Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Sign Petition Here I Dream A World End . . The Death Penalty

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The Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty

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The Religious Organizing Against the Death Penalty Project
was created to galvanize and empower the religious community in the United States to work against capital punishment. Coordinated by the American Friends Service Committee's criminal justice program, the Project provides people of faith with the tools and resources they need to become effective advocates for abolition.

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Monday, February 26, 2007

Author of Journey Toward Justice Dennis Fritz Will Be At S.J. Quinney College of Law at The University of Utah March 2, 2007

Author of Journey Toward Justice Dennis Fritz will be at The S.J. Quinney College of Law at the University of Utah March 2, 2007 Friday 11:30 to 1:00 .
A prestigious law school nestled within the Wasatch range in the Rocky Mountains of Utah. Dennis Fritz will be Speaking about many issues such as: Wrongful Convictions, Death Penalty and The Innocence Project

Sunday, February 25, 2007

Mother of Debbie Sue Carter Meets Dennis Fritz For The First Time At Book Signing and The Juror That Saved Him


On Oct.14,2006 at The Ada Arts Heritage Center Dennis Fritz had a Book Signing.
There for the first time met Peggy Carter Sanders, Mother of Debbie Sue Carter and Bonnie Flowers. Dennis Fritz was convicted of rape and murder after a swift trail.
The vote of a single juror, Bonnie Flowers saved him from the death penalty and was sentenved to life behind bars. His co-defendant, Ronnie Williamson, was sentenced to death.
On April 15,1999, after twelve years of wrongful imprisonment, Dennis and Ron were free men. Dennis Fritz's book is called Journey Toward Justice Publisher Seven Locks Press ISBN: 1931643954 .

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Amnesty International USA The Case Of Troy Davis

Amnesty International USA The Case Of Troy Davis

UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

‘Where is the justice for me? ’

The case of Troy Davis, facing execution in Georgia

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Saturday, February 24, 2007

Fight For Justice Where Is Help? Here At Innocence Denied

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"Never give up in your fight for justice and know that truth of your innocence will see the light if you steadfastly maintain the vigil."

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The Innocence Protection Act 2001 Patrick Leahy US Senator


Patrick Leahy US Senator
Overview
The Innocence Protection Act of 2001 is a carefully crafted package of criminal justice reforms aimed at reducing the risk that innocent persons may be executed. Most urgently, the bill would afford greater access to DNA testing by convicted offenders; and help States improve the quality of legal representation in capital cases.

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Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Statement of Dennis Fritz U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE JUNE 12, 2000

STATEMENT OF DENNIS FRITZ U.S. SENATE JUDICIARY COMMITTEE JUNE 12, 2000

Good morning Chairman Hatch, Senator Leahy, and other Members of the Committee. My name is Dennis Fritz. I live in Kansas City, Missouri and I am here today with my mother, Mrs. Wanda Fritz.
It is a great honor and privilege to be here on behalf of all other wrongfully convicted people around the country who are suffering unjustly for crimes that they did not commit.
In May of 1987, I was arrested for a rape and murder that I neither committed, nor had any knowledge of whatsoever. I was arrested five years after the crime occurred, and from that day forward everything went wrong throughout the entire judicial process.
I spent the next twelve years serving a life sentence until I was finally able to prove my innocence, for which my thanks go to Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld for their endless efforts on my behalf.
My co-defendant, Ron Williamson, was also wrongfully convicted of the same crime and he was sentenced to death. He came within 5 days of being executed.
We were both freed on the same day in April 1999, after it was proven through DNA evidence that neither of us could have committed the crime. The prosecutor agreed to dismiss the charges. Furthermore, DNA evidence also established who the real killer was.
At the time of the murder, I was a science teacher and a football coach at a junior high school in Ada, Oklahoma. My daughter Elizabeth was eleven years old.
I loved my family. I loved my job.

Just the fact that I was a suspect in a murder got me fired from my job. Five years later I was arrested. The detectives then told me they knew I had not committed the crime, but they believed I knew who did it. From the very beginning, I always told them I was innocent, but it made no difference.
My trial began on April 8, 1988. It was a living nightmare. The prosecutor's case was almost entirely built on the lies of jailhouse snitches who got their sentences reduced for testifying against me.

