Impending tragedy in Yemen

[Jesus Saves]

"World News
April 30, 2005
Mother, 21, faces firing squad
By Daniel McGrory

Leaders plead for a woman who denies murder and says a rapist prison guard fathered her son

EUROPEAN leaders are making desperate pleas to spare the life of a 21-year-old mother who is expected to face a firing squad in Yemen on Monday.

The lawyer for Amina Ali Abduladif will visit her in prison today to break the news that her execution is imminent.

Mrs Abduladif was spared two years ago when she was facing her executioners and told them she was pregnant after being raped by a prison guard. But her lawyer, Shada Nasir, told The Times: “Now that her son has reached his second birthday the law here says the death sentence should be carried out.

“I don’t know how I am going to tell her.”

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1591076,00.html

[dogday]

1. What can one say about this?

sick sad shit

[sarahlee]

2. Info about how you can try to help

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2005/4/30/94835/3481

Summarized contacts - easier to find here:
http://www.kucinich.us/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=2139

[LynnTheDem]

3. Yet most Americans are happy with death penalty here in the USA.

So why are Americans upset that other countries have the death penalty too?

[NNN0LHI]

4. "Why are Americans upset that other counties have the death penalty too?"

Stupidity would be my guess.

Don

[LynnTheDem]

5. We even use firing squads still for executions in the USA, so I really

dunno why anyone's outraged over the "barbarism" of Yeman.

America; the only first-world nation that still has the death penalty. Hopefully one day the majority of liberals will stop supporting it in America.

[NNN0LHI]

6. Hanging is still acceptable in Delaware, New Hampshire and Washington

http://www.clarkprosecutor.org/html/death/methods.htm

Delaware - Lethal Injection. If lethal injection held unconstitutional, then hanging.

New Hampshire - Lethal Injection. If "impractical", then hanging.

Washington - Lethal injection, unless inmate elects hanging.

[Jesus Saves]

7. She's more than likely innocent

Read the Daily Kos link someone else provided.

This isn't about some other country having the death penalty, this is about an innocent mom being put in front of a firing squad.

It isn't about America and biatching about America.

[LynnTheDem]

8. When a nation has the death penalty, innocent people get killed.

That's the very unfortunate fact of having the death penalty.

[The Magistrate]

9. Perhaps, Ma'am

The objection centers on the real questions concerning innocence presented in the article, and the age at the time of the alleged crime.

Do you think a person in the United Staes should be executed for a killing at the age of sixteen, particularly when there is witness testimony excluded from the trial that identifies other persons as the guilty parties? If you do not, why should it surprise you, or seem to you a thing to disparrage, that other persons are willing to apply those same standards to events in all parts of the world?

[LynnTheDem]

10. America executes children.

And a very unfortunate side effect of having a death penalty is the fact that innocents get executed.

What I disparage is Americans whining about other nations doing exactly what America does...and yet they support America's doing it.


The US Supreme Court is revisiting its 1989 decision allowing the execution of people for crimes committed when they were 16 or 17 years old. The Court will hear oral arguments on the constitutionality of this practice on 13 October and is expected to release its decision in the first half of 2005.

The USA leads the world in the execution of child offenders...

http://web.amnesty.org/wire/October2004/USA

[lukasahero]

13. I'm not sure "most Americans are happy" with it

I'm sure as hell not so I'm going to fight to try and stop this one in Yemen. I try to stop them here, I'll try to stop them there. No conflict for me.

[sarahlee]

11. Mother's life is spared as leader heeds foreign pleas

Quote:
Mother's life is spared as leader heeds foreign pleas
By Daniel McGrory
THE life of a 21-year-old mother was spared shortly before she was due to face a firing squad yesterday as appeals by British ministers and others forced the Yemeni President to suspend the execution.

Amina al-Abduladif’s lawyer was with her in prison when the last-minute reprieve came. Shada Nasir told The Times: “She was shaking and crying. She had said her prayers and her farewells and was sure she was going to die. What we don’t know is whether the execution has been delayed for a day or a week as no one will tell us.

“She is still very frightened and confused about what happens now.”

Officials in the capital, Sanaa, said that President Saleh was “moved” when he learnt of the plight of Mrs Abduladif, who was convicted of murdering her husband when she was 16 after insisting that her confession was forced from her under torture.

The President has asked justice ministers to look again at her case while her lawyers are demanding a new trial.

For the moment Mrs Abduladif remains on death row with her two-year-old son, who was born in jail after she was allegedly raped by a prison guard. She had gone on hunger strike after a prison official told her that he had read in a newspaper that her execution date had been set for yesterday.


Full article: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1595499,00.html

Thanks to all who made calls.

[sarahlee]

12. Execution Stayed - but there is still more to do

Please read the updates here:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2005/5/3/92919/45029