will you please read the following and sign the petition? thank you!

[nofurylike]

also in post on Activist HQ forum:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=106x34291

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Information about this:

http://www.kevinkeith.org /


To sign the Petition:

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/relief_urgently_needed_for_innocent_man_on_ohios_death_row


Petition Text:

Clemency For Kevin Keith

Hello,

The State of Ohio is poised to execute Kevin Keith on September 15, 2010, in spite of overwhelming evidence supporting what Mr. Keith has maintained from the time of his arrest – he is actually innocent, wrongfully convicted of a crime based on faulty eyewitness identification.

Mr. Keith has an alibi for the time of the crime supported by four witnesses.

The Ohio Innocence Project, the National Innocence Network, and a group of leading eyewitness and memory experts all support relief for Mr. Keith.

I urgently appeal to the Ohio Parole Board and Governor Ted Strickland to grant clemency to Kevin Keith to prevent the State of Ohio from doing the intolerable: putting a man to death for a crime he did not commit.

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Further information from the website at the above link:

An Innocent Man on Ohio's Death Row

Kevin Keith is an innocent man on Ohio’s death row, wrongfully convicted of a crime he did not commit based on faulty eyewitness identification – the leading cause of wrongful convictions nationwide. He has an alibi for the time of the crime supported by four witnesses. There is no forensic evidence that conclusively links him to the crime. Mr. Keith is scheduled to be executed on September 15, 2010.

In 2007, after all of his allotted appeals were exhausted, new counsel took on Mr. Keith’s case. Upon investigating, counsel discovered new evidence for Mr. Keith that supported what Mr. Keith was saying from day one – he is actually innocent.

Prominent supporters from around the country have filed supporting briefs and urged review in Mr. Keith's case, including the National Innocence Network, an affiliation of over 50 innocence projects and legal organizations around the country, the Ohio Innocence Project, an organization that typically only works on non-death penalty cases involving DNA evidence, and a group of leading eyewitness and memory experts.

New evidence discovered by counsel for Mr. Keith discredits the eyewitness identification used to convict Mr. Keith. New evidence also identifies an alternative suspect who made a before-the-fact admission that he planned to commit the crime for which Mr. Keith stands to be executed.

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Please sign, and please pass this on.

Thank you.


solidarity

[UrbScotty]

1. Done. Here's to an end to the death penalty altogether.

[nofurylike]

2. thank you so very much, UrbScotty! and HEAR HEAR!! nt

[nofurylike]

3. thank you all for the recs! please spread word! thank you!! nt

[nofurylike]

4. the number of signatures is rising. thank you for signing!! please

spread the word!!


solidarity!

[nofurylike]

5. THANK YOU!! please keep spreading the word on this!! back

tomorrow.....


solidarity, always!

[lillypaddle]

6. K&R

[nofurylike]

8. thank you so very much, lillypaddle! please spread the word!! nt

[monmouth]

7. Done and signed. Re-post this again later in the day and thanks...n/t

[nofurylike]

9. thank you so very much, monmouth! yes, i agree, i am going to

re-post it now.

please spread word everywhere possible!!


solidarity!

[nofurylike]

10. signatures have risen by hundreds! thank you so much, all!!

Please continue to spread the word!

i will be re-posting in a few days - i am determined to post at a time of day when more will read it....

thanks so much!!


solidarity, always!

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