[Deathpenalty] FW: Bill Daley has a surprise before returning to Chicago - Chicago Sun-Times

[Boyle, Francis]

 

 

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Feed: Francis Boyle - Google News
Posted on: Friday, January 27, 2012 1:50 AM
Author: Francis Boyle - Google News
Subject: Bill Daley has a surprise before returning to Chicago - Chicago 
Sun-Times

 

 

 
http://news.google.com/news?pz=1cf=allned=ushl=enq=Francis+Boylecf=alloutput=rss
 

Bill Daley has a surprise before returning to Chicago 
http://news.google.com/news/url?sa=tfd=Rusg=AFQjCNGdl2Litbq1wT-oJTurUj77Q_eZxAurl=http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/10229165-452/bill-daley-has-a-surprise-before-returning-to-chicago.html
 
Chicago Sun-Times
Laud 'em: Ryan has been nominated several times by University of Illinois 
College of Law Professor Francis A. Boyle “because of his courageous, heroic, 
and principled opposition to the racist and class-based death penalty system in 
America.


View article... 
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[Deathpenalty] FW: Ryan Nominated for 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

[Boyle, Francis]

 

 

Francis A. Boyle

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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2011 3:23 PM
To: thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: Ryan Nominated for 2012 Nobel Peace Prize

 

Dear Friends: I have today nominated retired Governor  George Ryan for
the 2012 Nobel Peace Prize because of his courageous, heroic and
principled opposition to the racist and class-based death penalty system
here in the United States.

 

Happy holidays!

 

 

Francis A. Boyle

Professor of Law

Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA (1988-92)

 

 

 

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[Deathpenalty] FW: BOOK: United Ireland, Human Rights Int'l Law / Boyle

[Boyle, Francis]

 

 

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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 1:21 PM
To: Killeacle
Subject: FW: BOOK: United Ireland, Human Rights  Int'l Law / Boyle

 

 

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Sent: Tuesday, November 01, 2011 11:46 AM
To: Boyle, Francis
Subject: BOOK: United Ireland, Human Rights  Int'l Law / Boyle

 

  

 
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byBritain's continued military occupation of six northeast counties
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formidable Irish American domestic lobby in support of the Irish
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This book addresses some of the most important aspects of their historic
campaigns-the struggle to prevent deportation of Irish
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But most significantly, Boyle makes the legal case for viewing the
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Dedication Irish America
Chapter 1.
The Irish Hecatomb: The Legal Case for the
Potato Famine as British Genocide / 19
Chapter 2
The Decolonization of Northern Ireland / 64
Chapter 3.
Putting Britain's Colonial War in Ireland
on Trial in the USA / 89
Chapter 4.
The Struggle to Free Joe Doherty / 99
Chapter 5.
Opposing the U.S.-U.K. Extradition Treaty / 123
Chapter 6.
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Northern Ireland / 154
Chapter 7.
Sparing Robert John MacBride / 184
Chapter 8.
Designing United Ireland / 188
Index 

  

  

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Dual National FRANCIS BOYLE (right) 

with SEAN MACBRIDE, S.C. 

Foreign Minister for the Republic of Ireland 

Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and 

Chief of Staff of the Irish Republican Army 


FRANCIS A. BOYLE is a leading American 
expert in international law. He was 
responsible for drafting the Biological 
Weapons Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the 
American implementing legislation for the 
1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He 
served on the Board of Directors of 
Amnesty International (1988-1992), and 
represented Bosnia-Herzegovina at the 
World Court. He served as legal adviser to 
the Palestinian Delegation to the Middle 
East peace negotiations from 1991 to 
1993. In 2007, he delivered the Bertrand 
Russell Peace Lectures. Professor Boyle 
teaches international law at the University 
of Illinois, Champaign and is author of, 
inter alia, The Future of International Law 
and American Foreign Policy, Foundations 
of World Order, The Criminality of Nuclear 
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[Deathpenalty] FW: [AALSMIN-L] PS:40% of Southerners Are Still Nazis: CNN

[Boyle, Francis]

 

 

Francis A. Boyle

Law Building

504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

Champaign, Illinois 61820

217-333-7954 (voice)

217-244-1478 (fax)

(personal comments only)

 

From: aalsmin-l-boun...@lists.ubalt.edu
[mailto:aalsmin-l-boun...@lists.ubalt.edu] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 1:25 PM
To: aalsmi...@lists.ubalt.edu
Subject: [AALSMIN-L] PS:40% of Southerners Are Still Nazis: CNN

 

We know that there are Nazi Sympathizers in Germany
today. Does anyone on this list have that data-for the sake of
comparison? What would people guess: maybe at most  1% of Germany's
population today 70 years after the start of WW2?  Whereas  we know from
the CNN poll that 40% of Southerners are Nazis 150 years after the start
of the Civil War. The difference is that the South has never been
de-Nazified. And the Blacks/Jews are forced to live among the 40%
Southern Nazis  in the Nazified South. So how much has really changed
South of the Mason-Dixon Line since DW Griffiths? Well technically they
no longer are supposed to be lynching Black Men  down there. But as Rev.
Jesse Jackson and his son Cong. Jesse Jackson Jr.  pointed out in their
book Legal Lynching, the Southern Nazis are  still lynching Black men
only now they call it the death penalty. Having worked pro bono to
prevent Legal Lynchings of Black Men in Florida, Georgia, and Alabama,
those Southern Nazis made me sick to my stomach each time I tried and
failed to prevent them from Lynching a Black Man. Indeed, Florida is so
perverse, sick, and demented  that they have stacked the State Capital
Appeals Unit with Federalist Society Lawyers who believe in the death
penalty. So in other words the Nazis  down in Florida  have Nazi lawyers
who are supposed to be defending the Blacks/Jews from being lynched by
their Nazi State.

 

Fab

From the Land of Lincoln.

 

Francis A. Boyle

Law Building

504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

Champaign, Illinois 61820

217-333-7954 (voice)

217-244-1478 (fax)

(personal comments only)

 

From: aalsmin-l-boun...@lists.ubalt.edu
[mailto:aalsmin-l-boun...@lists.ubalt.edu] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis
Sent: Wednesday, April 13, 2011 6:51 AM
To: aalsmi...@lists.ubalt.edu
Subject: [AALSMIN-L] 40% of Southerners Are Still Nazis: CNN

 

*   Poll: 4 in 10 Southerners Still Side With Confederacy
http://www.aolnews.com/2011/04/13/poll-4-in-10-southerners-still-side-w
ith-confederacy/ 
A century and a half after the opening shots of the Civil War,
nearly four in 10 Southerners say they still sympathize with the
Confederacy, according to a CNN poll. 

Fab

Living in the Land of Lincoln

 

 

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[Deathpenalty] FW: George Ryan Nominated for 2011 Nobel Peace Prize!

[Boyle, Francis]

 

 

Francis A. Boyle

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504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.

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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 11:52 AM
To: nppr...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: George Ryan Nominated for 2011 Nobel Peace Prize!
Importance: High

 

I just nominated former Illinois George Ryan for the 2011 Nobel Peace
Prize because of the  heroic and courageous and principled leadership
that he has provided to the Movement to Abolish the Death Penalty here
in the United States and around the World.

 

Francis A. Boyle

Professor of Law

Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA (1988-92)

 

 

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[Deathpenalty] FW: 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination of Governor George H. Ryan

[Boyle, Francis]

 

 

Francis A. Boyle

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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Thursday, January 27, 2011 2:47 PM
To: Smith, Bruce; Englund, Melissa
Cc: Colombo, John; Ribstein, Larry; Karen Conti; Adamski, Gregory
Subject: 2011 Nobel Peace Prize Nomination of Governor George H. Ryan

 

Francis A. Boyle nominated retired Illinois Governor George H. Ryan for
the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize because of his courageous, heroic, and
principled opposition to the death penalty. The Illinois General
Assembly just voted to abolish the death penalty--a life-long objective
of Professor Boyle, a Native Illinoisan. See his article Teaching
Against the Death Penalty,  21 J. Development Alternatives  Areas
Studies, No. 1  2, at 90-96 (March-June 2002), which recounts his
experiences at teaching against the death penalty since his arrival at
the College of Law in August of 1978. Together with his former student
Karen Conti and her partner Greg Adamski, they served as Co-Counsel to
prevent the execution of convicted mass-murderer John Wayne Gacey by
then Governor Jim Edgar. The three of them won a Request for a Stay of
Execution by the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights to Gov. Edgar
on the grounds that the Illinois lethal injection procedure constituted
torture, cruel, inhumane and degrading treatment. Nevertheless, Gov.
Edgar violated this Request and Mr. Gacey was tortured to death over a
period of eighteen minutes. But thanks to Governor George Ryan there
have been no similar executions by the State of Illinois for over a
decade. Boyle was elected by the 200,000 members of Amnesty
International USA to serve two two- year terms on their Board of
Directors from 1988 to 1992. The Nobel Peace Prize Winning Amnesty
International is an abolitionist organization that will work to prevent
the execution of any human being for any reason. So will Professor
Boyle. Amnesty International also opposes  the torture of human beings
for any reason. So does Professor Boyle.

 

Francis A. Boyle

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Champaign, IL 61820 USA

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217-244-1478 (Fax)

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[Deathpenalty] FW: [Stopwarrants] FW: Ryan for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize!

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
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217-333-7954 (Voice)
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From: stopwarrants-boun...@floridasupport.us
[mailto:stopwarrants-boun...@floridasupport.us] On Behalf Of Boyle,
Francis
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 2:36 PM
To: stopwarra...@floridasupport.us
Subject: [Stopwarrants] FW: Ryan for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize!


 
 
Francis A. Boyle
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Champaign, IL 61820 USA
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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Tuesday, April 13, 2010 2:35 PM
To: Florida_Support
Subject: Ryan for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize!


I received a letter from the Nobel Peace Prize Institute.  George Ryan
is now among 237 candidates registered for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize
that will be announced in mid-October. I already called Mrs. Ryan to
congratulate them and to express our support for all they have done to
abolish the death penalty, and that we will continue to stand behind
them.
 
fab.
 
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[Deathpenalty] George Ryan Nominated for 2010 Nobel Peace Prize

[Boyle, Francis]

I just nominated George Ryan for the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize because of
his anti-death penalty work.  I also called his wife to inform her and
she was very happy to get the news. A press release should follow.
 
fab.
 
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[Deathpenalty] FW: Ryan Registered for 2009 Nobel Peace Prize

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Friday, March 13, 2009 2:21 PM
To: sis...@floridasupport.us; je...@boyle.name
Subject: Ryan Registered for 2009 Nobel Peace Prize


OK. i have received a letter from the Norwegian Nobel Peace Prize
Committee dated March 2. They have accepted my nomination of George Ryan
for the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize. There are 205 registered candidates this
year. The decision will be announced  October 9. I called Mrs. Ryan and
she was quite happy to receive the news. i will send the original  Nobel
letter and envelope to her to convey to George Ryan.
 
fab. 
 
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[Deathpenalty] FW: [AALSMIN-L] NO TO US PREVENTIVE DETENTION LAW!

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fboyle at law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: aalsmin-l-bounces at lists.ubalt.edu 
[mailto:aalsmin-l-boun...@lists.ubalt.edu] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis
Sent: Sunday, November 16, 2008 8:42 AM
To: aalsmin-l at lists.ubalt.edu
Subject: [AALSMIN-L] NO TO US PREVENTIVE DETENTION LAW!
Sensitivity: Private


 
It  is simply amazing that Cole would join ranks with the war criminal 
Goldsmith to advocate a system of preventive detention, another constitutional 
abomination, along with Goldsmith's national security courts. In the Hamdan 
case the  Supreme Court has already applied the Geneva Conventions to  Al Qaeda 
members, Hamdan being Bin Laden's driver. Under the Third Geneva Convention, Al 
Qaeda members can be lawfully detained without instituting a system of 
preventive detention here in the United States, let alone national security 
courts. If there is one thing constitutional law history teaches us, it is that 
violations of the Constitution designed to deal with aliens will inevitably be 
applied to U.S. citizens. Indeed, it was Secretary of State (former Chairman of 
the Joint Chiefs of Staff General) Colin Powell who originally argued that the 
Third Geneva Convention should be applied to al Qaeda and Taliban. Due to the 
influence of Federalist Society lawyers such as Yoo, Goldsmith, Gonzalez , 
Wedgewood et al, it was not, resulting in the Bush administration's torture 
scandal, a crime against humanity. We applied the Third Geneva Convention to 
captured Vietcong guerillas during the Vietnam War. We can certainly apply the 
Third Geneva Convention to captured al Qaeda without instituting preventive 
detention here in the United States.
 
fab
 
Post-Guantanamo--A New Detention Law?
By WILLIAM GLABERSON 
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/g/william_glaberson/index.html?inline=nyt-per
 
Published: November 14, 2008, New York Times 

As a presidential candidate, Senator Barack Obama 
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/o/barack_obama/index.html?inline=nyt-per
  sketched the broad outlines of a plan to close the detention center at 
Guant?namo Bay 
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/national/usstatesterritoriesandpossessions/guantanamobaynavalbasecuba/index.html?inline=nyt-geo
 , Cuba: try detainees in American courts and reject the Bush administration's 
military commission system.

Now, as Mr. Obama moves closer to assuming responsibility for Guant?namo, his 
pledge to close the detention center is bringing to the fore thorny questions 
under consideration by his advisers. They include where Guant?namo's detainees 
could be held in this country, how many might be sent home and a matter that 
people with ties to the Obama transition team 
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/news/us/series/the_new_team/index.html?inline=nyt-classifier
  say is worrying them most: What if some detainees are acquitted or cannot be 
prosecuted at all?

That concern is at the center of a debate among national security, human rights 
and legal experts that has intensified since the election. Even some liberals 
are arguing that to deal realistically with terrorism, the new administration 
should seek Congressional authority for preventive detention of terrorism 
suspects deemed too dangerous to release even if they cannot be successfully 
prosecuted.

You can't be a purist and say there's never any circumstance in which a 
democratic society can preventively detain someone, said one civil liberties 
lawyer, David D. Cole, a Georgetown law professor who has been a critic of the 
Bush administration.

Although the nation has long had limited legal procedures for detaining 
dangerous people who have not been convicted of a crime, the issue has become 
particularly controversial in the context of Guant?namo, where some detainees 
have been held for almost seven years without being charged. 

Whether the Obama administration should push for a preventive detention law has 
inspired a very hot and serious debate, said Ken Gude, a national security 
scholar at the liberal Center for American Progress, adding, I've had 
conversations with progressives who think it is a good idea and conservatives 
who think it's a terrible idea.

The president-elect's transition office would not comment on whether that idea 
was even under discussion. But human rights groups have been mounting arguments 
to counter pressure that they say is building on Mr. Obama to show toughness, 
perhaps by echoing the Bush administration's insistence that some detainees may 
need to be held indefinitely.

The international law of warfare provides authority for governments to hold 
captured enemy fighters until the completion of a conflict. Tens of thousands 
of German and Italian prisoners of war were held inside the United States 
during World War II

[Deathpenalty] FW: Article from Global Research

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu] 
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 6:28 AM
To: Killeacle
Subject: Article from Global Research
Sensitivity: Private



Harvard's Gitmo Kangaroo Law School-The School for Torturers . Read the
article at http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=vaaid=9359

[Deathpenalty] FW: Harvard's Gitmo Kangaroo Law School: from AfterDowningStreet.org

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fboyle at law.uiuc.edu
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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2008 10:45 AM
To: * All Resident Faculty
Subject: FW: Harvard's Gitmo Kangaroo Law School: from
AfterDowningStreet.org


 
 
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Law Building
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From: david at davidswanson.org [mailto:da...@davidswanson.org] On Behalf
Of fboyle at law.uiuc.edu
Sent: Friday, June 13, 2008 2:59 PM
To: Boyle, Francis
Subject: fab has sent you a message from AfterDowningStreet.org


AfterDowningStreet.org http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/ 
fab mailto:fboyle at law.uiuc.edu  thought you would like to see the
AfterDowningStreet.org web site.
Message from Sender:

Harvard's Gitmo Kangaroo Law School

Boumediene v Bush, 553 U.S. Supreme Court, June 12, 2008 Versus
Harvard's Kangaroo Law School -- The School for Torturers
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/forward/emailref/34080  
by davidswanson 

By Francis A. Boyle 

Not surprisingly, the January 2007 issue of the American Journal of
Imperial Law--otherwise known as the self-styled American Journal of
International Law but originally founded and still operated by U.S.
State and War Departments' apparatchiks and their professorial
fellow-travelers--just published an article by Harvard Law School's
recently retired Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev Vagts (who
only taught me the required course on Legal Accounting) arguing in favor
of the Pentagon's Kangaroo Courts System on Guantanamo despite the fact
that they have been soundly condemned by every human rights organization
and every human rights official and leader in the entire world as well
as by the United States Supreme Court itself in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
(2006). I am not going to bother to recite here all the grievous
deficiencies of the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts under International Law and
U.S. Constitutional Law.

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[Deathpenalty] FW: | 05-27-2008 | Stop Missouri's Renegade Anesthesiologist

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Yoo Torture Memo

U of Illinois law professor Francis Boyle and I talk about the Yoo
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by davidswanson 

By Stan, http://m.podshow.com

In this episode of The MidWatch I interview Professor Francis Boyle of
the University of Illinois about the Yoo torture memo.

Professor Boyle and I also talk about the implications of this memo, and
what it means to the integrity of the US government.

We also give little quarter to the Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Party
for their failure to hold President Bush responsible for his violations
of the Constitution.

Professor Boyle has been a longtime supporter of impeachment of
President Bush, and this torture memo, and the doctrine that it
empowered, is just another incident in the continuing destruction of the
American values we must support.

Professor Boyle points out that it does not take a legal scholar to come
to the conclusion that this memo is wrong policy for America. If we are
a country that claims to want to lead the rest of the world to democracy
by example, we must hold to democratic legal processes.

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[Deathpenalty] FW: Torture Directed from White House

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-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Saturday, April 12, 2008 7:48 AM
To: aalsmin-l at lists.ubalt.edu
Subject: Torture Directed from White House



Speaking to the WSWS, Francis Boyle, a professor of international law
and human rights at the University of Illinois, said, Clearly this was
criminal activity at the time they committed it. At the very least, it
violated the Geneva Conventions, the Convention Against Torture, the War
Crimes Act, and the federal anti-torture statutes. Clearly these would
be impeachable offenses.

Boyle, who has campaigned for the impeachment and prosecution of
administration officials, said that with the recent revelations, Rice
should be added to the list of top officials guilty of war crimes.

Asked why there have been no moves for impeachment, Boyle noted, The
Democrats have been complicit in pretty much everything the
administration has done since September 11. They have continued to fund
the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan since they assumed control of Congress
in January 2007. It doesn't surprise me that they don't oppose torture.
..

Far from being opposed within the political establishment, torture goes
unpunished, the media presents the use of torture as a legitimate policy
choice, and lawyers  who argue for torture get leading positions at
major universities. Such is the decay of democracy in the United States.
 
Top Bush aides directed torture from the White House
By Joe Kay
12 April 2008
Use this version to print | Send this link by email | Email the author

Senior Bush administration officials, including Vice President Dick
Cheney and Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, participated in White
House meetings to discuss and approve specific methods of torture of
detainees in the custody of US security forces, according to media
reports.

These reports are a further confirmation that those at the highest
levels of the US government bear direct responsibility for war crimes
committed over the past several years under the cover of Washington's
global war on terror.

Citing unnamed sources, ABC News reported on Wednesday that the National
Security Council's Principals Committee met in 2002 and 2003 to review
the interrogation of several alleged Al Qaeda members held by the CIA.

