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Capital-X to Walk For Life

By "Persian Cowboy"

International Human Rights Activist to "Walk 4 Life" to Abolish the DeathPenalty From Trenton New Jersey to Texas Andre Latallade, also knownas Capital-"X" will walk from Trenton New Jersey, approximately 1,700miles to the Governors mansion in Texas in an attempt to bring awarenessto the death penalty. The death penalty has recently been abolished in NewJersey, and Texas is known as "the busiest killing state." He is trying to"build a bridge between the two groups of victims, the executed, and theirfamilies and the victims and families of violent crimes."Andre says "separated we call for life or death, I say we unite and callfor solutions." He asks that life without parole be called for as opposedto the death sentence. Currently all executions are "on hold" while theSupreme Court rules whether lethal injection is cruel and unusual...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on February 29, 2008 (boomark / email).