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Dec. 15, 1998 - SEE Magazine, Edmonton, AB
www.greatwest.ca/see/Issues/1998/1217/news.html
NEWS FRONT BY SCOTT LINGLEY
Canadian death-row inmate Stanley Faulder may have received a month reprieve from execution, but a Canadian human rights group is forging ahead with a plan to convince international tourists to cross Texas off their list of destinations.
Faulder, originally from Jasper, was scheduled to die by lethal injection Thursday, Dec. 10 for the 1975 murder of Inez Phillips in Gladewater, Texas. A mere 18 minutes before the execution, the
U.S. Supreme Court issued Faulder a 30-day reprieve while it reviewed claims that Texas violated international law by not informing Faulder of his right to contact the Canadian consulate at
the time of his arrest. The government of Canada was not aware of Faulder's situation until 1991, about 14 years after Faulder was sentenced to die.
Prior to the reprieve, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP), a human rights group based in Toronto, announced a planned international tourist boycott should Faulder's
execution go through. Now, says coalition co-director Dave Parkinson, they're proceeding with the boycott based on Texas' record of human rights abuses, the state's intransigence on
Faulder's death sentence, and its heavy reliance on capital punishment. Fully half of the 74 prisoners executed in the U.S. last year were executed in Texas.
"Seeing as the state of Texas themselves and anybody who has any authority to do anything there have refused to even look at the case, and the fact that it was the Supreme Court that intervened in his case, we have decided, given the support from the international community, we will go forward with the boycott regardless of Faulder's status.
"This is actually growing into being more than just the issue of capital punishment. The actual number of human rights abuses in Texas is just ridiculous. They lead the Western World when it
comes to prison abuses and human rights abuses, not to mention the violation of the Vienna Convention for not advising people to consular rights, and violations of international law for the execution of juveniles and the mentally disabled, etc. On these grounds, we've gotten so much support it's unbelievable, so we've decided to go ahead on the boycott."
Tracy Lamourie, a CCADP co-director, says the Faulder case has opened up the anti-death penalty movement to whole new constituencies.
"We're talking about everything from the abolitionist groups and various human rights groups, student organizing groups, even some political parties and travel agents. So we're really taking this way outside the normal anti-death penalty movement."
She says the most positive effect so far is their boycott has Texans talking about the issue. Lamourie and Parkinson have been interviewed on Texas radio and in the press in the past week, a
rare level of public discourse given the supposed popularity of capital punishment in the Lone Star State. According to polls quoted in every article on the Faulder case since it broke, public
support in Texas for the death penalty sits at about 80 per cent.
"For the first time in years, people in the abolitionist community have actually gotten a response from the powers that be. Usually, they're simply ignored but, taking this tack, they're beginning to get the attention to bring this issue to the forefront. And that's why we can stop this (execution), this thing's going full out," Parkinson said.
The CCADP is also concerned about capital punishment issues at home. Public figures such as Ontario solicitor-general Bob Runiciman recently announced his support for the death penalty
and the Edmonton Journal recently reported two Reform MPs are at work on a private members' bill to reintroduce the issue in Parliament. Proponents of capital punishment claim the majority of
Canadians are in support of the death penalty, even though there have been no executions here since 1962.
"They always tout that 80-per-cent figure for support, the way they do in the States," Lamourie says.
"But the main concern is really with the protection of society," Parkinson added. "If people are offered an alternative, if they can protect society without killing people, they're more in favor of that
than they are of the death penalty, and that's something that never comes out in those polls."
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Dec. 15, 1998 - SEE Magazine, Edmonton, AB
www.greatwest.ca/see/Issues/1998/1217/web.html
ON THE WEB BY RICHARD CAIRNEY
This week's news section of SEE Magazine examines a call for a tourist boycott of Texas, by a Toronto-based group called the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty. The group has been
in the news recently because of its efforts to save the life of Stanley Faulder, a Jasper, Alta. man convicted of murder in Texas and sentenced to death. So this week, we'll look at on-line activities
surrounding the Faulder case and the death penalty in general.
First, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty website: it's enough to make a Reformer's blood boil. The site is clean and orderly and easy to use. It allows surfers to immediately
find what they're looking for, or something of interest to dig into. And then, because there is so much substance to this site, it keeps you there for a long, long time. Visitors to the site can read up on the group's news releases, learn about its mandate or find out about the Texas tourism boycott.
The group originally planned to call for a boycott of the Lone Star State if Faulder were executed. His fate remains undecided. Now the group has pulled the trigger on the boycott anyway, citing the state's pathetic overall human rights record. That includes the execution of juveniles and the mentally disabled, and the state's habit of failing to inform foreigners charged with a crime that they
can seek assistance from their own governments. That failure on the state's part led to a stay of execution for Faulder last week, hours before he was scheduled to die from a lethal injection for the
1975 murder of a Texas woman. (Ironically, the execution had been set for Dec. 10, International Human Rights Day.)
The site is deep, with links that open your eyes to the enormous efforts being made on behalf of death row inmates. In fact, you can link from this site to a web ring of sites dedicated to death row
prisoners. I counted 23 links to sites about inmates and the death penalty, most dealing with specific prisoners.
If these sites have a downfall, though, it is that they lack some vital information. Namely, they are too blatant in their protestations of innocence on the part of inmates. You can't convince anyone of a
convict's innocence by merely stating the inmate was wrongly convicted.
And while the sites do offer up witness statements and partial courtroom transcripts, this evidence is not convincing because it is not presented in an unbiased context. You begin to wonder where
the prosecution's case is. If these sites were to post the prosecution's best evidence as well as the inmate's best defence, we'd have something to chew on. As things stand, we're asked to
accept one version of the story on blind faith.
Not that faith is a bad thing: these sites are effective in whipping the converted into a frenzy, if they're not likely to spark any conversions. If you believe even Charles Manson should be spared the death penalty, you'll like these sites.
If you think some guilty people say they're not guilty in order to avoid death, but should not have been sentenced to death in the first place, you might feel these sites are deceptive, though honorable in intent.
Still, they are enormously informative.
SEE Magazine Copyright © 1998. All Rights Reserved.

