Elroy Chester
HUNTSVILLE - Texas plans to put to death Elroy Chester III Wednesday. Execution Watch will provide live radio coverage and commentary on the state killing, Texas' 499th of the modern death-penalty era.
RADIO
SHOW PREVIEW
EXECUTION
WATCH
Unless
a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Wednesday,
12 June 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT
FM Houston 90.1 and Online...
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TEXAS
PLANS TO EXECUTE:
ELROY
CHESTER III,
who pleaded guilty to shooting to death an off-duty firefighter in Port
Arthur when he interrupted the burglary Chester was committing. Chester’s
attorneys argued on appeal that he is ineligible for execution because he is
mentally impaired, but a divided federal appeals court upheld the sentence.
Chester's previous execution date of April 24, 2013, was delayed by the
trial court in response to a motion he filed. Chester’s execution would be
the 499th in Texas in the modern death-penalty era.
SHOW
LINEUP
Host:
RAY
HILL,
an ex-convict and activist who founded -- and hosted for 30 years --
The
Prison Show
on KPFT. His internet radio show airs each Wednesday at 2 PM CT.:
hmsnetradio.org.
Legal
Analyst: JIM
SKELTON,
a legal educator, retired attorney and native Texan who has seen capital
trials from both the prosecution and defense tables. Joining him will be
Houston criminal defense attorneys SUSAN
ASHLEY,
LARRY
DOUGLAS,
MICHAEL
GILLESPIE
& JACK
LEE.
Featured
Interview: KATE
BLACK,
a Houston capital defense attorney who is representing death row prisoner
Duane Buck. Her client was condemned after a prosecution witness testified
that his blackness made him more dangerous. http://blacklawoffice.org
Reporter,
Outside the Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA
RUBAC,
member, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement,
www.abolitionmovement.org.
Reporter,
Vigil, Houston: DAVE
ATWOOD,
founder and former board member, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty,
www.tcadp.org.
NEXT
SCHEDULED EXECUTION
On
June 126, Texas plans to kill KIMBERLY
McCARTHY.
If it does, Execution
Watch
will air.
TECHNICAL
DIRECTOR & STUDIO ENGINEER: Otis Maclay.
THEME:
By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster
International,
myspace.com/shemonster
1 comment:
I hate to see the death penalty still being used but i suppose the punishment has to fit the crime.
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