Petition for stopping the execution - March 31st 2011 as the execution date for William Glenn Boyd

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Dear friends,

The State of Alabama has set March 31^st 2011 as the execution date for William Glenn Boyd.

Alabama, like all the other states, uses a drug which has never been approved for this purpose by the US Food and Drug Administration.

The jury has recommended life sentance without parole.

The judge overruled it.

Alabama ist the only state where a judge can override a jury of 12 - to the utmost concern of the US Lawyers Association.

Let us get together to protest agains this illegal procedure.

To ask the governor for a stay of the execution of William Glenn Boyd.

To abolish the death penalty - in Alabama, the US, worldwide!

Alabama and part of the US put themselves in the same bracket as China, Iran and North Korea - we do not want this!

A modern society does not murder it's citizens.

The Petition: (which will be sent to Gov. Bentley)

Governor Robert Bentley

State Capitol

600 Dexter Avenue

Montgomery, Alabama 36130

Dear Governor Bentley, I would like to ask you to stop the execution of William Glen Boyd, scheduled for March 31st 2011.

We are about 800+ friends on Facebook plus 357 Members on Facebook of PHAD and very concerned about the Deathpenalty in Albama.

1. The jury by a vote of 7-5 recommended a life sentence. The judge disregarded the recommendation and sentenced William Glenn Boyd to death.

2. Alabama ought to delay all executions to allow for a thorough study of its capital punishment process and consider the serious objections raised as to how it administers the death penalty.

3. Alabama executed five people in 2010 and was third in the nation for number of executions.

4. According to Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty Information Center in Washington, capital punishment is growing more infrequent nationally, but in 2010 Alabama sent more people to death row than any other state!

5. Alabama is notorious for its unique law that allows a judge to override without limitations the recommendations of a jury for life in a capital case and order death instead of life without parole.

6. Alabama is also notorious for failing to guarantee legal representation for inmates appealing their capital convictions and we are the only state with no state-wide public defenders’ office.

7. Income and race are factors and a number of caveats in recent post conviction DNA legislation limit accessibility to DNA testing. Thank you for considering the case.

Kind regands

Signee (name and email below)

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