[Deathpenalty] death penalty news-----ARK., MASS.

[Rick Halperin]

Aug. 22



ARKANSAS----new execution date

Beebe sets execution date for Bald Knob killer


Gov. Mike Beebe on Tuesday set an Oct. 16 execution date for Jack Harold
Jones Jr., who was sentenced to die in 1996 for killing a woman in Bald
Knob.

In a proclamation, Beebe said all of Jones' state and federal appeals have
been exhausted. The condemned killer is to die by injection.

Jones, 43, was convicted in White County Circuit Court of capital murder,
rape and criminal attempted capital murder in the June 1995 slaying of
Mary Phillips of Bradford.

The murder occurred at a bookkeeping and tax service in Bald Knob where
Phillips worked. Her 11-year-old daughter, who was at the business at the
time, was tied to a chair and beaten.

Jones' execution date is the second Beebe has set since taking office in
January.

Last month, the governor set a Sept. 18 execution for Terrick Terrell
Nooner, sentenced to die in the 1993 shooting death of a college student
at a Little Rock coin-operated laundry.

Last week, the state Parole Board held hearings on Nooner's request for
clemency, and on Monday the board recommended Beebe deny Nooner's request.

A spokesman for the governor said Tuesday that Beebe had not made a
decision on Nooner's clemency request.

(source: Arkansas News Bu;reau)






MASSACHUSETTS:

Sacco and Vanzetti: 80 Years After Their Execution, A Look At The Men, the
Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind


Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed eighty years ago on
August 23rd, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts. The trial of the 2 Italian
immigrant anarchists was one of the most controversial in American
history. Protests rocked every major city across the world in the days
leading up to the execution. We speak with Bruce Watson, author of "Sacco
and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind."

Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti were executed 80 years ago on August
23rd, 1927, in Boston, Massachusetts. Sacco and Vanzetti were
Italian-American anarchists who were arrested and accused of murder at the
height of the post-Bolshevik revolution Red Scare and debates over
immigration quotas.

After a highly controversial trial in 1920 they were sentenced to death by
a judge who called them "anarchistic bastards."

Their execution is infamous around the world and came to symbolize the
intolerance of the American establishment towards immigrants and radical
dissenters. Protests against their execution rocked every major city
across the world in the days leading up to their execution.

"Sacco and Vanzetti: The Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind" is
a detailed new book that explores the lives and ideas of these 2 men and
the enduring relevance of their trial. Bruce Watson is the author of this
definitive new history of Sacco and Vanzetti. We spoke to Bruce yesterday
from Boston, where Sacco and Vanzetti were executed 80 years ago.

(source: IndyBay News; Bruce Watson, author of "Sacco and Vanzetti: The
Men, the Murders, and the Judgment of Mankind.")