Christopher Coleman- Texas - 22nd Sept, 2009

[Danigran]

Christopher Coleman has been given an execution date- September 22nd according to Rick Halperin's web site
http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/pending.html


Wow... another one from Texas. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends and to everyone who knows someone with an execution date.

God, when will this end?

[mammastalkin]

My thoughts are with Christopher and his family and friends.

[JJS811]

Christopher is showing on the TDCJ web site. So sad.

Prayers to Christopher, his family, friends and supporters at this sad time.

[lisainengland]

My thoughts and prayers are with Christopher and all involved. Seems like Texas just doesn't know where to stop!!!!

[JoLisaWalsh]

my thoughts are with Christopher, his family and supporters..sincere condolensces..

[mammastalkin]

Here is a link to a support site that offers a clemency letter. My thoughts are with Christopher and hoping for a stay.
http://www.santegidio.org/EN/pdm/news/ap_coleman.htm

[JJS811]

Signed and sent!

[in Christ]

Originally Posted by Danigran

Christopher Coleman has been given an execution date- September 22nd according to Rick Halperin's web site
http://people.smu.edu/rhalperi/pending.html


Wow... another one from Texas. My thoughts and prayers go out to his family and friends and to everyone who knows someone with an execution date.

God, when will this end?

[Cloudy]

send it!

[Halo666]

Sent the message.And,yes,I'm pretty much concerned bout Texas.God,is DR overcrowded or WTF?

[mammastalkin]

The 5CA has denied his appl for a stay and his appeal.

http://www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions...0586.0.wpd.pdf

[BLoved]

Christopher Coleman is scheduled for execution today.
To protest this, and every execution in Texas please call the office of Governor Rick Perry at (001)(512) 463-2000.

[mammastalkin]

New issue emerges in murder case

Lawyers, hoping it will stay their client's execution, say the information would have swayed jury against a crucial witness

By MIKE TOLSON
HOUSTON CHRONICLE

Sept. 21, 2009, 5:56AM


Elsy “Daisy” Prado was the sole survivor of a nighttime assault that claimed the lives of her brother, boyfriend and 3-year-old son in north Houston. Wounded and scared, the native of Colombia had trouble in the following days recalling the shooter from the three men responsible for the ambush.
Prado would identify Christopher Coleman, a 27-year-old Army veteran, as the gunman, and her testimony provided the key evidence that led a jury to convict him of capital murder and sentence him to die. That she had originally told authorities the four were simply lost on the night they were attacked in December 1995, when in fact they were parties to a drug deal gone wrong, did not sufficiently undermine her claim that Coleman had been the one to riddle their Toyota Paseo with bullets.
It seemed like a routine conviction until two years ago, when Coleman's lawyers began to raise questions about Prado's testimony. For the first time, she admitted to an investigator that she knew one of the attackers. She had testified at Coleman's trial that they were strangers.
Now, just days away from Coleman's execution, his attorneys have obtained a sworn statement from co-defendant Enrique Mosquera insisting that Prado not only knew him — the two came from the same town in Colombia — but was involved in the drug transaction on the night of the attack. Coleman's lawyers hope the disclosure will persuade an appeals courts to stay his execution and examine the effect the relationship of Mosquera and Prado could have had on the trial's outcome.
“Her testimony came in unimpeached because his lawyers did not have the information to impeach it,” said Pat McCann, Coleman's appellate lawyer. “I don't think anyone can sit there and say they know the truth. Who the shooter was is a huge question, and for that reason, this has to be looked again.”
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/...e/6628623.html

[Kay]

Prayers for a stay!

[JJS811]

After the wrongful execution of Todd Willingham, lets hope Texas stays this execution, as it doesn't appear to be a safe conviction. Lets hope further down the road we don't hear Christopher was executed erroneously.