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ARCHIVE 2003

10.12.03

1. Mexican Authorities Fail to Address Violence Against Women. Sign Petition! (It'll be closed on 31.12.03) http://www.care2.com/go/z/9674/1044
Since 1993, over 370 women have been killed or have "disappeared" in Ciudad Ju"rez and Chihuahua, Mexico. To date, the Mexican authorities have been slow to act in response to the horrifying pattern of violence that has become commonplace. The International Community is gravely concerned about the safety of the women of

Chihuahua. Please join Amnesty International in its efforts to persuade the Mexican authorities to take action now before the lives of any more women are lost. Sign this petition to the Mexican Ambassador to the United States. The message must be clear: violence against women must be tackled at its roots. All instances of it must be thoroughly investigated, those responsible brought to justice, and steps must be taken to address the causes of women's vulnerability to violence.
SIGN NOW! http://www.care2.com/go/z/9674/1044

2. Indigenous community threatened in the Amazon - Sign Petition! http://www.care2.com/go/z/9678/1053

On December 4, 2003, 32 members of the Amazon community of Sarayaku were injured and unlawfully detained while mobilizing for a peaceful protest against oil development in their territory. Please send an email to Ecuadorian President Lucio Gutiérrez asking him to protect the human rights of the Sarayaku community and its environment. The Sarayaku people need your help to resist oil development in the Amazon! Sarayaku is a Kichwa community in the Ecuadorian Amazon that is fighting for its very existence against the specter of oil exploration in its territory. Having seen the deforestation, contamination and cultural destruction of Amazonian communities elsewhere in Ecuador, Sarayaku has taken a firm stand in favor of their environmental and cultural rights, and against oil activities in its territories. This position has led to threats and retaliation by oil workers in neighboring communities. Sarayaku community members cannot travel safely on their river and cannot walk safely in their forests. They are enduring a de facto medicine embargo on their community. Please join EarthRights International in defending the rights and
environment of the Sarayaku people. Sign the petition today! http://www.care2.com/go/z/9678/1053

Thank you,
Ingrid Baker Online Activism Manager - ThePetitionSite.com

17.10.03
CRUEL AND UNUSUAL
Could lethal injections hide a horror story?
By David Koon - October 17, 2003 Read the article here, or here.
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We remind you that our friend Paul Colella is no longer in the death row, here's his new address:
Paul Colella #1180878
Smith Unit, 1313 County Rd. 19,
Lamesa Texas 79331
USA

11.10.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 11.10.03. Click here.
We remind you that the newsletters are available also in English. Check it out!

6.10.03

WORLD DAY AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY:
OCTOBER 10, 2003

USA: Oct. 6, 2003

Dear friends,
please join Amnesty International activists and death penalty abolitionists around the world in

observing the first ever World Day Against the Death Penalty: October 10, 2003. Sponsored by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty, of which AI is a member, this event has been designed to reinforce and strengthen the international movement for the universal abolition of the death penalty. Throughout the world, non-governmental organizations, students and teachers, lawyers and judges, local representatives, religious organizations, artists, journalists, and citizens have prepared local initiatives for October 10, 2003. You, too, can participate in the World Day by adding your name to the "Appeal to the Authorities of All Countries that Still Retain the Death Penalty".
To sign the appeal, please visit the Amnesty International USA website at this address:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/petition/Index.asp?id=11 or go to the Online Action Center, via the link Act!
While we aim to collect as many signatures as possible by October 10, the petition will remain open until October 20.

Many thanks for your support!
Sincerely,
Rick Halperin
Amnesty International USA's Program to Abolish the Death Penalty

3.10.03

Hank Skinner NEWS FROM THE HELL HOLE III
by Hank Skinner, October 3, 2003

Fiero is laying up there in the cell above me. He hasn't bathed in 91/2 months...
Read the whole article here

27.9.02 St.Egidio newsletter of the 27.9.03 here

25.9.03 WOMAN SENTENCED TO STONING FREED
From Jeff Koinange CNN
Thursday, September 25, 2003 Posted: 1040 GMT ( 6:40 PM HKT)

