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Transcript: BARR CALLS ON PRESIDENT CLINTON TO STOP DELAYING EXECUTION OF DRUG KINGPIN JUAN RAUL GARZA
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- December 5, 2000
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE DECEMBER 5, 2000 BARR CALLS ON PRESIDENT CLINTON
TO STOP DELAYING EXECUTION OF DRUG KINGPIN JUAN RAUL GARZA WASHINGTON,
D.C. - Representative Bob Barr (R-Georgia) today wrote President Clinton
urging him to move forward on the upcoming execution of drug kingpin
Juan
Raul Garza, slated to die by lethal injection on December 12, 2000.
Juan
Raul Garza was convicted and sentenced to death in 1992 and has exhausted
every avenue by which he may be granted an appeal, including the United
States Supreme Court. On August 5, 2000, Mr. Garza was slated to be
executed.
At that time President Clinton granted a presidential reprieve. In
1994,
President Clinton and ...