National Call for action, Stop the execution of a mentally retarded man Warren Lee Hill

[Darcy Delaproser]

National Call for action, Stop the execution of a mentally retarded man Warren Lee Hill on Monday, July 23, 2012-correction

by Mark A. Clements

National Call for action:

The United States Constitution
prohibits executing the mentally ill. However on Monday, July 23, 2012,
the State of Georgia schedules to execute Warren Lee Hill who received
the death penalty after killing his cellmate.* I am requesting that all
e-mail your news editor’s or News Directors, call national news agencies
and voice your outrage. The Supreme court has stated that executing the
mentally ill is “Constitutionally cruel”

 

In June, 2002,
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion which was joined by Sandra
Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
Stephen Breyer.

 

"We are not persuaded that the execution
of mentally retarded criminals will measurably advance the deterrent or
the retributive purpose of the death penalty," the Court said.

 

The ruling doesn't address the constitutionality of capital punishment in general, and marked a reversal for the high court.

The
majority cited a growing national consensus on the issue since the high
court ruled in 1989 that such executions may be unacceptable. In the
past 13 years the number of states that do not allow the execution of
mentally retarded death row prisoners has grown from two to 18.

 

"It is fair to say that a national consensus has developed against it," Stevens wrote.

 

In
a blistering dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia scoffed at what he called
"the 47 percent consensus." He said the 18 states represent less than
half of the 38 states that permit capital punishment in any case.

 

"If
one is to say as the court does today that ALL executions of the
mentally retarded are so morally repugnant as to violate our national
standards of decency, surely the consensus it points to must be one that
has set its righteous face against ALL such executions," Scalia wrote.

 

Monday,
June 23, 2012, 9:00AM your time, write and call national news media and
voice your outage against this scheduled execution.

 

Sincerely:

Mark A. Clements,

Campaign to End the Death Penalty/Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression

CEDP/Board member

 

 

*Media contacts:

 

 

ABC News

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Good Morning America: email form

Nightline: email form

20/20: email form

 

BBC

Television Center, Wood Lance, London, W12 7RJ, United Kingdom

Phone: [phone]

Website: feedback page

 

BBC America

747 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017

Phone: [phone]

Website: email form

 

 

CBS News

524 W. 57 St., New York, NY 10019

Phone: [phone]

 

Email forms for all CBS news programs

CBS Evening News: [e-mail]

The Early Show: [e-mail]

60 Minutes II: [e-mail]

48 Hours: [e-mail]

Face The Nation: [e-mail]

 

 

CNBC

900 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632

Phone: [phone]

Email: [e-mail]

 

 

CNN

One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30303-5366

Phone: [phone]

 

Email forms for all CNN news programs

 

 

Fox News Channel

1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036

Phone: [phone]

 

[e-mail]

 

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Special Report With Bret Baier: [e-mail]

Fox Report With Shepard Smith: [e-mail]

The O'Reilly Factor: [e-mail]

Hannity: [e-mail],

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MSNBC/NBC

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NBC News Today: [e-mail]

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PBS

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The NewsHour (corrections and complaints): [e-mail]

Frontline: [e-mail]

Ombud Michael Getler Email

 

 

National Radio Programs

 

National Public Radio

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The Rush Limbaugh Show

1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020

Phone (on air): 800-282-2882 (Between 12 and 3 PM)

 

E-mail: [e-mail]

 

Sean Hannity Show

Phone (on air): 800-941-7326 (3-6 PM Mon-Fri)

Sean Hannity:212-613-3800

James Grisham, Producer: 212-613-3832

E-mail: Phil Boyce, Program Director [e-mail]

Email: the Sean Hannity Show

 

National Newspapers

 

The Los Angeles Times

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L.A. Times Contact Information by Department

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Readers' Representative: [e-mail]

 

The New York Times

620 8th Ave., New York, NY 10018

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D.C. Bureau phone: [phone]

 

Letters to the Editor (for publication): [e-mail]

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How to Contact New York Times Reporters and Editors

 

 

 

USA Today

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Corrections: [e-mail]

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The Wall Street Journal

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Comment on News Coverage:[e-mail]

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The Washington Post

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Ombudsman: 202-334-7582

 

Letters to the Editor: [e-mail]

Ombudsman: [e-mail]

Contact Washington Post Writers and Editors

 

Magazines

 

Newsweek

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Letters to the Editor: [e-mail]

 

Time

Time & Life Bldg., Rockefeller Center, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020-1393

Phone: [phone]

Letters to the Editor [e-mail]

 

 

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Associated Press

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General Questions and Comments: [e-mail]

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Reuters

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Reuters Editorial Feedback

 

 

United Press International

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