Even the real killer was used by the prosecution as a witness against both myself and the co-defendant. At the time of the trial no one had even bothered to test his DNA. After I was convicted, I appealed my case throughout the Oklahoma courts. My appeals were denied at every stage of the judicial proceedings.
At the time of my conviction in 1988, DNA testing had just been accepted by the scientific community. For years while in prison, I repeatedly petitioned the courts to allow me to get my DNA tested. I was flat out denied by one court after another. By the time I got in touch with Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld, I had lost seven court decisions, and I had just about lost hope.

For twelve long years, I did not see my daughter Elizabeth or my mother. I could not bear for Elizabeth to see what went on in that prison, so I restricted her from visiting me. It was not the kind of thing that any eleven year-old girl should see, and it tore my heart out by not being able to see her. I was subjected to indignities that no person should have to suffer, let alone a person who was innocent of the crime.

The refusal of the State of Oklahoma to compare my DNA with the crime scene evidence was only one of the reasons why I lost all those years of my life. The other reason was my trial attorney's total ineffectiveness. First, he had no real incentive to defend me since he had only received $500 dollars for representing me in a capital murder case. And besides that, he had never handled a murder case in his life. In fact, he had never handled any type of criminal case whatsoever, due to the fact that he was a civil liabilities lawyer.
I wholeheartedly believe that if I had had adequate representation from a qualified lawyer, I would not have been convicted. I would never have been forced to endure the cruelties which Senator Leahy's bill seeks to prevent.

It is more than past time to put an end to these unmerciful travesties of injustice that occur when the truth is hidden or disregarded. I appeal to you, the Members of this Committee, to enact the necessary laws to fully assure that no human being will ever have to suffer unjustly for something of which they are totally innocent.
Thank you.

Tuesday, February 20, 2007

John Grisham Writing The Innocent Man All Started With Reading The New York Times

One Day John Grisham picked up The New York Times and read the obituaries. He read about Ronald Williamson - John Grisham Said “After reading the entire obituary, I knew it had the makings of a much longer story, " To find that story, his first step was calling Williamson’s sister, Annette, in Tulsa, who had been mentioned in the obituary.
It took me about 10 minutes to convince her it wasn’t a crank call,” Grisham said. Annette eventually shared the full story, at which point Grisham said he “realized the obituary had hardly scratched the surface. Ron Williamson died Dec. 4, 2004

From New York Times:
Ronald Williamson, Freed From Death Row, Dies at 51 Ronald Keith Williamson, who left his small town in Oklahoma as a high school baseball star with hopes of a major league career but was later sent to death row and came within 5 days of execution for a murder he did not commit, died on Saturday at a nursing home near Tulsa. He was 51.
Mr. Williamson's early life appeared charmed. As a pitcher and catcher in Ada, he twice led his high school teams to the championship of a state where another native son, Mickey Mantle, enjoyed the status of near deity. The Oakland Athletics picked Mr. Williamson in the 2nd round of the 1971 amateur draft. After 6 years in the minor leagues, Mr. Williamson saw his career end because of arm injuries.
He returned to Oklahoma and worked at a sales job, but began to show signs of a mental illness that was eventually diagnosed as bipolar disorder.

In late 1982, a waitress, Debbie Sue Carter, 21, was found raped and killed in her apartment in Ada. The case remained open until 1987, when a woman who had been arrested for passing bad checks told the police that she had heard another prisoner discussing the killing. The man, she said, was Mr. Williamson, who had been in the jail for kiting checks. Mr. Williamson was charged with the killing.

So was a 2nd man, Dennis Fritz, a high school science teacher who had been one of Mr. Williamson's few friends when he returned to town after his baseball career.
The evidence, the authorities said, consisted of 17 hairs that matched those of Mr. Williamson and Mr. Fritz, and the account provided by the woman who said she had heard Mr. Williamson confess.

A 2nd jailhouse informer later stepped forward to buttress the case against Mr. Fritz. Mr. Williamson and Mr. Fritz were tried separately and found guilty. Mr. Fritz was sentenced to life in prison, and Mr. Williamson - who had not received his psychiatric medicines for months before the trial and shouted angrily at the prosecution witnesses - was sentenced to die. Mr. Williamson later said the prison guards taunted him over an intercom about Ms. Carter's murder.

