Monday, July 29, 2013

Execution Watch: Douglas Feldman, July 31

Douglas Feldman


By ExecutionWatch.org
HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Prison officials are preparing for the execution Wednesday of Douglas Feldman, a Dallas-area financial analyst who argued on appeal that his court-appointed attorneys were ineffective because they failed to give the jury evidence of his bipolar disorder.

Unless Feldman receives a stay, Execution Watch will provide live radio coverage, background and commentary on the state killing. Updates in the days and hours leading up to the execution may be accessed by Liking the Execution Watch Facebook page.

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Wednesday, 31 July 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and Online...


TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:
DOUGLAS FELDMAN, 55, convicted of shooting to death two truck drivers in separate road-rage incidents in 1998. A federal appeals court in September rejected Feldman's appeal. He argued that qualified jurors had been improperly excluded from the jury pool, his attorney failed to present readily available evidence of his bipolar disorder, and the trial judge wrongly did not let jurors consider a lesser charge of murder, which would have spared his life.


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: PROF. FRANKLIN ZIMRING, William G. Simon Professor of Law and Wolfen Distinguished Scholar, University of California-Berkeley School of Law. In a recently published essay, “The Death Penalty’s Dirty Little Secret,” he decried the perverse incentive that Texas and other death-penalty states have to appoint less-than-adequate counsel for the nearly invariably poor defendants charged with capital crimes. www.law.berkeley.edu.

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 Sept. 19, Texas plans to kill ROBERT GARZA. If it does, Execution Watch will air coverage.

PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & STUDIO ENGINEER: Otis Maclay.
THEME:  By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster International, myspace.com/shemonster.

Sunday, July 14, 2013

Execution Watch: John Quintanilla Jr. 7/16 & Vaughn Ross 7/18


John Quintanilla Jr.

Vaughn Ross

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The Lone Star State plans to carry out executions No. 501 and No. 502 this week. Barring stays, Execution Watch will air Tuesday and Thursday, carrying live coverage and commentary for each.

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Tuesday, 16 June 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and Online...
Join the discussion on Facebook: Execution Watch

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:
JOHN QUINTANILLA JR., convicted in a 2002 robbery in Victoria that turned deadly,  He allegedly entered an amusement arcade with fall partner Jeffrey Bibb, demanded cash from a worker and ordered customers to lie on the floor. The murder victim, a former sheriff's deputy, was shot three times when he stood up and grabbed Quintanilla's rifle. Bibb and Quintanilla were charged with capital murder. Bibb received a lengthy prison sentence. Quintanilla’s execution would be the 501st 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: To Be Announced.

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 Thursday, Texas plans to kill VAUGHN ROSS.  If it does, Execution Watch will air.

PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & STUDIO ENGINEER: Otis Maclay.
THEME:  By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster International, myspace.com/shemonster

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RADIO SHOW PREVIEW
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Thursday, 18 June 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and Online...
Join the discussion on Facebook: Execution Watch

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:
VAUGHN ROSS, A former architecture student at Texas Tech. He was condemned in the 2001 murders of an 18-year-old woman with whom he was feuding and a Texas Tech associate dean who happened to be with her. Ross's attorneys argued that police contaminated DNA testing by mishandling it and suggested the slayings stemmed from Birdsall's visits to "a high-crime area" to patronize prostitutes. Family members of the victims said the death sentence brought them little peace. Family members included Birdsall's son, Nat, who opposes the death penalty and said his father did, too. Ross's execution would be No. 502 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: VAUGHN ROSS, the condemned man, who granted an interview to Execution Watch several weeks before his scheduled execution. His unedited interview will air in its entirety.

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 July 31, Texas plans to kill DOUGLAS FELDMAN.  If it does, Execution Watch will air.

PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.
TECHNICAL DIRECTOR & STUDIO ENGINEER: Otis Maclay.
THEME:  By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster International, myspace.com/shemonster