NCADP Action Alert: Texas and Kentucky Need Your Help Today!

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Action Alert: Kentucky and Texas Need Your Help Today!
Kentucky Threatens First in Five Years
Date Can Be Blocked if you ACT NOW
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Kentucky could soon be on the verge of carrying out its third execution
in the past quarter of a century and its first since 1999. The attorney
general has requested a Nov. 16 date for Thomas C. Bowling.

Bowling's case is permeated with problems -- including his possible
innocence, his low IQ and allegations of prosecutorial misconduct. With
the tremendous doubt surrounding Bowling's case, it is unfathomable to
execute this man.

There is an unusual opportunity to block this execution by persuading
the Gov. Fletcher /not to grant the A.G.'s request for an execution
date/. Immediate action before the Governor acts could make the
difference between life and death for Thomas Bowling.

/*Ask Gov. Fletcher not to authorize Bowling's execution at
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=213



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*Moratorium Push Gains Strength as Crime Lab Controversy Engulfs Texas*

Many prominent pro-death penalty Texans - including former Gov. Mark
White, Houston Police Chief and state senator John Whitmire - have
called for a moratorium on executions out of Harris County.

Why? Because of what one newspaper called the "wretched work of the
Houston Police Department's crime lab."

Two years after it suspended DNA testing revealed to be systematically
corrupted, the lab has been shown to have erred in tagging and storing
evidence in 8,000 criminal cases, including a number of death penalty
cases.

There is no alternative but to halt executions immediately pending
further study.

"There's no harm in waiting, and there could be enormous wrong in not
waiting," wrote the Austin American-Statesman. "No one should be
executed for a crime he or she did not commit. Not even in Texas."

Nevertheless, Texas has six executions scheduled before the end of
November, four of them emerging from Houston.

/*Ask Gov. Rick Perry to impose a moratorium at
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizations/ncadp/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=212



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