Today and Tuesday, PLEASE call Tx. Gov. Perry and TBPP re:

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an immediate stay of execution, and Clemency, for Mr. Reginald Blanton

i have just called and they were very nice to me.

from the action alert:

Can you please make one phone call to governor perry today and/or Tuesday? And one phone call to the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles?

Hello everyone, Mr. Reginald Blanton, another innocent African-American on Texas death row is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday. I am asking if you will please call Governor Perry today and/or Tuesday and ask him to stop the execution of Reginald Blanton, an innocent man scheduled for execution on Tuesday October 27th.

One phone call will make a difference and it will only take one minute of your time; I am attaching a bit of info on Reginald’s case for you to read. I hope you can help us. Thank you so much!

Information and Referral Hotline: [phone]

Citizen's Opinion Hotline: [phone]

Information and Referral and Opinion Hotline: [phone]

(office hours are 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. CST)

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Board of Pardons and Paroles, Clemency Section:

Phone [phone], Fax [phone]

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Reginald’s case, like many other Texas death row cases, is riddled with injustices. He was convicted based on coerced testimony with no physical evidence; his court appointed attorney did not provide adequate defense; he was convicted by an all-white jury and subjected to a jury shuffle which purposefully excluded African-American jurors. Reginald has an execution date of October 27th, but with enough public outcry and pressure, we can save his life!

Reginald’s case is important not just because he is innocent; not just because the death penalty targets people of color and the poor. Reginald is also an activist and a leader on death row. He helped found the DRIVE Movement (www.drivemovement. org) which has held numerous hunger strikes and protests on death row. He is an inspiration to both death row inmates and human rights activists.

Now is the time to put the pressure on. The Texas Death Penalty and Rick Perry, in particular, have come under public scrutiny because of the 2004 execution of Cameron Todd Willingham. Willingham was executed for a fire that killed three of his children. The Texas Forensic Science Commission discovered that the fire was accidental, making Cameron Todd Willingham INNOCENT. Please! We must not let Texas kill another innocent man!

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Thank you!

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1. Important piece: "4 Prisoners... Who Very Well May Be Innocent"

http://www.alternet.org/rights/143499/4_prisoners_facing_executions_or_serving_extreme_jail_sentences_who_very_well_may_be_innocent/

4 Prisoners Facing Executions or Serving Extreme Jail Sentences Who Very Well May Be Innocent
By Liliana Segura
October 26, 2009

The tragic unraveling of the case against Cameron Todd Willingham -- the Texas man executed in 2004 for killing his own daughters by supposedly setting fire to his house -- seems to have crossed a major threshold in the debate over the death penalty in the past several weeks. For the first time in recent memory, there is devastating proof that an innocent man was put to death in this country.

Such a revelation, one might think, would give pause to even the most enthusiastic death penalty supporter. Yet Texas Governor Rick Perry, who has signed off on more than 200 executions, including Willingham's, is only focused on protecting his political career. The governor, who faces a hotly contested primary race against Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchinson next year, is going to great lengths to cover up evidence of Willingham's innocence -- particularly proof that he had this evidence in his hands before he signed off on his murder. At the same time, he continues to defend the death penalty in Texas as perfectly fine: "Our process works and I don’t see anything out there that would merit calling for a moratorium on the Texas death penalty,” he said last week.

Meanwhile, Texas is gearing up to execute another prisoner tomorrow, a man named Reginald Blanton, who has a very strong innocence claim of his own. (Read about his case here:
http://www.alternet.org/rights/143417/innocent_until_proven_dead:_will_texas_execute_another_innocent_man/ )

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peace

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2. thank you so much for the recommends!! please call and

spread the word!!


peace and solidarity

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3. thank you all who rec'ed and called. reggie was killed by texas

tonight.

rest in peace, reg


peace, all