Here are some articles and informational websites on Kenneth Foster, the Campaign to End the Death Penalty, and general information on capital punishment and the criminal justice system

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The Save Kenneth Foster Blogspot (this has a bunch of articles together, really good background and public opinion info): http://savekenneth.blogspot.com/
The Campaign to End the Death Penalty website: http://nodeathpenalty.org/content/index.php
Kenneth Foster's website: http://www.freekenneth.com/
From Austin-American Statesman: http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial...
From Dissident Voice, a radical newsletter: http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/08/kenneth-fost...
From Amnesty International: http://www.amnesty.org.uk/news_details.asp?NewsID=...
From Democracy Now (near bottom of page): http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=07/08/2...
From Bay Area Indy Media: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2007/08/28/184443...
From The Daily Texan in July: http://media.www.dailytexanonline.com/media/storag...

On Kenneth Foster: http://www.governor.state.tx.us/divisions/press/pr... PERRY COMMUTES DEATH SENTENCE.
---"After carefully considering the facts of this case, along with the recommendations from the Board of Pardons and Paroles, I believe the right and just decision is to commute Foster's sentence from the death penalty to life imprisonment," Gov. Perry said. "I am concerned about Texas law that allows capital murder defendants to be tried simultaneously, and it is an issue I think the legislature should examine."
NY TIMES article: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/us/30cnd-execute...
STATS on death penalty: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?scid=4...
PRESS RELEASE DANA CLOUD: http://nyc.indymedia.org/en/2007/08/90361.shtml
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/actnow?pid=221949
EVENTS:
http://www.progressiveaustin.org/meetings.htm

Articles on Kenneth Foster:
http://standdown.typepad.com/weblog/2007/08/more-f...
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/30/us/30execute.htm...
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2007/08/rangel-shuts...
http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?did=10...
Foster's letter to gov Perry: http://texasdeathpenalty.blogspot.com/2007/08/kenn...

Democracy Now! : Kenneth Foster Vows Hunger Strike Ahead of Execution
Meanwhile a pair of other Texas death row prisoners who are scheduled to die next week have announced plans to stage hunger strikes up until the time of their execution. Kenneth Foster and John Joe Amador said they will refuse all food beginning on Wednesday. The state of Texas is scheduled to execute Amador on August 29. Foster's execution date is set for August 30. Both men said they will commit to a protest of passive non-participation in their executions. In a statement released yesterday the men said: "We will not walk to our executions and we will not eat last meals. We will not give this process a humane face." Kenneth Foster is scheduled to be executed under a controversial Texan law known as the law of parties. The law imposes the death penalty on anybody involved in a crime where a murder occurred. In Foster's case he was driving a car 11 years ago with three passengers. One of the passengers left the car, got into an altercation and shot a man dead.

(From the Daily Texan Online.) Texas adopted the Law of Parties in 1974, which states, in part, that:
"A person is criminally responsible for an offense committed by the conduct of another if, in the attempt to carry out a conspiracy to commit one felony, another felony is committed by one of the conspirators; [then] all conspirators are guilty of the felony actually committed, though having no intent to commit it, [or] if the offense was committed in furtherance of the unlawful purpose and was one that should have been anticipated as a result of the carrying out of the conspiracy."