DEMOCRACY NOW : JANUARY 8 : TRIPLE EXECUTION IN ARKANSAS| Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizin and Amy Goodman| hosted by Amy Goodman. - CONTENT: pt.1. Political headlines (3:00) -- pt.2. Arkansas triple execution| guests Dina Tyler, spokesperson for the Arkansas Department of Corrections, and Pat Bane, Director of the Murder Victim Families for Reconcilliation and spiritual advisor to Paul Ruiz who is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday night and Reverend Kobutsu Kevin Malone, a Zen priest and spiritual advisor to Frankie Parker, who is scheduled to be executed on Wednesday night (16:00) -- pt.3. More on the triple execution (14:00) -- pt.4. Puerto Rican POlitical prisoners, a look at the mounting pressure upon President Clinton to grant clemency to 15 Puerto Rican prisoners who have been in Federal prison since the early 1980's| guests Jan Susler, an attorney with the People's Law Ofiice in Chicago, IL and Josefina Rodriquez, mother of two of the political prisoners and ELizam Escobar, who has been a political prisoner for the past 17 years in El Reno, OK and Nydia Velasquez, a three year congressperson from New York City who is the first Puerto Rican women elected to the US congress (5:00) -- pt.5. More on political prisoners (17:00) - Broadcast on January 8, 1997.
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