[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARKANSAS----Urgent Action: Execution Set For Crime Committed At Age 20 (USA: UA 78.17)

[Rick Halperin]

Urgent Action



EXECUTION SET FOR CRIME COMMITTED AT AGE 20

Kenneth Williams, aged 38, is due to be executed in Arkansas on 27 April for a 
murder committed
during a prison escape in 1999. Twenty years old at the time, he asserts he is 
not the same person
he was then, and can contribute to society if allowed to live.

Write a letter, send an email, call, fax or tweet:

  *  Calling for clemency for Kenneth Williams and for his death sentence to be 
commuted;
  *  Explaining that you are not seeking to excuse violent crime or to minimize 
the suffering caused;
  *  Pointing out that the death penalty denies the possibility of 
rehabilitation and reform of
     individuals, and does nothing to further our understanding of the roots of 
and responses to
     human violence.

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forwarding this one!

Contact the official by 27 April, 2017:

The Honorable Asa Hutchinson, Governor of the State of Arkansas
State Capitol, Suite 250
500 Woodlane St
Little Rock, AR 72201
USA

Fax: +1 501 682 3597

Email: http://governor.arkansas.gov/contact-info/ (use US detail); or 
info at governor.arkansas.gov
(asking for email to be forwarded to governor)

Salutation: Dear Governor