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Posted by Damian Frances Newton, a poor African-American woman unable to defend herself, who lost her family to violent death, has now spent seventeen years in prison on a conviction unsupportable in law and fact. Evidence not presented at trial, but now known to have existed, would have caused an acquittal. Her trial attorney was not competent and can no longer appear in death cases, but too late for her. A person of financial means would never have been convicted and probably never even tried in such a case. I have just sent messages to Texas Governor Perry, President Bush, the Texas congressional delegation and my congressional delegation saying "STOP THE EXECUTION OF FRANCES NEWTON NOW!" Please take the time to do the same by clicking on the link at the bottom of this email message. Thanks! - D
Link: http://www.freefrances.org/
on 9/14/2005, 12:59 pm
192.135.209.8
Tonight, September 14th, Frances Newton is scheduled to become the first African American woman to be executed in Texas in modern history. 
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