ABC reported, The high-level discussions about these 'enhanced
interrogation techniques' were so detailed, these sources said, some of
these interrogation sessions were almost choreographed-down to the
number of times CIA agents could use a specific tactic. Among the
enhanced interrogation techniques-a euphemism for torture-was
waterboarding, a notorious method that involves the near drowning of the
prisoner.

The Principals Committee at that time was chaired by then-National
Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice. It included Cheney, Defense Secretary
Donald Rumsfeld, Secretary of State Colin Powell, CIA Director George
Tenet, and Attorney General John Ashcroft.

According to ABC, the discussions began after the capture of Abu
Zubaydah in the spring of 2002. Earlier this year, the Bush
administration officially acknowledged that the CIA had used
waterboarding on Zubaydah, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, and Abd al-Rahim
al-Nashiri.

In December 2007, the administration also acknowledged that the CIA had
destroyed videotapes depicting the interrogation of Zubaydah and
al-Nashiri. It is quite possible that the Principals Committee or
President Bush viewed these tapes in the course of supervising and
approving the torture of these prisoners.

In any case, the officials were involved in planning torture down to the
intricate details, indicating an almost sadistic interest. According to
an AP article published Friday, At times, CIA officers would
demonstrate some of the tactics, or at least detail how they worked, to
make sure the small group of 'principals' fully understood what the
al-Qaida detainees would undergo.

ABC News reported that the CIA asked repeatedly for approval of specific
interrogation plans. Sources said that at each discussion, all the
Principals present approved.

Several measures taken by administration officials make it apparent that
they were acutely aware that what they were approving violated
international and domestic law. All of those participating could be
subject to war crimes prosecution, in the US or in other countries.

The AP reports, The officials also took care to insulate President
Bush from the meetings. That is, there was an attempt to give the
president plausible deniability in the event that the discussions were
made public.

Nonetheless, Bush defended the meetings and the torture decisions in an
interview with ABC News Friday. Well, we started to connect the dots,
in order to protect the American people, he told ABC News White House
correspondent Martha Raddatz. And, yes

[Deathpenalty] FW: Ryan Registered for 2008 Nobel Peace Prize

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2008 1:38 PM
To: thenobelpeaceprizetoryan at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Ryan Registered for 2008 Nobel Peace Prize


I received a letter from the Norwegian Nobel Committee, dated March 6,
2008. George Ryan is one of 197 candidates officially registered for
consideration for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize, which will be announced on
October 10.
 
fab. 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
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[Deathpenalty] FW: Civil Resistance In the Age of Bush and Cheney

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fboyle at law.uiuc.edu
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From: William Hughes [mailto:liamhug...@comcast.net] 
Sent: Saturday, February 16, 2008 1:34 PM
To: William Hughes
Subject: Civil Resistance In the Age of Bush and Cheney 


Published, Feb. 16, 2008, Baltimore's Indy Media Center, at:
http://baltimore.indymedia.org/newswire/display/16855/index.php 

 Civil Resistance In the Age of Bush and Cheney

by William Hughes

Be the change that you want to see in the world. - Mohandas Gandhi

The late Philip Berrigan, Dissenter Emeritus, wrote in 1997: The
empire's wars are killing us. (1) One of the big props for that empire
is the clique in our society, known as the Military-Industrial
Complex. This is the same powerful special interest that President
Dwight D. Eisenshower warned the nation about in his Farewell Address.
(2) Peace activist Berrigan felt, as a result of the arms race, that the
world was moving towards a nuclear holocaust. In any event, Professor
Francis A. Boyle's new book, Protesting Power: War, Resistance, and
Law, reveals how some courageous individuals have successfully
challenged the many outrageous, and ongoing, crimes of our national
regimes, via their arrest in a Civil Resistance-type action, and,
subsequently, as a defendant in a court of law before a jury of their
peers.

One of the initial things that Professor Boyle does in his excellent
tome is to distinguish between the terms civil resistance and civil
disobedience. Often they are confused in the minds of the public.
Professor Boyle said that in civil resistance cases, you have
individuals, acting peaceably, who are attempting to prevent the
ongoing commission of international crimes...They are acting for the
express purpose of upholding the rule of law, the U.S. Constitution,
international, and human rights. An example of civil resistance would
be protesters risking arrest by trespassing in order to the prevent the
production and use of First Strike nuclear weapons, which Professor
Boyle claims are illegal under International Law.

Classic civil disobedience cases, on the other hand, involved activists,
who deliberately choose, by their conduct, to violate domestic laws for
the express purpose of challenging and changing those laws. As an
example, Professor Boyle cited the activists, particularly from the
African-American community, during the 1950s and 1960s, who went to jail
for various offenses, like in the historic sit-ins, in order to
spotlight racially discriminatory laws and to bring about equal Civil
Rights for all Americans. 

In his demanding role as an educator, attorney, consultant and respected
expert witness on International Law, Professor Boyle has been in the
trenches taking on the State Crimes of various U.S. administrations
for close to thirty years. Civil Resistance has been the primary tool
utilized by the activists in their legal-based, court room battles. As a
result, the civil resisters, he insists, have become the Sheriffs and
the U.S. government officials committing the crimes, the outlaws.

Professor Boyle underscores how successive U.S. administrations have
manipulated the public in order to justify their lawless ways. The
Bush-Cheney Gang is one of his prime examples. He said that it is hell
bent on stealing the hydrocarbon empire from the Muslim states and
people living in Central Asia and the Persian Gulf. Essentially, it
sells its foreign policy wrongdoings, like the war in Iraq, by posing a
Hobessian choice to the people. It suggests that there are only two
alternatives: Either threaten or use U.S. military force in a particular
situation, or allow the enemies to prevail. Professor Boyle insisted
that they ignore a third way, which embraces diplomacy, peaceful
resolutions of disputes, the application of the rules of law and the
traditions of fair play. Professor Boyle labeled the conflict in Iraq as
criminal, and the foreign policy of the Bush-Cheney Gang, which was
fueled, in part, by the rabid Neocon ideologues, as out of control.

How does civil resistance work within the framework of the American
judicial system? Well, Professor Boyle cited the People v. Jarka case,
among other landmark litigation, to illustrate some of his key points.
In 1984, activists protested in front of the Great Lake's Naval Station
base, which is located in Illinois, on Lake Michigan. The focus of the
demonstration centered on the issues of U.S.'s violence-producing
intervention in Central America and also on our country's buildup of
offensive nuclear weapons. Ronald Reagan was the president at the
time. The defendants were arrested, when they sat in front of the naval
base, locked arms, and refused to be moved. They were charged by
authorities with the crimes of mob action and resisting arrest. 

The defendants, in Jarka, elected a trial by jury. The 

[Deathpenalty] FW: [deathpenaltyusa] N.C. won't seek death penalty for Marine, but on one condition

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
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[mailto:deathpenaltyusa at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 11:08 AM
To: deathpenaltyusa at yahoogroups.com
Subject: RE: [deathpenaltyusa] N.C. won't seek death penalty for Marine,
but on one condition



This decision will not bind the United States Marine Corps from seeking
the death penalty against him under the Uniform Code of Military
Justice. So if he is in Mexico, his Mexican lawyer had better get an
assurance from the Pentagon that they will not seek the death penalty
before he is extradited for prosecution. 

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Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
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Subject: [deathpenaltyusa] N.C. won't seek death penalty for Marine, but
on one condition

N.C. won't seek death penalty for Marine, but on one condition
January 24, 2008
By ESTES THOMPSON
ASSOCIATED PRESS

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. - A grand jury indicted a Marine corporal Thursday 
on a first-degree murder charge in the death of a pregnant colleague, 
but a prosecutor said he wouldn't seek the death penalty if the man 
is arrested in Mexico.
Authorities believe Marine Cpl. Cesar Laurean has fled to his native 
Mexico, which refuses to send anyone back to the United States unless 
provided assurances they won't face the death penalty.

--

This agreement to not seek the death penalty applies only if he is 
arrested in and extradited from Mexico, said Onslow County District 
Attorney Dewey Hudson.

The remains of Lance Cpl. Maria Lauterbach, 20, were found with those 
of her fetus earlier this month in a fire pit in Laurean's back yard. 
Lauterbach, who had once accused Laurean of rape, had been missing 
since mid-December.

Before Laurean fled from Jacksonville in early January, he left a 
note for his wife, Christina, that said Lauterbach slit her own 
throat with a knife, and he then buried her in the woods near their 
home. Detective have rejected that claim, and an autopsy found that 
Lauterbach died of blunt force trauma to the head.

Hudson said the grand jury also charged Laurean with robbery with a 
dangerous weapon and a charge involving an unauthorized financial 
transaction involving card theft. The indictment states Laurean 
forced Lauterbach to remove money from her bank account on Dec. 14, 
the same day authorities believe he killed her.

But because authorities have determined that Lauterbach's child had 
not been born at the time of her death, Hudson said, prosecutors 
could only charge Laurean with one count of murder.

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[Deathpenalty] FW: Ryan Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Valid

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Friday, January 18, 2008 10:06 AM
To: 'fencepost at dailyherald.com'
Subject: Ryan Nobel Peace Prize Nomination Valid


In response to the 18 January letter by Mr. Dubinski, I thoroughly
researched this matter before I first nominated Governor Ryan for the
Nobel Peace Prize in 2003. The Nobel Rules request that qualified
Nominators keep their nomination papers confidential, which I have
always done. However, Nominators can make public the fact that they have
nominated someone for the Nobel Peace Prize. The Nobel Peace Prize
Committee has always accepted my five  nominations of Governor Ryan as
valid,  and has always enrolled him on the annual lists of Nominees,
some of whom were also made public by their respective Nominators. In
accordance with their  previous practice, I anticipate receiving an
official  letter from them in March indicating that Governor Ryan is in
the running for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize. I will be sure to send him a
copy.
 
 
Professor Francis A. Boyle
University of Illinois College of Law in Champaign
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
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[Deathpenalty] FW: George Ryan Nominated for 2008 Nobel Peace Prize

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 2:50 PM
To: thenobelpeaceprizetoryan at yahoogroups.com
Cc: 'florida_support at yahoogroups.com'
Subject: George Ryan Nominated for 2008 Nobel Peace Prize


I just nominated George Ryan for the 2008 Nobel Peace Prize because of
his courageous and heroic opposition to the death penalty, that has now
culminated in the National Moratorium that we now see in the United
States.
 
fab.
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
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[Deathpenalty] FW: [AALSMIN-L] DO THE FEDDIE! (Fall Street Journal)

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[Deathpenalty] FW: Law and Resistance

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From: Boyle, Francis 
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To: 'nytr at olm.blythe-systems.com'
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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Thursday, November 01, 2007 10:46 AM
To: Boyle, Francis
Subject: 11_20_07_blurb1.doc
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Law and Resistance: 

The Republic in Crisis and the People's Response

 

featuring

Prof. Francis Boyle, 

University of Illinois College of Law,

and

Bill Goodman,

 Center for Constitutional Rights (former Executive Director)

 

Tuesday, November 20, 2007

6 p.m.

Northwestern University School of Law

Lincoln Auditorium

357 E. Chicago Avenue

 

Sponsored by: National Lawyers Guild, Northwestern University Student
Law School chapter and Chicago Chapter of the NLG 

312-913-0039

www.nlgchicago.org 

contact at nlgchicago.org 

 

Prof. Francis Boyle teaches law at the University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaign. He is an internationally-recognized expert in
international law and human rights. His latest book, Protesting Power:
War, Resistance and Law, offers legal information and political insight
to those who resist illegitimate power and will be available at this
event. In this expert and lucid manual, international lawyer Francis
Boyle focuses his attention on civil resistance, a category that he
distinguishes sharply from civil disobedience. Civil resistance, he
persuasively argues, is a 'basic right' of American citizens under
international and domestic law, as 'it is the civil resisters who are
the sheriffs and that the U.S. government officials committing state
crimes are the outlaws.' The historical and legal analysis provide
information and understanding of inestimable value to all citizens who
care about their country.  Noam Chomsky 

 

Bill Goodman led the Center for Constitutional Rights, the leading
international human rights and humanitarian law litigation project in
the U.S., into its early and sharp challenges to the Bush regime's War
on Terror. Under his leadership, CCR took the lead in organizing
defense of Guantanamo detainees and transforming the political discourse
on what has been described as a law-free zone and continuing attacks
on fundamental rights, such as habeas corpus. Bill Goodman is the author
of many articles critical of U.S. violations of human rights at home and
around the world. He recently returned from New York to his home,
Detroit, where he continues his lifelong commitment to public-interest
law.

 

 

[Deathpenalty] FW: [AALSMIN-L] Harvard's Kangaroo Law School for Torturers

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
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217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: aalsmin-l-boun...@lists.ubalt.edu
[mailto:aalsmin-l-bounces at lists.ubalt.edu] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis
Sent: Saturday, April 21, 2007 8:37 PM
To: AALSMIN-L at lists.ubalt.edu
Subject: [AALSMIN-L] Harvard's Kangaroo Law School for Torturers


Harvard's Kangaroo Law School
The School for Torturers

by Prof. Francis A. Boyle

Global Research http://www.globalresearch.ca/ , April 21, 2007


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Not surprisingly, the newly released January 2007 issue of the American
Journal of Imperial Law--otherwise known as the self-styled American
Journal of International Law but founded and still operated by U. S.
State and War Departments' apparatchiks and their professorial
fellow-travelers--just published an article by Harvard Law School's
recently retired Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev Vagts (who
only taught me the required course on Legal Accounting) arguing in favor
of the Pentagon's Kangaroo Courts System on Guantanamo despite the fact
that they have been soundly condemned by every human rights organization
and every human rights official and leader in the entire world as well
as by the United States Supreme Court itself in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
(2006). I am not going to bother to recite here all the grievous
deficiencies of the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts under International Law and
U.S. Constitutional Law. But suffice it to say that the Gitmo Kangaroo
Courts constitute war crimes under the Laws of War, the Four Geneva
Conventions of 1949, and even the U. S. Army's own Field Manual 27-10,
The Law of Land Warfare (1956). Field Manual 27-10 was drafted for the
Pentagon by my Laws of War teacher Richard R. Baxter, who was generally
recognized as the world's leading expert on that subject, which is
precisely why I voluntarily chose to study International Law with him
and his long-time collaborator Louis B. Sohn, and not with the
bean-counter Vagts. For the entire post-World War II generation of
international law students at Harvard Law School, Louis Sohn shall
always be our real Bemis Professor of International Law and never the
False Pretender to that Throne known as Detlev Vagts.

Since those student days I have personally appeared pro bono publico in
five U.S. military courts-martial proceedings involving warfare that
were organized in accordance with the Pentagon's Uniform Code of
Military Justice (U.C.M.J.)--which still does not apply to the Gitmo
Kangaroo Courts despite the ruling by the U. S. Supreme Court in Hamdan
that the U.C.M.J. should be applied in Guantanamo--on behalf of five U.
S. military personnel who each acted as matters of courage, integrity,
principle, and conscience at great risk to their freedom:

1.  
U. S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jeff Paterson, the first U. S.
military resister to President Bush Sr.'s genocidal war against Iraq;
2.  
Army Captain Doctor Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, the highest ranking U.
S. commissioned officer to be court-martialed for refusing to
participate in President Bush Sr.'s genocidal war against Iraq;
3.  
Captain Lawrence Rockwood, who was court-martialed by the U. S.
Army for trying to stop torture in Haiti after the Clinton
administration had illegally invaded that country in 1994;
4.  
Army Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia, the first U. S. military
resister to be court-martialed for refusing to participate in President
Bush Jr.'s war of aggression against Iraq; and
5.  
Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the first U. S. commissioned
officer to be court-martialed for his refusal to participate in
President Bush Jr.'s war of aggression against Iraq.

As I can attest from my direct personal involvement, each and every one
of these five courts-martial under the U.C.M.J. were Stalinist
show-trials produced and directed by the Pentagon that predictably and
readily degenerated into travesties of justice. These five U.C.M.J.
courts-martial involving warfare each proved correct the old adage
attributed to Groucho Marx that military justice is to justice as
military music is to music. By comparison, the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts
will not even be run in accordance with the U.C.M.J. despite the fact
that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan that they should be.

Whenever they are up and running the Gitmo Courts will constitute
Stalinist Show Trials as well as Kangaroo Courts, and their preliminary
proceedings have already proven them to be Travesties of Justice. Even
worse yet, fully-functioning Stalinist Gitmo Kangaroo Courts will
quickly become conveyor-belts of death for alleged and already tortured
terrorist suspects along the lines of the Texas execution chamber

[Deathpenalty] FW: [AALSMIN-L] Harvard Kangaroo Law School.doc

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: aalsmin-l-boun...@lists.ubalt.edu
[mailto:aalsmin-l-bounces at lists.ubalt.edu] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis
Sent: Wednesday, April 18, 2007 10:41 AM
To: AALSMIN-L at lists.ubalt.edu
Subject: [AALSMIN-L] Harvard Kangaroo Law School.doc


 



Harvard's Kangaroo Law School:

The School for Torturers

By

Professor Francis A. Boyle

18 April 2007

 

Not surprisingly, the newly released January 2007 issue of
the American Journal of Imperial Law--otherwise known as the self-styled
American Journal of International Law but founded and still operated by
U. S. State and War Departments' apparatchiks and their professorial
fellow-travelers--just published an article by Harvard Law School's
recently retired Bemis Professor of International Law Detlev Vagts (who
only taught me the required course on Legal Accounting) arguing in favor
of the Pentagon's Kangaroo Courts System on Guantanamo despite the fact
that they have been soundly condemned by every human rights organization
and every human rights official and leader in the entire world as well
as by the United States Supreme Court itself in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld
(2006). I am not going to bother to recite here all the grievous
deficiencies of the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts under International Law and
U.S. Constitutional Law. But suffice it to say that the Gitmo Kangaroo
Courts constitute war crimes under the Laws of War, the Four Geneva
Conventions of 1949, and even the U. S. Army's own Field Manual 27-10,
The Law of Land Warfare (1956).  Field Manual 27-10 was drafted for the
Pentagon by my Laws of War teacher Richard R. Baxter, who was generally
recognized as the world's leading expert on that subject, which is
precisely why I voluntarily chose to study International Law with him
and not with the bean-counter Vagts.  

Since those student days I have personally appeared pro bono
publico in five U.S. military courts-martial proceedings involving
warfare that were organized in accordance with the Pentagon's Uniform
Code of Military Justice (U.C.M.J.)--which still does not apply to the
Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite the ruling by the U. S. Supreme Court in
Hamdan that the U.C.M.J. should be applied in Guantanamo--on behalf of
five U. S. military personnel who each acted as matters of courage,
integrity, principle, and conscience:

1.  U. S. Marine Corps Lance Corporal Jeff Paterson, the first U. S.
military resister to President Bush Sr.'s war against Iraq; 
2.  Army Captain Doctor Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, the highest ranking U.
S. commissioned officer to be court-martialed for refusing to
participate in President Bush Sr.'s war against Iraq; 
3.  Captain Lawrence Rockwood, who was court-martialed by the U. S.
Army for trying to stop torture in Haiti after the Clinton
administration had invaded that country in 1994; 
4.  Army Staff Sergeant Camilo Mejia, the first U. S. military
resister to be court-martialed for refusing to participate in President
Bush Jr.'s war of aggression against Iraq; and 
5.   Army First Lieutenant Ehren Watada, the first U. S.
commissioned officer to be court-martialed for his refusal to
participate in President Bush Jr.'s war of aggression against Iraq. 

As I can attest from my direct personal involvement, each
and every one of these five courts-martial under the U.C.M.J. were
Stalinist show-trials produced and directed by the Pentagon that
predictably and readily degenerated into travesties of justice. These
five U.C.M.J. courts-martial involving warfare each proved correct the
old adage attributed to Groucho Marx that military justice is to justice
as military music is to music.  By comparison, the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts
will not even be run in accordance with the U.C.M.J. despite the fact
that the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Hamdan that they should be.

