Event: Protesting Lethal Injection Number 1,000
Georgians For Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) is holding a Speak Out at Woodruff Park in downtown Atlanta on Tuesday July 21 to protest the U.S.’ 1,000th scheduled execution by lethal injection.
The state of Ohio plans to execute Marvallous Keene on the same day by lethal injection. Should Ohio moved forward with the execution, it would mark the 1,000th execution by lethal injection carried out in the United States.
GFADP had planned to hold their event Thursday July 16 but Texas issued a stay of execution for death row inmate Kenneth Mosely.
Organizers are asking participants to gather in front of the Five Points MARTA station across from Underground Atlanta at 6 p.m. From there, participants will march down the street to Woodruff Park for a rally with as-yet undetermined speakers.
Organizers invite citizens to the Amnesty International Southern Regional Office (730 Peachtree St. Suite 1060) tomorrow night to make signs from 7-9 p.m.
After watching ” Sixty Minutes” piece about Woods of Tucson being part of botched procedure. It reminded me of a bummer I had at UofA in Tucson in 1968. Animal tranquilizer. TERRORIZING