KATSINA, Nigeria (CNN) - An appeals court has freed a Nigerian mother sentenced to death by stoning for adultery.
Amina Lawal, 31, was originally sentenced two years ago for having a child out of wedlock but her sentence was delayed until she could wean her baby, Wassila. Read the article here

23.9.03

Sister Marie de Lourdes Nassauer The idea of the state killing a healthy human being is appalling. Pope John Paul II has said, "The dignity of human life must never be taken away, even in the case of someone who has done great evil.
I renew the appeal for a consensus to end the death penalty, which is both cruel and unnecessary."
From "A Friend On Death Row" by Sister Marie de Lourdes Nassauer
Read the article here
http://sisters.maryknoll.org/index.php?module=MKArticles&func=display&feature=1&id=17

13.9.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 13.9.03 here

4.9.03 From our friend Karl:
100'S OF DEATH PENALTIES WERE OVERTURNED IN ARIZONA, IDAHO, AND WASHINGTON:
100's of death penalties have been overturned in Arizona, Idaho, and Washington, by the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals. The reason they were overturned is because the U.S. Supreme Court issued a ruling in RING and in APPRENDI, which basically stated that a JURY MUST FIND THE PERSON GUILTY OF THE CRIME, or FACTORS that could enhance the penalty OVER THE MAXIMUM POSSIBLE PENALTY. Because the 9th Circuit considered this a "SUBSTANTIVE" (a fundamental change in the law) change, not a "PROCEDURAL" change, the law must be retroactive (applies to all prior sentences). Yes, ARIZONA GOVERNMENT/PRISON are all crying and sniveling, and they will appeal, so it will be up to the U.S. Supreme Court.

30.8.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 30.8.03 here
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"Murder. That seems to be the centerpiece my life revolves around. Death Row is my home..."
by Howard Guidry - Read the whole article here

16.8.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 16.8.03 here

12.8.03

Paul Colella Paul Colella, now former death row inmate in Texas, who we knew through his excellent articles gathered under the title of "Uncensored From Texas Death Row" featured on the main mailing lists against the death penalty, agreed to a plea bargain, and got his death sentence commuted into 20 years.
Here you can read on-line a Houston Chronicle's article on the event. And here you can read the same article including a short message by Paul's mom.
We report here also the final chapter of , "Uncensored From Texas Death Row" where Paul recalls and thanks friends and relatives who supported him during his 11 years in the death row.

2.8.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 2.8.03 here

21.7.03 Mississippi - MDOC REPORT ON DEATH ROW DUE TODAY. ACLU SAYS INMATES'
RIGHTS STILL BEING VIOLATED
By Clay Harden
Read it here

19.7.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 19.7.03 here

10.7.03 BEFORE BRITISH AL-QAEDA SUSPECTS ARE EVEN TRIED DEATH CHAMBER
IS BEING BUILT
By Barry Wigmore Download it here

9.7.03 Our friend Karl sent us a writing of his called "A Return", something halfway between the article and an update letter to his friends and readers. You can read it here. He sent us also his sad thoughts about an inmate who died because was denied proper medication to treat his cancer. We called the piece, originally untitled, "In Memory of Jack Edward Ethington", and you can read it here.
Here you can also read the article dated July 8, 2003 called:

COP, PROSECUTOR, DEFENSE LAWYER, JUDGE, JURY & HANGMAN: ALL IN ONE AMERICA'S KANGAROO JUSTICE
By Linda S. Heard

5.7.03 From Buone Nuove # 174 of the 5.7.03

THE PROTOCOL AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY HAS COME INTO EFFECT
Source: Amnesty international. Click here

BUONE NUOVE Humanist Electronic Agency run by Olivier Turquet - http://www.umanisti.it/buonenuove
It releases just news on the human being's social, scientific, and cultural progress
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St.Egidio newsletter of the 5.7.03 here

25.6.93 Do you remember Roger Murray (Arizona Death Row)? He's a friend of us and asked to help him promote his brother's book. His brother is Robert Murray and is on the Arizona death row as well. We transcript here below the flyer he sent us:

