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Kenneth Foster Jr's Death Sentence Commuted!

IMC-US, 30.08.2007

Hours before the scheduled execution the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole ruled 6 to 1 for clemency for Kenneth Foster Jr., also known as Haramia KiNassor. Governor Perry then upheld the decision, giving Foster a sentence of life in prison The Board has only voted to stop an execution once before since the reinstitution of the death penalty in Texas in 1982.
» Listen to radio interview from Huntsville Prison with Philadelphia journalist Walidah Imarisha
» Read Imarisha's newest essay reflecting on the day's explosive decision, written Thursday evening.

More Coverage: Indymedia.org overview || Article by Lee Wengraf, Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Background From NYC's Indypendent: Worst of the Worst? Texas Premeditates the Murder of a Man Who Killed No One || Welfare Poets Slam Death Penalty: A Review of “Cruel and Unusual Punishment" || Indypendent reporter Renee Feltz on Democracy Now







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