Our Tireless Staff of Thousands is taking a collective trip to Chicago and won’t be posting for several days. Before we go, please have a look at this video of Frances Newton, who is to be executed today at 6 p.m. in Texas, and see whether she is someone who deserves to die even if you believe in the death penalty. Everything about her 1988 murder conviction is a miscarriage of justice.
Frances Newton should receive not only a stay of execution but a new trial. Further, if she does not receive a stay, she would be the first African-American woman executed by the state of Texas since the Civil War. We hope the Bullshitter-in-Chief is listening. As a favorite son of Texas and as someone who proclaims his humanity daily, he ought to do everything in his power, by bringing his influence to bear on the governor of Texas, to see that her execution is delayed. If he does not do that, he will have another death to answer for — though not from Katrina.
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