No government can be maintained without the principle of fear as well as of duty. Good men will obey the last, but bad ones the former only. TJ
oh bahh-ma, the sheeple are watching your ineptitude as well as your incompetence in putting the public's trust to the test of the peter principal, Sir...you have finally arrived at your own level. You have betrayed America, the world, your race, as well as the imperial sacred trust of the office. As one great man laminated........write us American citizens down as asses if we ever elect another puppet dictator(professional misrepresenter of this public trust) that has lost the last of the public's esteem. You are no better than a common thug. There is no moral difference between a suicide bomber and a signature drone strike. Come to think of this.......sitting in the ivory tower equates COWARDLINESS of your temperament....write me down as an ass for voting. kosmicdebris
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RACISM CLAIM AS 500TH TEXAS EXECUTION
NEARS
USA
Kimberly McCarthy (f)
In what would be the 500th execution in Texas since 1977, a 52-year-old woman, Kimberly McCarthy, is due to be put to death at 6pm on 26 June. Her lawyer is seeking a stay of execution from the courts, raising claims of racial discrimination in jury selection.
Kimberly McCarthy was sentenced to death in 1998 in Dallas County, Texas, for the murder of her 71-year-old neighbour Dorothy Booth, who was stabbed to death in her home in 1997. The conviction and death sentence were overturned in 2001 by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals because the trial judge had allowed the use of evidence that should not have been admitted. Kimberly McCarthy was retried in 2002 and again sentenced to death.
Kimberly McCarthy is black. Dorothy Booth was white. At the 2002 retrial, the jury consisted of 11 whites and one black. In a legal brief filed earlier this month in state court, Kimberly McCarthy's lawyer has sought a stay of execution in order that she can present evidence of racial discrimination by the prosecution during jury selection, and to challenge the failure of Kimberly McCarthy's previous lawyers to raise this claim at trial or on appeal.
The population of Dallas County is about 23
per cent black and 69 per cent white. At Kimberly McCarthy's 2002 trial
there were 64 prospective jurors in the pool for individual questioning,
of whom only four (six per cent) were black. Three of them were dismissed
by the prosecution. Under the 1986 US Supreme Court decision Batson v Kentucky,
prospective jurors can only be removed for "race neutral" reasons.
If the defence makes a prima facie case of discrimination by the prosecution,
the burden shifts to the state to provide race neutral explanations. Kimberly
McCarthy's trial lawyer did not object to the prosecutor's dismissals and
did not request a Batson hearing.
Kimberly McCarthy's current lawyer points
out that the "inexplicable" failure of defence counsel to object
to the state's dismissals means that the record is devoid of a Batson hearing,
including any race neutral reasons asserted by the prosecution or evidence
from the defence that such reasons were the pretext for racism. However
she argues that there is nevertheless evidence of race-based intent - firstly,
the history of racist jury selection tactics by prosecutors in Dallas County,
as the US Supreme Court found in 2005 (Miller-El v. Dretke); secondly,
the bare statistic that the prosecutors dismissed 75 per cent of the blacks
in the jury pool; and thirdly, evidence that they had asked different questions
of white and non-white prospective jurors, also found to be an issue in
the Miller-El case.
Not only had the trial lawyer not objected,
but neither had the state-appointed appeal lawyer (who reportedly visited
his client only once on death row in the 10 years he represented her) raised
the failure on appeal, causing it to be procedurally lost to judicial review.
The current lawyer is arguing that under a May 2013 Supreme Court ruling,
Kimberly McCarthy should be allowed to overcome this procedural bar and
her case allowed back into court.
Please write immediately in English or your own language:
* Recognizing the seriousness of the crime for which Kimberly McCarthy is under sentence of death;
* Expressing concern at the evidence of discriminatory jury selection and that no court has examined this as a result of the failures of state-appointed trial and appellate counsel;
* Calling on Governor Perry to stop this execution and support a moratorium on executions.
PLEASE SEND APPEALS BY FAX BEFORE 23.30 GMT ON 26 JUNE 2013 TO: (Time difference = GMT - 5 hrs / BST - 6 hrs)
| Governor Rick Perry, Austin, Texas, USA Fax: 001 512 463 1849 Salutation: Dear Governor | And copies to: Governor's Press office, Fax: 001 512-463-1847 Office of the General Counsel, Fax: 001 512-463-1932 |
Barbara J. Stephenson, Charge d'Affaires ad interim, Embassy of the United States of America, 24 Grosvenor Square, London W1K 6AH
Web: http://london.usembassy.gov/index.html
BACKGROUND INFORMATION:
In a capital trial in the USA, the jurors are "death qualified". At jury selection, the defence and prosecution will question the prospective jurors and have the right to exclude individuals, either for a stated reason (for cause) or without giving a reason (a peremptory challenge). Those citizens who would be "irrevocably committed" to vote against the death penalty can be excluded for cause by the prosecution, under a 1968 US Supreme Court ruling. In 1985, the Court expanded the class of potential jurors who could be dismissed for cause. Under the newer standard, a juror can be dismissed for cause if his or her feelings about the death penalty would "prevent or substantially impair the performance of his duties as a juror in accordance with his instructions and his oath". Research has shown that "death qualified" jurors are more pro-conviction than their excludable counterparts.