A DEATH PENALTY EXPERIENCE
This is the real stuff, not a super-natural fantasy. Real people die here. Lives on all sides are eternally changed, disrupted, damaged and destroyed. Death is brutal and absolute. The death penalty is a matter of grave importance. The majority of the general public sanction executions but have no real knowledge of the subject and never fully consider the issue.
LIFE ON DEATH ROW presents an informed, thought-provoking look at the inside of capital punishment and the actuality of its effects on real people. It covers many aspects of the death penalty system from a prisoner's point of view. This book offers the opportunity to observe the events and circumstances from a front line position. It is a compelling story about serious matters, addressing areas of controversy, concern and curiosity. It offers a first hand account of the process and life in prison. And it provides insight into the politics and the legalities of the execution protocol. The author, Robert W. Murray is a nationally published writer and, as a prisoner on death row in Arizona, he is uniquely situated to share his personal experiences:
LIFE ON DEATH ROW by Robert Murray is available in 6x9 book size, soft cover, 320 pages, for $19.50 plus S&H.
ISBN: 1-4033-8974-8. It may be ordered from 1st Books Library, Book Order Hotline at 1-888-280-7715, or on Internet at www.1stbooks.com, or from Albert Publishing Co., P.O.Box30280, PMB 111, Phoenix, AZ 85046-0280.

21.6.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 21.6.03 here

19.6.03
	NEWS FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA

Kia Levoy Johnson (m), black, aged 39, was executed in Texas on the evening of 11 June 2003. He was sentenced to death in February 1995 for the murder in 1993 of William Rains, a 32-year-old white man who was shot during a robbery of the shop in San Antonio where he worked as a night manager. The appeal courts refused to stay the execution on the grounds of evidence that Kia Johnson may have had mental retardation.
Calvin Burdine, who once came within minutes of being executed but won a new trial because his lawyer slept through portions of his trial, accepted an plea bargain from prosecutors that will keep him off death row. Burdine, 50, pleaded guilty to three charges. He will receive consecutive life sentences for each ones.
Kentucky Gov. Paul Patton commuted Kevin Stanford's sentence because he was 17 at the time of his crime. Asked by a reporter if he planned to commute any death sentences, Patton said he will act to "correct an injustice " — the sentencing of a juvenile to death — and cited Stanford's case. Patton said he would decide later the terms of Stanford's commutation — whether it will be to life without parole, which would guarantee he never will be released from prison, or to a lesser sentence that might make him eligible for parole.
Ricky Lynn Lewis - Texas - got all his appeals denied and the Judge set Aug. 7 as execution date.
Another case (not in the death row yet very serious) within our petitions, is Patrick Swiney's, a life prisoner in Donaldson prison (Alabama), suffering from serious heart disease. In prison he has been denied the simplest humane medical care, moreover he is abused by the guards and the warden Stephen Bullard. His wife, Sherry Swiney asked the warden to move Patrick to a geriatric cell block, and filed a petition that collected many signatures, ours too. But the warden denied arbitrarily, and is threatening Patrick, and his wife, with retaliation. The irony is that Patrick will soon be proven innocent of the double murder for which he was convicted. He is mounting a strong appeal based on new evidence, and it would be reprehensible to allow an arguably innocent man to die in prison due to indifference and personal animus. His wife Sherry, after the petition, is writing to press and human rights organizations.
We do actually wish her, who's fighting with disperate bravery, to manage to save her beloved husband's life.

15.6.03 Read here the interesting article quoted below

THE DARK SIDE OF INNOCENCE
By David Feige, New York Times

7.6.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 7.6.03 here

3.6.03 28th of May 2003. The British newspaper Mail on Sunday reports that:
"The US has floated plans to turn Guantanamo Bay into a death camp, with its own death row and execution chamber"

You can read the article here or read it online at http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,6494000%5E401,00.html
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On the Newsday magazine of the 3rd of June 2003 there's another interesting article:
"FAIR" TRIAL WILL BE A TRAVESTY IN TERROR CASES
By Marie Cocco

You can download the article here or read it online at
http://www.newsday.com/news/opinion/ny-vpcoc033314467jun03,0,4718512.column
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Read also the article quoted below by clicking here

LOCKED UP IN LAND OF THE FREE
Inmates: The United States has surpassed Russia as the nation with the highest percentage of citizens behind bars.
By Scott Shane. Originally published Jun 1, 2003

