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08-31-2007, 02:35 PM
http://http://indymedia.us/en/2007/08/27217.shtml
Kenneth Foster Jr's Death Sentence Commuted!
IMC-US , Aug 30, 2007 @ 20:59 GMT
Hours before the scheduled execution the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole ruled 6 to 1 for clemency for Kenneth Foster Jr., also known as Haramia KiNassor. Governor Perry then upheld the decision, giving Foster a sentence of life in prison The Board has only voted to stop an execution once before since the reinstitution of the death penalty in Texas in 1982.
» Listen to radio interview from Huntsville Prison with Philadelphia journalist Walidah Imarisha
» Read Imarisha's newest essay reflecting on the day's explosive decision, written Thursday evening.
More Coverage: Indymedia.org overview || Article by Lee Wengraf, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Background From NYC's Indypendent: Worst of the Worst? Texas Premeditates the Murder of a Man Who Killed No One || Welfare Poets Slam Death Penalty: A Review of “Cruel and Unusual Punishment" || Indypendent reporter Renee Feltz on Democracy Now
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Kenneth Foster Jr's Death Sentence Commuted!
IMC-US , Aug 30, 2007 @ 20:59 GMT
Hours before the scheduled execution the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole ruled 6 to 1 for clemency for Kenneth Foster Jr., also known as Haramia KiNassor. Governor Perry then upheld the decision, giving Foster a sentence of life in prison The Board has only voted to stop an execution once before since the reinstitution of the death penalty in Texas in 1982.
» Listen to radio interview from Huntsville Prison with Philadelphia journalist Walidah Imarisha
» Read Imarisha's newest essay reflecting on the day's explosive decision, written Thursday evening.
More Coverage: Indymedia.org overview || Article by Lee Wengraf, Campaign to End the Death Penalty
Background From NYC's Indypendent: Worst of the Worst? Texas Premeditates the Murder of a Man Who Killed No One || Welfare Poets Slam Death Penalty: A Review of “Cruel and Unusual Punishment" || Indypendent reporter Renee Feltz on Democracy Now
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