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Last-minute reprieve for California death row inmate The execution by lethal injection of California death row inmate Michael Morales was temporarily put on hold Tuesday, just hours before his death warrant expired. Although given a temporary reprieve, the circumstances surrounding his case speak volumes about the gruesome and sadistic practice of capital punishment in the United States....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 11:04pm PST
New Lawyer and Strategy in Kubby Case On Wednesday, February 15th, the **Placer Court** and Prosecutor's office were informed that well-known **San Francisco** defense attorney J. David Nick has agreed to represent Steve Kubby, the cancer patient now jailed in **Auburn**....
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 10:49pm PST
Sacred Run from California to Washington, DC 
All Life is Sacred Run...
Posted: Wed, Feb 22, 2006 9:25am PST
Execution Cancelled; Victory for the Workingclass The spirit of Stanley Tookie Williams prevails: The death penalty for Michael Morales has been postponed indefinitely! Victory, Victory is our Cry! The Class Struggle is the Reason Why!...
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:29pm PST
Calif. Execution Postponed Indefinitely The state on Tuesday postponed indefinitely the execution of a condemned killer amid a court battle over the state's method of lethal injection and the role doctors may play in the death chamber....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 6:07pm PST
Indybay is having technical "issues" with web server (2/20/06) Are you getting a weird error message when you post? If so, please wait and try to post again in a little while. Indybay is having some difficulties with its server, and we need to buy a new one very soon....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 10:53am PST
Anesthesiologists Delay Calif. Execution The planned execution of Michael Morales was delayed until Tuesday night after two anesthesiologists refused to participate because of ethical concerns....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 9:36am PST
Calif. Inmate's Stay of Execution Denied With his execution just hours away, one of Morales' attorneys, former Whitewater independent counsel Kenneth Starr, then pleaded for clemency from Schwarzenegger. But the governor refused....
Posted: Tue, Feb 21, 2006 12:13am PST
Death Penalty Focus Santa Cruz Speaks Out Against Capital Punishment 
On February 20, about a dozen people held a vigil at the town clock in Santa Cruz to protest the state-sponsored premeditated murder of Michael Morales. Stanley "Tookie" Williams and Clarence Ray Allen were also killed at San Quentin by the death penalty in the last three months....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 10:49pm PST
Doctors in ethics row as execution nears Barring a last-minute intervention by the courts, California will execute the third death-row prisoner in as many months at one minute past midnight tonight....
Posted: Mon, Feb 20, 2006 11:13am PST
Democrats force antiwar candidate out of Ohio Senate race Iraq war veteran and antiwar activist Paul Hackett withdrew from the US Senate race in Ohio February 14, after his campaign for the Democratic Party nomination was sabotaged by the top national Democratic leaders, including Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid and Senator Charles Schumer of New York, chairman of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:21pm PST
End the War, Meet Workers' Needs: Peace and Freedom Party, Candidates Submit Statements The Peace and Freedom Party and six of its statewide candidates last week submitted brief statements to be included in the Voter Information Guide sent to all registered voters by the Secretary of State. The statements summarize key points of the party’s program of ending the war in Iraq and transforming society to meet the needs of working people in California....
Posted: Sun, Feb 19, 2006 10:05am PST
DIEBOLD RE-CERTIFIED IN CA! Secretary of State McPherson seems to have a thing for making major announcements late on Fridays just before holidays. Following in what seems to be a pattern of his, he announced late this afternoon that he was certifying Diebold Optical Scan and AccuVote TSx (touch-screens) for use in elections in the state....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 5:04pm PST
NAVYA SHASTRA CALLS FOR A BROADER REPRESENTATION OF HINDU TRADITIONS AND FAIRER TREATMENT Navya Shastra, the international Hindu reform organization, has called for a broader representation of Hindu traditions and a fairer treatment of Dalits in California textbooks....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 11:02am PST
California HMOs to Provide Interpreters alifornia has taken the first step towards giving non-English speaking patients equal access to healthcare. At a press conference yesterday at Asian Health Services in Oakland’s Chinatown, community groups lauded the release of the first draft of regulations by California’s Department of Managed Health Care (DMHC) that requires all HMO plans in California to provide healthcare in the patients’ primary language....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 9:24am PST
Global Warming Threatens California’s Major Ethnic Populations SAN FRANCISCO -- Barbara Lott-Holland’s most fervent wish is that her 11 grandchildren thrive in a habitable world. She sees a clean environment as a basic human right, one that has not been guaranteed for her and others in her Crenshaw neighborhood in Los Angeles....
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 9:23am PST
Mad Max in Borderland -- Overnight With the Minutemen Since 9.11, individuals calling themselves "Minutemen" have formed loosely structured volunteer associations that patrol the Southern U.S. border and have been vilified as racist vigilantes for their armed actions against undocumented immigrants. After camping out with the Minutemen of Campo, Calif., Russell Morse discovers the unexpected, even conflicting, reasons these men spend their lives in the desert. Morse, Furtado and Rojas are editors at YO! Youth Outlook Multimedia a Proje...
Posted: Sat, Feb 18, 2006 9:21am PST
Anger Greets Colin Powell as Protesters Are Evicted in Santa Barbara 
Angry throngs bedecked in a dazzling array of costumes, sporting signs and guerrilla theatre regalia opposed Colin Powell on his self-serving speaking engagement where he waxed profound on general themes of leadership and barely mentioned his role in the lead up to the bloody Iraq war. Protesters were forcibly evicted by a coterie of muscle men as apparent supporters of the alleged war criminal chided them and the venue manager refused to refund the $50 ticket price....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 11:56pm PST
Little Hope Left For Morales Michael Morales is scheduled to be executed by lethal injection early Tuesday morning; however there is little hope that he will be granted clemency. "Schwarzenegger is now playing his favorite role as governor and it's another version of the terminator", says Alexander....
Posted: Fri, Feb 17, 2006 10:30pm PST
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