7-10-02 Jose Briseno Is Next On Tx List

[Shortie]

THIS IS GOING TO BE A LONG YEAR... SO MUCH PAIN AND KILLING.. IF YOU WANT TO KNOW MORE YOU CAN LOG ON TO THE TEXAS TDCJ WEBSITE..

HERE IS ANOTHER LINK
www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/executionalert.html

[Amanda_H]

I hope he will get a stay, they have killed enough people by now. I really hate that.

[Budwoman]

ONE, AFTER ONE, AFTER ONE AFTER ONE...... WHEN WILL IT EVER STOP....


MORITORIUM MUST BE ACOMPLISHED IN ALL STATES.


DONNA

[Shortie]

that is so true.. but I am not holding my breath when a judge will rule the pledge unconsisituational.. it is a scary world we live in..

[Joy]

PRESS RELEASE ~ July 9, 2002

Contacts: Ricky Jason 409-347-1407 Cell 409-466-7307 Gloria Rubac 713-861-5965 Cell 713-503-2633

Ross Byrd, Son of Jasper Hate Crime Victim James Byrd, Jr., to Protest Wednesday’s Execution of Jose Briseno in Huntsville

Ross Byrd will join other protesters on July 10 in Huntsville when the state of Texas plans to execute the 19th person this year, Jose Briseno. He will be outside the Walls Unit, the Texas death house, at 5:30 Wednesday evening. Briseno’s execution is set for 6:00 PM.

Byrd surprised the nation this week when he announced that he did not want to see his father’s killers executed and was joining the struggle to abolish the death penalty in this country. He bases his about face on the death penalty on his Christian upbringing and his belief in the first commandment, which says "thou shalt not kill."

Byrd also said, "Look at it—there’s more African Americans on death row and being executed than any body. The death penalty is not the solution."

On July 3-4th another man whose father had been murdered, Martin Luther KING III as well as social activist and comedienne Dick Gregory joined Byrd. They led a 24-hour fast and prayer vigil in front of Texas’ death house.

Martin Luther King Jr. was murdered in 1968, 30 years before James Byrd, Jr. was dragged to death in the most horrific, racially motivated hate crime of recent history. "I am proud to be with the young Byrd today in Huntsville. Today he stands head and shoulders above a whole lot of people in this country, including the justices on the Supreme Court. Byrd and I are both victims yet we call for the abolition of the death penalty which is nothing but state-sponsored terrorism," King told the activists who had gathered in Huntsville.

Ross Byrd, who is a hip-hop artist, will be accompanied to Huntsville by his manager Ricky Jason as well as members of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement. He wants to show the world that he is no longer the same man who, after his father’s killer John King was sentenced to death, replied, "One down and two to go!"

Four years after his father’s dragging death, young Ross Byrd says the state of Texas does no have the right to kill.

[danielle]

If Ross Byrd can see how wrong the death penalty is - why can't the state of Texas?