26.5.03 Our friend Karl Guillen sent us a page from the magazine "Forbes" of May 26. We're not lucky enough to know such magazine, but we don't give a damn if it's all in the same fashion of the article we report here. The article is by a prison doctor signing under the name of Dalrymple, and after reading it you'll realize one of the reasons why the prison health service sucks:

Forbes May 26, 2003
ON MY MIND (Forbes's Magazine's section)
By Theodore Dalrymple, a pseudonym for a doctor who works in a British inner-city hospital and in prison, contributes to the "Spectator" in London and to the Manhattan Institute's "City Journal".
PRISONS ARE GOOD
The inmate population in the US has surpassed 2 million for the forst time. Hear! Hear!

24.5.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 24.5.03 here

21.5.03
	NEWS FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA

Kenneth Morris - Texas - execution scheduled for the 15th April, was stayed by the 5th Circuit. There are claims of mental retardation.
Roger Vaughn was executed in Texas on 6.5.03.
As to Jerome Campbell - Ohio - execution date set on 14 May 03, we don't have any news on him.
No news about Richard Ritenour & Van Dyken Long Soldier either.
Eric Moore, 36, set to die on 21 May had a stay.
We close with Amina Lawal; the 3rd of June is the date of her appeal hearing before the Sharia court of appeal of Katsina, Nigeria, and not the date of her execution.

19.5.03

Download here the moving article against the death penalty, of the set "News From The Hell Hole"
by Hank Skinner, locked in Polunsky Unit, Texas death row. You can find more, and very interesting articles by Hank, as well as Paul Colella's set called, "Uncensored From Texas Death Row", in the archives of the COALIT Mailing List, the TX-Death Penalty Mailing List, and the Abolish List.

10.5.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 10.5.03 here

7.5.03

Our friend Mauro Dispenza sent us his association's promotion:

S.O.S. FROM THE DEATH ROW
Remote adoption of death row inmates

It's the Texas Defender Service' s Italian branch based in La Spezia. Mauro Dispenza is the national manager. Allison Robertson is the deputy manager. E-mail:maurodispenza@interfree.it - scottymoore@tin.it

Here below is a short message by Mauro:
La Spezia, June 2nd, 2003

Dearest friends,
I have been in epistolary correspondence with many prisoners of the "Texas death row", Polunsky Unit for many years. For this reason in Italy I established a little association called "S.O.S. from the death row" with the aim to put the prisoners in touch with free people outside: this way, I met many friends, and the inmates have the chance to get their cases known also outside the walls of the jail. Only through a correspondence people can have their material and spiritual needs known.
See you soon. Mauro.

30.4.03 From: "sissel" denmark@online.no
To: "Patrick Crusade" patrickcrusade@yahoogroups.com
Date: Wed, 30 Apr 2003 21:48:12 +0200
Subject: [patrickcrusade] Council of Europe Calls on US to Respect Rights of Guantanamo Prisoners

Council of Europe Calls on US to Respect Rights of Guantanamo Prisoners
VOA News 30 Apr 2003, 12:32 UTC. Download the short article here

26.4.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 26.4.03 here

12.4.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 12.4.03 here

11.4.03 Friday April 11, 2003
CHINA, IRAN AND U.S. TOP EXECUTIONERS, AMNESTY SAYS
By Stephanie Nebehay. Source: Reuters
Read the article at the address below, or here
http://reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=politicsNews&storyID=2550729

10.4.03

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News of the 10/04/2003

Thursday 10 April - 08.00 a.m.
AdB informs
Those who want to send money for basic health material can make donations to:
Assieme, Associazione Volontariato di Utilità Sociale - ONLUS Via G. Puccini, 79 - 50041 Calenzano (FI) post office giro #30040505; bank giro #100353/55 - Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino Ag. Calenzano (ABI 8427 - CAB 37760) aassieme@tin.it

News of the 11/04/2003

Friday 11 April - 09.30 p.m.
Florence, Salone de’ Dugento, Palazzo Vecchio, Piazza della Signoria
The civic counsel for the defence within the prison
Workshop about the new counsel for the defence of inmates. There will make a speech: Angelo Passaleva, vice-President of the Tuscany region; Luigi Manconi, president of "A Buon Diritto. Association for freedom"; Franco Della Casa, University of Genoa; Alessandro Margara, President of the Michelucci Foundation; Francesco Lococciolo, civic counsel of the City of Florence; Luca Bresciani, Antigone association. There will be also speeches by parliament members, attorneys, and members from other organizations helping inmates. They will tell their own experiences.

