Car* tutt*,
ecco una buona notizia!
Saluti,
Cristina
----- Original Message -----
From: "Vincenzo Puggioni" <v.puggioni@???>
To: <Undisclosed-Recipient:;>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:28 PM
Subject: Buone notizie dal Texas - Miller-El wins 8-1
> Amici tutti,
>
> a voi che avete contribuito concretamente a sostenere la causa di Thoma=
s
Joe
> Miller-El, desidero girare subito una prima, buona notizia proveniente =
dal
> Texas: a Thomas =E8 finalmente stata concessa una possibilit=E0, direi
piuttosto
> concreta, per uscire fuori dal suo incubo lungo ormai diciotto anni.
> Un primo passo verso la tanto agoniata libert=E0.
>
> Troverete in allegato un comunicato stampa della Coalizione Nazionale
(Stati
> Uniti) per l'abolizione della pena di morte (in inglese) ed una
> interpretazione degli accadimenti di Giuseppe Lodoli, del Comitato Paul
> Rougeau, una voce rilevante nel panorama italiano della lotta alla pena=
di
> morte nel mondo.
>
> Con l'impegno a farvi pervenire ulteriori aggiornamenti non appena
> disponibili, ringrazio ancora per quanto avete fatto a sostegno della
causa
> di Thomas e vi invio i miei pi=F9 cari saluti.
>
> Vincenzo (Puggioni)
>
> **************************************************************
>
> 1) ----- Original Message -----
> From: "David Elliot (via "Comitato Paul Rougeau (RM)" <prougeau@???>=
)"
> <delliot@???>
> To: <v.puggioni@???>
> Cc: <guygre@???>
> Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:31 PM
> Subject: NCADP: Miller-El will finally receive the review he deserves
>
>
> NATIONAL COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY PRESS RELEASE
>
> CONTACT:
> David Elliot, NCADP Communications Director
> 202-543-9577, ext. 16
> cell phone: 202-607-7036
> delliot@???
> www.ncadp.org
> 920 Pennsylvania Ave. SE
> Washington, D.C. 20003
>
> MILLER-EL PREVAILS; LOWER COURTS MUST HEAR EVIDENCE OF RACIST JURY
> SELECTION, SUPREME COURT RULES
>
> Feb. 25, 2002 - The U.S. Supreme Court Tuesday ruled 8-1 that a person =
on
> Texas death row must be allowed to present evidence of systemic racial
bias
> during jury selection.
>
> Thomas Miller-El was convicted for the 1985 murder of Douglas Walker in
> Irving, Texas. During the period in which Miller-El's trial took place,
> Dallas County prosecutors were engaging in racist jury selection tacti=
cs
in
> an effort to exclude minority jurors - tactics which were exposed by bo=
th
> local and national media.
>
> "Thomas' claim that his trial violated the Sixth Amendment right to a j=
ury
> of one's peers has never been seriously considered by the Fifth Circuit=
,"
> said Steven W. Hawkins, executive director of the National Coalition to
> Abolish the Death Penalty. "Finally, after all these years, he will
receive
> the review that he has long deserved."
>
> During the early 1980s, the Dallas County district attorney's office
> provided newly hired prosecutors with a memo entitled "Jury Selection i=
n a
> Criminal Case." The manual explicitly advised Dallas County prosecutors=
to
> remove all minorities from juries with peremptory challenges because th=
ey
> "empathize with the defendant."
>
> A study of the 15 death penalty trials held between 1980 and 1986 revea=
led
> that, of the 62 African American jurors found qualified after individua=
l
> voir dire, the state struck 56 - or 90 percent of them - a strike rate =
far
> in excess of the rate at which white and Hispanic jurors were struck.
>
> Moreover, of the 15 capital murder defendants, five were African Americ=
an,
> including Miller-El. Four of the defendants were tried before all-white
> juries; Miller-El's jury included one African
> American who described his views on the death penalty this way: "It's t=
oo
> quick. They don't feel the pain...Pour some honey on them and stake the=
m
out
> over an ant bed...That's what I call
> punishment."
>
> Hawkins said he hopes that other people under sentence of death -
including
> Delma Banks. Jr., who has a March 12 execution date - will now be fully
> heard when presenting evidence of racist jury selection. Banks was
convicted
> by an all-white jury in Texarkana, Texas, despite the fact that no
physical
> evidence or eyewitness placed him at the crime scene. He has maintained
his
> innocence,
> and has no prior criminal record.
>
>
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> The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty was founded in 1976
and
> is the only fully-staffed national organization devoted specifically to
> abolishing the death penalty. NCADP is
> comprised of more than 100 local, state, national and international
> affiliates.
>
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> **************************************************************
>
> 2) ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Comitato Paul Rougeau (RM)" <prougeau@???>
> To: "Vincenzo Puggioni" <v.puggioni@???>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 26, 2003 12:08 PM
> Subject: Re: Fw: Miller-El wins 8-1!
>
>
> E' un'ottima vittoria. Ora la Corte federale distrettuale e' costretta =
a
> prendere in considerazione le prove della discriminazione razziale oper=
ata
> contro Thomas e, se le giudicher=E0 valide, dovr=E0 annullare il proces=
so
> originale. Dopo di cio' stara' all'accusa scegliere se chiedere un nuov=
o
> processo o rinunciarvi ponendo in libert=E0 Thomas. Nel caso in cui la =
Corte
> federale distrettuale decida negativamante per Thomas, si potra' ancora
> ricorrere alla Corte federale di appello e alla Corte Suprema. In ogni
caso
> la data dell'esecuzione si allontana, con ottime speranze
dell'annullamanto
> della condanna a morte.
> Cari saluti
> Giuseppe
>
>
>
>