Whenever they are up and running the Gitmo Courts will
constitute Stalinist Show Trials as well as Kangaroo Courts, and their
preliminary proceedings have already proven them to be Travesties of
Justice. Even worse yet, fully-functioning Stalinist Gitmo Kangaroo
Courts will quickly become conveyor-belts of death for alleged and
already tortured terrorist suspects along the lines of the Texas
execution chamber operated by George Bush Jr. when he was the governor
of that state and tortured to death 152 victims by means of lethal
injection.  But today under the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949,
executing persons detained as a result of armed conflict without a fair
trial before a regularly constituted court constitutes a grave war
crime.  To be sure, under the First Amendment to the United States
Constitution Professor Vagts has the right to advocate war crimes so
long as he does not participate in their commission

[Deathpenalty] FW: ZNet Free Update essay from Howard Zinn

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)
 



From: Boyle, Francis
Sent: Sat 4/14/2007 11:26 AM
To: sissel
Subject: FW: ZNet Free Update essay from Howard Zinn


and  Romney, currently running for President, sought to reinstate the Death 
Penalty in Massachusetts even after we had both studied this case in Criminal 
Law together at Harvard Law School. fab
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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From: Michael Albert [mailto:sy...@zmail.zmag.org]
Sent: Sat 4/14/2007 10:38 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: ZNet Free Update essay from Howard Zinn



Hello,

Apologies that we haven't sent many free ZNet Updates recently. We
have been working hard on the coming upgrade of all our online
systems. Their implementation is getting close, now, at last...but
there is still much work to be done. We have been keeping up with
the sites themselves, however, and we hope you will pay a visit to
http://www.zmag.org/weluser.htm to utilize the new materials we
place there daily.

At any rate, for this mailing, below is an eloquent piece from
Howard Zinn, an excerpt from his new book, A Power Governments
Cannot Suppress, published earlier this year by City Lights. For
Howard's upcoming speaking schedule, see the City Lights Web site:
http://www.citylights.com http://www.citylights.com/ .

Sacco and Vanzetti by Howard Zinn

The following is an excerpt from Howard Zinn's new book, A Power
Governments Cannot Suppress, published earlier this year by City
Lights. For Howard's upcoming speaking schedule, see the City Lights
Web site: http://www.citylights.com http://www.citylights.com/ .

Fifty years after the executions of Italian immigrants Sacco and
Vanzetti, Governor Dukakis of Massachusetts set up a panel to judge
the fairness of the trial, and the conclusion was that the two men
had not received a fair trial. This aroused a minor storm in Boston.

One letter, signed John M. Cabot, U.S. Ambassador Retired, declared
his great indignation and pointed out that Governor Fuller's
affirmation of the death sentence was made after a special review
by three of Massachusetts' most distinguished and respected
citizens-President Lowell of Harvard, President Stratton of MIT and
retired Judge Grant.

Those three distinguished and respected citizens were viewed
differently by Heywood Broun, who wrote in his column for the New
York World immediately after the Governor's panel made its report.
He wrote:

It is not every prisoner who has a President of Harvard University
throw on the switch for him..If this is a lynching, at least the
fish peddler and his friend the factory hand may take unction to
their souls that they will die at the hands of men in dinner jackets
or academic gowns.

Heywood Broun, one of the most distinguished journalists of the
twentieth century, did not last long as a columnist for the New
York World.

On that 50th year after the execution, the New York Times reported
that: Plans by Mayor Beame to proclaim next Tuesday 'Sacco and
Vanzetti Day' have been canceled in an effort to avoid controversy,
a City Hall spokesman said yesterday.

There must be good reason why a case 50-years-old, now over
75-years-old, arouses such emotion. I suggest that it is because
to talk about Sacco and Vanzetti inevitably brings up matters that
trouble us today: our system of justice, the relationship between
war fever and civil liberties, and most troubling of all, the ideas
of anarchism: the obliteration of national boundaries and therefore
of war, the elimination of poverty, and the creation of a full
democracy.

The case of Sacco and Vanzetti revealed, in its starkest terms,
that the noble words inscribed above our courthouses, Equal Justice
Before the Law, have always been a lie. Those two men, the fish
peddler and the shoemaker, could not get justice in the American
system, because justice is not meted out equally to the poor and
the rich, the native born and the foreign born, the orthodox and
the radical, the white and the person of color. And while injustice
may play itself out today more subtly and in more intricate ways
than it did in the crude circumstances of the Sacco and Vanzetti
case, its essence remains.

In their case, the unfairness was flagrant. They were being tried
for robbery and murder, but in the minds, and in the behavior of
the prosecuting attorney, the judge, and the jury, the important
thing about them was that they were, as Upton Sinclair put it in
his remarkable novel Boston, wops, foreigners, poor workingmen,
radicals.

Here is a sample of the police interrogation:

Police: Are you a citizen?

Sacco: No.

Police: Are you a Communist?

Sacco: No.

Police: Anarchist?

Sacco: No.

Police: Do you believe in this government of ours

[Deathpenalty] FW: HLS' Vagts for Gitmo Kangaroo Courts:Harvard's Kangaroo Law School

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Friday, April 13, 2007 11:04 AM
To: 'AALSMIN-L at lists.ubalt.edu'
Subject: HLS' Vagts for Gitmo Kangaroo Courts:Harvard's Kangaroo Law
School


The latest edition of the American Journal of Imperial Law has an
article by Harvard Law School's Bemis Professor of International Law
Detlev Vagts endorsing the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite the fact that
they have been condemned by every human rights organization in the world
as well as by the United States Supreme Court in Hamdan. I am not going
to bother to repeat here all the grievous deficiencies of the Gitmo
Kangaroo Courts under international law and US Constitutional Law. But
I have been personally involved in five court-martials under the Uniform
Code of Military Justice  over the years involving war: USMC Jeff
Paterson, the first military resistor to Gulf War I by Bush Sr; Captain
Dr. Yolanda Huett-Vaughn, the highest ranking officer to be
court-martialled for  refusing to participate in Bush Sr's Gulf War I;
Capt Lawrence Rockwood, court-martialed by the Army for trying to stop
torture in Haiti; Staff Sgt Camilo Mejia, the first military resistor to
Bush Jr's war against Iraq; and now Lt. Ehren Watada, the first
commissioned officer to be court-martialled for refusing to participate
in Bush Jr's war against Iraq. See my forthcoming Protesting Power: War,
Resistance and Law (Rowman  Littlefield Publishers Inc). As i can
attest from my personal experience, everyone of these court-martials
under the UCMJ have been Stalinist show-trials by the military. These
five UCMJ court-martials involving war prove the old adage attributed to
Groucho Marx that military justice is to justice as military music is to
music. And the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts are not even run in accordance with
the UCMJ despite the fact that the US Supreme Court in Hamdan ruled that
they should be. Whenever they are up and running the Gitmo Kangaroo
Courts will constitute Stalinist Show Trials as well as Kangaroo Courts.
And the fact that the Bemis Professor of International Law at Harvard
Law School  has publicly endorsed the Gitmo Kangaroo Courts despite
Hamdan  proves that Harvard has  a Kangaroo Law School:Harvard Kangaroo
Law School. Along with the 4 torture mongerers on the HKLS Faculty:
Dersh;Parker;Goldsmith and Waco Phil Heymann. And their  2 certifiable
war criminals: Dersh and Goldsmith. And the Dean of the Harvard Kangaroo
Law School Kagan who boasted in the Washington Post that she is so
proud to have hired their war criminal Goldsmith. And in the Boston
Globe Kagan boasted  that the future of international legal studies at
Harvard Kangaroo Law School is in the good hands of their war criminal
Goldsmith. 
The Harvard Kangaroo Law School Faculty and Deans are no longer fit
to educate Lawyers, Members of the Bar, and Officers of the Court. They
are a joke and a fraud.  Groucho Marx would have a field day with
them:Harvard is to Law Schools what Kangaroos and Torture are to Law.
 
Francis A. Boyle
former Chair, HLS Fund Campaign for Greater Illinois
 
 
 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
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-Original Message-

From: nytr at olm.blythe-systems.com [mailto:n...@olm.blythe-systems.com
mailto:nytr at olm.blythe-systems.com ] 

Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2007 4:27 PM

To: undisclosed-recipients

Subject: [NYTr] Watada: Kicking JAG's Can of Worms Down the Road

Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit

sent by Francis A. Boyle - Mar 5, 2007

Lt. Watada: Kicking JAG's Can of Worms Down the Road

by Francis Boyle

On 16 January 2007 the military judge assigned to preside at Lt.
Watada's

general court-martial Lt. Col. John Head ruled in relevant part that his

attorney Mr. Seitz could not question the legality of the Bush Jr.

administration's war against Iraq at the trial. It became obvious that
the

Pentagon was planning to railroad Lt. Watada by means of kangaroo court

proceedings. The primary obstacle to doing this was that the Pentagon
had

brought charges against Lt. Watada that made it impossible to exclude

arguments about the legality of the war at his general court-martial. It
was

a self-inflicted Catch-22 for the Pentagon.

When the court-martial opened on February 5, the Judge Advocate General

(JAG) lawyers put on evidence before the military jury that directly
raised

the issue of the legality of the war and in a manner favorable to the

defense of Lt. Watada. In addition, Mr. Seitz did a brilliant job at

cross-examination of the witnesses produced by the JAG lawyers in order
to

bring out before the military jury the relevance of the legal arguments
to

Lt. Watada's defense and in a manner favorable to Lt

[Deathpenalty] FW: THIRD STATES TO UK IRAN:INVOKE 1899 HAGUE CONVENTION FOR THE PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES!

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 10:27 AM
To: abolition-caucus at yahoogroups.com
Subject: THIRD STATES TO UK  IRAN:INVOKE 1899 HAGUE CONVENTION FOR THE
PACIFIC SETTLEMENT OF INTERNATIONAL DISPUTES!


Dear Friends:
Article 2 of the 1899 Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of
International Disputes provides that in case of serious disagreement or
conflict, before an appeal to arms, the contracting powers agree to have
recourse, as far as circumstances allow, to the good offices or
mediation of one or more friendly powers. In other words, the United
Kingdom and Iran have already agreed to have recourse to the good
offices or mediation by one or more of the contracting powers to the
1899 Hague Convention in order to settle the Sailors dispute. The
contracting parties to both the 1899 and the 1907 Hague Conventions for
the Pacific Settlement of Disputes are listed below after my previous
post of 29 March 2007.
In addition, Article 3 of the 1899 Hague Convention established the
right of states not parties to the dispute, on their own initiative, and
as far as circumstances may allow, to offer their good offices or
mediation to the States at variance. This right could be exercised by
third parties even during the course of ongoing hostilities, when the
tide of battle was turning against a belligerent, which is not yet the
case here. Most importantly, the exercise of this right by a third state
could not be regarded by one of the states in conflict (UK and Iran) as
an unfriendly act of intervention.
Therefore, what we need to do now is start a world-wide campaign to
get at least one State contracting party to the Hague Conventions for
the Pacific Settlement of International Disputes (listed below) to
exercise its good offices by   proposing  to both the United Kingdom
and Iran that they invoke Article 9 of the Convention in order to
organize an International Commission of Inquiry to resolve their dispute
over the Sailors. I would encourage all of you to pressure your
respective governments to do the same. Otherwise, a major regional  war
could erupt in the Gulf that could readily degenerate into World War
III. Remember the Guns of August!
 
Professor Francis A. Boyle
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:49 AM
To: 'Abolition Caucus List Serve'
Subject: TO UK  IRAN:Invoke 1899 Hague Convention for Pacific
Settlement of International Disputes!


Both Iran and the United Kingdom are contracting parties to the 1899
Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International
Disputes.Title III of the 1899 Convention  created a procedure for the
formation of international commissions of inquiry to investigate,
ascertain and report on international differences involving neither
honor nor vital interests, and arising from disputed points of fact that
could not be settled by means of diplomacy (article 9). An International
Commission of Inquiry is precisely what is called for here to resolve
their  dispute over the Sailors. Hence I would encourage  everyone to
pressure the Governments of both Iran and the United Kingdom  to
publicly invoke the  1899 Convention and request the immediate
organization of such a Commission to de-escalate this crisis that could
readily precipitate World War III. For more details on these Commissions
with further references, see my book Foundations of World Order (Duke
University Press:1999).
 
Professor Francis A. Boyle 
 
 
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490 TREATIES IN FORCE 2006

P

PACIFIC CHARTER

(See under DEFENSE)

PACIFIC SETTLEMENT

OF DISPUTES

(See also ARBITRATION;

INVESTMENT DISPUTES)

HAGUE CONVENTIONS (See also

RULES OF WARFARE)

Convention for the pacific settlement of international

disputes.1 Signed at The Hague July

29, 1899; entered into force September 4,

1900.

32 Stat. 1779; TS 392; 1 Bevans 230.

Convention for the pacific settlement of international

disputes. Signed at The Hague October

18, 1907; entered into force January 26,

1910.

36 Stat. 2199; TS 536; 1 Bevans 577.

Parties:

Argentina 2

Australia

Austria

Belarus 3

Belgium

Belize 4

Benin 4

Bolivia

Brazil 5

Bulgaria

Burkina Faso

Cambodia

Cameroon

Canada

Chile 5

China 6 7

Colombia

Congo, Democratic Republic of the

Costa Rica 4

Croatia 2

Cuba

Cyprus 4

Czech Republic 4

Denmark

Dominican Republic

Ecuador 2

Egypt 4

El Salvador

Eritrea 4

Estonia 4

Ethiopia 2

Fiji 2

Finland 4

France

German Democratic Republic 8

Germany, Federal Republic of 8

Greece 2

[Deathpenalty] FW: Ryan 2007 Nomination Officially Registered

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
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217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
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From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 2:32 PM
To: thenobelpeaceprizetoryan at yahoogroups.com
Subject: Ryan 2007 Nomination Officially Registered


I just received a 22 March 2007 Letter from the Norwegian Nobel
Committee stating that they have accepted my Nomination of George Ryan
for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, that he is one of 181 registered
candidates, and that the decision will be announced in mid-October. I
called him, congratulated him, and thanked him for all his fine work
against the death penalty.
fab
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 

[Deathpenalty] FW: TO UK IRAN:Invoke 1899 Hague Convention for Pacific Settlement of International Disputes!

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2007 9:49 AM
To: 'Abolition Caucus List Serve'
Subject: TO UK  IRAN:Invoke 1899 Hague Convention for Pacific
Settlement of International Disputes!


Both Iran and the United Kingdom are contracting parties to the 1899
Hague Convention for the Pacific Settlement of International
Disputes.Title III of the 1899 Convention  created a procedure for the
formation of international commissions of inquiry to investigate,
ascertain and report on international differences involving neither
honor nor vital interests, and arising from disputed points of fact that
could not be settled by means of diplomacy (article 9). An International
Commission of Inquiry is precisely what is called for here to resolve
their  dispute over the Sailors. Hence I would encourage  everyone to
pressure the Governments of both Iran and the United Kingdom  to
publicly invoke the  1899 Convention and request the immediate
organization of such a Commission to de-escalate this crisis that could
readily precipitate World War III. For more details on these Commissions
with further references, see my book Foundations of World Order (Duke
University Press:1999).
 
Professor Francis A. Boyle 
 
 
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 

[Deathpenalty] FW: Biowarfare Bush's Police State

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 8:21 AM
To: 'AALSMIN-L at lists.ubalt.edu'
Subject: Biowarfare  Bush's Police State


 



From: Bonnie Faulkner [mailto:faulk...@gunsandbutter.net] 
Sent: Wednesday, March 28, 2007 4:09 AM
To: promos at kpfa.org; Michael Manoochehri; Michael Yoshida
Cc: Yarrow Mahko; Tod Fletcher; Bonnie Bone; Boyle, Francis
Subject: Re: Promote Your Show on kpfa.org


Guns  Butter 
Wednesday, March 28, 2007, 1:00pm

Biowarfare and the Emergence of Police State America

Interview with author and professor of international law, Dr. Francis
Boyle.  The history of biological warfare development and the Biological
Weapons Convention; forced anthrax inoculations of the military; anthrax
attacks on congress and the resultant Patriot legislation setting up a
police state; FBI agent Marion Spike Bowman's thwarting of FBI
investigations into both Zacarias Moussoui and the anthrax attacks on
congress; the DNC's prevention of impeachment proceedings against Bush
and others in his administration for high crimes and misdemeanors. 
Thank you again for the interview.  The show will run tomorrow
(Wednesday) 1:00pm PST, 3pm your time, streamed live at www.kpfa.org
http://www.kpfa.org/ , and it will be archived at
www.gunsandbutter.net.



---
Bonnie Faulkner
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Wednesdays, 1:00PM
KPFA Radio 94.1FM www.kpfa.org
www.gunsandbutter.net

[Deathpenalty] FW: Ryan Officially Nominated for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
(personal comments only)
 
 



From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Tuesday, January 16, 2007 6:23 PM
To: 'florida_support at yahoogroups.com'
Subject: Ryan Officially Nominated for 2007 Nobel Peace Prize
Importance: High


OK. I faxed my nomination of Ryan for the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize through
to the Committee, and informed him and thanked him on behalf of us all.
fab. 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
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[Deathpenalty] FW: [AALSMIN-L] NEO-CON WW3

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[Deathpenalty] FW: Today's Chicago Sun-Times

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Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (Voice)
217-244-1478 (Fax)
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From: Johnson, David 
Sent: Friday, December 15, 2006 1:54 PM
To: Boyle, Francis
Subject: Today's Chicago Sun-Times



Professor Boyle on former Illinois Governor George Ryan in Chicago
Sun-Times 

Chicago Sun-Times - Michael Sneed column (Dec. 15) -- George Ryan has
done more effective work against the death penalty than the entire U.S.
abolitionist community put together, U. of I. law professor Francis
Boyle says. And he continued to speak out despite his travails ... He's
simply a monumental figure against the death penalty in the
international community.

Read Chicago Sun-Times story...
http://www.suntimes.com/news/sneed/174206,CST-NWS-sneed15.article 

[Deathpenalty] FW: Sanctioning Torture War Crimes

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Avenue
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)
 



From: Boyle, Francis
Sent: Sat 9/23/2006 10:36 AM
To: * All Resident Faculty
Subject: Sanctioning Torture  War Crimes


 
 

 

Senate-White House compromise sanctions CIA torture of detainees


By Joe Kay and Barry Grey
23 September 2006


The Bush administration and Republican senators agreed Wednesday night on 
legislation that sanctions secret CIA prisons and permits abusive interrogation 
methods that violate the Geneva Conventions and other international and 
domestic anti-torture statutes.

The bill also gives congressional approval for military commissions that strip 
Guant?namo detainees of basic due process rights, while denying them the 
elementary right to seek redress from arbitrary imprisonment through the filing 
of habeas corpus suits in US courts.

With this agreement, the US Congress is preparing to give its official 
imprimatur to the use of barbaric methods historically associated with military 
and fascist dictatorships, as well as the repudiation of democratic principles 
that go back to the Magna Carta of 1215.

The Bush administration is determined to obtain passage of the measure before 
Congress adjourns next week in advance of the November midterm elections. In 
the absence of any significant opposition from the Democratic Party, the 
agreement reached between the White House and a trio of Republican senators who 
opposed the administration's initial draft represents another milestone in the 
disintegration of American democracy. It demonstrates yet again the absence of 
any serious commitment to democratic rights within any section of the political 
establishment or either of the two major parties.

Both sides in the tussle over the terms of the bill hailed the agreement. 
Arizona Senator John McCain, one of the original opponents of the Bush-backed 
proposal, declared that the agreement gives the president the tools that he 
needs to continue to fight the war on terror, while the integrity and spirit 
of the Geneva Conventions have been preserved. CIA Director Michael Hayden 
said that if the compromise becomes law, Congress will have given us the 
clarity and the support that we need to move forward with a detention and 
interrogation program.

