[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARKANSAS

[Rick Halperin]

Urgent Action: Clemency Board To Hear What Jury Never Did (USA: UA 60/17)



Urgent Action



CLEMENCY BOARD TO HEAR WHAT JURY NEVER DID

Marcel Williams, aged 46, is due to be executed in Arkansas on 24 April. The 
jury never heard any
mitigating evidence about his childhood of severe abuse and trauma. That 
evidence is now before the
clemency board which will consider his petition on 27 March.

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

  *  Calling for clemency for Marcel Williams and for his death sentence to be 
commuted;
  *  Expressing concern that the jury heard no evidence about his background of 
poverty, deprivation
     and abuse and its effects, noting that the only judge to hear this evidence 
said that the death
     sentence should not stand;
  *  Explaining that you are not seeking to condone violent crime or to downplay 
its consequences.

Contact these two officials by 24 April, 2017:

Important note: Please do not forward this Urgent Action email directly to 
these officials. Instead
of forwarding this email that you have received, please open up a new email 
message in which to
write your appeals to each official. This will help ensure that your emails are 
not rejected. Thank
you for your deeply valued activism!



Arkansas Parole Board
Two Union National Plaza
105 W Capitol Avenue #500
Little Rock, AR 72201-5730, USA
Fax: +1 501 683-5381
Salutation: Dear Board Members

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)
Salutation: Dear Governor