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Austin Chronicle December 10, 1998
Texas vs. International Law

Barring a last-minute political miracle, Joseph Stanley Faulder, a Canadian citizen, will be executed by the state of Texas at 6pm tonight, Dec. 10. Faulder's imminent death by lethal injection has been the subject of an unusual amount of controversy in recent weeks due to what anti-death penalty advocates see as irregularities in his trial
and violations of the Vienna Convention on Consular Relations, ratified in 1969. Under that international rule, when Faulder was arrested, the state was obliged to inform Canadian authorities and alert Faulder of his right to to seek help from his country's consulate. For 15 years, Texas authorities did neither.
Faulder's execution, scheduled to occur on International Human Rights Day, which commemorates the 50th anniversary of the signing of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, has sparked outrage from international human rights activists, and drew a large delegation of Canadian activists, government officials, and media to town on Monday. Among the group was Sid Ryan, spokesman for the Canadian Labor Congress, who decried the state's failure to abide by the international convention's rules. "You cannot have one set of laws for the 140 countries who are signatories to the Vienna Convention and another set of laws for the state of Texas," Ryan said. "That's unacceptable."
The Canadian delegation, accompanied by a number of Texas activists, pointed to letters written by U.S. Secretary of State Madeline Albright to Gov. George W. Bush and Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles Chairman Victor Rodriguez -- requesting a 30-day stay of Faulder's execution and further consideration of his clemency petition -- as evidence that justice was not served in the Canadian national's sentencing and conviction. Faulder's attorney, Sandra Babcock, had hoped that last week's District Court ruling, which determined for the second time that the Board of Pardons and Paroles' secret clemency hearing process was unconstitutional, might "have a dramatic effect" on the request for a stay of execution for Faulder. But the plans for a public clemency hearing on Faulder's case were immediately scrapped on Tuesday when the Texas Supreme Court stayed the lower court's ruling.
Texas has executed several foreign citizens in the past, most recently Tristan Montoya, a Mexican native who was killed by lethal injection last year. Although American and Canadian activists hold out hope that Bush will agree to grant a 30-day reprieve to Faulder, members of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty say they are prepared to launch a tourist boycott of Texas beginning Dec.11 if Faulder is executed. According to Dave Atwood, president of the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, a similar boycott is being considered by several European countries. Besides Faulder, three other men were scheduled to be executed this week: Daniel Corwin, Jeff Emery, and Danny Barber. Texas activists say the Dec. 15 execution of James Robert Means in Huntsville for the 1981 murder of a Houston security guard, will likely mark the 500th death-row execution since the United States reinstated the death-penalty in 1978. In Austin, the occasion will be observed with a 5:30pm demonstration and vigil at the Capitol steps, sponsored by the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. -- E.C.B.

