Protest Resumption of Executions in Texas June 3, 2008

There will be protests of the first execution in Texas since the Supreme Court ruling allowing executions to resume after a de facto moratorium . The last execution in Texas was Sept 25.

Derrick Sonnier, is scheduled to be executed in Huntsville on June 3rd.

This will be the first execution in Texas since Sept 25th when Texas Court of Criminal Appeals Presiding Judge Sharon Keller said, "we close at 5" and refused to accept an appeal 20 minutes late for a man later executed that night. Around 1900 people signed on to a complaint that we submitted asking the State Commission on Judicial Conduct to remove Keller for her unethical action.

Tuesday, June 3rd at 5:30PM at the Capitol
Congress and 11th

Event submitted by Eventful.com on behalf of niris.