In September 1994, when all of his state appeals had been exhausted, he was taken to the warden's office and told that he would be executed on Sept. 24. He recalled filling out a form that directed his body to be returned to his sister for burial.

A team of appellate lawyers, however, sought a writ of habeas corpus from Judge Frank H. Seay of Federal District Court, arguing that Mr. Williamson had not been competent to stand trial and that his lawyer had not effectively challenged the hair evidence or sought other suspects. Judge Seay granted a stay 5 days before Mr. Williamson was scheduled to die.
In 1998, lawyers from the Innocence Project at the Benjamin C. Cardozo School of Law in New York arranged DNA tests for Mr. Williamson and Mr. Fritz. They showed that neither man had been the source of the semen or hair collected from the victim's body. Another man, Glen D. Gore, has since been convicted of the killing and sentenced to die for it.


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Monday, February 19, 2007

The Jailhouse Snitch The Innocence Project Dennis Fritz and Ron Williamson

In 1982, high school science teacher Dennis Fritz was living near Ada, Okla., raising his 8-year-old daughter, Elizabeth, whose mother had been murdered by a deranged neighbor when Elizabeth was 2 years old. Fritz frequently visited Ada, where he befriended Ron Williamson a tall, lanky local who suffered from mental disorders. The two would often play guitar together and then go out to local bars. One of the places they frequented was the Coachlight Club.

On Dec. 8, 1982, Debra Sue Carter, a waitress at the Coachlight Club, was found raped and murdered in her apartment. A witness, Glen Gore, came forward to say that Williamson was at the bar bothering Carter on the night of the murder. Fritz, due to his association with Williamson, also came under suspicion. Fritz and Williamson were both questioned by police and then released due to lack of evidence.

A few years later, with no one yet charged for the murder, a jailhouse snitch came forward and claimed that Williamson, while in jail on unrelated charges, had confessed to killing Carter. On May 8, 1987, Fritz was arrested along with Williamson for the rape and murder. The police claimed that hair evidence from the crime scene that had been microscopically analyzed matched both men. While Fritz was awaiting trial in county jail, other snitches claimed that they heard Fritz confess to the crime.

The snitches' testimony, along with the hair samples, were the prosecution's main evidence during trial.
On April 12, 1988, Fritz was found guilty and sentenced to life in prison. Williamson, as the primary suspect, was sent to Death Row.
After several appeals of his conviction were denied, Fritz contacted The Innocence Project At the time, Williamson's public defenders had successfully gained permission to perform DNA tests on the physical evidence, and Fritz had to file an injunction so that the evidence would not be totally consumed in the tests on Williamson's behalf. In 1999, DNA testing revealed that neither Fritz nor Williamson had raped the victim. Further testing also proved that none of the hairs belonged to either of the men.

Fritz and Williamson were exonerated and released on April 15, 1999. The profile obtained from the semen evidence matched Glen Gore, the state's main witness at trial. Gore had been serving three 40-year sentences for unrelated charges of first-degree burglary, kidnapping, and shooting with intent to injure. In April 2002, Gore was charged with the rape and murder of Debra Sue Carter; he pled not guilty.

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The Snitch System - Read More Here on How Witnesses Put 38 Innocent Americans on Death Row

Research Report —By Rob Warden Executive Director, Center on Wrongful Convictions Bluhm Legal Clinic, Northwestern University School of Law with research assistance from Jennifer Linzer and Judith Royal Presented April 25, 2002 Arizona State University College of Law ­ Tempe, Arizona Introduction

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Wednesday, February 14, 2007

About Catholics Against Capital Punishment and Address

Catholics Against Capital Punishment.CACP strives to insure that members of the clergy and laypeople -- both Catholic and non-Catholic -- are aware of, and understand the seriousness of, Church teachings on capital punishment. It seeks to instill in elected officials the courage to resist the temptation to support the death penalty as a politically-expedient way of promoting themselves as "tough on crime."Its newsletter, CACP News Notes, disseminates news about Catholic-oriented anti-death penalty efforts to its individual members, diocesan social concerns offices, members of the hierarchy, and others.Write at:CACP, P.O. Box 5706, Bethesda MD 20824-5706 Or fax us at 301-654-0925

