National Call for action, Stop the execution of a mentally retarded man Warren Lee Hill

National Call for action, Stop the execution of a mentally retarded man Warren Lee Hill on Monday, July 23, 2012-correction

by Mark A. Clements

National Call for action:
The United States Constitution
prohibits executing the mentally ill. However on Monday, July 23, 2012,
the State of Georgia schedules to execute Warren Lee Hill who received
the death penalty after killing his cellmate.* I am requesting that all
e-mail your news editor's or News Directors, call national news agencies
and voice your outrage. The Supreme court has stated that executing the
mentally ill is "Constitutionally cruel"
 
In June, 2002,
Justice John Paul Stevens wrote the opinion which was joined by Sandra
Day O'Connor, Anthony Kennedy, David Souter, Ruth Bader Ginsburg and
Stephen Breyer.
 
"We are not persuaded that the execution
of mentally retarded criminals will measurably advance the deterrent or
the retributive purpose of the death penalty," the Court said.
 
The ruling doesn't address the constitutionality of capital punishment in general, and marked a reversal for the high court.
The
majority cited a growing national consensus on the issue since the high
court ruled in 1989 that such executions may be unacceptable. In the
past 13 years the number of states that do not allow the execution of
mentally retarded death row prisoners has grown from two to 18.
 
"It is fair to say that a national consensus has developed against it," Stevens wrote.
 
In
a blistering dissent, Justice Antonin Scalia scoffed at what he called
"the 47 percent consensus." He said the 18 states represent less than
half of the 38 states that permit capital punishment in any case.
 
"If
one is to say as the court does today that ALL executions of the
mentally retarded are so morally repugnant as to violate our national
standards of decency, surely the consensus it points to must be one that
has set its righteous face against ALL such executions," Scalia wrote.
 
Monday,
June 23, 2012, 9:00AM your time, write and call national news media and
voice your outage against this scheduled execution.
 
Sincerely:
Mark A. Clements,
Campaign to End the Death Penalty/Chicago Alliance Against Racist & Political Repression
CEDP/Board member
 
 
*Media contacts:
 
 
ABC News
147 Columbus Ave., New York, NY 10023
Phone: 212-456-7777
Good Morning America: email form
Nightline: email form
20/20: email form
 
BBC
Television Center, Wood Lance, London, W12 7RJ, United Kingdom
Phone: 44 20 8743 8000
Website: feedback page
 
BBC America
747 Third Avenue, 6th Floor, New York, NY 10017
Phone: 212-705-9300
Website: email form
 
 
CBS News
524 W. 57 St., New York, NY 10019
Phone: 212-975-4321
 
Email forms for all CBS news programs
CBS Evening News: evening@cbsnews.com
The Early Show: earlyshow@cbs.com
60 Minutes II: 60m@cbsnews.com
48 Hours: 48hours@cbsnews.com
Face The Nation: ftn@cbsnews.com
 
 
CNBC
900 Sylvan Avenue, Englewood Cliffs, NJ 07632
Phone: 201-735-2622
Email: info@cnbc.com
 
 
CNN
One CNN Center, Box 105366, Atlanta, GA 30303-5366
Phone: 404-827-1500
 
Email forms for all CNN news programs
 
 
Fox News Channel
1211 Ave. of the Americas, New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-301-3000
 
comments@foxnews.com
 
List of Email addresses for all Fox News Channel programs
Special Report With Bret Baier: special@foxnews.com
Fox Report With Shepard Smith: Foxreport@foxnews.com
The O'Reilly Factor: oreilly@foxnews.com
Hannity: hannity@foxnews.com,
On the Record With Greta: ontherecord@foxnews.com
 
 
MSNBC/NBC
30 Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY 10112
Phone: 212-664-3720
 
List of Email addresses for all MSNBC/NBC news programs
Dateline NBC:dateline@nbcuni.com
MSNBC Reports with Joe Scarborough: email form
NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams: nightly@nbc.com
NBC News Today: today@nbc.com
NBC Weekend Today: WT@nbc.com
 
 
PBS
2100 Crystal Drive, Arlington VA 22202-3785
Phone: 703-739-5000 ,
Phone: 703-739-5290 (Ombudsman)
 
The NewsHour (corrections and complaints): onlineda@newshour.orgg
Frontline: frontlineworld@flworld.org
Ombud Michael Getler Email
 
 
National Radio Programs
 
National Public Radio
635 Massachusetts Ave. NW, Washington, DC 20001-3753
Phone: 202-513-2000
 
List of Email addresses for all NPR news programs
List of phone numbers for all NPR news programs
 
The Rush Limbaugh Show
1270 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020
Phone (on air): 800-282-2882 (Between 12 and 3 PM)
 
E-mail: ElRushbo@eibnet.com
 
Sean Hannity Show
Phone (on air): 800-941-7326 (3-6 PM Mon-Fri)
Sean Hannity:212-613-3800
James Grisham, Producer: 212-613-3832
E-mail: Phil Boyce, Program Director phil.boyce@citcomm.com
Email: the Sean Hannity Show
 
National Newspapers
 
The Los Angeles Times
202 West First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012
Phone: 213-237-5000
 
L.A. Times Contact Information by Department
Letters to the Editor: email form
Readers' Representative: readers.representative@latimes.com
 
The New York Times
620 8th Ave., New York, NY 10018
Phone: 212-556-1234
D.C. Bureau phone: 202-862-0300
 
Letters to the Editor (for publication): letters@nytimes.com
Write to the news editors: news-tips@nytimes.com
Corrections: nytnews@nytimes.com
New York Times Contact Information by Department
How to Contact New York Times Reporters and Editors
 
 
 
USA Today
7950 Jones Branch Dr., McLean, VA 22108
Phone: 703-854-3400
 
Corrections: accuracy@usatoday.com
Give feedback to USA Today
 
The Wall Street Journal
1211 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10036
Phone: 212-416-2000
 
Letters to the Editor: wsj.ltrs@wsj.com
Comment on News Articles: wsjcontact@dowjones.com
Comment on News Coverage:newseditors@wsj.com
Submit Op-Ed
 
The Washington Post
1150 15th St., NW, Washington, DC 20071
Phone: 202-334-6000
Ombudsman: 202-334-7582
 
Letters to the Editor: letters@washpost.com
Ombudsman: ombudsman@washpost.com
Contact Washington Post Writers and Editors
 
Magazines
 
Newsweek
7 Hanover Square, Newyork, Ny, 10004
Phone: 212-445-4000
Letters to the Editor: letters@newsweek.com
 
Time
Time & Life Bldg., Rockefeller Center, 1271 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10020-1393
Phone: 212-522-1212
Letters to the Editor letters@time.com
 
 
NewsServices/Wires
 
Associated Press
450 West 33rd St., New York, NY 10001
Phone: 212-621-1500
 
General Questions and Comments: info@ap.org
Partial Contact Information for the Associated Press by Department and Bureau
 
 
Reuters
Three Times Square, New York, NY 10036
Telephone: 646-223-4000
Reuters Editorial Feedback
 
 
United Press International
1133 19th Street, NW Washington, DC 20036
Telephone: 202-898-8000
Comments and Tips: newstips@upi.org

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