Do not execute Larry Swearingen

Target:

The Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Rick Perry

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Friends, Family and supporter of Larry Swearingen

We the undersigned are writing and signing this petition on behalf of death row prisoner Larry Swearingen, #999361, Polunsky Unit, TX. Larry is scheduled to be executed on January 27, 2009 for a murder he did not commit. He was in Jail while the murder in this case occured and the DNA (blood and hairs) excluded him as the biological donor. He was in no position to have committed this crime.

Evidence was withheld from medical examiner and the jury; leading the medical examiner at the time of trial to a wrong time of victim's death that erred in the jury coming to a death sentence. The medical examiner reviewed the case in 2007 and reversed her opinion on the date of death, with now four forensic pathologists independently reaching the s ame conclusion - that the victim got killed and her body dumped in the woods while Larry Swearingen was in jail on unrelated charges.

We ask that you please stop the scheduled execution of Larry Swearingen based on these facts as far as Texas law allows, and urge a reopening of the investigation, as there is other evidence that points unambiguously to actual innocence. Please show clemency to a father of five kids who is NOT guilty of the crime he was convicted of, and save him from death.

We thank you very much for your time and attention to this very important matter!

For more information about Larry's case, check out his website at: www.larry-swearingen.com
or join his YAHOO GROUP http://groups.yahoo.com/grou/larry_swearingen/

Please help us stop this injustice from taking place! Stop the insanity of state sanctioned murder! Contact the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Rick Perry on behalf of Larry Swearingen.

Please send APPEALS TO:

Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
General Counsel's Office
(to the attention of Ms Rissie L. Owens, Presiding Officer)
8610 Shoal Creek Boulevard
Austin, Texas 78758
Phone: 1 512 406 5852
Fax: 1 512 406 5852
Salutation: Dear Ms Owens

Governor Rick Perry
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711-2428
Fax: 1 512 463 1849
Salutation: Dear Governor

Phone (Office of the Governor):
for T exas callers: (800) 252-9600
for calls from other States and outside the US: 1 512 463-2000

We the undersigned are writing and signing this petition on behalf of death row prisoner Larry Swearingen, #999361, Polunsky Unit, TX. Larry is scheduled to be executed on January 27, 2009 for a murder he did not commit. He was in Jail while the murder in this case occured and the DNA (blood and hairs) excluded him as the biological donor. He was in no position to have committed this crime.

Evidence was withheld from medical examiner and the jury; leading the medical examiner at the time of trial to a wrong time of victim's death that erred in the jury coming to a death sentence. The medical examiner reviewed the case in 2007 and reversed her opinion on the date of death, with now four forensic pathologists independently reaching the s ame conclusion - that the victim got killed and her body dumped in the woods while Larry Swearingen was in jail on unrelated charges.

We ask that you please stop the scheduled execution of Larry Swearingen based on these facts as far as Texas law allows, and urge a reopening of the investigation, as there is other evidence that points unambiguously to actual innocence. Please show clemency to a father of five kids who is NOT guilty of the crime he was convicted of, and save him from death.

We thank you very much for your time and attention to this very important matter!

For more information about Larry's case, check out his website at:
www.larry-swearingen.com
or join his YAHOO GROUP http://groups.yahoo.com/grou/larry_swearingen/

Please help us stop this injustice from taking place! Stop the insanity of state sanctioned murder! Contact the Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles and Governor Rick Perry on behalf of Larry Swearingen.

Please send APPEALS TO:

Texas Board of Pardons and Paroles
General Counsel's Office
(to the attention of Ms Rissie L. Owens, Presiding Officer)
8610 Shoal Creek Boulevard
Austin, Texas 78758
Phone: 1 512 406 5852
Fax: 1 512 406 5852
Salutation: Dear Ms Owens

Governor Rick Perry
Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, TX 78711-2428
Fax: 1 512 463 1849
Salutation: Dear Governor

Phone (Office of the Governor):
for T exas callers: (800) 252-9600
for calls from other States and outside the US: 1 512 463-2000

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We signed the "Do not execute Larry Swearingen" petition!

# 5,361:

4:57 pm PST, Nov 6, Christiane Henker, Germany

# 5,360:

8:17 pm PDT, Oct 19, Jazmine McGill, Texas
Every human life is precious and deserves to be treated as a serious matter and taken seriously. Be compassionate.

# 5,359:

8:06 am PDT, Oct 14, Name not displayed, Germany

# 5,358:

4:25 pm PDT, Oct 12, Matthew john Mortimer, Virginia
If he's executed, further proof this country is far out of step with humankind.

# 5,357:

11:48 am PDT, Sep 30, Name not displayed, Italy
Innocenti o colpevoli non importa,smettetela con la pena di morte!Stop legalized murder!

