United States of America: Open letter to the US Attorney General concerning the imminent execution of Juan Raul Garza

Index Number: AMR 51/088/2001
Date Published: 14 June 2001
Categories: Americas, USA

This letter expresses Amnesty International's concern about the imminent federal execution of Juan Raul Garza. The execution has been scheduled to go ahead while a comprehensive study into the evidence of racial and geographic bias revealed by the Justice Department last Septemeber is pending.