’s Press Office katherine.oshea@reprieve.org.uk / 020 7427 1099 / 07931592674.
Notes for Editors:
Reprieve, a legal action charity, uses the law to enforce the human rights of prisoners, from death row to Guantánamo Bay. Reprieve investigates, litigates and educates, working on the frontline, to provide legal support to prisoners unable to pay for it themselves. Reprieve promotes the rule of law around the world, securing each person’s right to a fair trial and saving lives. Clive Stafford Smith is the founder of Reprieve and has spent 27 years working on behalf of people facing the death penalty in the USA.
Reprieve has represented, and continues to represent, a large number of prisoners who have been rendered and abused around the world, and is conducting ongoing investigations into the rendition and the secret detention of ‘ghost prisoners’ in the so-called ‘war on terror.’
Wednesday, 9 February 2011
Gerald Marshall Tx DeathRow
Gerald Marshall, Tx Deathrow, here is brief history of his Childhood
GERALD MARSHALLS WEBSITE CLICK HERE
I was born to Johni and Gerald Marshall, both were addicted to drugs. I have 3 siblings. I am the next to the youngest. During our childhood there were times my siblings and I would go days without food. Vividly I remember one time we were so hungry we made a bunch of juice to combat the hunger. We must have made juice in cups, bowls, pots and pans. Just so that when the pains came back we could drink right then. When my mother came home she made us drink all that juice right away. It wasn’t a pretty sight juice was coming out from every which way, I can tell you for sure there is only so much juice a kid can drink.
This is just one of the nightmarish memories from my childhood that forced my mom to lose custody of us. Between our raggedy looking clothes and our knocking on doors for food, begging for food, the neighbors noticed and called “Texas’ Children Protective Service” (CPS), on my mom. When CPS came my mom was out on one of her smoking binges and we were at home alone for four days. A neighbour took us in, fed us and we were taken from my mom. Soon after being taken from my parents my siblings and I had a choice to make, stay together or split up. My oldest sister and I stayed in Texas with hopes of being reunited with our father. My oldest brother and youngest sister went to Indiana to a relative’s house.
During the time it took my father to get custody of us. We were placed into a foster home. It was better than being with my mom with the exception of physical abuse. My mom never beat me but for some reason I would find myself getting hit in this particular foster home. I never mentioned it to any one because at least we were fed on a regular basis. Soon after I would leave this home and be placed into a boy’s home. This was great! Food and no abuse, but I wouldn’t stay in this home long because my father would soon get custody of my sister and me. I will never forget the first night at my father’s house. My father used to give me money and some came up missing. The older kids took some of it. So my oldest brother came up with the idea to write a letter to the older kids. The letter was filled with profanity. The next day I would go home to my father. The day was going great, meeting my father’s girlfriend’s kids and then a phone call came. It was my foster parents calling to tell about the letter. My father asked me about it and even after telling him I didn’t write it (I was in elementary), he still beats. This beating was the first of many at the hands of my father. I learned my father knew how to braid when he took three small tree switches and scraped the bark off them, braided them together and beat my sister and me. He always seemed to beat us for no reason. Then one day he beat us with a water hose. The whips were so extensive that the school we attended noticed and they took us away from my father. From there I was put in a foster home in the lower parts of Houston.
It was an African American home that for the most part was poor. The foster home relied on income from the children that it kept. It had six kids all together and was paid to keep each one. This home was not a place for kids simply because they kept the kids for the money. This is the home where I grew up until I turned 18. When I was 11 I stared going to the mail box and bank with my foster mother. Here I learned about how much money she was getting paid to keep us. It bothers me because this lady would do anything financial wise for her children and grand children but nothing when it came to her foster children, the ones who kept money coming into the house hold. Around this time I would been told my mother had lost all rights to her children because she couldn’t get off drugs and I also started drinking and doing drugs. In a sense when I look at it, I started rebelling towards my foster mother.
When I turned 16 I got a job at a Popeyes and started supporting my drug and alcohol (?) habit more. I also started buying clothes for myself. I started skipping school and this hurt my grades but I still managed to graduate high school at 17 years old.
At the foster home things went from bad to worst between my foster mother and me. At 18, which I was about to turn, the state of Texas wouldn’t pay for me any longer and my foster mother began to tell me how disgusted I was and made her and that I would probably end up on death row. She told me specifically when I turned 18 I would have to leave her home. On July 11, 2000 I turned 18 and I left.
It is important to understand I am not trying to use my childhood ans an excuse as to why I am on Texas death row. While I understand it is a major contributing factor. I am more hopeful that my situation will expose the fact the prisons in America are filled with foster children. A report showed that 69 percent of prisoners in California and Massachusetts were foster children in America. Also disturbing is the fact that 50 percent of homeless youth on the street are runaways from foster care. As I have learned these statistics and reflected on how I was neglected as a child, I understand why I made the bad decisions I made, and I hope to bring this sit system of putting foster children from this foster care in jail to the publics attention.
The day I turned 18 I left the foster home, all my clothes packed in bags and I got into a car with my mom and cousin. I moved in with my mother who also had my other siblings staying with her. I then enrolled in college the following semester. It didn’t last at my mom’s house after about a week she ended up kicking me out. I ended up on the streets for a while. To survive I did things I can’t even mention. Sometimes I would just ride the metro all day and night until the bus stopped. Then I would walk down town Houston until the busses started back up and do it all over again.
My aunt and uncle eventually allowed me to come and stay with them. So I started school and did exceptionally well. I finished two semesters of school. Then things started to go bad with my uncle and he soon had his way in spite of my aunt’s objections. I had to move in with a friend. I then had to get a couple of jobs while staying with my friend. At this time I was 19 years old and was still unable to understand what it took to be a successful member of the society.