Meanwhile, the US Supreme Court's 1986 Batson v Kentucky ruling did not end discriminatory tactics by prosecutors during jury selection, as one of the Justices predicted at the time. The latter Justice said in another opinion in 1989 (on a Texas case) that "Batson's greatest flaw is its implicit assumption that courts are capable of detecting race-based challenges to Afro-American jurors... This flaw has rendered Batson ineffective against all but the most obvious examples of racial prejudice".
In its June 2005 Miller-El v. Dretke ruling,
in addition to finding that prosecutors at the 1986 Dallas County trial
of Thomas Miller-El had resorted to racially motivated peremptory strikes
against would-be black jurors, the Supreme Court pointed out that "if
anything more is need for an undeniable explanation of what was going on,
history supplies it". The Court pointed to "widely known evidence
of the general policy of the Dallas County District Attorney's Office to
exclude black [would-be jurors] at the time Miller-El's jury was selected",
and to a training manual for prosecutors that gave tips on excluding minorities
from juries. In August 2005, a study by the Dallas Morning News reported
that the county's prosecutors were still excluding blacks at more than
twice the rate that they were excluding eligible white would-be jurors
at capital trials.
Along with the recent brief alleging the discriminatory
use of peremptory strikes in the Kimberly McCarthy case, her lawyer has
filed a motion in the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals requesting that the
Presiding Judge and one of the other judges recuse themselves from the
case as they both served as prosecutors in Dallas County before being elected
to the court.
According to the main brief, the fact that
no court has ever considered the merits of the claims therein "is
not the result of Ms McCarthy's actions, but of the ineffectiveness of
trial and habeas counsel appointed by the State of Texas." The current
lawyer only became involved in the case in January 2013 when Kimberly McCarthy
was previously facing an execution date. Then, on 28 May 2013, the US Supreme
Court issued a 5-4 ruling (Trevino v. Thaler) recognizing a possible exception
to claims of inadequate legal representation in Texas capital cases being
denied judicial review under the procedural default doctrine. It did so
on the grounds that the design and operation of the Texas appeals process
might prevent death row prisoners from having a meaningful opportunity
to raise such claims in state appeal court, thereby preserving them for
federal review.
Kimberly McCarthy is scheduled to become the
500th person executed in Texas since judicial killing resumed in the USA
in 1977. She would be the 13th woman to be executed in the USA since 1976,
and the fourth in Texas.
Some 37 per cent of the 1,336 executions in
the USA since the US Supreme Court approved new capital laws in 1976 have
been carried out in Texas. During these three-and-a-half decades, dozens
of countries have abolished the death penalty and today 140 are abolitionist
in law or practice. Amnesty International opposes the death penalty in
all cases, unconditionally.
PLEASE CHECK WITH THE INDIVIDUALS AT RISK
PROGRAMME AT AIUK BEFORE SENDING APPEALS BY FAX AFTER 23.30 GMT ON 26 JUNE
2013
Individuals at Risk Programme, Amnesty International
UK, 17-25 New Inn Yard, London EC2A 3EA, 0207 033 1572, iar@amnesty.org.uk.
Individuals At Risk Programme
Tel: 020 7033 1572
Fax: 020 7033 1503
Email: iar@amnesty.org.uk
Website: www.amnesty.org.uk/cases
Amnesty International UK
Human Rights Action Centre
17-25 New Inn Yard
London
EC2A 3EA
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Scientist Julienne Stroeve has studied Arctic ice for decades. Every summer she travels north to measure how much ice has melted. She knows that climate change is melting the ice fast, but on her last trip, she couldn't believe what she saw. Vast areas of Arctic ice have disappeared, beyond our worst expectations.
This is what the experts warned us about. As the earth warms, it creates many "tipping points" that accelerate the warming out of control. Warming thaws the Arctic sea ice, destroying the giant white 'mirror' that reflects heat back into space, which massively heats up the ocean, and melts more ice, and so on. We spin out of control. Already this year -- storms, temperatures -- everything is off the charts.
We CAN stop this, if we act very fast, and all together. And out of this extinction nightmare, we can pull one of the most inspiring futures for our children and grandchildren. A clean, green future in balance with the earth that gave birth to us.
We have 30 months until the Paris Summit, the meeting that world leaders have decided will determine the fate of our efforts to fight climate change. It might seem like a long time - it's not. We have 30 months to get the right leaders in power, get them to that meeting, give them a plan, and hold them accountable. And it's us vs. the oil companies, and fatalism. We can win, we must, but we need to blast out of the starting gate with pledges of just $1 per week until the summit -- we'll only process the donations if we hit our goal. For the world we dream of, let's make it happen:
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MORE INFORMATION:
With Arctic sea ice vulnerable, summer melt season begins briskly (The Christian Science Monitor)
http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2013/0501/With-Arctic-sea-ice-vulnerable-summer-melt-season-begins-briskly-video
Arctic sea ice levels to reach record low within days (Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/aug/23/arctic-sea-ice-record-low
Five Reasons We Need a New Global Agreement on Climate Change by 2015 (Switchboard NRDC)
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/jschmidt/five_reasons_we_need_a_new_glo.html
The Doha climate talks were a start, but 2015 will be the moment of truth (The Guardian)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/dec/10/doha-climate-talks-global-warming
Arctic sea ice melt disrupts weather patterns (NBC News)
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/30/18631374-arctic-sea-ice-melt-disrupts-weather-patterns?lite
The Arctic Ice “Death Spiral” (Slate)
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/05/28/arctic_sea_ice_global_warming_is_melting_more_ice_every_year.html
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