Execution Watch: Tommy Sells, April 3

Tommy Sells

HUNTSVILLE, Texas -- Tommy Sells is one of two death-row prisoners who prevailed recently in a lawsuit demanding that Texas prison officials disclose the source of the drugs used in lethal injections.

But the court decision has not stopped the wheels of death from turning. Sells is slated for execution Thursday.

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW

Execution Watch

Thursday, April 3, 2014, 6-7 PM Central Time

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

KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and

Online, http://executionwatch.org > Listen

Updates on Facebook: Execution Watch

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:

TOMMY SELLS, condemned in the New Year’s Eve 1999 slaying of a teenage girl in Del  Rio in 1999. When Del Rio police questioned Sells about the killing, he took responsibility for it and dozens of slayings around the country. His appellate lawyers said detectives pressured him into making far-fetched assertions about being a serial killer. His attorneys also said counsel failed to represent Sells effectively, both at trial and early in the appeals process.

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 Wednesdays, 2 PM CT, at hmsnetradio.org.

Legal Analyst: JIM SKELTON, a legal educator, retired attorney and native Texan who has seen capital trials as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Also, Houston criminal defense attorneys SUSAN ASHLEY, LARRY DOUGLAS, MICHAEL GILLESPIE & JACK LEE.

Featured Interview: TOMMY SELLS, whose recent death-row interview with Execution Watch will be broadcast in full.

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 April 9, Texas plans to kill Mexican national RAMIRO HERNANDEZ. If it does, Execution Watch will air.

PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa [at] gmail.com.

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Otis Maclay.

VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHER: Mark Pirtle.

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

Execution Watch: Anthony Doyle, March 27

Anthony Doyle

By Execution Watch

HUNTSVILLE, TEXAS - For the second time in as many weeks, Texas is preparing to execute a black man who was a teenager when he allegedly committed murder.

Anthony Doyle is petitioning the U.S. Supreme Court to stay his execution, scheduled for Thursday. If the high court rules against him, Execution Watch will provide live coverage of the state-sanctioned killing.

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW

EXECUTION WATCH

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

Thursday, March 27, 2014, 6-7 PM Central Time

KPFT FM 90.1, Houston, and Online:

http://executionwatch.org > Listen

Updates on Facebook: Execution Watch

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:

ANTHONY DOYLE, convicted of beating to death a doughnut delivery woman in suburban Dallas when he was 18 years old. The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals turned down his appeal in July, rejecting arguments that his confession was involuntary, his legal help at trial was deficient, and his sentence was unconstitutional.

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 Wednesdays at 2 PM CT.: hmsnetradio.org.

Legal Analyst: JIM SKELTON, a legal educator, retired attorney and native Texan who has seen capital trials as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Also, Houston criminal defense attorneys SUSAN ASHLEY, LARRY DOUGLAS, MICHAEL GILLESPIE & JACK LEE.

Featured Interview: TBA.

Reporter, Outside the Death House, Huntsville: DR. DENNIS LONGMIRE, Professor of Criminal Justice, Sam Houston State University.

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

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION

On April 3, Texas plans to kill TOMMY SELLS. If it does, Execution Watch will air.

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

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Otis Maclay.

VIDEO PHOTOGRAPHER: Mark Pirtle

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

Execution Watch: Ray Jasper, March 19

Ray Jasper

By Execution Watch

HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Ray Jasper, who gained international noteriety by writing to gawker.com with his "final statement on earth," is slated to be executed Wednesday.

The radio show Execution Watch will provide live coverage of his execution and an analysis of his case.

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW

EXECUTION WATCH

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

Wednesday, March 19, 2014, 6-7 PM Central Time

KPFT FM Houston 90.1 and Online...

Go to: http://executionwatch.org > Listen

Updates and discussion on Facebook: Execution Watch

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:

RAY JASPER, a rap artist born in the Netherlands who was 18 when police say he and two others committed a 1998 robbery in San Antonio in which the owner of a recording studio was killed. The other defendants received life sentences. Jasper's appellate attorneys argued that a potential juror at his trial was excluded improperly because he, like Jasper, was black. They also said Jasper had inadequate legal help at trial.

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 Wednesdays at 2 PM CT.: hmsnetradio.org.

Legal Analyst: JIM SKELTON, a legal educator, retired attorney and native Texan who has seen capital trials as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Also, Houston criminal defense attorneys SUSAN ASHLEY, LARRY DOUGLAS, MICHAEL GILLESPIE & JACK LEE.

Featured Interview: TBA.

Reporter, Outside the Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, 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 March 27, Texas plans to kill ANTHONY DOYLE. If it does, Execution Watch will air.

