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BIOWARFARE AND TERRORISM
by Francis A. Boyle
Foreword by Jonathan King
This book outlines how and why the United States government initiated,
sustained and then dramatically expanded an illegal biological arms buildup.
Most significantly, U.S. expert Francis A. Boyle reveals how the new
billion-dollar U.S. Chemical and Biological Defense Program has been
reorientated to accord with the Neo-Conservative pre-emptive strike
agenda--this time by biological and chemical warfare.
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Linking U.S. biowarfare development to the October 2001 anthrax attack on
Congress--the most significant political attack on the constitutional
functioning of democracy in the United States in recent history--Boyle sheds
new light on the motives for the attack, the media black hole of silence
into which it has fallen, and why the FBI may never apprehend the
perpetrators of this seminal crime of the 21st century.
Biowarfare and Terrorism should raise public concern at what the vastly
expanded US biowarfare research and purported civilian preparedness programs
hold in store for America--and the extent to which the Bush administration
is prepared to pursue them, irrespective of their incitement to a global
biowarfare arms race, and their likely exposure of the American people in
the future to both accidents and reprisals.
ABOUT FRANCIS A. BOYLE
Francis A. Boyle is a leading American professor, practitioner and advocate
of international law. He was responsible for drafting the Biological Weapons
Anti-Terrorism Act of 1989, the American implementing legislation for the
1972 Biological Weapons Convention. He served on the Board of Directors of
Amnesty International (1988-1992), and represented Bosnia- Herzegovina at
the World Court. Professor Boyle teaches international law at the University
of Illinois, Champaign. He holds a Doctor of Law Magna Cum Laude as well as
a Ph.D. in Political Science, both from Harvard University
JONATHAN KING is Professor of Molecular Biology at MIT and an authority on
the genes and proteins of micro-organisms. Prof. King was a founder of the
Council for Responsible Genetics and Co-Chair of its Committee on the
Military Use of Biological Research.
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Date: Thu Sep 22 16:46:51 2005
Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty news --- ALABAMA
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death penalty news
September 22, 2005
ALABAMA --- IMPENDING EXECUTION!
Execution nears for man convicted of killing three for sports car
A condemned inmate convicted of killing a Pell City family of three
and driving off in their sports car awaited a decision on a stay from
the U.S. Supreme Court as his execution neared Thursday.
John W. Peoples Jr., now 48, was convicted in December 1983 in the
killing of Pell City businessman Paul G. Franklin and his wife, Judy
Choron Franklin, both 34, and their 10-year-old son, Paul.
Peoples, who was denied clemency by Gov. Bob Riley, hoped the Supreme
Court would grant a last-minute stay of his execution, scheduled for
6 p.m. CDT Thursday at Holman prison near Atmore.
He argued in his plea that he has a right to die by electrocution, as
his original death sentence stipulated, instead of lethal injection,
a method Alabama adopted beginning July 1, 2002. He contended there
never was a public court proceeding changing the sentence.
The state, in its response to the Supreme Court, said Peoples missed
the 2002 deadline to request the electric chair.
"He has offered absolutely no justification for the delay," said
Assistant Attorney General Beth Hughes in her rebuttal filed Wednesday.
State's attorneys also said his sentence - death - was not changed
and that his claim was without merit.
The Franklin boy and his mother were beaten to death with a rifle,
but the father's body was too decomposed by the time he was found for
investigators to determine the cause of death.
Prosecutors say Peoples killed the three because he wanted their 1968
red Corvette, and he was arrested after attempting to sell the car
shortly after the killings.
Peoples has argued that because he led investigators to the bodies,
his attorney should have taken steps to get him a sentence less than
the death penalty.
Evidence showed that Judy Franklin wrote Peoples' name on the top of
a clothes hamper with an eyebrow pencil before she and her son were
abducted. Peoples' cousin, Timothy Gooden, also testified in a plea
deal which got him a life sentence with the possibility of parole.
Gooden, who was with Peoples the night of the killings, later claimed
investigators pressured him into testifying falsely against Peoples.
Gooden was re-indicted for capital murder and, after pleading guilty,
sentenced to life without parole.
Relatives of the Franklins, planning to witness the execution, said
they did not care if Peoples died by electrocution or lethal injection.
Peoples ate very little in the days leading up to the execution and
did not make the traditional request for a last meal, said prisons
spokesman Brian Corbett.
Peoples spent Thursday morning visiting with several relatives,
including his mother, two daughters and son. He left $186.19 to his
brother, Gerry Peoples, who planned to witness Peoples' execution
with spiritual adviser Don Blockerd.
(source: AP / Tuscaloosa News)
