Ramon Hernandez Preston Hughes
HUNTSVILLE, Tex. -- Texas has chosen the week before Thanksgiving to execute two men back-to-back.
Execution Watch will provide coverage Wednesday if the state follows through with its plan to put Ramon Hernandez to death, and Thursday if it kills Preston Hughes as scheduled. Previews of both shows are below.
Due to fundraising on KPFT's HD1, the shows will air locally on HD3. As always, they may be heard online worldwide at http://executionwatch.org > Listen.
RADIO SHOW PREVIEW #1
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Wed., Nov. 14, 2012, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT FM Houston 90.1, and Online...
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
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TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:
RAMON HERNANDEZ, One of two men sentenced to death for a 2002 murder in San Antonio. The victim was abducted, robbed and sexually assaulted. Co-defendant Santos Minjarez cheated the death gurney by dying in custody Jan. 14, 2012, from septic shock and multiple organ failure. Background: www.executionwatch.org > Backpage on Hernandez.
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: DR. ROBERT CHASE, The public historian at the Avery Research Center for African American History and Culture at the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He is the author of, Civil Rights on the Cell Block: Race, Reform, and Violence in Texas Prisons and the Nation, 1945-1990, a history of the system's changing face and brutality. avery.cofc.edu
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
Tomorrow, Texas plans to kill PRESTON HUGHES. Unless he gets a stay, we will broadcast.
PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.
STUDIO ENGINEER: Doyle.
THEME: By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster International, myspace.com/shemonster
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RADIO SHOW PREVIEW #2
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Thurs., Nov. 15, 2012, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT FM Houston 90.1, HD3, and Online...
http://executionwatch.org > Listen
Join the discussion on Facebook: Execution Watch
TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:
PRESTON HUGHES, sent to death row more than 23 years ago following his conviction in the murders of a Houston teenage girl and oddler. Hughes has maintained his innocence. Supporters cite numerous problems with the case against him, including a confession they say was coerced by police. Background: www.executionwatch.org > Backpage on Hughes.
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: JEFF BLACKBURN, founder of and chief counsel to the Innocence Project of Texas. He has received many honors for his civil rights work, including being named Texas Criminal Defense Lawyer of the Year. Some of his most high-profile cases have included Tim Cole and the Tulia defendants. www.ipoftexas.org
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 Jan. 29, Texas plans to kill KIMBERLY McCARTHY. Unless she gets a stay, Execution Watch will broadcast.
PRODUCER: Elizabeth, eliza.tx.usa @gmail.com.
STUDIO ENGINEER: Doyle.
THEME: By Victoria Panetti, SheMonster International, myspace.com/shemonster