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Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1998 Associated Press:
Death penalty opponents plead for Canadian's life Coalition including Madeleine Albright ask Gov. Bush to halt convicted killer Faulder's execution
By RENAE MERLE Associated Press
AUSTIN - An international delegation of death penalty opponents asked Gov. George W. Bush on Monday to halt the execution of a Canadian citizen whose cause has won backing from Secretary of State Madeleine Albright.
"I know that Texas will do the right thing if it's brought to their attention," said Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, director of the Toronto-based Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted.
Joseph Stanley Faulder, 61, was convicted of the 1975 murder of Inez Phillips, the matriarch of a wealthy oil family in Gladewater.
Barring a stay of execution, Faulder on Thursday will become the first Canadian executed in the United States since 1952. Appeals are pending in state and federal court.
"We are urging the Texas people, particularly the governor of Texas, not to kill this man," said Carter, who spent nearly 20 years on death row in New Jersey for a triple homicide he didn't commit.
The delegates made their case before Bush's general counsel, Margaret Wilson. Rick Halperin of Amnesty International cited what he called outrageous trial procedures, a lack of qualified attorneys and a flagrant disregard of international treaties.
"Just about anything that you can think of that is wrong with the death penalty as an institution is in place in this state," Halperin said.
Bush said he wouldn't let the criticism affect his decision. "No one is going to threaten the governor of the state of Texas," he said during an appearance in San Antonio.
"My job is to enforce the laws of the state of Texas. We're not going to let people come into our state, commit capital murder and get away with it," Bush said.
The Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty has pledged a tourist boycott of Texas if the execution takes place.

Published: Dec. 8, 1998 - American-Statesman
Court's ruling unlikely to delay Canadian's death Execution will happen Thursday if pardons board doesn't comply with order
By Dave Harmon, American-Statesman Staff
As Texas began a four-day spree of executions Monday, the state's highest criminal court rejected a request to overturn an Austin judge's ruling that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles must meet in public to vote on clemency requests -- a ruling that could postpone the execution of a Canadian man on Thursday, his lawyers said.
But state officials said the ruling does not change condemned murderer Joseph Faulder's legal position and his execution will proceed as scheduled.
Lawyers for Faulder, who is scheduled to be executed for the 1975 murder of a wealthy East Texas widow, said the decision by the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals not to enter the fray in Faulder's case is an important victory.
"I would be shocked" if the execution proceeds, said Maurie Levin, an Austin lawyer assisting with the lawsuit. "It would be a travesty if they proceed with executions . . . when there's a standing court order saying they're violating the Constitution and the Open Meetings Act."
District Judge Paul Davis of Austin issued a temporary restraining ao order against the board last week to stop the practice of faxing their votes on whether to spare inmates from lethal injection.
The Texas attorney general's office, which appealed Davis' order to the Court of Criminal Appeals, still has an appeal pending before the Texas Supreme Court, said Ron Dusek, spokesman for the attorney general's office. The office has argued that Davis doesn't have jurisdiction and that state law doesn't require the board to hold public meetings.
"The execution will not be stopped," Dusek said. "The issue is not to stop an execution or get in the way of an execution, the issue is . . . does the board have to hold a public meeting when making a decision?"
Dusek pointed out that Davis' order has an expiration date: If the board doesn't comply by 3 p.m. Thursday, the order becomes void. The court's action capped off a day of frenzied activity on behalf of Faulder, whose case once again brings international attention to Texas and its execution practices.
Gov. George W. Bush's general counsel met Monday with a five-person international delegation that included Rick Halperin of Amnesty International and former boxer Rubin "Hurricane" Carter, who was wrongly convicted of murder in New Jersey in 1967.
"Just about anything that you can think of that is wrong with the death penalty as an institution is in place in this state," Halperin said.
The Toronto-based Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, a small organization that formed in May, also announced a tourist boycott of Texas on Saturday, hoping to help Faulder avoid becoming the first Canadian executed in the United States since 1952.
Bush said he wouldn't let the criticism affect his decision. "No one is going to threaten the governor of the state of Texas," he said during an appearance in San Antonio.
"My job is to enforce the laws of the state of Texas. That is my job and that is what I intend to do. We're not going to let people come into our state, commit capital murder and get away with it," Bush said.
Bush said he is waiting for the Board of Pardons and Paroles to review the case and make a recommendation. Bush can halt an execution for 30 days, but he cannot commute a death sentence unless the board recommends it.
Faulder, an auto mechanic from Alberta, was not allowed to speak with Canadian consular officials until 15 years after his arrest in the 1975 slaying of a wealthy East Texas widow. Texas officials have said they weren't aware Faulder was Canadian.
The Canadian government has filed a legal brief with the U.S. Supreme Court requesting clemency for Faulder. In a Nov. 27 letter, U.S. Secretary of State
Madeleine Albright asked Bush to grant Faulder a 30-day reprieve.

