Tuesday, April 23, 2013

Execution Watch: Richard Cobb, April 25

Richard Cobb


HUNTSVILLE - Texas is preparing to put to death Richard Cobb Thursday in what would be the state's 496th execution of the modern death-penalty era.

No other state has put more citizens to death. The closest, Virginia, has executed 110.

RADIO SHOW PREVIEW
EXECUTION WATCH
Unless a stay is issued, we'll broadcast live:
Thurs, 25 April 2013, 6-7 PM Central Time
KPFT FM Houston 90.1 in the Houston area and Online...
Join the discussion on Facebook: Execution Watch


TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:
RICHARD COBB, one of two men condemned in a 2002 robbery-slaying in the small, East Texas town of Ruskin. He and Beunka Adams, who was executed April 26, 2012, were convicted of forcing three convenience-store workers into a car, driving them to a field, raping one of the women, and shooting all three with a shotgun. One worker, a mentally disabled man, died. The women survived by playing dead.  


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: SUSAN ORLANSKY. This Anchorage, Alaska, attorney has traveled back and forth to Texas for the past decade as part of her firm’s pro bono representation of death-row prisoner Elroy Chester, slated for execution June 12. www.fozenlaw.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, www.tcadp.org.


NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION
On May 7, Texas plans to kill CARROLL JOE PARR.. 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




Sunday, April 14, 2013

Execution Watch: Ronnie Paul Threadgill 4/16


Ronnie Paul Threadgill

HUNTSVILLE - Texas is preparing to carry out its 495th execution of the modern era Tuesday, the date for Ronnie Paul Threadgill.

The Lone Star State is fast approaching its 500th execution. No other state is even close. Since the Supreme Court reinstated the death penalty in 1976, second-place Virginia has executed 110.

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

TEXAS PLANS TO EXECUTE:
RONNIE PAUL THREADGILL, sentenced to death for a 2001 slaying outside a Navarro County nightclub in which a 17-year-old boy was fatally wounded when two shots were fired into a car. The U.S. Supreme Court declined in 2012 to review the case. Threadgill's appeal asserted that his lawyers should have negotiated for a felony murder charge instead of capital murder. His would be the 495th execution in Texas during the modern era, in which nearly 40 percent of all U.S. executions have been carried out by Texas.

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: ANTHONY GRAVES, wrongly imprisoned in 1992 for murders he didn't commit and freed just 2-1/2 years ago. He is now a professional motivational speaker, legal educator and lobbyist for bills to reduce wrongful convictions. www.anthonybelieves.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, www.tcadp.org.

NEXT SCHEDULED EXECUTION
On April 24, Texas plans to kill ELROY CHESTER. 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