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ARCHIVE 2004

29.8.04

LETTER FROM MICHAEL TONEY
Texas Sunday August 29, 2004

(...) I asked what it is they are celebrating to which one of them responded, "There's an execution tonight." As soon as I walked out of the medical building I saw James Allridge being escorted to the van that will take him to Huntsville to be executed. So, it seems they were in fact celebrating the execution. I've heard of "execution parties" before, but I never imagined I would witness one. (...)

Read the whole letter here

23.8.04 From: "Kyla Grimmett" <kgrimmett@dodo.com.au>
To: lampofhope@yahoogroups.com
Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 17:49:23 +1000
Subject: [lampofhope] Marlin Nelson, suicide on Polunsky, PLEASE READ!

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I got this in the mail today, it made me so sad to read this, but I think the word needs to get out.

30.6.04 Here's one more article about the abuses in US prisons.
The Progressive - July 2004 Issue
ABU GHRAIB/USA
by Anne-Marie Cusac

When I first saw the photo, taken at the Abu Ghraib prison, of a hooded and robed figure strung with electrical wiring, I thought of the Sacramento, California, city jail...(read the article here)
http://www.progressive.org

6.5.04 ABUSE COMMON IN U.S. PRISONS, ACTIVISTS SAY
May 06, 2004 By Alan Elsner, Reuters

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Horrific abuses, some similar to those revealed in Iraq, regularly occur in U.S. prisons with little national attention or public outrage, human rights activists say.
http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsPackageArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=506073§ion=news
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In these days people is coming to know about the torture cases of Iraqi prisoners by the American and Briton invaders. But, at least as to the US, it's not a new thing. The American inmates have always been treated as animals, and we wrote a lot about it on this site. Read the article above to refresh your memory. Or download it here.

26.4.04
	NEWS FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA

23 April 2004 Texas: James Lee Clark, mentally retarded, got a stay.
13 April 2004 New Orleans: Michael Rosales got a stay.
30 March 2004 Texas: Edward Capetillo was executed.
19 March 2004 Columbia: David Clayton Hill was executed.
3 March 2004 Texas: Marcus Cotton was executed.
12 February 2004 Texas: Bobby Ray Hopkins was executed.
4 February 2004 Texas: Johnny Robinson was executed.

8.4.04 UPDATE ON AMINA LAWAL. Read it here

9.3.04

Kill Me Now or Kill Me Later
By Richard Rossi - 9 March 2004
Here's the touching article by Richard Rossi about the health hard situation in prison. You can download the article here.

17.2.04

NEWS FROM THE HELL HOLE III
by Hank Skinner, February 17, 2004

A while back (Dec.'03 - Jan. '04) I had to good fortune to be housed next door to
Billy Frank "Sonny" Vickers...
Read the whole article here

4.2.04
	NEWS FROM THE DEATH ROW IN USA

February 4, 2004 Texas: Scott Panetti got a stay.
December 9, 2003 Texas: Bobby Lee Hines got a stay.
September 12, 2003 North Carolina: Henry L. Hunt was executed.

20.1.04 Tortured logic of latest objection to executions
By STATE SEN. KYLE JANEK
And the idiot logic of Mr. Janek, issued on the Houston Chronicle is:
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/editorial/outlook/2363199

3.1.04 STARVE A PRISONER, FEED THE BUDGET
The Boulder Daily Camera
www.dailycamera.com/bdc/opinion_columnists/article/0,1713,BDC_2490_2548754,00.html

We start the news 2004 page with some important new petitions. See our petition page that keep also old petitions.
Again Best Wishes for the New Year!

Let's put out again our peace flags!

For the legal fund to help the Genoa 2001 G8 protesters, wrongly charged and convicted, go to the
site of the Truth & Justice Committee For Genoa, or mail to: info@veritagiustizia.it

Vedi anche - See also Archive 2000 - 2001 - Archive 2002 - Archive 2003