[Deathpenalty] death penalty news----ARKANSAS----Urgent Action: Fair Trial Concern Revisited As Execution Looms (USA: UA 67/17)

[Rick Halperin]

Urgent Action

FAIR TRIAL CONCERN REVISITED AS EXECUTION LOOMS

Stacey Johnson, aged 47, is scheduled to be executed in Arkansas on 20 April 
for a 1993 murder.
Three state Supreme Court Justices argued that he was deprived of a fair trial 
by being denied
access to information regarding the credibility of a key witness against him.

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

  *  Calling for clemency for Stacey Johnson and for his death sentence to be 
commuted;
  *  Noting the selective use of the therapist/patient privilege, which three 
state Supreme Court
     judges said led to an unfair trial by keeping from the defence information 
about the credibility
     of a key prosecution witness;
  *  Explaining that you are not seeking to condone violent crime or to downplay 
its consequences.
Contact these two officials by 20 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!


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