CONSULATE GENERAL OF NICARAGUA, HOUSTON, TEXAS,
JULY 9th, 2015 11.00am 8989 Westheimer Ct, Houston, TX 77063, USA
FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF BERNARDO WILL ASK THE NICARAGUA GOVERNMENT TO HELP SAVE HIS LIFE
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PEACEFUL PROTEST AT THE CONSULATE GENERAL OF NICARAGUA JULY 9TH 2015 FOR BERNARDO ABAN TERCERO7/8/2015
Bernardo Aban Tercero is the only Nicaraguan on death row in the USA. He faces imminent execution on August 26th. His family and friends call on the Nicaraguan Government to help save his life.
CONSULATE GENERAL OF NICARAGUA, HOUSTON, TEXAS, JULY 9th, 2015 11.00am 8989 Westheimer Ct, Houston, TX 77063, USA FRIENDS AND SUPPORTERS OF BERNARDO WILL ASK THE NICARAGUA GOVERNMENT TO HELP SAVE HIS LIFE Find out more “A lot of people have relaxed, thinking he’s on his way home, but we still have to fight,” Rodrick said. “My brother is still locked up, and the fight must continue until we bring him home, and even after that, we still must fight for justice.”
Although the stay is a great victory for those against the death penalty, the fight may only get harder, according to Ben Wolff, panelist and attorney for Texas Defender Service. READ MORE Reed’s most recent appeal also argues that videotape of the crime scene and written accounts from police investigators and forensic pathologists prove that Stites could not have been killed after 3 a.m. while on her way to her job at the Bastrop H-E-B. Instead, the appeal says, the new time of death leaves Fennell as the only suspect, based on his statements that he and Stites were alone prior to her leaving for work.
READ MORE Texas death row prisoner Rodney Reed is facing an execution date on March 5, despite clear evidence, never properly reviewed by a court, that he is innocent of the 1996 murder of Stacey Stites, for which he was convicted by an all-white jury in Bastrop, Texas.
For 17 years, Rodney has struggled to win his freedom from behind bars on death row, and his family has stood alongside him, working tirelessly to prove his innocence and oppose the machinery of death in Texas. Recently, Rodney's mother Sandra Reed and brother Rodrick Reed talked to Lily Hughes of CEDP about their disappointment in the courts, the urgent need for all the DNA evidence to be tested, and the pain of facing an execution date. Sandra: Words can't even express what I'm feeling. At this phase of the game, I'm strong. I'm optimistic. Knowing what this system has done to us, I can't believe it until I see it now. I have to touch it now. So that's the best I can do, but I'm praying to God that he gives me the strength to endure whatever. Rodrick: Somebody told me yesterday, "I'm really proud of you for the work that you do for your brother. I think you're doing a good thing. I'm so proud of you." I looked at her and I said, "To be proud of me for doing something for someone that I love is not a big deal. What moves me is people who do something for someone they don't even know--a stranger." Read full article |
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