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The state of Texas is prepared to execute a man who did not commit murder.

Kenneth Foster is scheduled to be executed on August 30 in Texas for the murder of Michael LaHood, despite the fact that Mauriceo Brown, the person who shot LaHood, was executed in 2006. Foster was convicted under a 1974 Texas law under which the distinction between principal actor and accomplice in a crime is abolished and each may be held equally culpable.

KXAN, an Austin, TX television station did a story on his impending execution. An article in The Nation said:

Foster maintains that he did not know that Brown would either rob or kill LaHood. According to an Amnesty International investigation, there is evidence not heard at trial that the murder was an unplanned act committed by Brown, as the latter himself claimed before his execution.In 2005, a federal district judge found a “fundamental constitutional defect in Foster’s sentence” and ruled that Foster’s jury had not been asked to determine if he had any intent to kill LaHood, and that this failure represented a misapplication of the law. However, the state of Texas appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals, which overturned the decision.

You can take action to stop his execution at Amnesty International, or The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.