Gabriel City » Death Penalty http://gabrielcity.com Gabriel City is a community for the tens of millions of Americans directly affected by our criminal justice system. We come together to share our stories and help to shape new ones. Inmates and the formerly incarcerated, family members of those serving time, men and women under community supervision, professionals in criminal justice and corrections, and the victims of crime; we support and respect each other as we work to break the endless cycle of crime and incarceration that afflicts our nation. Wed, 06 Jul 2011 19:18:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 en hourly 1 An American Journey http://gabrielcity.com/video/an-american-journey.html http://gabrielcity.com/video/an-american-journey.html#comments Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:38:28 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=3083 In this documentary, set to be released in 2011, David Kaczynski sets out to tell the story of turning in the most sought after criminal in US history, his brother Ted, the notorious Unabomber. David’s journey intersects with three others, Gary Wright, Bud Welch and Bill Babbitt (and now, a fourth, Bob Curley), who together put a face on the death penalty and unexpectedly place the American justice system on trial.

The film follows the four men as they travel from New York to Texas, from Oklahoma to California on a road that takes them beyond crime and punishment and into their hearts and minds in “An American Journey.”

David is the Executive Director of New Yorkers For Alternatives to the Death Penalty.

See the trailer here http://www.qofj.com/media/AAL/Americanlife.html

Follow the film on Facebook.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/video/an-american-journey.html/feed 0 Louisiana Sues 84 Death Row Inmates http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/louisiana-sues-84-death-row-inmates.html http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/louisiana-sues-84-death-row-inmates.html#comments Mon, 15 Feb 2010 13:48:07 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=2937 The Louisiana Department of Public Safety and Corrections has sued every inmate on death row, in an effort to block any one of them from challenging the state’s lethal injection procedures.

Click here to read the entire story.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/louisiana-sues-84-death-row-inmates.html/feed 0 The Autobiography of an Execution http://gabrielcity.com/poetry-and-spoken-word/the-autobiography-of-an-execution.html http://gabrielcity.com/poetry-and-spoken-word/the-autobiography-of-an-execution.html#comments Fri, 12 Feb 2010 16:10:55 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=2934 David Dow’s new book The Autobiography of an Execution chronicles his own life as a defense lawyer for inmates on death row.“I do not want my clients to be killed, and I can’t stand them,” he writes.

Read more about the book here.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/poetry-and-spoken-word/the-autobiography-of-an-execution.html/feed 0 Death Penalty Photography Project http://gabrielcity.com/photography/death-penalty-photography-project.html http://gabrielcity.com/photography/death-penalty-photography-project.html#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2010 16:41:50 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=2807 Scott Langley, photojournalist and human rights activist, put together a series of photographs over eight years that he called the “Death Penalty Photography Documentary Project.” Here are a couple images below. Check out the website

for more galleries.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/photography/death-penalty-photography-project.html/feed 0 Warden http://gabrielcity.com/poetry-and-spoken-word/warden.html http://gabrielcity.com/poetry-and-spoken-word/warden.html#comments Sat, 16 Jan 2010 19:23:05 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=1895

…I’d tell them that I’d be back a little before six. This was never a surprise. They knew what six meant. Most of them had had years to think about it.

-Excerpt from Warden by Jim Willet

Jim Willett has presided over 89 legal executions, more than any man alive. Warden is Willett’s account of working in Texas prisons. Using his own journals, Willett recalls big events and small details that make up the fabric of his prison career. Warden is available for purchase on Amazon.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/poetry-and-spoken-word/warden.html/feed 0 Questions for Cathy – Overseeing an execution http://gabrielcity.com/blog/questions-for-cathy-overseeing-an-execution.html http://gabrielcity.com/blog/questions-for-cathy-overseeing-an-execution.html#comments Sun, 10 Jan 2010 16:00:53 +0000 Cathy http://gabrielcity.com/?p=440 What would it be like for you to oversee an execution?

It would be challenging on a number of levels. This is difficult to answer.
I’ve had a great teacher in Warden Cain. He is professional and
compassionate. I’d like think I’d be that way. Its a strange process and
event. Staff are pulled in so many directions and we have so many people to
consider and assist during this time.  I’d talk a lot to those around me.
I’d make it as transparent as possible and I’d remain as calm and helpful
as I could be. I don’t think I’d approach them all the same – outside of
course the official, legal requirements.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/blog/questions-for-cathy-overseeing-an-execution.html/feed 0 ‘Steve Earle’- Over Yonder (Jonathan’s Song) http://gabrielcity.com/music-and-song/2632.html http://gabrielcity.com/music-and-song/2632.html#comments Thu, 10 Dec 2009 17:13:18 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=2632 Country music’s “hardcore troubadour” Steve Earle has written numerous songs on the subject of the death penalty.  From Earle’s Grammy nominated album Transcendental Blues comes the track “Over Yonder (Jonathan’s Song)” about Jonathan Nobles, a death row inmate with whom Earle corresponded with and whose execution Earle witnessed.

Click here to view the embedded video.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/music-and-song/2632.html/feed 0 Ohio’s New Execution Methods http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/ohios-new-execution-methods.html http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/ohios-new-execution-methods.html#comments Tue, 08 Dec 2009 23:17:35 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=2607 Today Kenneth Biros was executed in Ohio by a new form of one drug intravenous injection never before used on a human being. Anti-death penalty advocates have argued that a single drug is more humane than the three drug mix that is often used, though they still have concerns about this method.

Read more here.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/ohios-new-execution-methods.html/feed 0 Forthcoming Execution in Texas Stirs National Debate http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/forthcoming-execution-in-texas-stirs-national-debate.html http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/forthcoming-execution-in-texas-stirs-national-debate.html#comments Thu, 03 Dec 2009 16:46:48 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=2541 A man convicted in the state of Texas of molesting and killing his former girlfriend’s daughter is scheduled to be executed today unless the Supreme Court agrees to hear his case. The man, Bobby Wayne Woods, has an IQ in the range of someone mentally retarded. Courts have refused to recognize him as so, but his lawyer claims that he is mentally retarded and therefore should be spared execution.

Read more here.

]]> http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/forthcoming-execution-in-texas-stirs-national-debate.html/feed 0 DC Sniper is Executed in Virginia http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/dc-sniper-is-executed-in-virginia.html http://gabrielcity.com/news-and-journalism/dc-sniper-is-executed-in-virginia.html#comments Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:17:12 +0000 hcdmedia http://gabrielcity.com/?p=2472 John A. Muhammad, who in 2002 went on a shooting spree in Washington DC, was executed on Tuesday evening at the Greensville Correctional Center. The Supreme Court did not intercede on his behalf and Governor Tim Kaine of Virginia refused to stay the execution.

Read the full article here.

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