News of the 13/04/2003

Sunday 13 April - 09.00 a.m.
Florence, Piazza della Repubblica
The poetry of the dolls
The Pantagruel Association and the Association “Il Ramo in Fiore” shows some rag-dolls made by the female inmates of Sollicciano, by some ex-con, and by some foster, or in semi-custody female inmates. Info: Associazione Pantagruel 055/473070, e-mail asspantagruel@virgilio.it

News of the 17/04/2003

Thursday 17 April - 8.30 p.m.
Florence, Cpa-Fi Sud, Via Villamagna 27
The fight of the Turkish people in Florence
Benefit dinner and meeting to denounce the awful situation of the Turkish inmates in solitary confinement in the "F type" cells. In order to protest against such cells the inmates started a hunger strike to death on the 20 October 2000.

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6.4.03 WWW.PROMISELAND.IT
The ethical information's Italian network http://www.promiseland.it

WAR?.. NOT IN MY NAME!!!
Keep on showing your peace flat...(In Italian) http://www.promiseland.it/view.php?id=304

News of Sunday, 6th April 2003

Chinese inmates being executed by firing squad

Chinese inmate being executed by firing squad

MASS EXECUTION
China. A young man kneels. His hands and feet are tied, his head bowed...(In Italian)
http://promiseland.it/view.php?id=460

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Click on the banners above for donations pro Iraq. Those who want to send money for basic health material can make donations to:
Assieme, Associazione Volontariato di Utilità Sociale - ONLUS Via G. Puccini, 79 - 50041 Calenzano (FI) C/C postale n° 30040505

C/C bancario n° 100353/55 - Credito Cooperativo Fiorentino Ag. Calenzano (ABI 8427 - CAB 37760) aassieme@tin.it You can also make donations to Tavolo di Solidarietà per l'Iraq, post office giro #507020, or bank giro #108080 to: Banca Etica ABI05018 CAB03200 specifying: Solidarity for Iraq. Many other non government organizations are collecting money pro Iraq. We advise you NOT to make donations to government organizations.

29.3.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 29.3.03 here

25.3.03

Since the 25th of March, the St.Egidio Community will pray for peace every Tuesday at 7.30 p.m. in the church of St.Tommaso, in V. della Pergola, Florence

23.3.03

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News of the 23/03/2003

Sunday 23 March - 3.30 p.m.
Florence, Centro Valdese, Via Manzoni 21
Russia, justice in red
Irene Khan, Amnesty International general secretary, said that when we think about the violation of the human rights in Russia, we soon think about Cecenia. What is not so well known is that the same impunity deeply affect the whole penal justice system in Russia. Those whose rights are violated have a hard access to justice. That will be the topic of the public meeting of the 23 March. There will attend Alexander Tobaschus – Amnesty International Project Manager for the Campaign in Russia, and Cinzia Zuccarini of Amnesty International Coordination for East Europe. During the meeting they will show some video.
For more info: Paolo Orsini – Amnesty International Foreign Relations of the Tuscanian district – tel. 348 8714035

News of the 25/03/2003

Tuesday 25 March - 08.00 p.m.
AdB informs
The prison advocacy association "Il Granello di Senape" and the Data Center of the Padua Department of Correction, Due Palazzi, invites you to check out their web site www.ristretti.it. All you would like to know about prison, but never dared ask (And that nobody will never tell you). More than 3000 pages, about 30.000 visitors within the latest six months. The most complete site about the prison in Europe, wholly made by the inmates of Department of Correction of Padua.
Webmaster: ornif@iol.it

Altracittà - Agenzia di Base Editors: Elena Bossio & Cecilia Stefani
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18.3.03
	NEWS FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA

