[Death Penalty Signs] Execution scheduled for Wed.

[Rich Woodward]

I apologize for the late notice.   
Robert Neville Jr. is scheduled to be executed today, Wed. 2/8.  A 
vigil will be held at the corner of Texas Ave. and Walton from 5:30-
6:00 p.m.  Please join us if you are able.   He was found guilty of 
murdering Amy Robinson and we stand also in sorrow for her death.

For those that have lawn signs, please post them if you're still able 
to do so.

Information about the case is pasted below.
Rich 

Robert James Neville Jr., a 31-year-old white man, is facing 
execution on Feb. 8, 2006 for one count of aggravated murder.  In 
1998 Neville and his accomplice, Michael Hall, drove their coworker, 
19-year-old Amy Robinson, to a remote field in Tarrant County where 
they shot and killed her.  The two were captured by U.S. Customs 
agents near the Mexican border.

Neville doesn´t contest his guilt in the killing of Ms. Robinson.  
However, for Neville to be put to death, it is necessary that he have 
committed aggravated murder, in this case murder and kidnapping.  
Neville claims that he did not kidnap Robinson.  Neville says that 
she got into the car with him and Hall willingly and without 
coercion.  Neville raised the issue of his innocence of the 
kidnapping charge in a habeas corpus petition made to the 5th Circuit 
Court of Appeals, but the court refused to consider this issue, as 
Neville had not previously raised it in a Texas appellate court.  
Because Neville already had filed a habeas petition in the Texas 
Court of Criminal Appeals, he could not address the kidnapping issue 
in another petition.  This left Neville stuck.  A man who might not 
be guilty of a capital crime may now be executed because the proper 
appeal was not filed in the proper court.

What´s more, Neville may have been suffering from a psychiatric 
disorder.  The key to his defense was that he had lupus, a disease 
which causes psychosis in some patients.  Yet his attorney made no 
effort to determine potential jurors´ attitudes toward the disease 
during jury selection.

It is possible that Neville actually killed Ms. Robinson, but likely 
that the crime did not meet the standard for Neville to qualify for 
the death penalty.  There is also a serious question whether Neville 
was mentally ill when he committed the crime, and whether he will be 
so on the day of his execution.  For these reasons, we must not allow 
Texas to put Robert Neville Jr. to death.

Please write Gov. Rick Perry requesting that he stop the execution of 
Robert Neville Jr.!
--
Richard Woodward
www:  http://TCADP-BV.org  
e-mail:   r-woodward at TCADP-BV.org