Another Execution: Capital Punishment and Race

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Some demonstrators who demanded clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams last month said they'd oppose the execution of any convict with equal fervor. Clarence Ray Allen is a 76 year-old diabetic blind man with heart trouble and he's confined to a wheelchair. But his likely death by lethal injection at a minute past midnight tomorrow at San Quentin has stirred no public outcry. Allen is white. Williams was black. Is it questions about the evidence, claims of rehabilitation, or race? We hear a debate on the fight to halt the death penalty between LA-based commentator and columnist Jasmyne Cannick and Alice Huffman of the NAACP.Making News: Massive Sewage Spill in the South BayBeaches are closed from the Los Angeles International Airport to the Palos Verdes Peninsula by two million gallons of raw sewage, which spilled into the ocean because of a faulty pumping station. Joe Geever is regional manager for the environmentalist Surfrider Foundation. Reporter's Notebook: The Controversial Legacy of Martin Luther KingAlmost 30 years after his death, Martin Luther King Day is one of America's least observed holidays. Congressman John Conyers, who helped create the holiday, says he's "pleased that it hasn't deteriorated into another bargain day at the mall." We hear about Dr. King's controversial legacy and get perspective on how his ideas should be applied from long-time civil rights activists Joe Hicks and Earl Ofari Hutchinson. (This segment originally aired earlier today on To the Point.)
Some demonstrators who demanded clemency for Stanley "Tookie" Williams last month said they'd oppose the execution of any convict with equal fervor. Clarence Ray Allen is a 76 year-old diabetic blind man with heart trouble and he's confined to a wheelchair. But his likely death by lethal injection at a minute past midnight tomorrow at San Quentin has stirred no public outcry. Allen is white. Williams was black. Is it questions about the evidence, claims of rehabilitation, or race? We hear a debate on the fight to halt the death penalty between LA-based commentator and columnist Jasmyne Cannick and Alice Huffman of the NAACP.
  • Making News: Massive Sewage Spill in the South Bay
    Beaches are closed from the Los Angeles International Airport to the Palos Verdes Peninsula by two million gallons of raw sewage, which spilled into the ocean because of a faulty pumping station. Joe Geever is regional manager for the environmentalist Surfrider Foundation.
  • Reporter's Notebook: The Controversial Legacy of Martin Luther King
    Almost 30 years after his death, Martin Luther King Day is one of America's least observed holidays. Congressman John Conyers, who helped create the holiday, says he's "pleased that it hasn't deteriorated into another bargain day at the mall." We hear about Dr. King's controversial legacy and get perspective on how his ideas should be applied from long-time civil rights activists Joe Hicks and Earl Ofari Hutchinson. (This segment originally aired earlier today on To the Point.)

Moratorium on the Death Penalty (AB 1121)

Governor Schwarzenegger denies clemency to Charles Ray Allen

Allen v Oronski, 9th Circuit Court of Appeals on

California Supreme Court denies clemency to Stanley 'Tookie' Williams

Governor Schwarzenegger denies clemency to Williams

Cannick's article on death penalty, clemency, race

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Warren Olney

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Frances Anderton