Democracy Now! December 4, 1998

(14 Minutes) Texas and the Death Penalty: A Lethal Lottery The killing state. A special broadcast from Houston, TX, the exectution capital of the U.S. With five men scheduled to die in Texas in the next week, a look at the states lottery - who gets the death penalty, and why. GUEST: Jim Marcus, Exec. Dir. of the Texas Defenders Service. GUEST: Andy Kahan, Director of the Mayor's Crime Victims Office in Houston. (9 Minutes) Texas Death Penalty - Stanley Faulder Case GUEST: Jim Marcus. GUEST: Sandra Babcock, Defense Attorney for Joseph Stanley Faulder, Canadian national scheduled to be executed on 12-10, on the 50th anniversary on the United Nations Declaration of Human Rights. (10 Minutes) Conversation with Ray Hill, Prison Reformist and Citizen Provocateur GUEST: Ray Hill, Long-time human rights activist and "citizen provocateur" from Houston, TX. He producers and co-host the "Prison Show" at KPFT. He works on behalf of prison reform, gay/lesbian rights, immigrant rights health care for rural minority children and pacifism.