I had a couple run ins with the law. Nothing physical or aggravated as the state puts it, but after my last run in I was put on probation. Things started going bad from there. My friend who I was living with started arguing and we both agreed it was time for me to leave. I then moved in with my oldest sister who I came to learn was being evicted. Then in not thinking to get a job I started doing things that are not in my character. I was there for three days then arrested for capital murder.
GERALD MARSHALLS WEBSITE CLICK HERE
I was born to Johni and Gerald Marshall, both were addicted to drugs. I have 3 siblings. I am the next to the youngest. During our childhood there were times my siblings and I would go days without food. Vividly I remember one time we were so hungry we made a bunch of juice to combat the hunger. We must have made juice in cups, bowls, pots and pans. Just so that when the pains came back we could drink right then. When my mother came home she made us drink all that juice right away. It wasn’t a pretty sight juice was coming out from every which way, I can tell you for sure there is only so much juice a kid can drink.
This is just one of the nightmarish memories from my childhood that forced my mom to lose custody of us. Between our raggedy looking clothes and our knocking on doors for food, begging for food, the neighbors noticed and called “Texas’ Children Protective Service” (CPS), on my mom. When CPS came my mom was out on one of her smoking binges and we were at home alone for four days. A neighbour took us in, fed us and we were taken from my mom. Soon after being taken from my parents my siblings and I had a choice to make, stay together or split up. My oldest sister and I stayed in Texas with hopes of being reunited with our father. My oldest brother and youngest sister went to Indiana to a relative’s house.
During the time it took my father to get custody of us. We were placed into a foster home. It was better than being with my mom with the exception of physical abuse. My mom never beat me but for some reason I would find myself getting hit in this particular foster home. I never mentioned it to any one because at least we were fed on a regular basis. Soon after I would leave this home and be placed into a boy’s home. This was great! Food and no abuse, but I wouldn’t stay in this home long because my father would soon get custody of my sister and me. I will never forget the first night at my father’s house. My father used to give me money and some came up missing. The older kids took some of it. So my oldest brother came up with the idea to write a letter to the older kids. The letter was filled with profanity. The next day I would go home to my father. The day was going great, meeting my father’s girlfriend’s kids and then a phone call came. It was my foster parents calling to tell about the letter. My father asked me about it and even after telling him I didn’t write it (I was in elementary), he still beats. This beating was the first of many at the hands of my father. I learned my father knew how to braid when he took three small tree switches and scraped the bark off them, braided them together and beat my sister and me. He always seemed to beat us for no reason. Then one day he beat us with a water hose. The whips were so extensive that the school we attended noticed and they took us away from my father. From there I was put in a foster home in the lower parts of Houston.
It was an African American home that for the most part was poor. The foster home relied on income from the children that it kept. It had six kids all together and was paid to keep each one. This home was not a place for kids simply because they kept the kids for the money. This is the home where I grew up until I turned 18. When I was 11 I stared going to the mail box and bank with my foster mother. Here I learned about how much money she was getting paid to keep us. It bothers me because this lady would do anything financial wise for her children and grand children but nothing when it came to her foster children, the ones who kept money coming into the house hold. Around this time I would been told my mother had lost all rights to her children because she couldn’t get off drugs and I also started drinking and doing drugs. In a sense when I look at it, I started rebelling towards my foster mother.
When I turned 16 I got a job at a Popeyes and started supporting my drug and alcohol (?) habit more. I also started buying clothes for myself. I started skipping school and this hurt my grades but I still managed to graduate high school at 17 years old.
At the foster home things went from bad to worst between my foster mother and me. At 18, which I was about to turn, the state of Texas wouldn’t pay for me any longer and my foster mother began to tell me how disgusted I was and made her and that I would probably end up on death row. She told me specifically when I turned 18 I would have to leave her home. On July 11, 2000 I turned 18 and I left.
It is important to understand I am not trying to use my childhood ans an excuse as to why I am on Texas death row. While I understand it is a major contributing factor. I am more hopeful that my situation will expose the fact the prisons in America are filled with foster children. A report showed that 69 percent of prisoners in California and Massachusetts were foster children in America. Also disturbing is the fact that 50 percent of homeless youth on the street are runaways from foster care. As I have learned these statistics and reflected on how I was neglected as a child, I understand why I made the bad decisions I made, and I hope to bring this sit system of putting foster children from this foster care in jail to the publics attention.
The day I turned 18 I left the foster home, all my clothes packed in bags and I got into a car with my mom and cousin. I moved in with my mother who also had my other siblings staying with her. I then enrolled in college the following semester. It didn’t last at my mom’s house after about a week she ended up kicking me out. I ended up on the streets for a while. To survive I did things I can’t even mention. Sometimes I would just ride the metro all day and night until the bus stopped. Then I would walk down town Houston until the busses started back up and do it all over again.
My aunt and uncle eventually allowed me to come and stay with them. So I started school and did exceptionally well. I finished two semesters of school. Then things started to go bad with my uncle and he soon had his way in spite of my aunt’s objections. I had to move in with a friend. I then had to get a couple of jobs while staying with my friend. At this time I was 19 years old and was still unable to understand what it took to be a successful member of the society.
I had a couple run ins with the law. Nothing physical or aggravated as the state puts it, but after my last run in I was put on probation. Things started going bad from there. My friend who I was living with started arguing and we both agreed it was time for me to leave. I then moved in with my oldest sister who I came to learn was being evicted. Then in not thinking to get a job I started doing things that are not in my character. I was there for three days then arrested for capital murder.
Wednesday, 12 January 2011
LEROY WHITE- ALABAMA- EXECUTION DATE THURSDAY 13TH JANUARY 2011
Leroy White execution has been set for thursday 13th January 2011, we encourage you all to either call the GOVERNORS OFFICE , or Fax
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