# 5,356:

2:33 pm PDT, Sep 26, Name not displayed, California
Executing an innocent man will bring bad karma not only to the to the prosecutors but the whole societyitself.

# 5,355:

9:29 am PDT, Sep 14, Yvonne Brandhorst Jan�en, Germany

# 5,354:

2:24 am PDT, Sep 11, Maria Benz, Germany

# 5,353:

2:53 am PDT, Sep 4, Ine Lavik, Norway

# 5,352:

9:41 am PDT, Aug 31, Daniela Schmidt, Germany

# 5,351:

10:09 am PDT, Aug 29, Bruno Canivenc, France

# 5,350:

6:52 am PDT, Aug 27, Livia Calvet, New York

# 5,349:

11:48 am PDT, Aug 26, Sylvie Calvet, France
I was pen wriiting with Odell Barnes executed at Hunsville despite the fact that neither Robert Badinter who was heading the Justice Department when Death penalty was abolished in 1981 nor the President of the Frenc Human Association found ANY PROOF of his guilt ! Jack Lang who was heading the Foreign Commission to the French Parliament went to visit Odell on Death Row and wrote a paper in le Monde : " saving Odll Barnes !" My daughter who is dual French and American citizen was so shocked by Odell Barnes' execution that she wrote her Masters in Peace and International Studies at Trinity College in Dublin, Eire , on : " Capital Punishment in the United States : A "new abolitionist " Perpective on an Arbitrary Politicised Administration of Death "

# 5,348:

3:11 pm PDT, Aug 24, Reiner Lindler, Germany

# 5,347:

9:04 pm PDT, Aug 22, MOHAMADI ALAL LHASSANE, Morocco

# 5,346:

10:25 am PDT, Aug 19, Alexandra Feo, Japan
It is time to evolve, death by man hands is against everything especialy your so loved God people, but killing a man being innocent is just the evidence that this world is crap and nothing more.

# 5,345:

5:41 am PDT, Aug 18, Mohamed Ali TABJI, Morocco
dont kill for us

# 5,344:

4:12 am PDT, Aug 18, Revol Laetitia, France
stop the injustice please

# 5,343:

4:11 pm PDT, Aug 17, Korena Vukobrat, Wisconsin

# 5,342:

2:46 pm PDT, Aug 15, María Manzano, Spain

# 5,341:

1:37 pm PDT, Aug 15, Vicky Kontou, Germany

# 5,340:

1:03 pm PDT, Aug 15, Patricia Gerber, South Africa

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7:23 am PDT, Aug 15, Matthew Corl, New York

# 5,338:

1:31 am PDT, Aug 14, Name not displayed, Texas

# 5,337:

1:10 pm PDT, Aug 11, Julián Reyes, Chile

# 5,336:

5:06 am PDT, Aug 6, Colman Sheehan, Ireland
are these people in texas mad a child could see this poor man is innocent. i pray for these people and i will pray for poor larry god bless

# 5,335:

12:29 am PDT, Aug 4, Marie Rogers, Texas
I first read about this case fairly recently in one of Lisa Falkenberg's Houston Chronicle reports. I certainly am not a LEO or DA or even a defense attorney...just someone who is concerned about our Harris County Justice system. Back then around the time Mr Swearingen was accused, tried and convicted has been shown to be a black-eye time upon, not only our CRIME-LAB, but also the DA, Houston police and investigators, who ALL seemed to 'possibly' CONTROL and keep funded that crime lab. I don't trust ANY of the convictions between whenever DNA testing started in HC...and whenever HC started getting (CAUGHT) DNA and lab test overturns and reversals of convictions due to crime lab "problems". (I have conflicting reports when that seems to have happened) Nonetheless, we DO have a problem that has been, not only reported on, but substantiated. I think the best possible solution is to FULLY examine and study the new DNA evidence...at the least a new trial should be in order as apparently Mr Swearingen is not shown to be the biological donor of the DNA which was found. You can hate the man for his past all you want but IF he did not commit the crime then the REAL criminal is possibly still free and preying on victims without worry. IF Mr Swearingen is INNOCENT of THIS crime, no matter what kind of person or other crimes he may or may not have committed...the state of TEXAS will execute an innocent (probably, again). How do you sleep at night with this possibility on your conscience? Marie Rogers

# 5,334:

3:11 am PDT, Aug 3, ROCHCONGAR ANNE MARY, France

# 5,333:

8:34 am PDT, Jul 31, Laurent Corinne, France
Laws are traductions of what we think about us

# 5,332:

1:11 am PDT, Jul 31, Name not displayed, France

# 5,331:

11:46 pm PDT, Jul 30, Jorma Huijts, Netherlands

# 5,330:

12:55 am PDT, Jul 28, Marlene Wreisner, California
Too many innocent have walked the death walk, take one moment and imagine yourself, innocent but condemned anyway, nobody cares, nobody helps you. You are sentenced to die on a certain day or night and you can do nothing or say anything to make these men believe you. You are going to die and you know you are innocent. If you were really able to feel what they feel inside, you would stop this insanity. Compassion, please bring it back.