Delma Banks, execution scheduled for the 12.3.03, had a stay.
Michael Thompson was executed on the 14.3.03.
Walanzo Robinson - Oklahoma - was executed on the 18.3.03
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Football match:
BOYS AND SEMINARISTS FROM TAVARNUZZE (FLORENCE) VS THE BOYS FROM SOLLICCIANO
30 March 2003 h2:30 p.m. Football camp of Tavarnuzze. Download the flyer here (in Italian)

15.3.03

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News of the 15/03/2003

Saturday 15 March - 3.00 p.m.
Florence, Piazza San Marco
Inside and Outside the Walls
The Work Table on prison promotes a march in the city in support of those inmates living a "inhuman life" against our constitution (Art. 27 Cost.), and fighting for a true pardon.

Altracittà - Agenzia di Base Editors: Elena Bossio & Cecilia Stefani
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This is a supplement to Altracittà - outskirt's newspaper - Manager: Cristiano Lucchi
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St.Egidio newsletter of the 15.3.03. Click here
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THE ART OF INTERROGATION
Experts say subtle psychological ploys may be better than thumbscrews when it comes to getting terror suspects to confess
By Reed Johnson, Times Staff Writer LA Times - 3/15/03
http://www.calendarlive.com/cl-et-johnson15mar15.story You can also read the article here
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We close our news of today 15.3.03 by mentioning two web sites rich in informations about the prison in Italy and in the world. "Pagine Salvagente per il Carcere" http://www.ristretti.it/salvagente/ from the site Ristretti Orizzonti, from Padua Department of Correction, and "Il carcere come paradigma del modello di sviluppo occidentale" by AnOK4u of the group
Il Mondo Capovolto http://digilander.libero.it/anok4u/htmfile/StoriaCarcere.htm

10.3.03 THE LAST DAY OF A DEATH ROW INMATE
Teatro di Rifredi - Firenze 10 - 22 March 2003 (Ask more clearly about the dates)
Pupi & Fresedde with Regione Toscana-Provincia di Firenze in collaboration with Amnesty International-St.Egidio Community-Rocco Derek Barnabei Foundation. For more info, and to read the interesting "Direction notes" by Stefano Massini, click on
http://www.toscanateatro.it/spettacoli/scheda.php?idelemento=72 or download here (In Italian)

8.3.03

Nigeria:
Petition for Amina Lawal, Ahmadu Ibrahim, Fatima Usman and Mallam Ado Baranda

Sign here http://www.amnesty.it/primopiano/nigeria.php3

3.3.03

From: Emilio Santoro e.santoro@tsd.unifi.it
Date: Mon, 03 Mar 2003 19:45:49 +0100
Subject: Meeting of the 6th March on criminal policy

CRIMINAL POLICY IN THE GLOBAL ERA

Workshop with: Dario Melossi; Alessandro De Giorgi; Antonio Negri; Emilio Santoro. Moderator: Stefano Mannoni.
Workshop organized by Laltro Diritto - information centre about prison, bent behaviours, marginalization - and by the Department of Law Theory and History, on occasion of the release of the books "Il governo dell'eccedenza", by Alessandro De Giorgi, and "Stato, controllo sociale e devianza", by Dario Melossi (Download the Italian flyer here)
Thursday 6 March 2003, 3.30 p.m. Red hall of the Department of Law Theory and History - P.za Indipendenza 9 - Firenze
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Prof. Emilio Santoro - Dipartimento di Teoria e Storia del Diritto
P.za Indipendenza 9, 50129 Firenze Italy
Tel. +39 055462761 Fax +39 055474756 E-mail: E.Santoro@tsd.unifi.it
Laltro diritto - Information Centre About Prison, Bent Behaviours, Marginalization
http://dex1.tsd.unifi.it/altrodir
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St.Egidio newsletter of the 1.3.03. Click here

22.2.03

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News of the 22/02/2003

Saturday 22 February - ore 4.30 p.m.
Florence, Via Cavour, in front of the Prefecture
Inside and Outside the Walls
Meeting on prison asking for a true and general pardon. Such pardon is more than an act of mercy, it's a need to start solving the prison issue, and the problems of those who have been inside for years.

