softheart
08-19-2004, 02:01 PM
August 25, 2004
6 p.m. CST
The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Jasen Shane
Busby, a white man,
Aug. 25 for the 1995 murders of 18 year old Tennile
Thompson and 16 year
old Brandy Gray in Cherokee County. Mr. Busby was 19
years old at the time
of the crime, had no previous criminal record, and was
under the influence
of marijuana.
Mr. Busby had no previous record of arrest or drug
use.
There are 19,000 murders per year. Approximately 0.4%
of these murders end
with an execution. Mr. Busby, a 19 year-old with no
record, does not
belong in this group.
Who does belong in the group?
While blacks and whites are victims of violent crime
in almost equal
numbers, 8 out of every 10 executions involve a white
victim.
Ninety-five percent of people on death row could not
afford an attorney.
Those who can afford attorneys do not get sent to
death row, barring
extreme circumstances.
Until 2002, the group including the mentally retarded.
Until 1986 the
group included the insane. Today it still includes
juveniles and the
severely schizophrenic or mentally ill.
Cherokee County had never tried a death penalty case
before, and a jury
determined that Jasen Busby would be one of the 0.4%
to die.
If the execution proceeds as scheduled, he will
receive a lethal injection
at 6:00 p.m. CST. Please keep him, his family, and the
families of Tennile
Thompson and Brandy Gray in your thoughts.
Please take a moment and send a message to Gov. Rick
Perry, urging him to
stop this execution.
Source : NCADP
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=90
6 p.m. CST
The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Jasen Shane
Busby, a white man,
Aug. 25 for the 1995 murders of 18 year old Tennile
Thompson and 16 year
old Brandy Gray in Cherokee County. Mr. Busby was 19
years old at the time
of the crime, had no previous criminal record, and was
under the influence
of marijuana.
Mr. Busby had no previous record of arrest or drug
use.
There are 19,000 murders per year. Approximately 0.4%
of these murders end
with an execution. Mr. Busby, a 19 year-old with no
record, does not
belong in this group.
Who does belong in the group?
While blacks and whites are victims of violent crime
in almost equal
numbers, 8 out of every 10 executions involve a white
victim.
Ninety-five percent of people on death row could not
afford an attorney.
Those who can afford attorneys do not get sent to
death row, barring
extreme circumstances.
Until 2002, the group including the mentally retarded.
Until 1986 the
group included the insane. Today it still includes
juveniles and the
severely schizophrenic or mentally ill.
Cherokee County had never tried a death penalty case
before, and a jury
determined that Jasen Busby would be one of the 0.4%
to die.
If the execution proceeds as scheduled, he will
receive a lethal injection
at 6:00 p.m. CST. Please keep him, his family, and the
families of Tennile
Thompson and Brandy Gray in your thoughts.
Please take a moment and send a message to Gov. Rick
Perry, urging him to
stop this execution.
Source : NCADP
http://www.demaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=90