Texas- Law of Parties (death penalty for innocent people)
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After finding out about this I became so revolted that I felt like letting people know about it. An innocent man is going to be put to death this coming Thursday night because of a thing called "law of parties". It's a law in most states that says if someone is injured in the act of committing another crime, that anyone involved in the original crime will be held responsible. However only in Texas it is used in capital cases. In this case, Kenneth Foster was sitting in a car with two guys when the fourth guy got out of the car, had a confrontation with a woman and then killed her friend. Kenneth Foster was 80 feet away and had nothing to do with it. The killer got back in the car and they drove away. Texas then charged the killer and Kenneth with 1st degree murder. How can this be? He's no angel, they had all been out that night and they had committed robberies, but he had no idea that this dude had a gun and was going to do such a horrific thing. Here's a video on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwZ5rq3d3XE
also http://www.freekenneth.com
Texas had it's 400th inmate put to death this year since the death penalty became legal again. It's the most in the country and now with this new, insane law, it will go up exponentially
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MwZ5rq3d3XE
also http://www.freekenneth.com
Texas had it's 400th inmate put to death this year since the death penalty became legal again. It's the most in the country and now with this new, insane law, it will go up exponentially
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Here's a bit more on the case of Kenneth Foster. Jimmy Carter, Desmond Tutu Urge Texas to Stay Execution of Kenneth Foster You think he's getting what he deserves under Texas law by taking his life when he didn't take a life? Where does it end, thinking about killing someone could get you the death penalty...hmmm seems really fair huh.
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It would have to be self defense, or I'd floor it the hell out of there...without rambo..
just the same you can be 100% innocent in this situation...jeez duh.
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He deserves to be killed?
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why not?
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The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles recommended Thursday that Gov. Rick Perry spare condemned prisoner Kenneth Foster from execution and commute his sentence to life.
The vote from the seven-member board was 6-1. The announcement came less than seven hours before Foster was scheduled to be taken to the death chamber for lethal injection.
Perry does not have to accept the highly unusual recommendation from the board whose members he appoints.
There was no immediate response from the governor's office.
Foster was the getaway driver and not the actual shooter in the slaying of a 25-year-old man in San Antonio 11 years ago.
Foster acknowledged he and his friends were up to no good as he drove them around San Antonio in a rental car and robbed at least four people 11 years ago before the slaying of Michael LaHood Jr.
"It was wrong," Foster, 30, said recently from death row. "I don't want to downplay that. I was wrong for that. I was too much of a follower. I'm straight up about that."
Their robbery spree, while they were all high on alcohol and marijuana, turned deadly when Foster followed LaHood and his girlfriend to LaHood's home about 2 a.m. Aug. 15, 1996. One of Foster's passengers, Mauriceo Brown, jumped out, walked up to LaHood, demanded his wallet and car keys, then opened fire when LaHood, 25, couldn't produce them. LaHood, shot through the eye, died instantly.
Brown ran back to Foster's car and they sped away. Less than an hour later, Foster was pulled over for speeding and driving erratically. Foster, Brown, Dwayne Dillard and Julius Steen — all on probation and members of a street gang they called the Hoover 94 Crips — were arrested for LaHood's slaying.
Brown and Foster, tried together, were convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death. Foster was set to die 13 months after Brown, 31, was strapped to the same death chamber gurney in Huntsville for lethal injection.
Foster's execution would make him the third Texas prisoner executed in as many days and the 24th this year in the nation's most active capital punishment state. On Wednesday evening, John Joe Amador, 32, was put to death for the slaying of a San Antonio taxi driver 13 1/2 years ago.
Foster's scheduled execution piqued death penalty opponents who criticized his conviction and sentence under Texas' law of parties, which makes non-triggermen equally accountable for the crime. Foster would join a number of other condemned prisoners executed under the statute, including one put to death earlier this year.
"This is a new low for Texas," said Larry Cox, executive director of Amnesty International USA, a human rights organization that opposes the death penalty in all cases. "Allowing his life to be taken is a shocking perversion of the law."
Foster's lawyers were arguing in the courts that statements from Dillard and Steen, who were in Foster's car that night, clarify and provide new evidence that support Foster when he says he didn't know Brown was going to try to rob and shoot LaHood.
"I didn't kill anybody," Foster insisted from death row. "I screwed up. I went down the wrong path. I fault myself for being in this messed-up system."
Foster said he was some 80 feet away from the shooting.
"It's hard for you to anticipate how Brown is going to react," Foster said. "Texas is saying flat out: You should have known better.
"In life, we have hindsight. Texas is saying you better have foresight. They're saying you better be psychic."
Dillard now is serving life for killing a taxi driver across the street from the Alamo two weeks before LaHood's slaying. Steen testified at Brown's trial and received a life sentence in a plea bargain.
Brown testified at his trial the shooting was in self-defense, that he believed LaHood had a gun. Authorities, however, never found another weapon near LaHood's body. Foster did not testify.
"I thought what (Brown) said was good enough," he said from death row.
Mike Ramos, among the Bexar County prosecutors handling the case when it went to trial, said he found Foster's claims unbelievable and was irritated by a publicity effort to spare Foster.
"When you let somebody out of your car with a loaded handgun, what do you expect?" Ramos said. "If he didn't realize it could happen, I think he's a liar."
Last weekend a group of Foster supporters picketed outside an Austin church Gov. Rick Perry attends.
"These guys are rewriting history," Ramos said. "He was far from any kind of angel they're trying to portray."
Ramos said it was clear to him that Foster was "the puppet master pulling all the strings" during the robbery spree.
Nico LaHood, whose brother was killed, said Wednesday he was frustrated that people were willing to believe only Foster's story, which he called "ridiculous and not true."
"I don't know what dynamics are going on that allow us to make the person who is the wrongdoer to become the victim in this case," LaHood said. His brother, he said, was being "lost in the whole thing."
On Wednesday, Amador asked for forgiveness for himself and peace "for people seeking revenge toward me," then was put to death for the fatal shooting of San Antonio taxi driver Mohammad Reza Ayari.
Another execution, the first of five scheduled for September in Texas, is set for next week when South Carolina native Tony Roach faces injection Wednesday for the strangling of an Amarillo woman, Ronnie Dawn Hewitt, 37, during a burglary of her apartment nine years ago.
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surferdude, I understand your points, and I also don't believe in the death penalty for anyone. I guess this case just really hit people more since he did not pull the trigger. Life in prison seems like a horrible enough punishment for anyone.
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Well if it were me and my friend gunned down someone and he managed to get in my car. I would drive him around all night because clearly his friend was not all there and I would avoid confrontation with the guy that has a gun!
Later I would call the cops though
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