From the beginning, the objections of the Republican senators who opposed the 
administration's version-McCain, John Warner of Virginia and Lindsey Graham of 
South Carolina-were not based on a principled defense of international law or 
democratic rights. The main concern of the senators, and significant elements 
within the military establishment for whom they spoke, was to authorize the 
CIA program of detention and abuse without explicitly repudiating-or as Bush 
put it, clarifying-the Geneva Conventions.

The senators succeeded in shifting the administration's position in this 
regard, but the changes they obtained were almost entirely cosmetic. The 
substance of the administration's bill remains essentially intact.

We proposed a more direct approach to bringing clarification, Dan Bartlett, 
counselor to the president, said on Thursday. This one is more of the scenic 
route, but it gets us there.

In a fairly blunt assessment of the agreement, the Washington Post 
editorialized Friday, under the headline The Abuse Can Continue:

In effect, the agreement means that US violations of international human 
rights law can continue as long as Mr. Bush is president, with Congress' tacit 
assent... Mr. Bush wanted Congress to formally approve these practices and to 
declare them consistent with the Geneva Conventions. It will not. But it will 
not stop him either, if the legislation is passed in the form agreed on 
yesterday. Mr. Bush will go down in history for his embrace of torture and bear 
responsibility for the enormous damage that has caused.

Gutting the Geneva Conventions and the War Crimes Act

The administration had wanted a section that would redefine US obligations 
under Common Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions. This was in response to a 
Supreme Court ruling in June that declared Bush's military commissions 
unconstitutional and stated that all prisoners in US custody had to be held in 
accordance with Common Article 3, which prohibits outrages upon personal 
dignity, in particular, humiliating and degrading treatment. The 
administration's original bill would have said, in effect, that the US 
interprets Common Article 3 to allow for the various torture methods used by 
the CIA.

The new version does not include this language. Instead, it circumvents Common 
Article 3 of the Geneva Conventions by amending the US law, called the War 
Crimes Act, which enforces the provisions of the Geneva Conventions and other 
international treaties.

The War Crimes Act currently defines as a war crime any violation of Common 
Article 3. But the new

[Deathpenalty] FW: [thenobelpeaceprizetoryan] Ryan Verdict

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fboyle at law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 
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[mailto:thenobelpeaceprizetoryan at yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of Boyle,
Francis
Sent: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 7:56 AM
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Subject: [thenobelpeaceprizetoryan] Ryan Verdict




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   Copyright 2006 Paddock Publications, Inc.
  Chicago Daily Herald

 April 18, 2006 Tuesday
  All Editions

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 10

LENGTH: 141 words

HEADLINE: Professor thinks verdict will help Nobel Peace Prize effort

BODY:

   SPRINGFIELD - A University of Illinois law professor who's repeatedly
nominated George Ryan for the Nobel Peace Prize said Monday's guilty
verdict might actually help the former governor win the coveted award.

   In my opinion the federal government went after him for his death
penalty work, and indeed it might help Ryan over there in Norway, where
he is idolized, said Francis Boyle, a law professor at the school's
Urbana-Champaign campus.

   Boyle has nominated the former governor for a Nobel Peace Prize every
year since Ryan cleared death row in early 2003. This year is no
exception. Boyle said he's already submitted the paperwork for the 2006
award, which will be announced in October.

   Boyle said Monday that the Nobel committee will see Ryan's
prosecution for what he believes it is - retaliation for his anti- death
penalty actions.

   - Cara Spoto

LOAD-DATE: April 18, 2006


2 of 2 DOCUMENTS

 Copyright 2006 Chicago Sun-Times, Inc.
  All Rights Reserved
   Chicago Sun Times

 April 18, 2006 Tuesday
 Final Edition

SECTION: NEWS; Pg. 12

LENGTH: 637  words

HEADLINE: Political reaction

BYLINE: Scott Fornek, Dave McKinney, Tracy Swartz and Steve Warmbir, The
Chicago Sun-Times

BODY:

   Sadness over a tarnished legacy, disappointment at another corrupt
governor, elation over vindicated claims of wrongdoing and bitter
delight in seeing a politician's career go down in flames.

   Those were among the wide range of emotions that former Gov. George
Ryan's conviction brought Monday from politicians, supporters, critics
and others who knew the Kankakee Republican.

   Democrat Glenn Poshard, who lost the 1998 governor's race to Ryan
after making corruption an issue: I feel bad for the Ryan family. . . .
I feel worse for the state, frankly. . . . This is going to paint a bad
image for our state.

   Gov. Blagojevich: Today's verdict proves that no one is above the
law. And just as important, it proves that government is supposed to
exist for the good of the people, not the other way around, and
certainly not for the personal enrichment of those who hold public
office.

   State Treasurer Judy Baar Topinka, GOP candidate for governor: Now
that the jury has spoken, it's time for all of us to move forward with a
renewed commitment to honoring the public's trust by upholding the
highest standards of honesty and integrity in government.

   Thomas Ramos Jr., brother of Deborah Sepulveda, who was killed with
her two children in 1988 by one of the 167 murderers Ryan took off Death
Row: I was very pleased as far as seeing what he has coming to him. . .
. It will never bring my sister back, but I'm just glad what happened to
him because I don't like what happened with my family.

   Francis Boyle, law professor trying to get Ryan the Nobel Peace Prize
for sparing the lives of the Death Row inmates: We're still proceeding.
My committee and I are trying to convince them to give the Nobel Peace
Prize to George Ryan for his courage and heroic opposition to the death
penalty in America. . . . This really changes nothing on our part.

   U.S. Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.): My hope would be that those who are
now in public office and those who are seeking public office in the
future would use Gov. Ryan as an abject lesson and understand that being
an elected official involves enormous public trust.

   Roger The Hog Stanley, who pleaded guilty to bribery charges in
2003 and cooperated with the feds' ongoing corruption probes: I feel
very sorry for George and his family. I think he was a good governor,
yes. He was a fair man. He had a big heart for people.

   Russell Sonneveld, ex-secretary of state investigator whose probe
into the 1994 fatal crash

[Deathpenalty]FW: Filibuster Option

[Boyle, Francis]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
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217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
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Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2006 11:02 AM
To: Institute for Public Accuracy
Subject: Filibuster Option


Institute for Public Accuracy
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Wednesday, January 25, 2006

The Filibuster Option

ROBERT PARRY, robrtpa...@aol.com, http://www.ConsortiumNews.com
With the fate of the U.S. Constitution in the balance, it's hard to
believe there's no senator prepared to filibuster Supreme Court nominee
Samuel Alito, whose theories on the 'unitary executive' could spell the end
of the American democratic Republic, ConsortiumNews.com editor Parry writes
in a recent article, Alito Filibuster: It Only Takes One.
Parry adds: Alito's theory of the 'unitary executive' holds that Bush
can cite his 'plenary' -- or unlimited -- powers as Commander in Chief to
ignore laws he doesn't like, spy on citizens without warrants, imprison
citizens without charges, authorize torture, order assassinations, and
invade other countries at his own discretion. While at the Associated Press
and Newsweek, Parry broke much of the Iran-Contra scandal. His most recent
book is Secrecy  Privilege: Rise of the Bush Dynasty from Watergate to
Iraq.

PAUL ROGAT LOEB, p...@paulloeb.org, http://www.paulloeb.org
Loeb has written a series of articles on the filibuster option including
Alito's Clear and Present Danger and Filibustering Evasion. He is author
of the book Soul of a Citizen: Living With Conviction in a Cynical Time
and the editor of The Impossible Will Take a Little While: A Citizen's
Guide to Hope in a Time of Fear.

FRANCIS BOYLE, fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
Professor of law at the University of Illinois, Boyle said today: Alito
is an extremist. Any judge who refuses to declare that an innocent person
has a constitutional right to be free from execution is by definition an
extremist. ... If confirmed by the Senate, Alito will join Scalia, Thomas
and Roberts to form a solid block of four Federalist Society justices. ...
We need only one U.S. Senator with courage, integrity, principles and a safe
seat in order to start the filibuster.

JOHN BERG, jb...@suffolk.edu
Professor and director of the graduate program in Professional Politics
at Suffolk University in Boston, Berg is author of Unequal
Struggle: Class, Gender, Race and Power in the U.S. Congress. He said
today: The American system of checks and balances works imperfectly -- but
it only works at all when there is some degree of balance. An Alito
confirmation would put all the institutions of the federal government under
the control of one party, at a time when more and more policy decisions are
driven by partisanship.

For more information, contact at the Institute for Public Accuracy: Sam
Husseini, (202) 347-0020, (202) 421-6858; or David Zupan, (541) 484-9167



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From rhalp...@mail.smu.edu  Wed Jan 25 13:22:19 2006
From: rhalp...@mail.smu.edu (Rick Halperin)
Date: Wed Jan 25 13:14:30 2006
Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty newsUSA, FLA. 
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Jan. 25


USA:

Federal executions set to double in single week


The number of executions carried out by the U.S. federal government since
1988 is set to double in May, with three lethal injections scheduled in a
single week.

Convicted murderers Richard Tipton, Cory Johnson and James Roane are
scheduled to die in the federal death chamber in Terre Haute, Indiana, on
May 9, May 10 and May 12, respectively.

They don't have much in the way of legal resources remaining other than a
clemency petition to President George W. Bush, said David Elliot of the
National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.

The 3 were members of an inner-city gang in Richmond, Virginia, sentenced
to death in 1993 for taking part in a series of drug-related murders. All
three are black.

In the U.S. criminal justice system most crimes are prosecuted by states
rather than the federal government. Last year, all 60 executions carried
out were administered by states.

The federal death penalty was reinstated in November 1988 with the
introduction of a law designed to combat drug trafficking known as the
Drug Kingpin Act. Since then, Congress has added over 

[Deathpenalty] FW: [thenobelpeaceprizetoryan] Ryan Nominated for 2006!

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
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217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
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Francis
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 2:47 PM
To: 'thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com'
Cc: nppr...@compar.com
Subject: [thenobelpeaceprizetoryan] Ryan Nominated for 2006!


ok. i just nominated George Ryan for the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize. I faxed the
papers through and have a confirmed receipt. The original documents will
follow by Federal Express to them. we can put out a press release too if you
all want to along the lines of the one already put out. of course i cannot
disclose the formal nomination papers themselves since they must remain
confidential. i also called Ryan and thanked him for all his fine work
against the death penalty and he extended his thanks to all of us for
supporting him at this difficult time in his life. we had 4 lawyers draft
the nomination papers: Jerry Boyle, Karen Conti, Greg Adamski and me. fab.
 
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Oct. 21


TEXAS:

Woman Charged with 1st Degree Murder for Shaking Her Baby

In Carter County, a woman accused of shaking her 3-month-old baby to death
appeared before a judge this afternoon. KTENs Jocelyn Lockwood has the
story.

Authorities say 20-year-old Laura Renteria admitted to shaking her baby
for about a minute.

She was being held for unreasonable force against a child, but today the
District Attorneys office upped those charges.

Sometime over the weekend, Renteria brought her baby to Mercy Memorial
hospital.

The baby was injured so badly it was later flown to OU Medical Center
where it died.

Now, the District Attorneys office has upped her charge to 1st-degree
murder.

Laura Renteria told authorities she was frustrated with the child, and
that she couldnt make it stop crying.

At 1:30 today, she appeared before a Carter County judge, via video
monitor, where she learned she is now being charged with the murder of her
baby.

Well, anytime a child dies it is a difficult case, we see a lot of things
up here, but certainly thats at the top as far as the most difficult cases
to deal with emotionally, but nevertheless thats what we do, said Craig
Ladd, Assistant District Attorney. That's our job, it is to file charges
based on what the evidence indicates.

Renteria is being held in the Carter County jail on a 1-million dollar
bond.

Today, the judge set her hearing date for December 20th.

First-degree murder charges mean Renteria could face life in prison, life
in prison without parole, or the death penalty.

(source: KTEN News)



Families of the Executed to Gather for the First Time


Survivors of people who were executed by the state will gather for the
first time for a day of support, organizing, and the public launch of a
project they are calling No Silence, No Shame: families of the executed
speak out against the death penalty.

More than 20 survivors will come together in Austin, Texas on Thursday,
Oct. 27 for the event, which is being held in conjunction with the annual
conference of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. The day
of organizing will feature a 4 p.m. public ceremony, which will take place
at the Hyatt Regency on Town Lake. Families of the executed are the death
penalty's invisible victims, said Renny Cushing, Executive Director of
Murder Victims' Families for Human Rights (MVFHR). MVFHR, a non-profit
organization of families of victims of murder and state execution who work
against the death penalty, initiated the No Silence, No Shame project in
order to draw attention to the effects of the death penalty on the
relatives of the condemned. As a victims

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Oct. 16


USA:

Book Review-The Bible and the death penalty


When pressed, many Americans who support capital punishment will say it's
because the Bible requires it. But does it? In The Biblical Truth About
America's Death Penalty, a long and detailed study of the huge American
support for the death penalty, Dale S. Recinella presents convincing
exegeses of both Hebrew and Christian texts and concludes that, in using
Scripture to justify capital punishment, we misunderstand Old Testament
laws and ignore the Gospels and the example of Jesus.

Recinella, a lawyer who has spent 20 years as a lay Catholic chaplain to
death-row prisoners in Florida, reports that 87 % of American executions
have taken place in the Bible Belt since 1987. Texas was responsible for
149. Kentucky had one.

Furthermore, he says that most Christian advocates believe that the death
penalty is mandated by the Hebrew scriptures, is not prohibited by the
Gospels, and seems supported by the Epistles in the Christian scriptures.
These people believe in theonomy, he says, which holds that the laws and
commandments of the first 5 books of the Old Testament apply as much to
modern Christians as they did to ancient Israelites.

He notes, however, that such people cite and observe these rules and
regulations selectively. Indeed, Recinella finds similarities between the
methods that 19th-century Christians often used to defend slavery and
20th-century methods to justify capital punishment -- and, one might add,
the way the Bible is selectively cited and distorted to condemn
homosexuality.

Regarding the eye-for-an-eye and a life-for-a-life concept of justice, he
notes that advocates of the death penalty also have to contend with the
nagging problem that the words and deeds of Jesus Christ seem to fly in
the face of retaliatory violence.A careful reading of this book will
invite you to examine your conscience and your Bible and consider the
evidence Recinella has amassed against the American death penalty. He
believes that the Bible cannot be used legitimately to support it. See if
you agree.

(source: Courier-Journal(Wade Hall is professor emeritus of English at
Bellarmine University. Recinella will read from his book and sign copies
at Carmichael's Bookstore, 2720 Frankfort Ave., at 7 p.m. Friday. )


U.S. kills innocent too, says Sister Helen Prejean


The fine thread of justice in the intricately woven blanket of the U.S.
criminal justice system that supposedly legalizes the death penalty
remains elusive in most capital cases, where the innocent are far too
frequently executed along with the guilty, according to Sister Helen
Prejean, death penalty opponent.

Whereas the U.S. system of justice supposedly requires that specific
standards and processes be met in proving guilt or innocence, too often
biased witnesses, inconclusive or tainted evidence, overzealous
prosecutors whose only objective is to get a conviction at any cost, plea
bargains, time constraints, a blackout on information to the public,
juries easily swayed by emotional testimony and too often the very laws
and procedures of the states and federal government themselves, contribute
heavily to the conviction of innocent people, she said.

Executing an innocent person is a terrible thing, Sister Helen said, and
the death penalty is a stain on the image the United States portrays to
the rest of the world.

She was a guest speaker during Southeastern Louisiana University's Social
Justice Lecture Series.

Sister Helen is author of the nationally acclaimed book, Dead Man
Walking, which became an award winning movie starring internationally
known human rights advocate Susan Serandon. Sister Helen has recently
released a second book on the death penalty, Death of the Innocents.

Her talk, and the book Dead Man Walking, centered around the murders of
two teenagers from New Iberia on a sugar cane field lover's lane on Nov.
4, 1977. She detailed the excruciating emotional suffering of the families
of the two youngsters, especially David LeBlanc's mother.

A recurring theme, based on testimony from the families of victims, was
that the death penalty does not bring back the dead victim. Vengeance,
retribution, hatred and all the supposedly objective legal steps that lead
to the execution of the perpetrator do not fill the empty chair at the
family table.

Sister Helen said she 

[Deathpenalty]FW: Book: Biowarfare and Terrorism / Francis A. Boyle

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
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BIOWARFARE AND TERRORISM




by Francis A. Boyle




Foreword by Jonathan King




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new light on the motives for the attack, the media black hole of silence
into which it has fallen, and why the FBI may never apprehend the
perpetrators of this seminal crime of the 21st century.

Biowarfare and Terrorism should raise public concern at what the vastly
expanded US biowarfare research and purported civilian preparedness programs
hold in store for America--and the extent to which the Bush administration
is prepared to pursue them, irrespective of their incitement to a global
biowarfare arms race, and their likely exposure of the American people in
the future to both accidents and reprisals. 





ABOUT FRANCIS A. BOYLE
Francis A. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate
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the World Court. Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University
of Illinois, Champaign. He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as
a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University 



JONATHAN KING is Professor of Molecular Biology at MIT and an authority on
the genes and proteins of micro-organisms. Prof. King was a founder of the
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From: j_som...@gmx.net (Joerg Sommer)
Date: Thu Sep 22 16:46:51 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty news --- ALABAMA
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death penalty news

September 22, 2005


ALABAMA --- IMPENDING EXECUTION!

Execution nears for man convicted of killing three for sports car

A condemned inmate convicted of killing a Pell City family of three 
and driving off in their sports car awaited a decision on a stay from 
the U.S. Supreme Court as his execution neared Thursday.

John W. Peoples Jr., now 48, was convicted in December 1983 in the 
killing of Pell City businessman Paul G. Franklin and his wife, Judy 
Choron Franklin, both 34, and their 10-year-old son, Paul.

Peoples, who was denied clemency by Gov. Bob Riley, hoped the Supreme 
Court would grant a last-minute stay of his execution, scheduled for 
6 p.m. CDT Thursday at Holman prison near Atmore.

He argued in his plea that he has a right to die by electrocution, as 
his original death sentence stipulated, instead of lethal injection, 
a method Alabama adopted

[Deathpenalty]FW: NCAA: Boo to Illinois!

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
(personal comments only)
 
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On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 1:52 PM
To: 'AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' ('AALS Section on Minority
Grps. mailing list')
Subject: NCAA: Boo to Illinois!


 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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From: rhalp...@mail.smu.edu (Rick Halperin)
Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:43 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty newsOHIO, N.C., ILL., DEL. 
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March 31



OHIO:

Victim opposed death penalty, lawyer argues


An attorney argued without rebuttal before the Ohio Supreme Court for
overturning a death sentence of a man convicted of killing 2 people.
Prosecutors weren't allowed to participate because of a missed deadline.

Assistant Public Defender Robert Lowe argued Tuesday that jurors weren't
told that 1 of the victims, a a student at Kenyon College, opposed capital
punishment.

He also systematically questioned the four death penalty specifications
attached to the aggravated murder conviction of Gregory McKnight.

The state Attorney General's Office and Vinton County Prosecutor Timothy
Gleeson said they were confident the trial record is strong enough to
uphold the convictions and sentences.

McKnight, 28, was convicted in 2002 in the southern Ohio county of
shooting his co-worker Emily Murray, 20, and Greg Julious, 20, of
Chillicothe. McKnight was sentenced to life in prison for killing Julious,
whose body was dismembered and burned.

Murray's family had filed a court statement that protracted court
proceedings in a death sentence case would increase their pain, Lowe said,
and that Emily is the type of person who would give McKnight mercy.

McKnight got the death sentence because he also was convicted of
kidnapping and robbing Murray. Jurors determined he killed to avoid
detection of another crime and that the 2 murders were part of a pattern
of behavior meant to kill 2 or more people.