# 5,329:

12:35 am PDT, Jul 28, Greg Fortenberry, Maryland

# 5,328:

2:37 pm PDT, Jul 25, Raffael Trimmel, Austria

# 5,327:

1:42 pm PDT, Jul 25, Jody Florian, United Kingdom
HELEN PREJEAN, Dead Man Walking once wrote: Government ... can’t be trusted to control its own bureaucrats or collect taxes equitably or fill a pothole, much less decide which of its citizens to kill.

# 5,326:

1:10 am PDT, Jul 24, GALLET Jessalyne, France

# 5,325:

3:27 pm PDT, Jul 21, Todd Olson, Wisconsin
Convicting the innocent is always the wrong thing to do. You make the system a complete failure & cause more crimes by this. www.toddsappeal.com & www.toddolsonsappeal.com

# 5,324:

2:41 pm PDT, Jul 21, Gemma Uyleman vd Weijden, Netherlands

# 5,323:

2:40 pm PDT, Jul 21, Debbie Negro, Australia

# 5,322:

2:26 pm PDT, Jul 21, Anne Craig, New York

# 5,321:

10:48 am PDT, Jul 21, Ann-kristin Sorenmo, Norway

# 5,320:

10:45 am PDT, Jul 21, Adriene Prince, California
Does one human life matter? In a society based on law and justice, it does.

# 5,319:

8:39 am PDT, Jul 21, BILL MOBLY, Oklahoma
I truly believe that at least 25% of all individuals in prison in the United States are innocent. The reason for this is the use of public defenders for the poor. The average time spent by a public defender is one to two hrs. on a poor persons case. Years ago people got way two little time for crimes. Now days it is a business and when poor folks get in trouble its almost guaranteed that they will go to prison AND THE KEY TO GET OUT WILL BE THROWN AWAY. THE UNITED STATES HAS MORE PEOPLE IN PRISON THEN ANY OTHER COUNTRY.

# 5,318:

5:39 am PDT, Jul 21, Name not displayed, Texas

# 5,317:

10:46 pm PDT, Jul 20, Barbara Annamarie Wood, Pennsylvania

# 5,316:

4:40 am PDT, Jul 19, Claudia Ioannidou, Cyprus

# 5,315:

8:17 pm PDT, Jul 15, Jack Tamble, Wisconsin

# 5,314:

8:09 am PDT, Jul 14, BLACHER Lucien, France
To kill somebody for murder, it is to do the same: it's not a good example, it's a barbar way of "justice". No one has to touch the life of anybody...

# 5,313:

12:48 pm PDT, Jul 8, Manai Sophia, France
Les peines de morts sont tout simplement des meurtres!! Honte a vous!!!

# 5,312:

11:51 am PDT, Jul 6, Salou Caroline, France

# 5,311:

3:38 am PDT, Jul 2, Ress�guier Val�rie, France

# 5,310:

11:33 am PDT, Jul 1, Lynn Evans, Virginia
Do not execute a man solely because you can. You have evidence to prove his innocence, use OUR taxpayer money to find the real killer.

# 5,309:

5:11 am PDT, Jul 1, Name not displayed, Germany
Please help this man too: http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/clemency-to-mohamed-kohail

# 5,308:

3:07 am PDT, Jul 1, Michael Scrive, France

# 5,307:

2:40 pm PDT, Jun 29, Katherine Reynolds, Virginia

# 5,306:

1:16 am PDT, Jun 29, Joanna Sapp, Oregon
I fully realize that there are always two sides to every story, and I have not yet heard/read the prosecutions' side of the story. However, going by the facts provided on Larry's behalf, I most gladly sign this petition. And, I gladly shout it from the highest of rooftops: DO NOT EXECUTE LARRY!!!

# 5,305:

11:26 am PDT, Jun 28, Kim Herron, Michigan
No matter what your opinion of the death penalty, even if you agree with it, then one must realize there will be mistakes. Larry Swearingen is one of these 'mistakes'. The evidence of his innocence is overwhelming, please, please at least examine the forensic evidence. Listen and research as much as he has - this is someones LIFE. The most precious thing we have on earth. One life has already been lost, I beg you not to make the count go to 2 unnecessarily.

# 5,304:

9:20 am PDT, Jun 28, Name not displayed, Illinois

# 5,303:

8:08 am PDT, Jun 28, Marina Morel, France

# 5,302:

7:21 pm PDT, Jun 27, Name not displayed, Ohio
Larry Swearingen should not be executed for this crime. There is too much evidence to say that he commited the crime.

# 5,301:

1:11 pm PDT, Jun 27, Lamirand Mo, Estonia

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