Moratorium für alle Hinrichtungen und neuen Prozeß verlangt23.07.04 (von jw/ivk) Die NAACP, die größte US-Bürgerrechtsorganisation, bekräftigt ihre Opposition gegen die Todesstrafe und ruft zur Unterstützung für Mumia Abu-Jamal auf
Mumia Abu-Jamal, der ehemalige Black Panther-Aktivist, Schriftsteller und Journalist, erhält nunmehr die Unterstützung der mächtigsten schwarzen Bürgerrechtsorganisation in den USA. Wie Robert R. Bryan, Verteidiger des Gefangenen, im Nachtrag zu seinem Interview in junge Welt (21.7.2004) mitteilte, hatte die 1910 gegründete »National Association for the Advancement of Colored People« (NAACP/Nationale Vereinigung zur Förderung farbiger Menschen) auf ihrem am Wochenende in Philadelphia zu Ende gegangenen Jahreskongreß eine »Emergency Resolution« verabschiedet. Unter der Überschrift »Erneute Versicherung unserer Opposition gegen die Todesstrafe« fordert sie einen neuen Prozeß für Mumia Abu-Jamal (siehe nachfolgenden Originaltext).
Actual Text of NAACP Resolution for EMERGENCY RESOLUTION REAFFIRMING OPPOSITION TO THE DEATH PENALTY WHEREAS, the NAACP adopted a resolution in 2001 re-affirming our opposition to the death penalty due to its racially disparate application; and WHEREAS, the NAACP has re-affirmed its 1975 resolution opposing the death penalty on the grounds that it constitutes cruel and unusual punishment in violation of the Eighth Amendment of the United States Constitution; and WHEREAS, many people, including Mumia Abu-Jamal, are incarcerated on death row and face possible execution; and WHEREAS, more than 320 people on death row have been exonerated; and WHEREAS, though African Americans make up only 12.4% of the U.S. population, we make up 38% of all the Americans that were sentenced to death and later freed after being found innocent; and WHEREAS, African Americans make up 35% of those being found innocent after being executed; and WHEREAS, African Americans make up over 80% of those awaiting execution on federal death row; and WHEREAS, 145 people have been exonerated based upon DNA evidence; and WHEREAS, there is no possible way of restoring the life of an innocent person killed by the death penalty; and WHEREAS, the implementation of the death penalty raises concerns regarding bias identification, police and prosecutorial misconduct, judicial apathy in protecting the rights of the accused, faulty evidence, inadequate defense representation, coerced confessions, and fabricated testimony, and, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People reiterates its strong opposition to the death penalty; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NAACP calls on its units throughout the United States and the world to support the international call for Mumia Abu-Jamal to be released from death row; and BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the NAACP reiterate its support of the international movement for a new and fair trial for Mumia Abu-Jamal; and BE IT FINALLY RESOLVED that the NAACP renew its call for new nation wide studies on racial discrimination, the adequacy of counsel, access to modern research technology such as DNA analysis, the sentencing of children and women to the death penalty and that the NAACP reiterate its call for a national moratorium on all executions. ss: Kweisi Mfume, President and CEO; Julian Bond, Chairman of the Board of Directors Source/Quelle: |
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