Justice Paul Pfeifer especially questioned the last charge. The 2 victims
didn't know each other and the killings were at different times.

The statute does not say you get death if you murder 2 people. It says
you get death if you murder two people in a continuing course of conduct,
he said. Pfeifer called the robbery conviction a tougher hurdle for the
defense.

Lowe said Murray had been seen driving near McKnight's property, and
argued there was no direct evidence of kidnapping her or stealing the car,
which was found there after her death. He also said hiding the bodies does
not mean the killings were done to cover another crime.

The empty prosecutor's table irked Pfeifer. Unfortunately, regrettably,
inexcusably the state is not here, he said.

Murray's mother, Cynthia, who watched over the Internet from her home in
Cold Spring, N.Y., told the Columbus Dispatch it was frustrating there was
no rebuttal.

Prosecutors missed by one day the deadline to participate in written and
oral arguments before the high court. An appeal to the Supreme Court is
the 1st step in the lengthy state and federal appeals process in death
penalty cases.

State prosecutors became involved after the trial judge ruled that local
prosecutors could not seek the death penalty because the county might not
be able to afford a proper prosecution and pay for McKnight's defense.

The judge changed his mind when Attorney General Jim Petro was named
special prosecutor to aid Gleeson.

(source: Cincinnati Enquirer)






NORTH CAROLINA:

Death penalty foes count noses in HouseThey seek 2-year freeze

[Deathpenalty]FW: Terri Schiavo: RIP

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
(personal comments only)
 
-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 11:26 AM
To: 'Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death
Penalty'
Subject: Terri Schiavo: RIP


Basically, Terri was tortured to death in violation of the Convention
against Torture, the US Anti-Torture Act, the Torture Victim Protection Act,
the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,  and the Universal
Declaration of Human Rights.
Francis A. Boyle
Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA (1988-92)
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
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From: rhalp...@mail.smu.edu (Rick Halperin)
Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:43 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty newsTENN., IND. 
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March 31



TENNESSEE:

Suspect in Tennessee death may have ties to other casesHitchhiker
accused of killing woman who gave him a ride


A man wanted in the death of an Oklahoma woman whose body was found in
Tennessee last week was arrested Wednesday in northwestern Pennsylvania
and may have ties to other crimes, Erie County District Attorney Brad
Foulk said.

Bobby Joe McCauley, 30, is accused of killing 29-year-old Amanda Bateman.
He was brought late Wednesday before Erie County District Judge James
Dwyer on charges of 1st-degree murder and being a fugitive from justice.
He is being held on a $1 million cash bond.

Mr. McCauley is a person of interest -- to us, the Pennsylvania State
Police, and potentially to the FBI -- in other investigations, Foulk
said.

Henderson County, Tennessee, authorities issued a warrant for McCauley's
arrest after finding Bateman's body March 23 in Natchez Trace State Park
off Interstate 40 in western Tennessee, according to Jennifer Johnson with
the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation in Nashville.

Authorities were pointed to McCauley after a phone call he made to a
family member on Bateman's cell phone.

McCauley called his mother and said he had killed someone, Johnson said.
Bateman had earlier called her own family, saying she had given a ride to
a stranger in Memphis, Tennessee. She was en route from Chandler,
Oklahoma, to visit her parents in Franklin, Tennessee -- about 200 miles
northeast of Memphis -- but never arrived.

Her car later turned up near Dallas, Texas, with McCauley's fingerprints
in the car, Johnson said. McCauley is a diagnosed schizophrenic and has
not been on his medicine for the condition, Johnson said.

McCauley was arrested about 3 p.m. Wednesday at a Harbor Creek,
Pennsylvania, truck stop, just northeast of Erie along Interstate 90,
following a tip called into an FBI field office in the state.

According to Foulk, McCauley was captured without incident by state and
local law enforcement officers, along with FBI agents, as he stood at a
pay phone. Foulk said the suspect has been cooperative with investigators
and told them he knew why they were there.

He indicated he was hitchhiking and was just passing through Erie
County, said Foulk.

Bateman's mother, Ann Phillips, said her daughter made it a practice to
give rides to strangers.

She picked up hitchhikers. She felt that was her way of serving God, by
helping people, Phillips said. We really don't approve of it. We felt it
was too risky for her to do, but she felt that it was a good thing.

David Phillips, her father, said Bateman picked up hitchhikers so she
could share her Christian faith.

She has done that all over the country and this is the first problem
case, but she -- probably even knowing that something like this would have
happened -- she'd still do it ... and died for people's sins.

The McCauley case bears some similarities to a string of unsolved murders
across at least six states over the last 3 years.

In February 2004, investigators from Oklahoma, Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana,
Tennessee and Mississippi met at Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation
headquarters to compare notes on at least 7 murder cases, but considered
several others.

The female victims in the earlier cases range in age from 19 to 47 and had
a striking number of similarities:

- Most were last seen at truck stops along Interstate 40 in Oklahoma.

- Most of the victims' bodies were found dumped along highways.

- Most had a history of prostitution or were known prostitutes.

- Most of the victims' bodies were found naked, with no other belongings
in the area.

- Some

[Deathpenalty] FW: [florida_support] FW: + (a) Bishop Lynch statement; (b) repor t on his Earthquake ex perience

[Boyle, Francis]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis [mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu] 
Sent: Friday, April 01, 2005 8:49 AM
To: Florida_Support
Subject: [florida_support] FW: + (a) Bishop Lynch statement; (b) report on
his Earthquake ex perience
Importance: High






With all due respect to the Bishop, it is Michael Schiavo, his  Attorney
Felos and Judge Greer  who are legally responsible for torturing Mrs.
Schiavo to death in violation of the Convention against Torture, the US
Anti-Torture Statute, the Torture Victim Protection Act, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, and the Universal Declaration of
Human Rights. Francis A. Boyle Professor of Law Board of Directors,Amnesty
International USA (1988-92)


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


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john_paul...@vatican.va
Subject: + (a) Bishop Lynch statement; (b) report on his Earthquake
experience


(a) Subject: Statement of Bishop Robert N. Lynch, head of Diocese of St.
Petersburg 
--
A printed version of this statement was picked up after Mass by my wife,
Maggie Hall (with three of our 4 kids along), at St. Cecelia Catholic
Church, Clearwater, Florida, on March 20, 2005, Palm Sunday -- two days
after Terri Schiavo's feeding tube was removed. Last week Bishop Lynch left
for Indonesia as part of a tsunami aid delegation and has stayed overseas
during the rising Right-to-Life crisis. He's to return to St. Petersburg
this Sunday, April 3. 
+ Kev +
Px 
= + = 
= 
= + = 
-- 
STATEMENT OF BISHOP ROBERT N. LYNCH: 

The bishops of Florida have once again addressed the issue of the withdrawal
of the artificial feeding tube from Terri Schiavo. As in the past, I join
them in addressing this complex and tragic situation. As the local bishop
and pastor for all the family parties involved, I would like to add the
following. At the end of the day (the judicial, legislative days) the
decision to remove Terri's artificial feeding tube will be that of her
husband, Michael. It is he who will give the order, not the courts and
certainly [not] the governor or legislature or the medical personnel
surrounding and caring for Terri. In other words, as I have said from the
beginning of this sad situation, the decision will be made within a family.
A significant part of that family feels they are outside of the
decision-making process and they are in great pain and suffering mightily. 

I urge and pray that before the finality, one last effort be made for
mediation. Normally, at the end of life, families of the person in extremis
agree that it is time to allow the Lord to call a loved one to Himself,
feeling that they have done all they possibly might to provide alternatives
to death, every possible treatment protocol which might be helpful has been
attempted. There is a peace. This will not happen in this instance because
of the seeming intractability of both sides. I beg and pray that both sides
might step back a little and allow some mediation in these final hours. The
legacy of Terri's situation should not be that of those who love her the
most, loathing the actions of one another, but of a heroic moment of concern
for the feelings of each other, guided by moral and ethical considerations,
with a single focus of achieving the best result for Terri. I ask the
Catholics

[Deathpenalty]FW: Terri Schiavo-- Read the FAQ

[Boyle, Francis]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 11:26 AM
To: Boyle, Francis; 'Florida_Support'; 'Death Penalty (Death Penalty)';
'nppr...@compar.com'; 'thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com';
deathpenalty...@yahoogroups.com
Cc: 'Abraham J. Bonowitz'; 'Karl Keys Esq.'; 'Teresa Norris'; 'Sissel
Egeland'
Subject: RE: Terri Schiavo-- Read the FAQ
Importance: High


Despite repeated requests to Abe to be removed from his bogus little list
because of his disgraceful  act of censorship of my criticisms of Florida's
judicial  torture/murder/execution of Terri Schiavo, he has refused to  do
so. Consequently, I will putting Abolish on my Filter list. Adieu. Francis
A. Boyle Professor of Law Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA
(1988-92)

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:59 AM
To: Florida_Support; Death Penalty (Death Penalty); nppr...@compar.com;
'thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com'
Cc: 'Abraham J. Bonowitz'; Karl Keys Esq.; Teresa Norris; Sissel Egeland
Subject: RIP:Terri Schiavo-- Read the FAQ
Importance: High


Abe censored me off the list because he did not like my comments about the
judicial execution by Judge Greer  of Terri Schiavo in violation of the
Convention against Torture, the US Anti-Torture Statute, The Torture Victim
Protection Act, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.And this  despite the fact
that he had posted on Schiavo himself. As a matter of principle, and
standing in solidarity with Terri Schiavo and her family ,  I ask to be
removed from this Abolish list for good. I want nothing more to do with
Abe's bogus little  list. I am deleting Abolish from my PAB. In the future,
I will post on Florida Support and other DP lists. Francis A. Boyle
Professor of Law Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA (1988-92)


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death
Penalty [mailto:abol...@maelstrom.stjohns.edu] On Behalf Of Abraham J.
Bonowitz
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:49 AM
To: abol...@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
Subject: Read the FAQ


Greetings All,

Francis' membership on this list has now been set to restricted status and
his posts will not come through to this list without first being approved by
one of the list owners.

Again, I offer a reminder to read the FAQ and stay within the posting
guidelines.  The link to the FAQ is at the bottom of every message posted to
this list.

--abe
Abolish List Co-Owner, along with Karl  Teresa

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From fbo...@law.uiuc.edu  Sat Apr  2 14:34:20 2005
From: fbo...@law.uiuc.edu (Boyle, Francis)
Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:44 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]RIP:John Paul II  Terri Schiavo-- Read the FAQ
Message-ID: 3c9010c6652ab645bc025f2372a86bb219ddf...@mail.law.uiuc.edu

Just before he died the Pope authorized a spokesperson to state in his name
that Terri Schiavo was murdered and that all the judges and politicians
involved bore responsibility. fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Saturday, April 02, 2005 9:59 AM
To: Florida_Support; Death Penalty (Death Penalty); nppr...@compar.com;
'thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com'
Cc: 'Abraham J. Bonowitz'; Karl Keys Esq.; Teresa Norris; Sissel Egeland
Subject: RIP:Terri Schiavo-- Read the FAQ
Importance: High


Abe censored me off the list because he did not like my comments about the
judicial execution by Judge Greer  of Terri Schiavo in violation of the
Convention against Torture, the US Anti-Torture Statute, The Torture Victim
Protection Act, the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights,
and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.And this  despite the fact
that he had posted on Schiavo himself. As a matter of principle, and
standing

[Deathpenalty] RIP:Terri Schiavo: [CUADPUpdate] Starvin' for Justice '05 - 12t h Annual FV General Announcement

[Boyle, Francis]

yeah, just  like Terri Schiavo--starved and thirsted  to death. fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: cuadpupdate-boun...@cuadp.org [mailto:cuadpupdate-boun...@cuadp.org]
On Behalf Of Abraham J. Bonowitz
Sent: Monday, April 04, 2005 4:21 PM
To: cuadpupd...@cuadp.org
Subject: [CUADPUpdate] Starvin' for Justice '05 - 12th Annual FV General
Announcement



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ANNOUNCING  INVITING YOU TO PARTICIPATE IN

The
A B O L I T I O N I S T
  A C T I O N
C O M M I T T E E ' S

STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE 2005
12th Annual Fast  Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
at the U.S. Supreme Court

June 29 - July 2, 2005


Read the who, what, when, where, why and how of this important annual 
abolitionist event by visiting the completely REVAMPED FV WEB SITE 
at  http://www.abolition.org.

The annual Fast  Vigil takes place on the sidewalk in front of the U.S. 
Supreme Court, considered by many to be the heart of the legalized killing 
machines in this country. In addition to the strong public witness, this is 
an excellent opportunity to meet other abolitionists and to recharge your 
batteries while engaging in public outreach and maintaining a physical 
presence at the Court.   ***FASTING IS OPTIONAL***

BOTTOM LINE, this is a great experience and training ground for people who 
want to practice, or become very adept, at talking about the dp.


CAN'T BE IN DC?   BE IN SOLIDARITY!

Prisoners, activists from other countries, and abolitionists who are unable 
to come to Washington, D.C. have fasted or held events in solidarity with 
the action at the Court. This tradition continues to grow as well - those 
who participate in solidarity are asked to communicate details of their 
actions and contact information to the Fast  Vigil organizers.  Please 
visit http://www.abolition.org for more information.


BE A CO-SPONSOR!

Organizational sponsors help by contributing financial, people or material 
resources to the effort to produce this event, and by spreading the word 
about this event to their members and supporters.   Individual contributors 
may give at whatever level is comfortable.  Individuals who support the FV 
at a level of $100 or more receive a commemorative Fast  Vigil or AAC 
t-shirt!   Details are at http://www.abolition.org

Please JOIN the following organizations which have already signed on to 
support the 12th Annual Fast  Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty:

* Alaskans Against the Death Penalty
* Amnesty International USA Program to Abolish the Death Penalty
* American Friends Service Committee
* Citizens United for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
* Community for Creative Nonviolence
* Computer Partners
* Directional Graphics - Call 619-531-1790 for signs and banners!
* Death Penalty Focus
* Dorothy Day Catholic Worker House
* Equal Justice USA
* Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
* Journey of Hope ...From Violence to Healing, Inc.
* Marianist Social Justice Collaborative
* Mirror Image, Inc
* Murder Victim's Families for Human Rights
* National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
* New Jerseyans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
* Ohioans to STOP Executions
* Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
* People of Faith Against the Death Penalty
* Unitarian Universalists for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
* Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
* Church of Christ - Justice and Witness Ministries
* United Methodist Church General Board of Church and Society

SENT BY:
Abe on behalf of the AAC



 The Abolitionist Action Committee is an ad-hoc group of individuals
committed to highly visible and effective public education for alternatives
to the death penalty through nonviolent direct action.

AAC c/o CUADP
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177 U.S. Hwy #1
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800-973-6548
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http://www.abolition.org

For financial  legal purposes only, the AAC is a project of CUADP  


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From rhalp...@mail.smu.edu  Tue Apr  5 00:01:41 2005
From: rhalp...@mail.smu.edu (Rick Halperin)
Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:44 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty newsTENN., GA., ALA. 
Message-ID: pine.wnt.4.44.0504042301310.3856-100...@its08705.smu.edu







April 4


TENNESSEE:

Death Penalty Case Begins To Move Through Courts


32 year old Jerry William Jones is accused of killing 4 people and
kidnapping 3 children back in January 2004.

Jones was indicted on 22 criminal 

[Deathpenalty]FW: RYAN OK!

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
(personal comments only)
 
-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Friday, April 15, 2005 1:37 PM
To: 'thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com'
Cc: nppr...@compar.com; 'sissel'
Subject: RYAN OK!


I received a letter from the Nobel Institute confirming that Ryan is among
199 candidates. The decision will be announced mid-October. fab.
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
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Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:48 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]
death penalty newsTEXAS., KY., N.C., TENN., MO., VA. 
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April 15


TEXAS:

Murderers don't get precedence


Regarding the Chronicle's April 14 article, Study: Inmates suffer during
lethal injections / Inadequate anesthesia may cause 4 in 10 to stay
conscious: Let me be sure I've got this straight.

Inmates who have been convicted and sentenced to die by the hand of the
state of Texas for such evil acts as rape, torture and murder may feel
pain when they are put to death?

And this is a concern?

What about those they killed and the horror the victims suffered at the
hand of these fiends?

There are 2 other death penalty solutions: execution by firing squad or
death by hanging. Rarely have these failed to produce a quick and
virtually painless death - well, at least, no more painful than the deaths
experienced by the victims of those heinous crimes.

These methods can also be cost-effective. Texas taxpayers who are furious
at spending millions each year just to house and then execute those on
death row will be glad to save some money.

And if the Texas prison system really wanted to boost its bottom line, it
could also allow viewing of executions.

I hope we can all agree that the rights of men and women who murder others
should not take precedent over the horrible crimes they committed or the
feelings of the victims' families and those of the general public.

LORI McNEIL - Stafford

(source: Houston Chronicle)

***

Man gets life for 2 killingsLone juror's vote prevents death penalty


After deliberating for nearly 5 hours Thursday, jurors sentenced Bevy Lee
Wilson to life in prison for beating a Flour Bluff man and his 10-year-old
son to death.

Jurors found Wilson guilty of capital murder in the Feb. 9, 2003, beating
deaths of Richard Carbaugh, 34, and his son, Dominic, who were found in
the kitchen of their Barton Street apartment. The murder weapons, a claw
hammer and a metal pipe, were found nearby.

Wilson, 46, who could have been sentenced to death, stood with his hands
behind his back and showed no emotion when the verdict was read. He will
spend at least 40 years in prison before he is eligible for parole.

My condolences to the family of Richard and Dominic, Wilson said after
jurors left the courtroom.

Defense attorney Douglas Tinker said there will be an appeal.

When Tinker and prosecutor Mark Skurka polled the jury, Skurka said jurors
indicated that they voted 11 to 1 for the death penalty. It required a
unanimous vote.

During closing arguments Thursday, Wilson became angry and called Skurka a
liar. Once jurors left the room to begin deliberations, Wilson told
District Judge Sandra Watts that prosecution witness Thomas Sower was
responsible for the killings, which defense attorneys had tried to prove
during the trial.

Sower testified that he, Wilson and Carbaugh smoked marijuana and
methamphetamine the day of the killings and said he saw Wilson beat
Carbaugh and Dominic with the hammer.

Tinker said jurors, who declined to comment about the verdict, questioned
why Sower was not indicted.

During the three-week trial, jurors heard testimony that Sower's boot
prints and fingerprints were found at the crime scene and that Wilson had
little blood on his clothes. However, Wilson's friend, Marine Soliz,
testified that Wilson had admitted to killing Carbaugh and that he had
asked her to get rid of his bloody clothes.

Carbaugh's sisters, Vanessa Rizzo and Michelle Brown, said they were
pleased with the verdict.

I'm not mad, Rizzo said. I think he does feel something. I did not know
him on drugs or off, but being in jail for two years thinking about it, he
had to feel something.

Brown said she does not believe she ever will forgive the man who killed
her brother and nephew.

