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Activist walks to abolish death penalty

Activist walks to abolish death penalty katia-r Updated: 2008-03-21 23:10:59-06 Andre Latallade, hip-hop artist and prison rights activist, also known as Capital-X, will walk from New Jersey to Texas to advocate for the abolishment of capital punishment in the US. He will walk 1700 miles through 10 of the states with the highest execution rate. His objective is to reach the governor's mansion in Austin, TX--what he dubs the "busiest killing state in the country--before the Supreme Court's ruling on whether death by lethal injection is a cruel and unusual punishment. In September 2007 Ralph Baze and Thomas Clyde Bowling Jr., two death row inmates in Kentucky after losing an appeal in the Kentucky Supreme Court were able to get the Supreme Court to consider the fundamental question of whether the mix of drugs used in Kentucky and elsewhere violates the Eighth Amendment's ban on cruel and unusual punishment...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on March 24, 2008 (boomark / email).