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Television Announcement. Article. Protest info. Bush Phone#. ____________________________________________________________ CNN Program - Burden of Proof Focus on Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham) includes an interview Friday, June 9th at 12:30pm EST ____________________________________________________________ Pan-African News Wire, Weekly Dispatch I, Detroit Says: Don't Let Texas Execute An Innocent Man
"Shaka Sankofa, an innocent Black man on death row, has an execution date of June 22. We must stop it. His case is equal and parallel to Mumia's." Pam Africa, International Concerned Family and Friends of Mumia Abu-Jamal
Texas Gov. George Bush has set June 22 as the date for the execution of Shaka Sankofa (Gary Graham). Sankofa was convicted as a 17-year-old of murder. There were no fingerprints, no ballistic information, and seven of the eight eye-witnesses did not identify Sankofa. Only one witness, who originally did not pick Sankofa from a photo line-up, eventually testified that he was the killer. Her original description of the killer did not match the height or weight of Sankofa! She was over 30 feet away and only saw the killer for one or two seconds. One eyewitness, who stood next to the killer, emphatically states that Sankofa is the wrong man.
Sankofa's trial lawyer thought he was guilty. He conducted no pretrial investigation! Only much later a new legal team found witnesses who passed polygraph tests swearing that Sankofa was miles away from the scene with them on the night of the murder.
Yet this new evidence has never been heard in a court of law! Texas law prevents new evidence from being introduced unless soon after a conviction. Federal courts refused to give Sankofa a new trial based on Clinton's "Effective Death Penalty Act o 1996."
Since George Bush took over as Governor of Texas 128 prisoners have been executed, more than any other state in the nation. Dozens more are to be killed in coming months.
STOP THE EXECUTION OF SHAKA SANKOFA (GARY GRAHAM)! STOP THE TEXAS DEATH MACHINE! __________________________________________________ San Francisco Protest - Justice for Shaka Sankofa - Stop the Execution Tuesday, June 20th - 5 pm Powell & Market St. __________________________________________________ Texas Governor George Bush phone# is 512/463-2000 _________________________________________________________ JAM mtg to prepare 2 JAM LA 4 the 'democratic' convention August 14-17 in Los Angeles will occur this Sunday - HERE 2850 - 548 20th St - Oakland, CA - June 11 - 6PM -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 2930 bytes Desc: not available URL: <../attachments/20000617/8158d5c0/attachment.bin>