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Request Assistance Here For Wrongful Convictions With Links

The Center on Wrongful Convictions. will consider cases containing the following characteristics:
A Claim of Actual Innocence
(The Center on Wrongful Convictions at present is restricted to handling only cases of persons who assert that they were in no way involved in the crimes for which they were convicted.)
A DNA case (a claim of innocence which is supported by testable biological evidence.)
A Minimum of 10 Years Remaining on a Prison Sentence (for a non-DNA case)
If your case contains these characteristics and you would like to have it reviewed by the Center on Wrongful Convictions for possible representation, please send us a letter with details of the case to:

Center on Wrongful Convictions
Northwestern University School of Law
357 East Chicago Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60611

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Sunday, February 11, 2007

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Tenzin Gyatso, The Fourteenth Dalai Lama Message Supporting The Moratorium On The Death Penalty


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MESSAGE SUPPORTING THE MORATORIUM
ON THE DEATH PENALTY
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Forward This Message On Whether Or Not You Support The Death Penalty

From The Justice Project:
For every seven executions conducted in the last 25 years, one innocent person has been wrongly convicted and sentenced to death. Regardless of whether or not you support the death penalty, we can all agree that the execution of an innocent person would be "the ultimate nightmare."That's why we wanted to let you know about The Justice Project, an organization that is fighting to prevent the execution of innocent persons by enacting real reforms around the administration of capital punishment in our criminal justice system. By taking just a few minutes to visit The Justice Project web site [http://www.thejusticeproject.org/], you can join the ranks of thousands of Americans -- including people who are in favor of and opposed to the death penalty -- working together to ensure that everyone has access to competent legal counsel and that no one is denied the opportunity to present facts that could prove their innocence. You can also help by forwarding this message on to others who believe it's time for common sense reforms in our death penalty system. Your time and support can help ensure that not one more innocent person is forced to spend his or her life waiting to die because the criminal justice system is broken.Please visit www.TheJusticeProject.org.today.
Thank you
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Saturday, February 10, 2007

Capital Punishment - A Jewish Perspective What The Torah Clearly Says

Capital Punishment - A Jewish Perspective

The Torah clearly says that there are crimes, which deserve the punishment of death. However, Jewish tradition makes it equally clear that only under the most exceptional circumstances can a human court be so certain of the guilt of the accused that an execution can be carried out. These restrictions include the requirement of two eyewitnesses of unquestionable character and the prohibition of circumstantial evidence and of self-incrimination, even confession. These and other rules make a death sentence virtually impossible in a Jewish court. The procedures and rules governing capital cases in the judicial system of the United States is entirely unacceptable according to Jewish tradition.

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Friday, February 9, 2007

Check Here To See If Your Local Library Has Journey Toward Justice Author Dennis Fritz 10,000 Worldwide Library Search

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From Library Journal November 01, 2006 Dennis Fritz's Journey Toward Justice

Library Journal (Wednesday, November 01, 2006)
In April 1999, Fritz walked out of court a free man after spending 11 years in prison for a murder he did not commit. He maintained his innocence from day one against the pressure of detectives, prosecutors, the judge, and the jury. The tide began to turn after Barry Scheck's Innocence Project took on his case. While the blow-by-blow descriptions of Fritz's arrest, hearing, trial, and prison life can be tedious, this book is hard to put down. Readers will keep wondering when someone is going to listen to Fritz and do the right thing, but in the meantime it's almost like watching a train wreck in slow motion. In the process of sharing his story, Fritz comes across as truly remarkable and resilient. The only thing missing from the book is the story of his life since his release. Did the prosecutor and detectives express any remorse? What of the details of the real murderer's conviction? And how has the victim's family fared? There should be plenty of buzz for this book as John Grisham's "The Innocent Man" (not available for advance review), which tells the story of Fritz's also-exonerated codefendant, Ron Williamson, is due to be released at the same time. Recommended.Karen Sandlin Silverman, Ctr. for Applied Research, Philadelphia Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