I'll just take the good memories and go with those, she said. It's
always going

[Deathpenalty]FW: [NYTr] National Campaign to Impeach George W Bush

[Boyle, Francis]

To be sure, I 
personally oppose the imposition of capital punishment upon any person 
for any reason no matter how monstrous their crimes: Bush Jr., Tony 
Blair, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Vladimir Putin, Ariel Sharon, 
my former client John Wayne Gacy, etc.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: n...@olm.blythe-systems.com [mailto:n...@olm.blythe-systems.com] 
Sent: Friday, June 10, 2005 9:51 AM
To: undisclosed-recipients
Subject: [NYTr] National Campaign to Impeach George W Bush


Via NY Transfer News Collective  *  All the News that Doesn't Fit
 

The National Campaign to Impeach President George W. Bush

by Professor Francis A. Boyle

Since the U.S. Supreme Court's installation of George W. Bush as 
President in January of 2001, the peoples of the world have witnessed a 
government in the United States of America that demonstrates little if 
any respect for fundamental considerations of international law, 
international organizations, and human rights, let alone appreciation of 
the requirements for maintaining international peace and security. What 
the world has watched instead is a comprehensive and malicious assault 
upon the integrity of the international legal order by a group of men 
and women who are thoroughly Machiavellian in their perception of 
international relations and in their conduct of both foreign policy and 
domestic affairs. This is not simply a question of giving or withholding 
the benefit of the doubt when it comes to complicated matters of foreign 
affairs and defense policies to a U.S. government charged with the 
security of both its own citizens and those of its allies in Europe, the 
Western Hemisphere, and the Pacific. Rather, the Bush Jr. 
administration's foreign policies represent a gross deviation from those 
basic rules of international deportment and civilized behavior that the 
United States government had traditionally played the pioneer role in 
promoting for the entire world community. Even more seriously, in many 
instances specific components of the Bush Jr. administration's foreign 
policies constitute ongoing criminal activity under well-recognized 
principles of both international law and U.S. domestic law, and in 
particular the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the 
Nuremberg Principles.

Depending upon the substantive issues involved, those international 
crimes typically include but are not limited to the Nuremberg offenses 
of crimes against peace, crimes against humanity and war crimes, as well 
as grave breaches of the Four Geneva Conventions of 1949 and the 1907 
Hague Regulations on land warfare, torture, disappearances, and 
assassinations. In addition, various members of the Bush Jr. 
administration committed numerous inchoate crimes incidental to these 
substantive offenses that under the Nuremberg Charter, Judgment, and 
Principles were international crimes in their own right: viz., planning, 
preparation, solicitation, incitement, conspiracy, complicity, attempt, 
aiding and abetting, etc. Of course the great irony of today's situation 
is that six decades ago at Nuremberg, representatives of the U.S. 
government participated in the prosecution, punishment and execution of 
Nazi government officials for committing some of the same types of 
heinous international crimes that members of the Bush Jr. administration 
currently inflict upon people all around the world. To be sure, I 
personally oppose the imposition of capital punishment upon any person 
for any reason no matter how monstrous their crimes: Bush Jr., Tony 
Blair, Saddam Hussein, Slobodan Milosevic, Vladimir Putin, Ariel Sharon, 
my former client John Wayne Gacy, etc.

Furthermore, according to basic principles of international criminal 
law, all high-level civilian officials and military officers in the U.S. 
government who either knew or should have known that soldiers or 
civilians under their control committed or were about to commit 
international crimes, and failed to take the measures necessary to stop 
them, or to punish them, or both, are likewise personally responsible 
for the commission of international crimes. This category of officialdom 
who actually knew or at least should have known of the commission of 
such substantive or inchoate international crimes under their 
jurisdiction and failed to do anything about it typically includes the 
Secretary of Defense, Secretary of State, Director of Central 
Intelligence, the National Security Adviser, the Attorney General, the 
Pentagon's Joint Chiefs of Staff and regional CINCs, and presumably the 
President and Vice President. These U.S. government officials and their 
immediate subordinates, among others, were personally responsible for 
the commission or at least complicity in the commission of crimes 
against peace, crimes against 

[Deathpenalty]stopping Iraqi Executions

[Boyle, Francis]

Dear All:
Under the laws of war, the so-called Iraqi Provisional Government is
just  a puppet  government for which the US and the UK are responsible as
the belligerent occupants. See US Army Field Manual 27-10 (1956), the Laws
of Land Warfare. Amnesty must bombard the US and the UK governments to stop
these executions, not their puppets in  Baghdad.
 
fab
 
 
 
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
(personal comments only)
 

-Original Message-
From: thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com
[mailto:thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf Of sissel
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 1:27 PM
To: thenobelpeaceprizetor...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [thenobelpeaceprizetoryan] What is Norway doing to stop this?


 
- Original Message - 
From: sissel mailto:denm...@online.no  
To: Nobel Peace Prize for Ryan mailto:nppr...@compar.com  
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 8:25 PM
Subject: What is Norway doing to stop this?

 
- Original Message - 
From: sissel mailto:denm...@online.no  
To: Dagsrevyen mailto:dagsrev...@nrk.no  ; Sverre Lodgaard
mailto:s...@nupi.no  ; i...@nobel.no mailto:i...@nobel.no  
Sent: Tuesday, August 02, 2005 8:24 PM
Subject: What is Norway doing to stop this?



URGENT ACTION APPEAL

--

2 August 2005

UA 202/05   Fear of imminent execution

IRAQ:  48 people

According to local press reports 48 people have had their
appeals against their death sentences rejected, and are
therefore at risk of imminent execution. The sentences have
now been referred to the Presidential Council for
ratification, which is the final step before executions can
proceed. The Presidential Council is made up of President
Jalal Talababi and his two deputies, 'Adil 'Abdul Mahdi
and Shaikh Ghazi al-Yawar.

Amnesty International does not have the names of the 48,
or the charges of which they were convicted or any details
of their trials. Since the new Iraqi government was formed
in early May 2005 no executions are known to have been
carried out.

BACKGROUND INFORMATION
Executions were frequent during the government of
Saddam Hussein, which was overthrown by the invasion of
the US-led coalition in March 2003. After the invasion the
country was first run by the Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA), which suspended the death penalty in June 2003.
On 28 June 2004 power was transferred to an Iraqi interim
government.

On 8 August 2004, the interim government reinstated the
death penalty for crimes such as murder, drug trafficking
and kidnapping. The authorities justified the reintroduction
of the death penalty as a measure to deal with the
deteriorating security situation. Amnesty International
deplored the re-imposition of the death penalty in Iraq, and
has repeatedly raised its concerns with the Iraqi authorities,
making submissions to the Minister of Human Rights and
Minister of Justice. A new government was formed in early
May 2005, under Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Ja'afari, a
former Shi'a Muslim exile.

In November 2004, 10 people were sentenced to death for
criminal activities and a number of others have since
been sentenced to death for terrorist activities, rape of
women and killing of officials and policemen.

Before the new government was formed, Jalal Talabani
declared his opposition to the use of the death penalty, in
interviews with national and international media.

RECOMMENDED ACTION: Please send appeals to
arrive as quickly as possible:
- expressing concern at reports that 48 people are facing
imminent execution;
- asking to be told the full names of the 48, the charges of
which they were convicted, and the dates of their trials;
- acknowledging the seriousness of the security situation in
Iraq, but pointing out that the death penalty has never
proved to be an effective deterrent to crime;
- condemning all abuses by armed groups and others,
including kidnapping, rape and killing of civilians, and
urging that those responsible for these abuses be brought to
justice in trials that meet international standards for fair
trial and that do not impose the death penalty;
-  calling on the authorities to commute all death sentences,
and to abolish the death penalty in law and practice.

APPEALS TO: Fax numbers and e-mail addresses for
the Iraqi authorities are not available. Please send
appeals via the Iraqi embassy, asking them to forward
your appeals to:

President of the Republic of Iraq
Jalal Talabani
Salutation: Your Excellency

Prime Minister of the Republic of Iraq
Dr. Ibrahim al-Ja'afari
Salutation: Your Excellency

Ask for the Iraqi to send copies to the Acting Human Rights
Minister, Nasreen Barwari.

Ambassador Ms. Rend Al-Rahim
Embassy of the Republic of Iraq
1801 P St. NW
Washington DC 20036
Fax: 1 202 462 5066
Email:  mailto:amboff...@iraqiembassy.org amboff...@iraqiembassy.org

Please send appeals immediately. Check with the

[Deathpenalty]FW: AI/UAs: Human rights in specific countries

[Boyle, Francis]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 4:12 PM
To: Boyle, Francis; 'Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to
Abolish the Death Penalty'
Cc: 'Sissel Egeland'; 'nppr...@compar.com'; 'Rick Halperin'
Subject: AI/UAs: Human rights in specific countries


I would like to suggest to everyone on this list  that you pressure AI to
produce a boilerplate UA to be used for EVERYONE being subjected to Lethal
Injection in the United States that it constitutes torture, cruel, inhuman
and degrading treatment, in violation of the Convention against Torture, the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, the International Covenant on Civil
and Political Rights, etc. that way, in the event there are no special
circumstances, at least as a matter of principle, we would have an AI UA
for everyone--which I think is very important to do. I realize that staff
and time and resources are in short supply. But still, as a matter of
principle, AI should be able to produce a standard, boilerplate UA for
everyone facing LI in the USA who does not have other special mitigating
circumstances that can be argued. fab, AIUSA Board (1988-92)


Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 3:30 PM
To: 'Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death
Penalty'
Cc: Sissel Egeland; nppr...@compar.com
Subject: RE: Human rights in specific countries


At a minimum, AI should have a standard UA to put out for anyone being
subjected to Lethal Injection that they are being tortured to death in
violation of the Convention against Torture, the UDHR, the International
Covenant on Civil and Political Rights, etc. fab, AIUSA Board (1988-92)

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death
Penalty [mailto:abol...@maelstrom.stjohns.edu] On Behalf Of Joachim K?bler
Sent: Tuesday, July 06, 2004 2:12 PM
To: abol...@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
Subject: WG: Human rights in specific countries


Hello everybody,

I'm member of amnesty international and I was surprised, that ai doesn't
start an Urgent Action for my pen-pal Troy Kunkle, who shall be executed
tomorrow. I wrote to the international secretariat and received today = the
answer below.

Maybe it is good to know for the future.

Regards

Joachim

Der Grund der Seele ist dunkel.  Meister Eckhardt
=20
Joachim K=FCbler - Mensch(sein)/Menschenrechte
amnesty international

-Urspr=FCngliche Nachricht-
Von: jurqu...@amnesty.org [mailto:jurqu...@amnesty.org]=20
Gesendet: Dienstag, 6. Juli 2004 13:23
An: joachimkueb...@web.de
Betreff: Re: Human rights in specific countries






Dear Joachim

I am afraid it is true that, simply because so many people are sentenced =
to death in the United States, the researcher has to select death row
prisoners on the basis of certain criteria. In particular, people =
sentenced to death for crimes committed when they were under 18 (a violation
of = the US's obligations under international law), or who are mentally ill;
= cases where there is a clear racial element in sentencing (typically a
black suspect convicted by an all-white jury); and foreign nationals denied
= their right to assistance from their embassy or consul, as laid out in the
= Vienna Convention.

As I understand it, Troy Kunkle was using LSD and alcohol at the time of the
1984 murder, and had also suffered a difficult childhood. I do not = need to
say that executing him will solve nothing, and that his culpability = is
questionable. There are many others like him: I truly wish we could take
action for all of them. I realise how you must be feeling, having had = the
goodness to write to Troy Kunkle in prison. I felt the same way when I = was
involved in the case of Odell Barnes, a plainly innocent man who was
executed in March 2000 because (then Texas governor) George W. Bush = would
not take time off from electioneering to grant him a 30-day reprieve.

I am sorry I can offer so little. I can only ask you not to lose heart, =
and to continue your work against the death penalty.

Best wishes

James Urquhart

UA Team
uat...@amnesty.org
UA hotline (+44) 20 7413 5542
___

I have been a human rights defender for 10 years, but it was only after
Amnesty International issued an Urgent Action that for the first time = the
authorities proposed to protect me and my colleague. - Eren Keskin, =
Turkey




=20

   . Amnestyis

[Deathpenalty]RE: Boilerplate UA by AI on LI

[Boyle, Francis]

also, let us never underestimate the importance of an AI/UA--it once saved
the lives of 2 of my clients. fab, AIUSA Board (1988-92)
 
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
(personal comments only)
 

-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 9:45 AM
To: 'Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death
Penalty'
Cc: nppr...@compar.com; 'Rick Halperin'; Death Penalty (Death Penalty);
Sissel Egeland; 'florida_support-subscr...@yahoogroups.com'
Subject: Boilerplate UA by AI on LI


Amnesty is correct to state that they do not have the resources to
investigate and put out a separate Urgent Action for everyone here in the
United States. But they certainly have the resources to put together a
standard, boilerplate UA against Lethal Injection that they can issue when
they have decided not to particularize a UA for someone. That would serve
two functions: First, for those of us who want to mobilize against an
execution, we can use the UA. Second, it will further promote the idea that
LI constitutes torture, cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment--the core
value of AI. So  dont take no for an answer. Keep pressuring them to draft a
standard, boilerplate UA against LI. 
fab, AIUSA Board (1988-92)
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu mailto:fbo...@law.uiuc.edu 
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For Immediate Release:
Contact: AIUSA Press Office
July 19, 2004   (202) 544-0200 x 302

  Amnesty International, Other Nobel Peace Laureates Jointly File
   Amicus Curiae Brief Urging End to the Juvenile Death Penalty

(Washington, DC) - Today, former Nobel Peace prize winner Amnesty
International and fifteen other Nobel Peace laureates jointly filed an
amicus curiae brief to the United States Supreme Court urging an end to the
execution of juvenile offenders. The country's leading child advocacy
groups, medical associations, legal organizations, and faith communities
joined with them in filing friend of the court briefs in the case of Roper
versus Simmons, which will determine the constitutionality of the juvenile
death penalty.

While customary international law explicitly prohibits the execution of
juvenile offenders, the United States is the only country in the world that
proclaims its legal right to do so. Since 1998, the United States has
executed 13 juvenile offenders while the entire rest of the world carried
out 8 such executions. The briefs filed in this case highlight the
distinctiveness of children as a protected class and focus on issues
ranging from adolescent cognitive development to the treatment of minors
within international human right law.

When it comes to the juvenile death penalty, the US justice system stands
in sorry isolation from the international community, said Dr. William F.
Schulz, Executive Director of Amnesty International USA (AIUSA).  While we
pay lip service to the rhetoric of protecting our children, our enthusiasm
for executing the young is unparalleled and is considered shameful by the
rest of the world.

In October 2004, the case of Roper v. Simmons will allow the US Supreme
Court to weigh the constitutionality of executing individuals who were
under age eighteen at the time of the crime.  The Simmons case will be an
opportunity for the US to conform to international human rights standards
and to genuinely honor the obligations that we have to protect the rights
of our children, said Sue Gunawardena-Vaughn, Director of AIUSA's Program
to Abolish the Death Penalty.

With almost total unanimity among the international community that
state-sponsored execution of children is unconscionable and unlawful, it is
time for this human rights tragedy to end once and for all, concluded
Schulz.

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[Deathpenalty] FW: [aalshumanrights] Civil Resistance to State Crimes

[Boyle, Francis]

The DP is a State Crime too. fab.
 
 
Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:48 PM
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Francis A. Boyle
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217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
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From: Robison, Carol 
Sent: Wednesday, July 21, 2004 2:22 PM
To: Boyle, Francis
Subject: Precis


 

The Right of Civil Resistance to Prevent State Crimes

 

by

 

Francis A. Boyle

 

With the Regan/Bush administrations' ascent to power in January
of 1981, the peoples of the world have witnessed governments in the United
States of America that have demonstrated little if any respect for
fundamental considerations of international law, international
organizations, and human rights, let alone appreciation of the requirements
for maintaining international peace and security.  What we watched instead
is a comprehensive and malicious assault upon the integrity of the
international legal order by a group of men and women who were and still are
thoroughly Machiavellian in their perception of international relations and
in their conduct of both foreign policy and domestic affairs.  This is not
simply a question of giving or withholding the benefit of the doubt when it
comes to complicated matters of foreign affairs and defense policies to a
U.S. government charged with the security of both its own citizens and those
of its allies in Europe, the Western Hemisphere, and the Pacific.  Rather,
the Reagan/Bush administrations' foreign policy represented a gross
deviation from those basic rules of international deportment and civilized
behavior that the United States government had traditionally played the
pioneer role in promoting for the entire world community.  Even more
seriously, in many instances specific components of the Reagan/Bush
administrations' foreign policy constituted ongoing criminal activity under
well-recognized principles of both international law and U.S. domestic law,
in particular the Nuremberg Charter, the Nuremberg Judgment, and the
Nuremberg Principles.

In direct reaction to the Reagan/Bush administrations' wanton
attack upon the international and domestic legal orders, tens of thousands
of American citizens engaged in various forms of civil resistance activities
in order to protest against distinct elements of a U.S. foreign policy that
grossly violated basic principles of international law and human rights.
These citizen protests led to numerous arrests and prosecutions by federal,
state, and local governmental authorities all over the country.  Soon
thereafter, this author began to give advice, counsel and assistance to
individuals and groups who had engaged in acts of civil resistance directed
against several aspects of the U.S. government's foreign policy:  the
Nuclear Freeze Movement, the Sanctuary Movement, Greenpeace International,
the Anti-Apartheid Movement, the Plowshares Movement, the Pledge of
Resistance Campaign, Gulf War resisters, among others.  I also participated
in the defense of individuals who were not part of formal movements but
nevertheless resorted to civil resistance to protest against the U.S.
government's policies on nuclear weapons and nuclear deterrence, Central
America and the Caribbean, Southern Africa, Europe, the Middle East, etc.

In addition, I have also helped defend active duty members of
United States armed forces who were persecuted and prosecuted because of
their acts of conscience and principle.  For example, in the fall of 1990, I
served as Counsel for the successful defense of U.S. Marine Corps Lance
Corporal Jeff Paterson, the first military resister to Bush Sr.'s Gulf War
I.  Then I represented U.S.M.C. Lance Corporal David Mihaila in a successful
effort to obtain his discharge from the Marine Corps during Bush Sr.'s Gulf
War I as a Conscientious Objector.  Corporal Mihaila was the Clerk of the
Court for the Paterson court-martial proceedings and was motivated to apply
for CO status as a result of my oral argument for Corporal Paterson.

Then at the start of 1991 I served as Counsel for the defense of
Captain Dr. Yolanda Huet-Vaughn, who was court-martialed by the U.S. Army in
part because of her refusal to administer experimental vaccines to soldiers
destined to fight in the Bush Sr. Gulf War I.  Later on, I served as Counsel
for the defense of U.S. Army Captain Lawrence Rockwood, who was
court-martialed for his heroic efforts to stop torture in Haiti after the
Clinton

[Deathpenalty]FW: News: Nobel for Ryan

[Boyle, Francis]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
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-Original Message-
From: Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death
Penalty [mailto:abol...@maelstrom.stjohns.edu] On Behalf Of Boyle, Francis
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2004 9:56 AM
To: abol...@maelstrom.stjohns.edu
Subject: News: Nobel for Ryan


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  Copley News Service

August 28, 2004 Saturday

SECTION: WASHINGTON WIRE

LENGTH: 1199 words

HEADLINE: Professor nominates former Illinois governor for Nobel Prize

BYLINE: Clare Howard Copley News Service

BODY:

=A0=A0=A0Francis A. Boyle recognized before him a man wrestling with = his
soul. He witnessed the rare public spectacle of a seasoned politician
unable = to reconcile his nascent personal moral convictions with the public
policy = he was elected to enforce.

=A0=A0=A0Boyle watched the governor of a major industrial state = publicly
struggle with his position on the death penalty. He watched Illinois Gov.
George = Ryan learn too much to endorse a system which both Ryan and Boyle
believe is riddled with inconsistency and injustice.

=A0=A0=A0Boyle said, I watched Ryan wrestling with his soul, and I was =
stunned. It was a remarkable struggle, and it touched me.

=A0=A0=A0A law professor at the University of Illinois, Boyle is point = man
for an international committee advancing the nomination of Ryan for the
Nobel = Peace Prize in recognition of Ryan's work on capital punishment.

=A0=A0=A0The two men have never met. They do not know personal details =
about each other. They're an unlikely team. Boyle is a lifelong,
Harvard-educated abolitionist and activist. Ryan is a Republican
law-and-order = conservative who voted in favor of re-establishing the death
penalty when he was in = the state Legislature.

