last statement: “i want to say i hold no grudges. i hate no one. i love my family. tell everyone on death row to keep the faith and don’t give up.”

offender: carlos deluna #744

date of execution: december 7, 1989

desperate supporters of capital punishment say it can not and has not happened – the execution of an innocent person…

hogwash – even conservatives acknowledge that the state can’t fairly and accurately run a system of killing … fallible people create fallible systems … even former us supreme court justice sandra day o’connor believes that innocent person have been executed…

like who??? how about carlos deluna for one (ruben cantu for another)…

like paul house if he is not exonerated and freed from the tennessee maximum security prison system that has caged this wrongfully convicted human being for more than 20 years…

the chicago tribune is breaking the deluna story in a 3-part investigative piece…tcask will be featuring this story over the next week and linking it to the failures of tennessee’s broken death penalty system…stay tuned… here’s a brief associated press overview of the case…

CHICAGO – A newspaper investigation raises questions about the execution of a man for a 1983 slaying at a Corpus Christi service station.

Carlos De Luna was executed 16 years ago for the fatal stabbing of Wanda Lopez, a gas station clerk and a single mother.

De Luna was swiftly convicted and sentenced to death even though the parolee proclaimed he was innocent. He identified another man as the killer.

The Chicago Tribune, in the first of a three-part series published Sunday, said it has uncovered evidence strongly suggesting that De Luna’s acquaintance, Carlos Hernandez, was the one who killed Lopez. Hernandez died in 1999.

Hernandez’s friends and relatives, ending years of silence, said the felon bragged that De Luna went to Death Row for a murder he committed.

The case was compromised by shaky eyewitness investigation, sloppy police work and a failure to thoroughly pursue Hernandez as a possible suspect, the newspaper reported.

De Luna’s prosecutors maintain the right man was convicted, though the lead prosecutor acknowledged being troubled by some of the new information. A former police detective said he now thinks the wrong man was executed.

No DNA or other conclusive proof of De Luna’s guilt or innocence is available. The store did not have a security camera.

The newspaper learned of the De Luna case from a Columbia University law professor who had begun to look into evidence pointing to Hernandez.

De Luna was executed by lethal injection in 1989.

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i just gotta tell you that lyn wahnseidler is one cool woman…flat out, no lie…

on wednesday we sent out an alert to a select group of faith-linked individuals that had a ready-to-use bulletin announcement regarding next tuesday evening’s interfaith prayer service and vigil in nashville … these are opportunities created for people in the greater nashville area to oppose, in community, the planned executions of paul dennis reid and sedley alley early next wednesday morning, june 28th…

we asked this group of people to get this announcement to any faith communities (churches, synagogues, mosques, etc…) and ask them to publish it or announce during services or prayer gatherings between now and next tuesday evening…

lyn went one better… she got people to also write letters to governor bredesen…here’s what her e-mail reply said, “35 letters have been sent to Gov. Bredesen asking him to issue a temporary reprieve to order: DNA testing in Sedley Alley’s case; and a full competency hearing for Paul Reid. The letters were signed at the Greater Nashville Unitarian Universalist Church and at an Americans United for the Separation of Church and State board meeting, and wherever. The letter contained a lot of the information that was in your sample letter to editors…”

now lyn is very humble and is my mother’s age … and wouldn’t really care about being blogged about … but i had to share with you what one person can do if they decide to do it…

so ask yourself, “how can i be like lyn?” … and just do it!

peace out – <3

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Paul Reid, who has given up his right to appeals, and has a history of mental illness, is scheduled to be executed in Tennessee on June 28.

This would be only the second execution in the state since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977. Mental health professionals testified that Paul Reid suffered from serious mental illness, including chronic schizophrenia, had brain damage, and suffered a number of serious head injuries as a result of childhood abuse and accidents.

CLICK HERE to take action through Amnesty International USA‘s Program to Abolish the Death Penalty…

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if you click here you can view today’s hour long democracy now! television segment … if you scroll to the 29 minute mark this is where the death penalty segment on tennessee begins … a rush transcript is available as well … it is followed by an update on the case of mumia abu-jamal…

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editor leslie wylie of knoxville’s metro pulse added some depth to the generally superficial media coverage of tennessee’s pending dual-execution evening scheduled next wednesday morning, the 28th, at ~1 a.m….

of particular note is her smooth transition from the tcask position on wasted taxpayer dollars poured vacuously into a broken death penalty system into comments from murder victim’s families for reconciliation executive director robert hoelscher as to how those $$$ are diverted away from victim’s services…

very nice, professional work leslie!!!