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John Grisham The Innocent Man The Story

About The Innocent Man
In the major league draft of 1971, the first player chosen from the State of Oklahoma was Ron Williamson. When he signed with the Oakland A's, he said goodbye to his hometown of Ada and left to pursue his dreams of big league glory.
Six years later he was back, his dreams broken by a bad arm and bad habits - drinking, drugs and women. He began to show signs of mental illness. Unable to keep a job, he moved in with his mother and slept 20 hours a day on her sofa.
In 1982, a 21 year-old cocktail waitress in Ada named Debra Sue Carter was raped and murdered, and for five years the police could not solve the crime. For reasons that were never clear, they suspected Ron Williamson and his friend Dennis Fritz. The two were finally arrested in 1987 and charged with capital murder.
With no physical evidence, the prosecution's case was built on junk science and the testimony of jailhouse snitches and convicts. Dennis Fritz was found guilty and given a life sentence. Ron Williamson was sent to Death Row.
If you believe that in America you are innocent until proven guilty, this book will shock you. If you believe in the death penalty, this book will disturb you. If you believe the criminal justice system is fair, this book will infuriate you.
Dennis Fritz wrote his memoir and John Grisham calls his story Compelling and Fascinating and states it above title on Dennis Fritz's Book Journey Toward Justice. Both Books came out a month apart.
Journey Toward Justice author Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life in prison and spent 11 horrific years behind bars before being exonerated by DNA evidence. Tells his tragic story in Journey Toward Justice of the murder of Debbie Sue Carter in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, and his unwarranted prosecution and wrongful conviction.
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Wednesday, February 7, 2007

Author Dennis Fritz At Borders Books - Book Signing For Journey Toward Justice Kansas City and New Saint Joseph Locations

Borders Books
Dennis Fritz at
Borders Books

1. February 10, 2007 2:00 PM
Kansas City, MO
Northland
8628 North Boardway Ave.
Phone-816 741-178

2. February 11, 2007 2:00 PM
5201 North Belt Highway Suite 127
St. Joseph, MO
Dennis Fritz recounts the twelve year struggle to exonerate himself after being wrongfully imprisoned for murder.


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Tuesday, February 6, 2007

Meet Dennis Fritz At His Book Signing for Journay Toward Justice Borders 8626 N. Broadwalk Kansas City MO. Feb.10 at 2:00 P.M.

Meet Author Dennis Fritz for a Discussion and Book Signing for Journey Towards Justice 2 p.m. Feb. 10, Borders Books and Music, 8626 N. Boardwalk. (816-741-1787)

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Friday, February 2, 2007

The Falsely Accused Another Innocent Man Matt Thompson

They Falsely Accused Another Innocent Man Matt Thompson. Here Is his Website.

It is another case of wrongly convicted in Pontontoc County, Oklahoma. Matt Thompson now has his story on ebook

The lack of evidence and wrongful conviction in his story are similar to what happened to Dennis Fritz in his book on Journey Toward Justice on Amazon Here.

The Innocence Project Contact List

Innocence Projects provide representation and/or investigative assistance to prison inmates who claim to be innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted. There is now at least one innocence project serving each state except Hawaii, North Dakota and South Dakota. Most of these innocence projects are new and overwhelmed with applications, so waiting time between application and acceptance is long. Wrongfully convicted persons should not be dissuaded from applying to Innocence Projects because of this, but should have realistic expectations regarding acceptance and time lags.

Innocence Projects Contact List USA - Canada - Australia

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The Innocent Man John Grisham's first non-fiction, tells about the struggle of Fritz's co-defendant, Ron Williamson., who spent 11 years on death-roe and even came within five days of execution, before DNA evidence proved he was innocent. The Innocent Man Tells the tragic story of the murder of Debbie Sue Carter in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma.
Journey Toward Justice, author Dennis Fritz was sentenced to life in prison and spent 11 horrific years behind bars before being exonerated by DNA evidence. Tells his tragic story in Journey Toward Justice of the murder of Debbie Sue Carter in the small town of Ada, Oklahoma, and his unwarranted prosecution and wrongful conviction.
John Grisham calls Dennis Fritz's Story Compelling and
Fascinating.