Hands Off Cain
NEWS ARCHIVE·DEATH PENALTY·FEBRUARY 4, 2003

And 134 MPs signed a Commons motion urging Prime Minister...

And 134 MPs signed a Commons motion urging Prime Minister Tony Blair to speak directly to US President George Bush on Elliott's behalf

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And 134 MPs signed a Commons motion urging Prime Minister Tony Blair to speak directly to US President George Bush on Elliott's behalf.
But the matter was not raised when the two men met last week, Downing Street saying it was a matter for the governor of Texas, not the US President.
Jackie Elliott has been executed by lethal injection in Walls prison unit in Huntsville, for the June 13, 1986 rape and murder of Joyce Munguia, 18. John Elliott, 42, was pronounced dead at 7:09 p.m.
Elliott was born in 1960 in England, where his father was stationed at a U.S. air base, giving him dual citizenship.
British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw asked Gov. Rick Perry to grant clemency for Elliott and more than 100 ministers of Parliament signed a House of Commons motion demanding clemency.
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  • (Sources: BBC News, Associated Press & Rick Halperin, 04/02/2003)