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20.2.03
	NEWS FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA

Gregory Van Alstyne had a stay on 13.2.03.
Granville Riddle, 33, was executed by lethal ionjection at 6 p.m. of the 1.2.03 in Huntsville - Texas.
This is the 7th execution of the year. The 6th one in Texas. We close with Henry Earl Dunn's moving message sent to our friend and activist Mauro Dispenza a few hours before Dunn's execution. (Read the message here)

15.2.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 15.2.03 here

13.2.03 Here are three interesting articles about the death penalty business; one of the 19.5.02 published on the Indianapolis Star (download here); one of the February 2003 published on the City Of Death web site (download here), and another one of the LA Weekly of the week from the 7th to 13th February 2003 (download here)

1.2.03

Let's wrap up the world... LET'S WRAP UP THE WORLD IN A CHARITY WEB

Sunday February 23, 2003 - 3.00 p.m. Circolo M.C.L. "L'Incontro" Parrocchia del Sacro Cuore - Tavarnuzze FLORENCE
For more info click here (Flyer in Italian)

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St.Egidio newsletter of the 1.2.03 here
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LOOKING FOR PEN PALS
Marvin's & Roger's requests for some pen pals went unheard, so we rewrite here their addresses hoping for somebody to relieve them of their deep loneliness.

MARVIN GABRION Fed. No. 09184-055
P.O. BOX 33 Death Row
TERRE HAUTE, IN47808-0033 U.S.A.
Roger W.Murray ADC #94262
P.O BOX 3400
Florence AZ85232-3400 USA

30.1.03

Illinois Governor Ryan Aaron Patterson Justice: Denied - The Magazine for the Wrongly Convicted
Illinois Governor George Ryan Pardoned Four Innocent Men Condemned to Death On January 10, 2003, and the Next Day He Cleared Illinois' Death Row
By Hans Sherrer, Justice Denied Special Correspondent

January 30, 2003
Illinois Governor George Ryan did the unthinkable on January 10, 2003 when he pardoned four men on Illinois' death row who had been tortured by the police into giving false confessions. A day later Gov. Ryan again did the unthinkable when he commuted to life in prison or a lesser terms of imprisonment, the remaining 167

Illinois prisoners sentenced to death. (Webmaster's note: Aaron Patterson, see photo above, is one of the four pardoned inmates. A while ago we put a petition for a new fair trial for him on our petition page, but luckily his nightmare is over now.)
Read the article at http://www.justicedenied.org/governorryan.htm

25.1.03 From Buone Nuove # 164 of the 25.1.03

156 DEATH SENTENCES COMMUTED IN ILLINOIS
Source: Amnesty international. Click here

BUONE NUOVE Humanist Electronic Agency run by Olivier Turquet - http://www.umanisti.it/buonenuove
It releases just news on the human being's social, scientific, and cultural progress

18.1.03 St.Egidio newsletter of the 18.1.03 here. Also, you can find some interesting photo, about the places where the death row inmates in Texas live their last days before the execution, at http://www.geocities.com/rowofsouls/photographs.html

17.1.03

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News of the 17/01/2003

Friday 17 January - ore 8.00 p.m.
Florence, Cpa Fi Sud, Via Villamagna 27/a
Against any repression
Solidarity dinner in support of the Genoa's detainees. The money collected will be used for their legal defences. At 9.30 p.m. there will be a meeting with the attorney Giuseppe Pelazza from Milan, an attorney from Rome, families and friends of the political prisoners. Then there will be a exhibition on the political repression from the 70ies till today. A free information and the support to political dissidents are the main tools to fight the state repression.

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This is a supplement to Altracittà - outskirt's newspaper - Manager: Cristiano Lucchi
Registered c/o the Court of Florence #4599 of the 11/7/1996

8.1.03 Published on Wednesday, January 8, 2003 by the BBC
2001 G8 SUMMIT: GENOA POLICE 'ADMIT FABRICATION'
To read the bilingual article click here. To know the precedents about the 2001 G8 Summit, read the news of the 27th July 2001 in the archive 2001. Click here. See also the article from Promiseland's web site we transcribed here.

4.1.03 Here you can find the St.Egidio newsletter of the 4.1.03
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Click here to read the press review (in English) about the CCDAP's initial win against Internet banned from the Ar