Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Texas State Killings & Events Scheduled

November Scheduled Executions

November 6: Elkie Taylor - Executed
November 12: Goerge Whitaker III
November 13: Denard Manns
November 18: Eric Cathey
November 19: Rogelio Cannady
November 20: Robert Hudson

If all of the above inmates are executed, Texas will have executed 19 people from June 2008 through the end of November. 19 people in 6 months?

Attend a vigil in your city...(Also see Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Site - Go Here)

Contact your local State Senator and Representative about your opposition to the death penalty NOW.

(Note from blogger at the JOH weblog: If you are outside the state, you can still call Texas to register your protest! Go to the links lower right on this weblog for more information - especially check Death Pen News & Updates for Current Texas and other DP items)

IF you happen to be in Texas or know anyone who is - here is the schedule
Wednesday November 12, 2008 at 5:30pm and a few more...

Texas Capitol
Eleventh and Congress
Austin, Texas 78701

George Whitaker III is scheduled for execution on Nov 12, 2008.

Come to the Capitol in Austin or one of the protests sites in the list of cities below to protest the Texas death penalty every time there is a scheduled execution.

Statewide Execution Vigils

Huntsville - Corner of 12th Street and Avenue I (in front of the Walls Unit) at 5:00 p.m.

Austin - At the Governor's Mansion on the Lavaca St. side between 10th and 11th St. from 5:30 to 6:30 PM.

Beaumont - Diocese of Beaumont, Diocesan Pastoral Office, 703 Archie St. @ 4:00 p.m. on the day of an execution.

College Station - 5:30 to 6 PM, east of Texas A &M campus at the corner of Walton and Texas Ave. across the street from the main entrance.

Corpus Christi - at 6 PM in front of Incarnate Word Convent at 2910 Alameda Street

Dallas - 5:30 pm, at the SMU Women's Center, 3116 Fondren Drive

Houston - call Burnham Terrell, 713/921-0948 for location.

Lewisville - St. Philip the Apostle Catholic Church, 1897 W. Main Street. Peace & Justice Ministry conducts Vigils of Witness Against Capital Punishment at 6:00 pm on the day executions are scheduled in Texas.

McKinney - St. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Community located at 110 St. Gabriel Way. We gather the last Saturday of the month between 6:00 to 6:30 to pray for those men/women scheduled to be executed in the next month and to remember the victims, their families, and all lives touched, including us as a society.

San Antonio (Site 1) - Archdiocese of San Antonio, in the St. Joseph Chapel at the Chancery, 2718 W. Woodlawn Ave. (1 mile east of Bandera Rd.) at 11:30 a.m. on the day of execution. Broadcast on Catholic Television of San Antonio (Time-Warner cable channel 15) at 12:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. on the day of execution.

San Antonio (Site 2) - Main Plaza across from Bexar County Courthouse and San Fernando Cathedral - Noon

Spring - Prayer Vigil at 6 PM on evenings of executions at St Edward Catholic Community, 2601 Spring Stuebner Rd for the murder victim, for family and friends of the murder victim, the prison guards and correctional officers, for the family of the condemn man/woman, for the man/woman to be executed and to an end to the death penalty Also check any of the above groups to find other items in order to protest and vigil the following planned state killings of Eric Cathey and Robert Hudson

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