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MEMENTO, PQ
Texas : Capitale des peines capitales
Mercredi le 9 décembre 1998
La situation est tellement ironique qu'on pourrait en rire si ce n'était pas aussi tragique. Le jeudi
10 décembre, jour de la Déclaration universelle des droits de l'homme, un Canadien qui a subi
un procès digne des belles années des républiques de bananes risque de subir au Texas la
peine la plus cruelle qui soit : l'exécution.

À l'approche du jour fatidique, les appels se sont multipliés pour que la peine de Stanley
Faulder soit commuée ou qu'il subisse un nouveau procès tellement les irrégularités ont été
nombreuses et ahurissantes. Amnistie Internationale, la Secrétaire d'État américain Madeleine
Albright, l'Association in Defense of the Wrongly Convicted sont intervenus pour tenter de le
sauver. Stan Faulder n'a pas été instruit qu'il pouvait contacter les autorités canadiennes lors de
son arrestation, comme l'exige la convention de Vienne dont sont signataires les deux pays. Le
gouverneur du Texas Georges Bush Jr est un chaud partisan de la peine de mort et se montre
peu impressionné par les manifestations de solidarité. « J'ai été élu pour faire respecter la loi du
Texas », rapporte le réseau CNN qui cite le fils de l'autre George Bush.

Que le fils de la victime présumée de Faulder, un très riche propriétaire pétrolier ait entrepris
une poursuite privée alors que le détenu avait été acquitté une première fois pour une question
technique; qu'il ait payé ceux qui sont venus témoigner contre l'Albertain de 61 ans; que le
psychiatre qui a « examiné » Faulder durant quinze minutes ait été rayé de son ordre
professionnel pour de graves manquements professionnels, voilà qui n'émeut pas le gouverneur
texan.

Pourquoi le serait-il ? Ses commettants sont d'accord avec la peine capitale. Un sondage
révèle que plus de 80 pour cent de la population texane est en faveur de la peine de mort. Le
sujet demeure toutefois controversé, même dans cet état du Sud. À preuve : le forum de
discussion le plus actif du Dallas Morning News est celui sur la peine de mort.

Mario Grenier
Sources
Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty
Dallas Morning News
Death Penalty Information Center
Office of the Texas Governor
Texas vs Canada : Stanley Faulder

Dec. 8,1998 - National Post Front page !
pages A1 & A2
Celebrities show clemency for their would-be killers
Stewart Bell - National Post
Susan Sarandon carries one. So does Martin Sheen. They are called "declaration of life" cards, and they state that if the person carrying one is murdered, the killer should not be executed.
The cards were introduced two years ago by Sister Camille D'Arienzo, a New York City nun opposed to capital punishment. An estimated 9,000 to 11,000 people, mostly in the U.S., carry them.
"It's growing," said Sam Jordan, director of the Program to Abolish the Death Penalty at Amnesty International in
Washington, D.C. "It's important, I believe, its not just symbolic.
"Many times the prosecutors are supported [in seeking the death penalty] if there's proof that the victim or the victim's families really want the execution."
"And if the person has signed a declaration of life, the prosecutor can't claim that, so there is some pre-emptive value with this card."
The campaign has been boosted by the support of Hollywood actors such as Mr. Sheen and Ms. Sarandon, who won an Oscar for her role as a nun who comforts a condemned man in Dead Man Walking.
The issue has gained prominence because of the case of Stanley Faulder, the Alberta mechanic set to die by lethal injection on Thursday for the 1975 murder of a 75-year-old Texas woman.
His sentence been controversial and has brought forth pleas for intervention by Canadian authorities.
The declaration reads, in part: "Should I die as a result of a violent crime, I request that the person or persons found guilty of homicide for my killing not be subject to or put in jeopardy of the death penalty." It also notes, however, that the killer should not go unpunished. The declaration would be unlikely to have any real legal weight, but advocates say a prosecutor would have to take it into consideration when deciding whether to seek a death sentence.
Toronto residents Tracy Lamourie and Dave Parkinson, directors of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, have both signed similar statements.
"I know we don't have the death penalty in Canada, but we go to the States," Ms. Lamourie said.
"It's an emotional thing. If a family member was killed you would have the anger, you'd want the other person to feel pain, but the fact is our justice system has to be beyond that whole thing."
During filming of Dead Man Walking, Ms. Sarandon made friends with Sister Helen Prejean, the U.S. nun whose book about her experiences with inmates on death row formed the basis of the movie.