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

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Otis Maclay.

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

Louis Castro Perez denied appeal by 5th Circuit Court

Justice for Louis Castro Perez!

The 5th Circuit Court has released an opinion denying relief to innocent Texas death row prisoner Louis Castro Perez. Many folks will be familiar with the case through Louis' sister, Delia Perez Meyer, who sits on the board of the Campaign to End the Death Penalty.

Delia has been a tireless advocate for her brother and all death row prisoners. She has travelled the world in the fight to win death penalty abolition. For some time, Louis has been fighting to win DNA testing of several items found at the crime scene that contain the DNA of an unknown person, including on a bloody towel wrapped around a knife found at the crime scene! For more facts about the physical evidence and issue in this case please check out: http://nodeathpenalty.org/get-the-facts/justice-louis-castro-perez-test-all-dna

The latest appeal for Louis was based on an issue of ineffective assistance of counsel. The 5th Circuit had previously rendered a judgement denying Louis relief. His lawyer then had 30 days to respond, however, she failed to respond to a 30 day deadline for filing a new motion with the district court. In fact this attorney received notification of the deadline and without alerting Louis or the other consulting attorney on the case, she decided on her own not to respond to the motion, effectively abandoning her client.

In March of 2012, after being made aware of the error, the court granted a motion to allow Louis to reenter the appeal that his lawyer should have made. However, late last week the 5th Circuit vacated that order, and has decided to let the original judgement of denial of relief stand. 

 

You can read the whole transcript of the judgement here.

We will continue to fight for justice for Louis Castro Perez and against any execution date!

The full judgement from the 5th Circuit can be read here.

Execution Watch: Suzanne Basso, Feb. 5

Suzanne Basso

By Execution Watch
HUNTSVILLE, Texas - Suzanne Basso is confined to a wheelchair. On Wednesday, Texas plans to kill her as one of six people convicted in the slaying of a man some 15 years ago. If the state follows through with its plan, Execution Watch will provide live coverage and commentary

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW

Unless a stay is issued, Execution Watch will broadcast live:

Wednesday, 5 February 2014, 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:
SUZANNE BASSO, convicted along with five others in the 1998 beating death of a developmentally disabled man near Houston. A federal judge joined Texas' top criminal court Monday in refusing to stop the execution, rejecting evidence that the 59-year-old, wheelchair-bound woman suffers from mental incompetence that would make her execution unconstitutional. Basso would be the 14th woman executed in the United States and the 5th in Texas since the U.S. Supreme Court in 1976 allowed capital punishment to resume.
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 Wednesdays at 2 PM CT.: hmsnetradio.org.
 

Legal Analyst: JIM SKELTON, a legal educator, retired attorney and native Texan who has seen capital trials as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Also, Houston criminal defense attorneys SUSAN ASHLEY, LARRY DOUGLAS, MICHAEL GILLESPIE & JACK LEE.

Featured Interview: TBA.

Reporter, Outside the Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, 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 March 19, Texas plans to kill RAY JASPER. If it does, Execution Watch will air.

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

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Otis Maclay.

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

 

Execution Wathc: Tamayo-Prevu

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW

EXECUTION WATCH

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

Wednesday, 22 January 2014, 6-7 PM Central Time

KPFT FM Houston 90.1 HD3 and Online...

http://executionwatch.org > Listen

Updates and discussion on Facebook: Execution Watch

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:

EDGAR TAMAYO, A Mexican national convicted in the 1994 shooting death of a Houston police officer who had been flagged down outside a  nightclub by a man Tamayo had robbed minutes earlier. Officer Guy Gaddis arrested and handcuffed Tamayo and was driving him to the lockup when Tamayo pulled a pistol that had gone undetected. He shot Gaddis, fled, and was arrested nearby. Mexico has pleaded with Texas to delay Tamayo’s execution, saying an international treaty was violated when officers did not inform Tamayo of his right to contact the Mexican consulate and authorities failed to notify Mexico of the arrest.

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 Wednesdays at 2 PM CT.: hmsnetradio.org.

Legal Analyst: JIM SKELTON, a legal educator, retired attorney and native Texan who has seen capital trials as a prosecutor and a defense attorney. Also, Houston criminal defense attorneys SUSAN ASHLEY, LARRY DOUGLAS, MICHAEL GILLESPIE & JACK LEE.

Featured Interview: TBA.

Reporter, Outside the Death House, Huntsville: GLORIA RUBAC, 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 Feb. 5, Texas plans to kill SUZANNE BASSO. If it does, Execution Watch will air.

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

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR: Otis Maclay.

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