[Death Penalty Signs] Execution on Wed. 1/25

[Rich Woodward]

Marion Dudley is scheduled to be executed by the State of Texas on 
Wed. Jan. 25.  Those of you that have an Execution Today sign, please 
post it during the day.  There will be a protest at the corner of 
Texas Ave. and Walton from 5:30 - 6:00.  

Information about this case is in the letter to Governor to Perry 
pasted below.  You can send an appeal for Marion Dudley from the 
NCADP's web site: http://ncadp.org

Rich
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Marion Butler Dudley 
January 25, 2006

Texas

Marion Butler Dudley, a black man, awaits execution in Texas for the 
June 20, 1992 shooting deaths of three people in a Houston drug 
house.  The victims include Jose Tovar, a Hispanic man; Jessica 
Quinones, a Hispanic woman and daughter-in-law of Tovar; and Frank 
Farias, another Hispanic man and the son of a survivor of the 
shootings.  Rachel Tovar and two other victims survived the shootings 
to identify Dudley as one of the attackers.  

After arriving at the home of Rachel and Jose Tovar with the intent 
to purchase cocaine, the defendant and two others decided to steal 
drugs and money from the home.  The three men tied up the occupants 
of the house, demanded money, and then shot the victims.  

Marion Dudley was 20 years old at the time of the crime; he had no 
prior record.  Dudley had not been educated beyond tenth grade.  
Therefore Dudley may have been particularly susceptible to the 
pressure to become involved in drugs.  Furthermore, Dudley is a 
reasonable candidate for a life sentence.  He is young and so may 
perhaps be rehabilitated.  Alive, in prison and rehabilitated, Dudley 
may begin to be an asset in the community by talking to other at-risk 
youth.  There is no way to know what such a young man could still do, 
even while serving a life sentence.  

The death penalty is a cruel, inhuman, and unusual punishment.  
Evidence of the effectiveness of the death penalty as a means of 
deterrence is inconclusive at best.  Finally the death penalty is an 
arbitrary and racially discriminate punishment that cannot be 
reversed or amended.  The execution of Dudley will not remedy the 
tragic loss of life on June 20, 1992.  Instead another family will 
lose a loved one.  

Please write Gov. Rick Perry requesting that he stop the execution of 
Marion Dudley.


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