click here to read the metro pulse article on-line…

peace out – <3

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well, that’s the case if you pay attention to the tennessee criminal court of appeals (cca) any way…

the cca just posted their decision denying sedley alley’s request to compel the release of physical evidence for dna analysis – they affirmed the decision of criminal court judge otis higgs, jr….

so what message did the cca send out with this decision???

no innocent person can gain access to DNA evidence…

the court of criminal appeals fundamentally misunderstands the law and the power of dna technology that is used in this country every day to solve crimes, exonerate innocent people and bring guilty people to justice…

the state legislature passed the post-conviction dna act to prevent the incarceration and execution of innocent people…

the united states supreme court (scotus) has spoken recently about the power of dna to exonerate the wrongfully convicted… this decision appears to ignore both the intent of the legislature and the lesson of the supreme court in the house case…

now it’s on to the tennessee supreme court and then scotus if necessary…

predictions that sedley alley’s appeals would go down to the wire appear prescient … keep his daughter april and son david in your prayers …

peace out… <3

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who knew???

mike burke from democracy now! in new york called today and asked us to be on amy goodman’s syndicated tv show in the morning … woot!

early too – the show broadcasts from 7-8 am … gotta be there at 6:30 … this will get tcask into chattanooga and johnson city as well as radio free nashville and all kinds of dish tv channels … again – woot!

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“no, jesus,” she screamed and began beating on the window. “god, he felt that. they killed my baby…”

these were the agonized words of brenda reese as her son lamont gasped his final breath …

“please jesus,” she cried and pleaded. “don’t do it. oh, god, jesus, please don’t,”…

lamont was one of more than 300 people executed in texas since the reinstatement of capital punishment in the mid 70’s…one of more than 1000 executed throughout the united states – over 80% of them in former confederate states…

family members surrounded reese in the witness room at the huntsville “walls” unit, trying to comfort her in the moments after her son’s death. “oh god, jesus,” she began to chant. “oh god, jesus. my baby’s gone,”…

one of the core issues that emerges in discussions of the death penalty is, “what about the victims?”… we at tcask are deeply concerned about victims – all victims – without hierarchy or judgement …

can we deny that brenda reese and her family members are victims … if we kill their loved one do they not suffer, do they not hurt, do they not grieve???

our communal response to homicide, to murder, should include addressing the needs of murder victims family members – what it should not do is create a new set of victims whose pain, suffering, and needs we then ignore…

peace out – <3

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elected officials elsewhere take a compassionate and rational step forward…

even while our state pursued plans for a double execution later in the month, the philippines congress abolished the death penalty on june 6th, repealing the 1993 legislation that reintroduced lethal injection..more than 1,000 prisoners on death row will now be spared execution with their sentences commuted to life imprisonment without parole…

the lil’ jesuit dude, myself, and kate (our summer intern) give president arroyo and the philippine congress a huge standing O…

president gloria macapagal-arroyo said in a statement posted on her website: “we celebrate the victory of life as i thank congress for its immediate action in abolishing the death penalty law… but make no mistake about it, the abolition of the death penalty will be complemented by a stricter and sterner enforcement of the law in all fronts … this is not a victory for criminals as some would claim, but rather, clear proof that filipinos respect and value the sanctity of human life and uphold the virtue and religious doctrines that are expected of us as a dominant christian nation,” …. she also said the government would improve the country’s jail facilities to create an environment that is more conducive to prisoners’ rehabilitation and reformation…

mrs arroyo wrote to senate president franklin drilon calling for the urgent passage of the abolition bills before the adjournment of congress this week…in a letter sent to senate sresident franklin m. drilon, the president pointed to the urgent need for “abolishing death penalty as its imposition was shown to have not served its principal purpose of effectively deterring the commission of heinous crimes”…

she also said abolition would “remedy the findings that death penalty is anti-poor as the underprivileged who cannot afford the services of competent counsels are oftentimes the ones convicted of death penalty”…

rock and roll president arroyo!!!

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Tonight on Channel 50’s show “Open Line” I’ll be on along with Verna Wyatt of You Have the Power discussing the recent Supreme Court decisions in the case of Paul House and on lethal injection as well as Tennessee’s scheduled mass execution on June 28th. The show will run from 7:00 to 8:00 and you can call in to (615) 737-7587. Tune in if you can. It’s a rare opportunity to see me in a tie!

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