Execution Watch: Jerry Martin, December. 3

Jerry Martin

By Execution Watch
The final execution of 2013 in Texas will take place Tuesday when Jerry Martin, a volunteer, is put to death.  Execution Watch will broadcast live coverage and analysis.

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW

EXECUTION WATCH

Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:

Tuesday, 3 December 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time

KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and Online...

http://executionwatch.org > Listen

Updates and discussion on Facebook: Execution Watch

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:

JERRY MARTIN, condemned in connection with the 2007 death of a guard at a state prison in Huntsville during an escape attempt. Martin was serving a 50-year term for attempted capital murder. He was convicted of stealing a truck and hitting a horse being ridden by another guard, who fell to her death. His execution date was set when he gave up his appeals. It will be the 16th and final execution of the year in Texas. The trial of Martin’s co-defendant, John Falk Jr., ended in a mistrial last January. Prosecutors were seeking a retrial.

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: DR. JOEL ZIVOT, medical director, Cardio-Thoracic Intensive Care Unit, Emory University Hospital-Midtown, Atlanta, and author of a journal article entitled, “The absence of cruelty is not the presence of humanness: physicians and the death penalty in the U.S.”

Reporter, Outside the Death House, Huntsville: TBA.

Reporter, Vigil, Houston: DAVE ATWOOD, founder and former board member, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, www.tcadp.org.

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION

On Jan. 16, Texas plans to kill EDGARDO CUBAS. If it does, Execution Watch will air coverage.

PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Otis Maclay.

THEME:  By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster International, myspace.com/shemonster.

Execution Watch: Carl Henry Blue 2/21

Carl Henry Blue

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Prison workers are preparing for Thursday's scheduled execution of Carl Henry Blue. 

Barring a stay, his will be the 493rd execution during the modern era for Texas, where more than one-third of U.S. executions occur. 

The radio program Execution Watch will carry coverage and commentary on the state killing, including an interview with politically engaged actor Peter Coyote. 

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW
Thurs, 21 Feb 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and Online...
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
Join the discussion on Facebook: Execution Watch

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:
CARL HENRY BLUE, convicted of killing his ex-girlfriend in 1995 by burning her alive at her apartment in College Station. Blue’s attorneys argued unsuccessfully that he was mentally impaired and therefore ineligible for the death penalty. He acknowledged drinking and smoking crack the night of the slaying. Background: www.executionwatch.org > Backpage on Blue.

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 and MICHAEL GILLESPIE.

Featured Interview: PETER COYOTE, an actor with more than 100 films to his credit, Emmy Award-winning narrator of more than 165 documentaries, and author of the memoir, Sleeping Where I Fall." He sat with Host Ray Hill at KPFT recently to discuss his views on the death penalty and political engagement. www.petercoyote.com.

Reporter, Outside the Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, member, Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, abolitionmovement.org.

Reporter, Vigil, Houston: DAVE ATWOOD, founder and former board member, Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, ww.tcadp.org.

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION
On April 3, Texas plans to kill KIMBERLY McCARTHY. If it does, Execution Watch will air.

PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.
STUDIO ENGINEERS: Doyle, Mike Lewis.
THEME:  By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster International, myspace.com/shemonster

Larry Wooten to die despite retardation claim

Larry Wooten

By Elizabeth Stein
Producer, Execution Watch

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- The state will end a more than two-month hiatus in executions Thursday by putting to death Larry Wooten of Paris, Texas, whose claim of mental retardation was credible enough for the state Court of Criminal Appeals to grant him a retrial.

Execution Watch  will broadcast the details live at 6 p.m. Central Time on KPFT HD2-Houston, streaming at executionwatch.org, with reporter Gloria Rubac outside the death house, legal analyst Jim Skelton in the studio and a featured interview with Scott Cobb, an organizer of the upcoming March to Abolish the Death Penalty.

RADIO PROGRAM PREVIEW

EXECUTION WATCH
Oct. 21, 2010, Thurs., 6-7 pm Central Time
Listen on KPFT's HD2 channel, 90.1 FM Houston, or …
Go to www.executionwatch. org at 6 p.m. Central Time, click on “Listen.”

SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED
   LARRY WOOTEN was sentenced to death in 1998 at age 39 following his conviction in the robbery-murders of an elderly couple in Paris, Texas, who’d hired him as a handyman. The state's highest criminal court in 2004 granted him a new trial on his claim that could not be executed because he is mentally retarded. The trial, held in the same Lamar County District Court where he had been convicted and sentenced to death, found that he was not retarded. The last execution in Texas was Aug. 17. (More at www.executionwatch.org > Backpage on Larry Wooten.)

SHOW LINEUP
  Host: RAY HILL is an ex-convict who has lost many friends to the death chamber. His civil rights activism has included shepherding several cases to the U.S. Supreme Court. He is also host-founder of the Prison Show, now in its 31st year, (www.theprisonshow.org.)

  Legal Analyst: JIM SKELTON, a retired attorney and native Texan, contributes to the profession by teaching weekly continuing education seminars in appellate law. He has worked as a prosecutor and as a defense attorney in capital cases.

  Featured Interview: SCOTT COBB, president of the Texas Moratorium Network and an organizer of the 11th Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty, planned for Oct. 30 in Austin. His anti-death penalty activism has included organizing lobby days, conducting grassroots training, drafting anti-death penalty legislation and putting together numerous other protests. He has lobbied every Texas legislature since 2001 to declare a moratorium on the death penalty. (More at http://marchforabolition.org)

  Reporter, Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, a leader of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, she is also an organizer of the Annual March to Abolish the Death Penalty (more at http://abolitionmovement.org).

  Reporter, Vigil:  TBA.

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION
  Dec. 1 – six days after Thanksgiving, two weeks before Christmas -- Texas is to execute STEVEN STALEY. Execution Watch will broadcast (see http://executionwatch.org).

  PRODUCER: Elizabeth Ann Stein, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.
  TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Otis Maclay, omaclay @gmail.com.
  THEME MUSIC: “Death by Texas,” Victoria Panetti, www.myspace. com/shemonster