[DP-Announce] Execution scheduled for Wed.

[Rich Woodward]

Johnathan Moore is scheduled to be executed Wed. 1/17.  Those of you 
who have lawn signs, please post them all day.  A vigil in protest 
will be held in College Station at 5:30 p.m. at the corner of Texas 
Ave. & Walton, across from the main entrance to the A&M campus.

Please join us in protesting against this madness.  Information about 
Johnathan Moore's case from the NCADP's web site is posted below.

Rich

from: http://www.ncadp.org/
Jan. 17, 2007, TX

On Jan. 15, 1995, Johnathan Moore and two companions were in the 
process of burglarizing a house when Moore shot an off-duty San 
Antonio police officer who tried to stop the crime.  After his 
arrest, Moore gave police a voluntary written statement, where he 
confessed to the crime. He was sentenced to death, while his two 
codefendants face lighter sentences.  

Johnathan Moore should not be executed for this crime.  Executing 
Moore would violate the right to life as proclaimed in the Universal 
Declaration of Human Rights and would constitute the ultimate cruel, 
inhuman, and degrading punishment.  Furthermore, the court denied 
Moore´s request for a competency hearing, even though he has a 
history of depression and hospitalization.  Moore also represented 
himself on two separate occasions in the trial, before which his 
lawyers did not present enough evidence to the judge to show that 
Moore was incompetent, which amounts to ineffective assistance of 
counsel.  

At the time of this crime, Moore was 20 years old.  He comes from a 
very troubled and dysfunctional family, including persistent problems 
between his parents and possibly serious life-long mental health 
problems in his mother.

 
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Richard Woodward
www:  http://TCADP-BV.org  
e-mail:   r-woodward at TCADP-BV.org