=A0=A0=A0It was as governor that Ryan had a painful change of = conscience
based, in part, on work done by journalism students at Northwestern
University. = The students were able to establish the innocence of a man on
death row. = Their work precipitated other revelations that brought into
question the reliability of the criminal justice system.

=A0=A0=A0During a recent interview in his office at the University of =
Illinois in Champaign, Boyle said he watched as Ryan suffered publicly for
his = position. That's when Boyle decided to use his special qualification
as a = professor of international law to nominate Ryan for the Nobel Peace
Prize.

=A0=A0=A0Boyle had been asked to make nominations of other people in = the
past and had always declined. Ryan is his first nomination, and it's based
on = his own initiative.

=A0=A0=A0Since making the decision, Boyle has nominated Ryan for the = past
two years. Last year, Boyle was told Ryan reportedly was among the top five
contenders for the 2003 award. Also among the top five were Pope John = Paul
II; Shirin Ebadi, who won the award; Vaclav Havel; and Luiz Inacio Lula = da
Silva.

=A0=A0=A0This spring, Boyle received a letter confirming his second =
nomination of Ryan for the 2004 prize, with results to be announced Oct. 15.

=A0=A0=A0Boyle beefed up his 2004 nomination with a copy of the =
documentary Deadline that aired on Dateline NBC last month. He also
reminded = the Nobel committee that the indictments against Ryan announced
in December cannot be used to presume any guilt.

=A0=A0=A0Boyle is outspoken in his belief the indictments are = retaliation
for Ryan's position on the death penalty, in defiance of President George =
W. Bush and Attorney General John Ashcroft who want to expand the death
penalty.

=A0=A0=A0Clear-cut retaliation, Boyle said.

=A0=A0=A0The Nobel committee gradually has moved beyond recognition of = a
person's good work and has begun to recognize people for the future impact
of = their work as well, Boyle said.

=A0=A0=A0The award is given to influence the future, not just reward = the
past, he said, noting such a philosophical shift leverages Ryan's
nomination.

=A0=A0=A0Education will change the public's perception of the death =
penalty, Boyle said, citing his own international human rights class at the
University of Illinois as an example.

=A0=A0=A0At the start of class, most students slightly favor the death =
penalty. After reviewing facts and arguing perspectives, most students favor
abolition of the death penalty, the professor said.

=A0=A0=A0We spend two weeks looking at all the arguments in favor of = the
death penalty. We look at why they are wrong, said Boyle, an avowed =
abolitionist who tells students flat out how I stand.

=A0=A0=A0Boyle said he watched in amazement as Ryan set up his special =
commission to study the death penalty with noted members, including former
U.S. = Sen. Paul Simon

[Deathpenalty] FW: DP too: Federalist Society Hijacking Justice:Torturing,Sadism Perversion Too

[Boyle, Francis]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 11:09 AM
To: 'Abolish - The Mailing List For People Working to Abolish the Death
Penalty'
Subject: DP too: Federalist Society Hijacking Justice:Torturing,Sadism 
Perversion Too


Of course Federalist Society Lawyers in federal, state, local governments
and all over the country fully support and are pushing for more  capital
punishment.Ashcroft and all his Department of Injustice lawyers are Feddies,
or Neo-cons, or both.  fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
(personal comments only)
 


-Original Message-
From: Boyle, Francis 
Sent: Monday, September 20, 2004 8:39 AM
To: 'AALS Section on Minority Grps. mailing list' ('AALS Section on Minority
Grps. mailing list')
Subject: Federalist Society Hijacking Justice:Torturing,Sadism  Perversion
Too


Now that we are all back in session, the Federalist Society are trying to
recruit new members at all of our respective law schools. As we all know,
one of the most important and longstanding objectives of the Feddies is to
overturn Brown v. The Board and return this country to jim crow, apartheid
AmeriKKKa. This the Feddies very well might do if Bush Jr wins his first
presidential election. For these reasons, the Feddies have always attracted
vicious bigots and racists against People of Color, and certainly at our law
schools against Faculty and Students of Color. The Feddie Hyena cannot
change its Racist Spots. So  I would circulate to the list once again this
pathbreaking expose against the Feddies by the late Emerge Magazine and ask
that you recirculate it  to your own students to keep them from becoming
Feddies.   In addition, since this article was written, almost all of the
lawyers involved in the torture scandal against Muslims/Arabs/Asians of
Color  are Feddies, Neo-Cons or both. Thanks to the Feddies and the
Neo-Cons, the Muslim States and Peoples of the World--all one billion of
them-- now believe that America is a Nation of Sadists and Sexual Perverts.
Of course African Americans have known that all along. fab.

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
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HIJACKING JUSTICE: FEDDIES

Almost all of the lawyers involved in the torture scandal are members of the
Federalist Society, or Neo-Cons, or both.-FAB

EMERGE, OCTOBER 1999


S P E C I A L   R E P O R T

H I J A C K I N G   J U S T I C E

The Federalist Society, a Right-wing network of lawyers, judges and
supporters, is undoing civil rights and other gains made through the courts

BY GEORGE E. CURRY  TREVOR W. COLEMAN

WHEN BROWN VS. BOARD OF EDUCATION WAS BEING ARGUED, a clerk to U.S. Supreme
Court Justice Robert Jackson suggested that the court should rule against
the plaintiffs in the landmark school desegregation case. While making the
case for maintaining segregated schools, the clerk sent a memo to his boss
saying, It is about time the Court faced the fact that white people in the
South don't like the colored people. That clerk was William Rehnquist, now
chief justice of the United States Supreme Court. Seeking to put his own
ultraconservatives on the Supreme Court with Rehnquist, President Ronald
Reagan -- who had appointed more than half of the sitting federal judges by
the time he left office -- considered nominating Lino A. Graglia, a
controversial University of Texas law professor, as a federal appeals court
judge for the 5th Circuit. But the nomination, which had been backed by
Attorney General Edwin Meese III, was jettisoned after Graglia acknowledged
that he had referred to African-Americans as pickaninnies. The American
Bar Association found the law professor not qualified to serve on the
federal bench.

Reagan did nominate Robert H. Bork, a former Yale law professor, who was on
the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Bork had opposed the 1964
Civil Rights Act, calling it an unwanted intrusion on the right of
individuals to choose with whom to associate. After bitter debate, the
Senate rejected his nomination in 1987 by a vote of 58 to 42.

Far from fading into the background, Bork, Meese, and to a lesser extent,
Graglia, are key players in the Federalist Society, a powerful Right-wing
network intent on restricting the power of courts, often at the expense of
African

[Deathpenalty]FW: [NYTr] Students: Boycott Harvard Law School!

[Boyle, Francis]

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign, IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (voice)
217-244-1478 (fax)
fbo...@law.uiuc.edu
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sent by Francis Boyle - Oct 26, 2004

[The Harvard Law School Faculty knew full well the nefarious activities that
Goldsmith had performed at the Department of Justice and the Pentagon before
they voted to hire him. Obviously, the Harvard Law School Faculty wanted a
war criminal to join their ranks. For this reason, the Harvard Law School
Faculty is not fit to educate students. I would strongly recommend that you
discourage students from attending the Harvard Law School for any reason. I
already have.

Violations of the Geneva Conventions are war crimes. Therefore, according to
Dean Kagan, the future of International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School
are in the good hands of a war criminal. Ditto for Yoo at Boalt.
 
The CIA, Justice Department and the author of the draft opinion, Jack L.
Goldsmith, former director of the Office of Legal Counsel, declined to
comment for this article. 
 
Harvard Law School Dean Kagan publicly stated that the future of
International Legal Studies at Harvard Law School is in good hands with
Goldsmith. That is precisely why you must discourage any student from going
to HLS.]

Francis A. Boyle, 
Harvard Law School, 1976
 
 
The Washington Post - Oct 24, 2004
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A57363-2004Oct23.html  

Detainees Secretly Taken Out Of Iraq 

By Dana Priest 

Practice is called breach of protections.

At the request of the CIA, the Justice Department drafted a confidential
memo that authorizes the agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq for
interrogation - a practice that international legal specialists say
contravenes the Geneva Conventions. 

One intelligence official familiar with the operation said the CIA has used
the March draft memo as legal support for secretly transporting as many as a
dozen detainees out of Iraq in the last six months. The agency has concealed
the detainees from the International Red Cross and other authorities, the
official said. 

The draft opinion, written by the Justice Department's Office of Legal
Counsel and dated March 19, 2004, refers to both Iraqi citizens and
foreigners in Iraq, who the memo says are protected by the treaty. It
permits the CIA to take Iraqis out of the country to be interrogated for a
brief but not indefinite period. It also says the CIA can permanently
remove persons deemed to be illegal aliens under local immigration law. 

Some specialists in international law say the opinion amounts to a
reinterpretation of one of the most basic rights of Article 49 of the Fourth
Geneva Convention, which protects civilians during wartime and occupation,
including insurgents who were not part of Iraq's military. 

The treaty prohibits the [i]ndividual or mass forcible transfers, as well
as deportations of protected persons from occupied territory . . .
regardless of their motive. 

The 1949 treaty notes that a violation of this particular provision
constitutes a grave breach of the accord, and thus a war crime under
U.S. federal law, according to a footnote in the Justice Department draft.
For these reasons, the footnote reads, we recommend that any contemplated
relocations of 'protected persons' from Iraq to facilitate interrogation be
carefully evaluated for compliance with Article 49 on a case by case basis.
It says that even persons removed from Iraq retain the treaty's protections,
which would include humane treatment and access to international monitors. 

During the war in Afghanistan, the administration ruled that al Qaeda
fighters were not considered protected persons under the convention. Many
of them were transferred out of the country to Guant?namo Bay and elsewhere
for interrogations. By contrast, the U.S. government deems former members of
Saddam Hussein's Baath Party and military, as well as insurgents and other
civilians in Iraq, to be protected by the Geneva Conventions. 

International law experts contacted for this article described the legal
reasoning contained in the Justice Department memo as unconventional and
disturbing. 

The overall thrust of the Convention is to keep from moving people out of
the country and out of the protection of the Convention, said former senior
military attorney Scott Silliman, executive director of Duke University's
Center on Law, Ethics and National Security. The memorandum seeks to create
a legal regime justifying conduct that the international community clearly
considers in violation of international law and the Convention. Silliman
reviewed the document at The Post's request. 

[Deathpenalty]FW: Google Alert - Francis Boyle

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Date: Tue Aug 16 12:14:52 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty newsTEXAS, WASH. 
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Nov. 4


TEXASexecution

Apologetic killer Robert Brice Morrow was executed today for the fatal
beating and slashing of a 21-year-old Nevada college student who was
abducted while home in Texas on spring break.

In a last statement, Morrow addressed the parents of his victim by name
and told them, I would like to tell you that I am responsible and I am
sorry for what I did and the pain I caused.

He expressed love to his friends and said he had been blessed that they
stood by him. Morrow urged them to stay strong.

Set me free warden, he said. Father, accept me.

As he waited for the lethal drugs to take effect, he turned again, looking
through a window at his victim's relatives and added, I do hope my death
brings you all some closure.

Then he blurted out, I feel it and gasped slightly three times. He was
pronounced dead at 6:35 p.m. CST, 8 minutes after the drugs began flowing.

The execution was delayed briefly as prison officials had difficulty
finding suitable veins in the former drug user's arms. Instead they
selected veins at the top of each hand for the needles.

Morrow, 47, a former oilfield roughneck with a criminal record in at least
three states, was condemned for the 1996 slaying of Lisa Allison, who was
taken from a car wash near her home in Liberty, about 45 miles east of
Houston. Her body was found the next day in the Trinity River. Authorities
determined she had suffered 42 injuries.

No last-day appeals were filed to try to block the punishment. The U.S.
Supreme Court two weeks ago refused to review his case.

I still can't believe that there are people that walk the earth like this
man, Mike Allison, the victim's father, said after watching Morrow die.
He paid a price tonight, a price I wanted him to pay, that he's just
beginning to pay. and he'll be paying it for eternity.

I hope now some of the anger can come out of my body so I can reflect
back on the memories, the sweet memories of Lisa, and enjoy the life and
accomplishments of my other daughter.

Lisa Allison had cheated death once, getting a clean bill of health months
earlier after surviving thyroid cancer. She was looking forward to a hotel
management career after graduation from the University of Nevada-Las
Vegas.

A witness told authorities he saw a man fitting Morrow's description lying
on top of Allison in the passenger side of a car at the car wash. She
didn't appear to be struggling and he dismissed the activity as nothing
more than boyfriend and girlfriend, then saw them drive away in the
direction of the river.

The car later was found abandoned. Morrow, who had previous convictions
for burglary, weapons possession and larceny in South Carolina, Louisiana
and Texas, was arrested nearly 4 months later walking near a crack house
in Houston.

A computer check revealed he was wanted for the slaying.

At his trial and in interviews with reporters, the 10th-grade dropout gave
multiple stories about his case, including acknowledging involvement in
her death, claiming a relationship with her and blaming someone else.

Prosecutors called Allison the victim of a random crime and disputed some
of Morrow's comments.

I caught him in several lies, said Mike Little, the Liberty County
district attorney who prosecuted Morrow. I think the jury saw through
what he was saying very quickly.

After a 10-week trial, the jury took 13 minutes to decide he should be put
to death.

I wish it didn't happen, but I can't change it, Morrow said recently
from death row. When you do drugs, there's no telling what can happen. I
did 

[Deathpenalty] FW: [NYTr] Alberto Pinochet Gonzales: Online Petition

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Online Petition Opposing confirmation of Alberto Pinochet Gonzales, the
Bush regime's nominee for Attorney General:

sent by Francis Boyle - Nov 13, 2004

http://www.PetitionOnline.com/abc9876/petition.html

To  U.S. Congress 

White House Counsel Alberto Gonzales has been nominated by the White House
to replace John Ashcroft as Attorney General. Please read the article below
about Gonzales and his violations of international and domestic law. As
Chicago international law professor Francis Boyle argues: As a presumptive
war criminal, Gonzales is not fit to be Attorney General of the United
States of America.

Please sign this petition asking Congress NOT to confirm Gonzales'
nomination. If Ashcroft was bad, Gonzales will be worse. 

Jennifer Van Bergen 

Author of The Twilight of Democracy: The Bush Plan for America (Common
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Subject: [Deathpenalty]
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Nov. 14


USA:

Death sentences at 30-year low


The number of people sentenced to death reached a 30-year low in 2003,
when the death row population fell for the 3rd year in a row, the
government reported Sunday.

Last year, 144 inmates in 25 states were given the death penalty, 24 fewer
than in 2002 and less than half the average of 297 between 1994 and 2000,
according to the Justice Department.

Death penalty opponents say the report shows how wary the public is of
executions, heightened by concerns about whether the punishment is
administered fairly and publicity about those wrongly convicted. Illinois
emptied its death row in 2003 after several inmates were found to be
innocent.

What we're seeing is hesitation on the death penalty, skepticism,
reluctance, said Richard Dieter, executive director of the Death Penalty
Information Center. I do think there is some concern about the death
penalty and it's reflected in death sentences from juries.

Opponents also point to other possible reasons, including continuing
fallout from Supreme Court decisions requiring that juries be told that
life in prison without parole is an alternative to death.

Dieter said 47 states now offer a life-without-parole sentence as an
option for at least some convictions, compared with 30 in 1993.

Supporters doubt the decline signifies a major shift in public opinion
about the death penalty, which is in effect in 38 states and the federal
justice system.

I don't think the numbers mean a lot quite frankly, said Dianne
Clements, president of the victims advocacy group Justice For All. I
don't think it means a change in death penalty attitudes. I think it means
the numbers change.

At the end of last year, 3,374 prisoners awaited execution, 188 fewer than
in 2002, according to the Bureau of Justice Statistics. Illinois accounted
for 91 percent of the decline, the result of then-Gov. George Ryan's
decision to commute the death sentences of 167 inmates to life in prison
and to pardon 4 others.

Nationally, 267 people were removed from death row last year. That was the
largest drop since 1976, when the Supreme Court reinstated the death
penalty, according to the report by the Bureau of Justice Statistics.

Last year, 65 people, all men, were executed. Texas again was the leader,
with 24, followed by Oklahoma with 14 and North Carolina with 7. No other
state had more than 3.

All but one of those men were killed by lethal injection. The other was
electrocuted.

Since 1977, 885 inmates were executed through 2003 by 32 states and the
Federal Bureau of Prisons. 2/3 of them were in 5 states: Texas, Virginia,
Oklahoma, Missouri and Florida.

The report also found:

Of death row inmates, 56 % were white, while 42 % were black. Hispanics,
who can be of 

[Deathpenalty]FW: Ding Harvard Kangaroo Law School !

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
 
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Subject: Breaking News - Information Clearing House





Professor of international law accuses Harvard of hiring  War criminal

By Jason Leopold 

11/23/04 ICH -- A Harvard University Law School alumni and professor of
international law and human rights has started a campaign to boycott the
prestigious university he once attended as a result of Harvard's hiring of
Assistant Attorney General Jack Goldsmith to join its law school faculty. 

Goldsmith was identified earlier this year as one of several legal experts
who drafted memos for the White House and the Justice Department saying the
military could skirt the rules of the Geneva Convention when interrogating
Iraqi prisoners. Legal experts have said that word about bypassing the
Geneva Convention trickled down the military chain of command and lead to
widespread abuse of Iraqi prisoners at Abu Ghraib. 

Francis Boyle, who teaches at the University Of Illinois College Of Law and
graduated magna cum laude from Harvard in 1971, said he was informed by
colleagues last spring that Harvard was considering hiring Goldsmith and
that he immediately voiced his concerns to Harvard officials. 

These (Harvard) professors think they are above the law, Boyle said in an
interview. They refused to tell me why they were hiring Goldsmith, who,
many of us in the legal profession believe is a war criminal. 

Neither Goldsmith nor Harvard law school officials would return numerous
calls for comment. 

Boyle, according to his bio, has written extensively on international law
and politics. He has published eight books. His book, Defending Civil
Resistance Under International Law, has been used successfully in numerous
foreign policy protest trials. 

Boyle is also the lead counsel for Bosnia and Herzegovina in Application of
the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide
(Bosnia and Herzegovina v. Yugoslavia (Serbia and Montenegro) currently
pending before the International Court of Justice 

Goldsmith's March 19, 2004 memo, written for then White House counsel
Alberto Gonzales, who was tapped a couple of weeks ago to replace John
Ashcroft as Attorney General, caused a furor in legal circles because it
authorized the Central Intelligence Agency to transfer detainees out of Iraq
for interrogation - a practice that international legal specialists say
contravenes the Geneva Conventions, according to an Oct. 24 report in the
Washington Post. 

One intelligence official familiar with the operation said the CIA has used
the March draft memo as legal support for secretly transporting as many as a
dozen detainees out of Iraq in the last six months. The agency has concealed
the detainees from the International Red Cross and other authorities, the
official said, the Post reported. 

Moreover, Goldsmith personally presented Gonzales, the White House counsel,
with a series of arguments that they claimed could be marshaled as defenses
against U.S. torture statutes and the United Nations Convention Against
Torture (CAT), which has been ratified by the United States, reported Inter
Press Service last month. 

The full extent to which Goldsmith advised the White House to ignore the
Geneva Convention may be revealed during Gonzales's Senate confirmation
hearing in January. 

Boyle, a former teaching fellow at Harvard and a former associate at its
Center for International Affairs, became so incensed with his alma mater's
hiring of Goldsmith in June that he immediately launched an email campaign
to boycott Harvard and said he plans to ask other alumni to withhold funds
from the University, which is in the midst of a $400 million fundraising
campaign. 

The Harvard Law School Faculty knew full well the nefarious activities that
Goldsmith had performed at the Department of Justice and the Pentagon before
they voted to hire him. Obviously, the Harvard Law School Faculty wanted a
war criminal to join their ranks. For this reason, the Harvard Law School
Faculty is not fit to educate students. I would strongly recommend that you
discourage students from attending the Harvard Law School for any reason,
states one of a dozen or so emails Boyle has distributed to colleagues,
students and Harvard faculty. 

