For Humanity & against the death penalty

On June 18 Mexican Irineo Montoya became the 39th person to be executed by the US state this year. This prompted huge demonstrations in Mexico. The Death Penalty in the US is racist. In Ireland we have the media and the politicians drumming up racism against refugees on the one hand while on the other they hold the US Criminal 'Justice' system up as a model.

Zero tolerance became a buzz word for politicians during the election. But the USA now has a higher percentage of its population in jail then any industrialised country (except Nazi Germany and Stalin's Russia) ever had. 1,600,000 people are now in prison!.

According to Amnesty International

"Montoya's lawyer argued that Montoya didn't understand English and couldn't have produced the confession, written in English, attributed to him. His lawyer also argued that Montoya was denied the right to see a representative of the Mexican consulate, a right guaranteed by international treaties to which the United States is party. No lawyer was present when he signed the confession admitting involvement in the killing. Montoya was 18 at the time of the murder...."

Thousands of people are on Death Row, awaiting execution in the USA. The Zapatista Action project is asking people to join with us and other groups in picketing the US Embassy in Ballsbridge on July 4th at 5.30 pm. We hope you will join us there.

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