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AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 7 - United Press International
Faulder to get public hearing AUSTIN, Texas, Dec. 7 (UPI)
Attorneys for Texas death row inmate Stanley Faulder say a state appeals court has ruled that the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles must hold a public meeting on Faulder's clemency request.
Faulder, a Canadian citizen, is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 1975 murder of an elderly Gladewater woman. Faulder argues in his clemency petition that he was never allowed to notify Canadian consular officials that he had been arrested and charged with murder in the United States.
Sandra Babcock, Faulder's attorney, said the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ruled today that the Board of
Pardons and Paroles must abide by the Open Meetings Act by posting its meetings and holding clemency hearings in public.
Under current practice, the 18 parole board members usually review cases individually and vote by
telephone.
Babcock says she believes the court ruling "entitles Mister Faulder to a reprieve from the December 10th execution so that the board may sort out the mess they've gotten themselves into."
Gov. George W. Bush has pledged that Faulder will get a fair hearing but that he intends to uphold state
law, "regardless of the nationality of the person involved."
Last week, Bush assured Secretary of State Madeleine Albright that the board has had adequate time to review
Faulder's clemency petition. The Canadian government asked Albright to intervene, claiming Texas violated an
international agreement by not allowing Faulder to talk with Canadian
consular officials.
In San Antonio today, Bush brushed off the claim of Canadian human rights activist Tracy Lamourie. Lamourie
has said that if Bush doesn't stay Faulder's execution, "it would be difficult for a future President George Bush to claim that another foreign government is oppressive or that their laws are unfair."
Faulder was convicted of capital murder for the 1975 robbery and stabbing death of 75-year-old Inez Phillips.

Dec. 5, 1998 - Toronto Star
Tutu seeks mercy for Albertan
Cancel Thursday's execution, he urges Texas governor
By Kathleen Kenna Toronto Star Washington Bureau
WASHINGTON - ``Please spare the life of Joseph Stanley Faulder, at least as a humanitarian act,'' South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu has urged Texas Governor George W. Bush.
In a private letter to Bush this week, Tutu seeks mercy for the 61-year-old former Alberta mechanic, who is scheduled to be executed Thursday for the 1975 murder of Texas oil family matriarch Inez Phillips.
In Toronto, meanwhile, a group of Faulder supporters called yesterday for an international tourist boycott of Texas.
Tutu said he was moved to make the appeal after appearing recently at a human rights conference in Alberta. It was sponsored by the University of Alberta.
``Ordinary Canadians - not politically active people - were calling my hotel in Edmonton last weekend to appeal to me to intervene,'' Tutu states in his letter to Bush, sent Thursday.
Faulder's ``execution would also seem to me to be prejudicial to U.S.-Canada relations, since there seems to be controversy over whether he received the consular advice he was entitled to at the time of his trial,'' Tutu writes.
Texas has acknowledged violating the Vienna Convention. That international treaty guarantees the right to contact one's home government for help when arrested or detained in another country.
Faulder was on death row in a rural Texas prison for 15 years before his family and the Canadian government were notified.
It's a contradiction to ``promote reverence for human life by taking it away,'' Tutu warns in the letter to Bush.
Tutu joins a rapidly expanding list of high-profile people seeking clemency for Faulder, including Foreign Affairs Minister Lloyd Axworthy and Raymond Chrétien, Canadian ambassador to the U.S. and nephew of Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.
U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright also has asked Bush to grant at least a 30-day reprieve so that Faulder's case can be reviewed for the Vienna treaty violation. It's the first time Albright has intervened in a death row case in Texas, which leads the democratic world in state executions.
The U.S. Supreme Court is expected to rule soon on a clemency request by Faulder's lawyer, Sandra Babcock. The Canadian government has filed a ``friend of court'' brief supporting her plea.
In Toronto yesterday, the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty announced the launch of an international tourism boycott of Texas to try to win clemency for Faulder.
``There are a lot of abolition groups in Europe that have wanted to do this for some time,'' said coalition director Tracy Lamourie. ``It's not just Faulder. Bush is notorious for ignoring international law. ``For a man with presidential aspirations, he has little regard for international conventions.''
The Tutu letter is among almost 700 Bush has received seeking clemency for Faulder, a spokesperson said last night.
``Under Texas law, the governor doesn't have the authority to spare a life unless the board (of pardons and paroles) recommends it,'' she said. But Canadians should know there is no legal requirement for that board to consider another review of Faulder's case and it may not make any recommendation to Bush at all, said a state official, who asked not to be named.
A delegation of Canadians is to leave today for Texas to try to appeal personally to Bush. Among them are Joyce Milgaard, mother of David Milgaard, released from prison after serving 23 years for a murder he didn't commit; former boxer Rubin ``Hurricane'' Carter, also exonerated on a triple-murder sentence for which he was wrongfully imprisoned in New Jersey 19 years; and Sid Ryan, president of the 160,000-member Canadian Union of Public Employees in Ontario.

