[news] Anti-Death Penalty Campaigner on Death Row in Texas: The Case of Kenneth Foster

[Mostly Water - "Canadian" and International alternative news feed]

...Kenneth Foster [is] a young African-American resident of Texas who is facing execution at the end of August 2007. His case revolves around a very controversial law known as the "law of parties." In essence, this law imposes the death penalty on anybody involved in a crime where a murder occurred, even if the accused was not involved in the murder or even aware that the killer intended to commit murder.

  


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