Boyle said he is asking colleagues

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In an interview, Vagts said the Fourth Geneva Convention was written with
Nazi deportation practices in mind and was meant to prevent the kind of
transfers that Goldsmith's memo authorized.  Versus Goldsmith, author of
noted books and articles on international law, has moved into his office at
Harvard and is scheduled to begin teaching in January. Kagan said Tuesday
that ''I'm as proud of this appointment as I could be.

Goldsmith's ''work was lauded by a great many people, and we determined that
he was an absolutely superb teacher and scholar, she said. ''He puts issues
on the table that everyone focuses on and debates, and he's done that in a
very short career. He's a very agenda-setting scholar, and that's exactly
the kind of exciting scholarship that we want to have here.

HLS Dean Kagan also stated that the future of International Legal Studies at
Harvard Law School  would be in good hands with her war criminal
Goldsmith. The Nazis had their law professors and deans too.

The Harvard Law School Faculty and Dean are not fit to educate students.


fab



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From: rhalp...@mail.smu.edu (Rick Halperin)
Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:03 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty newsTEXAS, ARK., OKLA. 
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Dec. 9


TEXAS:

'Nation must confront moral implications of the death penalty'


Gov. Rick Perry made the appropriate decision to stay the execution of
Frances Newton on Dec 1. From Nov. 30-Dec. 3 there were 4 consecutive
executions scheduled in four different states. Each inmate was granted a
stay. December 2004 may go down in history as the 1st month with no U.S.
executions since July 1994.

We who live in Texas, which I call death penalty ground zero, must
struggle with this issue and all the implications bound up in the question
of taking a life. The challenge of a noble nation is to cultivate a
spiritual and moral maturity that calls on the best our nation has to
offer.

This would include the response of Mamie Till Mobley to her sons brutal
lynching in 1955 Mississippi. Emmett Till committed the worst crime
imaginable for a black man in the south. He looked the wrong way at white
woman. At Emmetts funeral

[Deathpenalty] FW: Harvard Law School Approves Crimes against Humanity

[Boyle, Francis]

 
 
 
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Subject: Harvard Law School Approves Crimes against Humanity


Goldsmith, who is considered a war criminal by some international lawyers
for his authorization of war crimes in the torture memo, recently accepted
a teaching position at Harvard Law School (HLS).

 

Francis A. Boyle, magna cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and
professor of international law at the University of Illinois, is working to
have Goldsmith and the deans who hired him at HLS replaced.  Boyle told AFP
that allowing a war criminal like Goldsmith to teach law is an
abandonment and betrayal of 80 years of progressive legal studies at
Harvard. 


 

THE PENTAGON'S GHOST PLANES 

AND ENFORCED DISAPPEARANCES 

 

By Christopher Bollyn

Exclusive to American Free Press

 

Articles in the mainstream media about a mystery jet used to transport
individuals to third countries for torture and interrogation have ignored
the important legal questions of such extraordinary renditions. 

 

There has been a flurry of articles recently in the U.S. press about an
executive jet used by American intelligence agencies to transport abducted
terrorist suspects for interrogation to third countries that use torture.
The mainstream media, however, largely omits essential details about
extraordinary rendition, a practice begun during the Clinton
administration, and ignores the legal questions it raises.

 

The Sunday Times (UK) wrote about the mystery jet, a Gulfstream 5, on Nov.
14, saying it had obtained the logs of some 300 flights showing the
movements of the Gulfstream 5 leased by agents from the U.S. defense
department and the CIA.  

 

According to the Times, the logs indicate that the U.S. has used the plane
to transport abducted prisoners to countries with poor human rights
records where they have been turned over to the authorities for torture by
proxy.

 

During the past two years, the plane, which always departs from
Washington, D.C., has flown to 49 destinations outside America, including
the Guantanamo Bay prison camp in Cuba and other U.S. military bases.
Egypt, Jordan, Iraq, Morocco, Afghanistan, and Uzbekistan are among the
foreign destinations of the torture jet, which has the registration number
N379P.

 

The Gulfstream made at least seven trips to Uzbekistan, a dictatorship
allied with the U.S. in the war on terror, where to Times wrote, the
secret police are notorious for their interrogation methods, including the
alleged boiling of prisoners.

 

I have come across many cases of rape in front of family members who they
wish to extract information from, Craig Murray, the former British
ambassador to Uzbekistan, said recently on Swedish television.  I have post
mortem photos of a corpse, Murray said. These show that the person was
boiled to death.

 

Murray said U.S. agents have sent terrorist suspects from Afghanistan to
Uzbekistan to be interrogated by torture.  Murray was recently removed from
his post after he sent a memo to Foreign Minister Jack Straw, in which he
reported that the CIA station chief in Tashkent had readily acknowledged
torture was deployed in obtaining intelligence.

 

The Washington Post, Boston Globe, and Chicago Tribune all recently reported
on the torture jet, but have focused on the phony companies with whom the
plane is registered rather than on the serious crimes it has being used to
commit. 

 

THE SWEDISH CONNECTION

 

Much of the information about the torture flights has come from a Swedish
journalist, Fredrik Laurin, who has produced four television programs about
the kidnapping and enforced disappearance of two Egyptians from Sweden in
December 2001.

 

The four-part Kalla Fakta (Cold Facts) program about the enforced
disappearance of the two Egyptians, Ahmed Agiza, 39, and Muhammad Al Zery,
33, began on Swedish television on May 17, 2004 and can be viewed on-line.
The most important details of the abductions, however, are not found in the
U.S. press. 

 

In the afternoon of December 18, 2001, Ahmed Agiza was picked up by police
on his way home from Swedish lessons in the western town of Karlstad.  His
wife and 5 children awaited him at home.

 

Meanwhile in Stockholm, Swedish security police, S?PO, arrested Al Zery at
his job.  The two Egyptians were then driven to Bromma airport in Stockholm.


 

Paul Forell, a policeman with 25 years experience, was stationed at the
police station at Bromma airport that night.  Forell told Laurin what he
observed:

 

First came the security police (S?PO) ...after five or ten minutes two

[Deathpenalty] News: [thenobelpeaceprizetoryan] Bon Voyage: Larry Marshall

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It is sad to see such an effective anti-DP proponent leaving Illinois for
California. But now that we have a moratorium here, he is certainly needed
out there with the largest death row population  in the country.. And
especially now  when California has a governor who has publicly expressed
his admiration for Adolph Hitler.
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Austrian citizenship


why should we adopt a constitutional amendment here in the USA to enable an
admirer of Hitler  to   run for President? exactly why that clause was put
into the US Constitution by our founders.
 
 
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By WILLIAM J. KOLE
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VIENNA, Austria (AP) - California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger should be 
stripped of citizenship in his native Austria for approving the execution of
a 
convicted killer, a leading Austrian politician said Saturday.

Peter Pilz, a top official with the environmentalist Green Party, said the 
Austria-born Schwarzenegger no longer is worthy of citizenship in his
homeland 
because he broke the law by clearing Donald Beardslee's execution on
Wednesday.

Capital punishment is illegal here, and Schwarzenegger - who holds dual 
U.S.-Austrian nationality - should be stripped of his Austrian passport for 
``heavily damaging the reputation of the republic,'' Pilz said.

He told Austrian media he sent the Interior Ministry a letter formally 
requesting that the government begin the process of terminating
Schwarzenegger's 
citizenship.

``Schwarzenegger is possibly the most prominent Austrian abroad, and he 
shapes the picture of Austria,'' Pilz said. ``I don't want that picture
shaped by 
someone who commits state murder. That does not correspond to the political 
culture of this country.''

Calls to the Interior Ministry seeking comment went unanswered Saturday.

It appeared unlikely that the Greens, a leftist opposition party which holds

just a handful of seats in parliament, would persuade Austria's conservative

government to revoke Schwarzenegger's citizenship.

Rarely, if ever, has Austria taken the extraordinary step of stripping 
someone of citizenship. Not even Kurt Waldheim, the former Austrian
president and 
U.N. secretary-general linked to Nazi war crimes, had his citizenship
revoked.

Beardslee, 61, convicted of killing two women over a drug deal almost a 
quarter-century ago

[Deathpenalty]RE: [deathpenaltyusa]

[Boyle, Francis]

technically, this is incorrect as a matter of law. the Supreme Court did not
treat the World Court's Interim Order of Protection to be binding, and
incorrectly so after the Judgment in the La Grande case that such Interim
Orders are binding. In any event, Mexico won a Judgment against the United
States which is binding under the United Nations Charter. fab.

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Mexican government files brief in U.S. death penalty case

ASSOCIATED PRESS

1:20 p.m. January 26, 2005

MEXICO CITY - Mexico has filed a friend-of-the-court brief with the U.S.
Supreme Court seeking to help block the execution of a Mexican national, the
Foreign Relations Department announced Wednesday.

In a news release, the department said it filed the brief on Tuesday to
support Jose Ernesto Medellin, who was sentenced to death for raping and
murdering two teenage girls in 1993 in Texas.

The brief argues that the United States should accept the ruling of the
World Court that the sentences of Medellin and 50 other Mexican death row
inmates should be reviewed because U.S. officials ignored their Geneva
Convention right to consular representation when they were arrested.

However the United States does not consider World Court rulings binding.

The Supreme Court last month agreed to hear Medellin's appeal.

Supporters of a review for Medellin argued that U.S. failure to enforce
rights for foreigners in the United States would endanger Americans arrested
abroad, who depend on similar rights to contact U.S. diplomats for help.

 
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SOUTH DAKOTA:

House panel votes to retain death penalty

A move to repeal South Dakota's death penalty was rejected by a House 
committee Monday after some lawmakers said they believe execution is 
appropriate punishment for the most horrible crimes.

The State Affairs Committee voted 10-3 to kill HB1143, which sought to end 
capital punishment in the state.

The measure's main sponsor, Rep. Gerald Lange, D-Madison, said it makes no 
sense for people to oppose abortion but support execution. Those who 
consider themselves pro-life should respect life from conception through 
natural death, he said.

Lange said such decisions on vengeance should be left to God.

The master 2005 years ago said revenge is not for us. It is for the Father 
in heaven, Lange said.

But Rep. Thomas Deadrick, R-Platte, said the death penalty is punishment, 
not revenge. South Dakota's legal system makes sure only guilty people get 
the death penalty, and those who commit such horrible crimes have forfeited 
their own lives, he said.

House Republican Leader Larry Rhoden, R-Union Center, said he believes it 
makes sense to oppose abortion but support the death penalty. Abortion 
takes innocent lives, while the death penalty holds criminals accountable 
for their acts, he said.

Lange and other opponents of the death penalty said that while the Old 
Testament called for executing criminals, Jesus never endorsed the death 
penalty.

A life for a life is Old Testament, Lange said.

But Rhoden said the Ten Commandments are a foundation for state and federal 
law. That doesn't mean the Old Testament by any means is rendered moot.

Opponents of the death penalty said it does not deter people from 
committing crimes, it leads to expensive and lengthy appeals, and it can 
cause the execution of people later found to be innocent.

Execution interferes with the opportunity for people to repent and 
establish a relationship with God, said the Rev. Roger Easland of the 
Congregational Church in Pierre.

There's no New Testament evidence that our Lord Jesus Christ would end 
human life as payment for a crime, Easland said. It seems to me a society 
that does this takes on the ultimate decision of God concerning eternal life.

Jennifer Ring, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of 
the Dakotas, said many people sentenced to death in the United States have 
later been found to be innocent.

When you do the death penalty, you can never correct your mistake, she said.

But state Attorney General Larry Long said the four men facing execution in 
South Dakota are guilty. We don't have innocent people on death row in 
South Dakota.

South Dakota's citizens support the death penalty, and that policy should 
be continued, Long said.

The four men on South Dakota's death row are: Charles Russell Rhines, 
convicted of the 1992 killing of Donnivan Schaeffer during the burglary of 
a Rapid City doughnut shop; Donald Moeller, convicted of the 1990 rape and 
murder of 9-year-old Becky O'Connell of Sioux Falls; and Briley Piper of 
Anchorage, Alaska, and Elijah Page of Athens, Texas, who both pleaded 
guilty to the 2000 beating death of Chester Allan Poage of Spearfish.

(source: AP / Aberdeen News)




NORTH CAROLINA:

Prosecutors to seek death penalty for accused cop killer

Prosecutors in Brunswick County announced in court Monday they plan to seek 
the death penalty against the man accused of killing a local police officer.

19-year-old Darrell Maness of Burlington is accused of killing Boiling 
Spring Lakes Officer Mitch Prince.

Officer Prince stopped Maness on 

[Deathpenalty]death penalty news----CONN., USA, CALIF.

[Boyle, Francis]

I gave an interview saying it was unethical for this lawyer to agree to
represent Ross in order to expedite the execution. fab.
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Feb. 4


CONNECTICUT:

Ross' Attorney Given A Week To Ponder Role


One thing became abundantly clear Thursday: Serial killer Michael Ross did
nothing to halt his own execution.

I wanted to go forward, Ross told Superior Court Judge Patrick Clifford,
referring to the execution scheduled for 2 a.m. last Saturday. I didn't
tell them to stop.

His lawyer, T.R. Paulding, did - hours after a federal judge directed him to
reconsider his advocacy of Ross' desire to die and threatened to go after
his law license if Ross was executed and evidence later cast doubt on
whether Ross was truly stable enough to opt for execution.

I did not consent to the execution being put off that night, Ross said,
his voice shrill with emotion. Attorney Paulding, because of his state of
mind, felt he needed 48 hours. ... He did that on his own. I don't fault him
for it.

This was Ross' 1st court appearance since 5 execution dates came and went in
the past 10 days. He was clearly exasperated at times and emotional at
others.

Absent the admonition by Chief U.S. District Court Judge Robert N. Chatigny
and Paulding's visceral reaction to it, Ross would have been put to death.
The U.S. Supreme Court had vacated the last legal obstacle to the execution
just four hours before it was to have taken place.

Clifford did not set a new execution date for Ross Thursday. Instead he gave
Paulding a week to investigate and soul-search about whether it is a
conflict of interest for him to continue to represent Ross and also fulfill
his obligation to the court to present any evidence of incompetence.

Last Friday's turn of events and the situation it has led to are bizarre
even for a capital case on the eve of an execution, when lawyers typically
engage in 11th-hour legal maneuvers akin to a game of high-speed chess.

At some point during the night of the scheduled execution, Ross the client
became counselor to his lawyer.

Their respective roles still appeared blurry Thursday.

I'm willing to participate in any competency hearing to protect his [law]
license, Ross said. That's why I'm doing it. I'm competent.

He has been intimidated by this judge and feels obligated to me to explore
things that I think are meaningless.

Ross told Clifford that if he had been as shaken as Paulding was after the
conversation with Chatigny, Paulding would have told him to take his
Vistaril - a powerful sedative Ross has used on perhaps a half-dozen
occasions when, he said, he feels like his head is going to explode.

It was clear to me he was very shaken, Ross said. He was white and
shaking. Attorney Paulding told me he was in no position to make a decision
and went to the commissioner and asked for a 48-hour stay.

Clifford pronounced Ross competent Dec. 28, after hearing from a
psychiatrist who had previously examined Ross and who interviewed him for
more than three hours Dec. 15 - Dr. Michael Norko. Clifford on Dec. 15
refused to let Ross' former public defenders participate in the competency
hearing. They wanted the opportunity to present evidence that Ross is
mentally incompetent, due in part to years of restrictive confinement or
death row syndrome.

Norko, after reviewing some of the information delivered to him Friday by
public defender Karen Goodrow, signed an affidavit Saturday saying several
letters from Ross highlighting his desire to die to escape death row
conditions might have altered his conclusions.

The state Supreme Court last month upheld Clifford's finding and said 150
pages of letters and affidavits presented to the court by the public
defenders lacked meaningful evidence.

But when Chief Public Defender Gerard Smyth appealed to Chatigny, he found a
receptive ear. Chatigny had researched death row conditions during a case in
the mid-1990s, and said he was deeply disturbed by what he saw.

In order to gain standing to intervene on Ross' behalf to halt any
execution, the public defenders have to convince a judge that he is
incompetent.

Now that Clifford has reconvened hearings on the Ross case, Chatigny
Thursday dismissed the public defenders' appeal, but left open the option
that they could return to his court with another appeal.

Attorney General Richard Blumenthal said he is convinced Chatigny should no
longer preside over any aspect of the case because his actions, at a
minimum, appeared to undermine his role as an impartial, objective arbiter.

Blumenthal said he was prepared 

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March 18


TEXAS:

A wider death-penalty lawyer poolBill clears need for experience in
representing capital defendants


Former prosecutors with no experience as defense attorneys could qualify
for appointment to death penalty cases under a bill given preliminary
House approval Thursday.

House Bill 268 would create a larger pool of attorneys who could be
appointed to represent indigent defendants, said House
CriminalJurisprudence Committee Chairman Terry Keel, R-Austin, author of
the bill.

The House voted unanimously in favor of the bill. A final vote is
scheduled Monday.

Under current law, an attorney must have experience as lead defense
counsel in a significant number of felony cases, including homicide
trials, before being appointed to a death penalty case.

Keel's bill would require attorneys to exhibit proficiency and commitment
to providing quality representation to defendants in death penalty cases
and to receive training.

Supporters say former prosecutors have experience and skills that defense
attorneys lack, such as the ability to anticipate the prosecution's
strategy and cross-examination.

This bill makes Texas standards the best in the nation in terms of
qualifications, Keel said.

Critics say the bill is a step backward in efforts to improve the quality
of lawyers who defend individuals on trial for their lives.

The idea that you're going to improve the quality of lawyers by lowering
the standards and expanding the pool of lawyers who are able to get
appointed is exactly the opposite of what's needed to improve capital
defendant representation, said Bill Beardall, director of the Equal
Justice Center.

Andrea Marsh, director of the Fair Defense Project of the ACLU of Texas,
said death penalty cases are the wrong kind of case to have someone
learning as they go along.

Keel said his bill would for the 1st time require attorneys to have
experience selecting a jury in a death penalty case as part of a
prosecution or defense trial team. It also would prohibit the appointment
of anyone found to have rendered ineffective assistance during a trial or
appeal of a criminal case.

Beardall and Marsh are supporting the Fair Defense Improvement Act, Senate
Bill 1218, filed by Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston.

That bill would boost state funding for indigent defense to reduce the
financial burden on Texas counties, which pay for 90 % of the legal fees.

(source: Houston Chronicle)

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Atascosa is denied rehearing in ambush


Texas' highest criminal appeals court has denied Atascosa County's request
for a new hearing after the justices overturned the 2001 capital murder
conviction of Kenneth Vodochodsky last year.

The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals reasserted in its decision Wednesday
that the evidence against Vodochodsky, 24, was circumstantial and so weak
as to undermine confidence in the jury's determination.

The appeals court remanded the case back to the trial court.

District Attorney Ren Pea of the 81st Judicial District said he has 15
days to decide what action his office will take next.

I need to assess the situation and assess the case, he said Thursday.
As you know, it's something that happened when I wasn't here (as district
attorney). Obviously, if we need to retry the case, we will.

A Karnes County jury sentenced Vodochodsky to death in connection with the
Oct. 12, 1999, shooting death of Atascosa County Sheriff's Deputy Thomas
Monse Jr.

Monse was 1 of 3 officers ambushed and killed near Pleasanton. The other 2
officers killed were Deputy Mark Stephenson and Texas Department of Public
Safety Trooper Terry Miller.

Pea said he also is evaluating other indictments his office has pending
against Vodochodsky, including the attempted capital murder of former
Pleasanton Police Officer Louis Tudyk.

Vodochodsky