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Monday October 26 1998 - Toronto Sun
Support Sought To save Killer By Lori Fazari Toronto Sun
Canadians are being asked to show their support for an Alberta man sentenced to death in Texas.
Joseph Stanley Faulder, 61, has been on death row in a Huntsville, Texas, prison for 21 years . He is set top die by lethal injection this December.
The Canadian Coaltion Against the Death Penalty has set up a web site to inform the public about Faulder's case, at ccadp.org/stanleyfaulder.htm
Clemency
People are being asked to get in touch with Texas authorities to persuade them to hold a clemency hearing for Faulder.
Faulder, of Jasper, Alta., was sentenced to death in 1977 for the 1975 stabbing death of Inez Phillips, 75, during the burglary of her home. His first conviction was reversed, but he was retried and sentenced to death in 1981.
A previous clemency request said mitigating evidence about Faulder's character and medical history weren't brought up at his trial, and his rights were violated because he wasn't informed he could contact Canadian officials for help after his arrest.
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CCADP on Talk 640 AM Toronto
Tracy Lamourie from the CCADP on the Faulder case and the Texas Tourist Boycott - Dec 10th '98

CCADP on Talk 640 AM Toronto
Dave Parkinson from the CCADP on the Tom Rivers Show talking about the Stan Faulder case and Texas injustice- Dec 10th '98

CCADP on Talkspot (International)
DEATH PENALTY SPECIAL Friday, December 11th 5 - 6 pm PT on TALKSPOT
TalkSpot brings you this one hour discussion of the death penalty with analysis and viewpoints from both sides of the issue. Special guests include, Tracy Lamourie co-founder Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty, Sister Helen Prejean whose story inspired the movie Dead Man Walking, Maureen Faulkner, Mumia Abu-Jamal was sentenced to death for the murder of her husband, a Philadelphia police officer killed in 1982. Sam Jordon from Amnesty International, Director of Program to Abolish the Death Penalty USA as well as others. The CCADP is calling for a boycott of Texas.

JIMMY DENNIS UPDATE --CHRY FM 105.5 TORONTO CHRY 5 o'Clock news : Spoken Word Director and News Anchor Neil Armstrong of CHRY interviews Tracy Lamourie of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty on the wrongful conviction of Jimmy Dennis who sits at SCI Greene in Pennsylvania, innocent on death row. Time: 9 minutes.

FOCUS ON THE DEATH PENALTY - CKLN 88.1 FM TORONTO :
Daniel Rojas of CKLN's biweekly Prisoner Report,( a segment of The Word Of Mouth show) interviewsDave Parkinson and Tracy Lamourie of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty on various issues, including the wrongful convictions of Jimmy Dennis in Pennsylvania and of Charles Raby in Texas, as well as the case of possible extradition of two Canadian Citizens Atif Rafay and Sebastian Burns who may be sent to face the death penalty in Washington State.