Execution Watch: Kimberly McCarthy Jan. 29

Kimberly McCarthy faces execution Tuesday

Tuesday is Jan. 29. It's also the day Texas plans to execute KIMBERLY McCARTHY, a former crack addict who was sentenced to death for the 1997 slaying of an elderly woman during a home robbery near Dallas.

 

Unless a stay is issued, Execution Watch will broadcast live coverage of McCarthy's execution, starting at 6 p.m. Central Time, on KPFT FM Houston 90.1 HD3 and online at http://executionwatch > Listen.

 

McCarthy, 51, is the former wife of New Black Panther Party founder Aaron Michaels, with whom she has a son. 

 

She is one of 10 women on Texas death row. Since the date was announced Sept. 12, she has been the only one with a scheduled execution. 

 

Three of the nearly 500 people Texas has put to death in the modern era have been women. Further background is at  www.executionwatch.org > Backpage on McCarthy.

SHOW LINEUP
Host: RAY HILL, an ex-convict and activist who founded -- and hosted for 30 years -- The Prison Show on KPFT. His HMS radio show broadcasts each Wednesday at 2 p.m.: 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: T.B.A.;  see the Execution Watch Facebook page for updates on the interview.

Reporter, Outside the Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, founder and leader, 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 Feb. 21, Texas plans to kill CARL HENRY BLUE. If it does, Execution Watch will broadcast.

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

Two days, two executions, this is Texas

Michael Perry, slated for execution July 1

By Elizabeth Stein
Producer, Execution Watch


Texas is scheduled this week to execute two people in as many days, solidifying its reputation as death penalty capital of the Western world. Execution Watch will broadcast during each one
 
RADIO PROGRAM PREVIEW

EXECUTION WATCH
June 30, 2010, Wed., 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. CT, click on “Listen.”

SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED

   JONATHAN GREEN, 42, was convicted and sentenced to death in 2002 by an all-white jury in the murder of a 12-year-old white girl in Dobbin, Texas, a small town 60 miles northwest of Houston. Green, who is African-American, suffers from mental illness, is functionally illiterate and is probably mentally retarded, his attorneys say. (More at www.executionwatch. org > Backpage on Jonathan Green.)

SHOW LINEUP
  Host: OTIS MACLAY is a broadcast veteran who came to Houston from KPFT’s sister station in New York, WBAI. A former program director of KPFT, he often co-hosts The Monitor on Monday nights. He is also technical director of Execution Watch.

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

  Featured Interview: DANIEL P. WIRT, MD, is a Houston-area physician who has been active for many years in efforts to abolish the death penalty and to improve health care for Americans. His political essays have appeared in CounterPunch. Dr. Wirt will give the first of a two-part interview on how one physician views lethal injection.

  Reporter, Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, a leader of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, which may be followed on Facebook.

  Reporter, Vigil: TBA.

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION
  On July 1, Texas plans to execute MICHAEL PERRY. Execution Watch will broadcast. Details at www.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

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RADIO PROGRAM PREVIEW
 
EXECUTION WATCH
July 1, 2010, Wed., 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. CT, click on “Listen.”

SCHEDULED TO BE EXECUTED
  MICHAEL PERRY, 28, confessed to authorities that he killed 50-year-old Sandra Stotler in her home near Conroe in 2001, but he later recanted. Perry claims he was in jail on an unrelated traffic charge during the time the state's medical examiner pinpointed as the time of death. He blames co-defendant Jason Aaron Burkett for the shotgun slayings of Stotler and later Stotler's son, Adam, and Adam's friend, Jeremy Richardson. (More at www.executionwatch. org > Backpage on Michael Perry.)

SHOW LINEUP
  Host: OTIS MACLAY is a broadcast veteran who came to Houston from KPFT’s sister station in New York, WBAI. A former program director of KPFT, he often co-hosts The Monitor on Monday nights. He is also technical director of Execution Watch.
 
  Legal Analyst:  ROBERT ROSENBERG, a Houston attorney, has been handling death row cases since the 1980s. As a civil rights lawyer, he has been tapped by the American Civil Liberties Union to represent clients.

  Featured Interview: DANIEL P. WIRT, MD, is a Houston-area physician who has been active for many years in efforts to abolish the death penalty and to improve health care for Americans. His political essays have appeared in CounterPunch. Dr. Wirt will give the second of two interviews on how one physician views lethal injection.

  Reporter, Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, a leader of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement, which may be followed on Facebook.

   Reporter, Vigil: TBA.

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECTION
  On July 20, Texas plans to execute DERRICK JACKSON. Execution Watch will broadcast. Details: www.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

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Countdown to 400 // Harris Co. 100

Impending Texas Execution List:

Name Date Texas # since 1982 # under Gov. Perry

Gilberto Reyes June 21 396 157
Patrick Knight June 26 397 158
Rolando Ruiz July 10 398 159
Lonnie Johnson July 24 399 160
Kenneth Parr August 15 400 161
Johnny Conner August 22 401 162
Daroyce Mosley August 28 402 163
John Amador August 29 403 164
Kenneth Foster August 30 404 165
Tony Roach September 5 405 166
Clifford Kimmel September 20 406 167
Heliberto Chi October 3 407 168

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NOTE:-----IMPENDING 100th execution from HARRIS COUNTY (HOUSTON)
Lonnie Johnson is now scheduled to become the 100th person put to death
after being sentenced in Harris County if he is executed on July 24.

Source: Rick Halperin