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	John Penry - LoveToKnow 1911
		JOHN PENRY (1559-1593), Welsh Puritan, was born in Brecknockshire in 1559; tradition points to Cefn Brith, a farm near Llangammarch, as his birthplace.
		Indignant at this negligence, Penry published, early in 1587, The /Equity of an Humble Supplication - in the behalf of the country of Wales, that some order may be taken for the preaching of the Gospel among those people.
		On his release Penry married a lady of Northampton, which town was his home for some years.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /John_Penry (509 words)

	John Penry - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Penry (1559 - May 29, 1593), is Wales's most famous Protestant martyr.
		Indignant at this failure, Penry published, early in 1587, The Æquity of an Humble Supplication "in the behalf of the country of Wales, that some order may be taken for the preaching of the Gospel among those people".
		He was convicted by the Queen's Bench on the May 21, 1593, and hanged on May 29 at the unusual hour of 4 p.m., the signature of his old enemy Whitgift being the first of those affixed to the warrant.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Penry (555 words)

	John Penry
		John Penry was the son of Meredith Penry, a farmer of some substance, and was born at Cefn Brith (pictured below) on the slopes of Mynydd Eppynt in the parish of Llangamarch.
		Penry was forced to keep on the move to avoid arrest and the press itself operated from several sites around London, and at Fawsley and Coventry.
		Penry is thought to have been involved in the publication of the "Marprelate Tracts" denouncing the immorality of the bishops, which the church was even more anxious to suppress.
	history.powys.org.uk /history/common/penry.html (500 words)

	USA: Beyond Reason - The imminent execution of John Paul Penry - Amnesty International (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		John Paul Penry, sentenced to death in 1980 for the murder of Pamela Moseley Carpenter, was 13 hours from execution in 1988 when the US Supreme Court agreed to hear his case.
		Johnny Penry pleaded "not guilty by reason of insanity", in other words that his mental impairment deprived him of the knowledge that his actions were wrong and of the ability to conform his conduct to the requirements of the law.
		It is argued that a Penry juror who believed that the answer to all three questions was "yes", and yet also believed that a death sentence was inappropriate, could either answer the questions truthfully, or disregard the questions on the form and violate their oath.
	web.amnesty.org /library/Index/engAMR511951999 (4992 words)

	Penry, John. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In 1587 his pamphlet assailing the spiritual destitution of the Welsh clergy was seized and burned, and he was briefly imprisoned.
		Puritans were aroused, and Penry and several associates were helped to set up a hidden printing press from which emerged (1588–89) seven pamphlets attacking alleged evils of the Church of England and its clergy.
		When his associate John Udall was arrested (1590), Penry fled to Scotland; he returned secretly in 1592.
	www.bartleby.com /65/pe/Penry-Jo.html (188 words)

	johnny.html
		Penry was arrested shortly after Pamela Moseley Carpenter was raped and stabbed with a pair of scissors on Oct. 25, 1979, inside her home in Livingston, about 45 miles northeast of Conroe.
		Tarver said Penry's mother, suffering from postpartum psychosis, beat her son and other children with a variety of implements and often locked him in a room or a small cabinet.
		Penry was called by a defense witness by Penry attorney John Wright at the 1st trial in 1980 and didn't become a villain until she died the next year.
	www.geocities.com /savepenry/johnny.html (3233 words)

	CNN.com - High court hears case of mentally retarded man on death row - March 26, 2001
		Penry was sentenced to die for the 1979 rape and murder of Pamela Moseley Carpenter.
		The fact that Penry raped the 22-year-old and stabbed her to death with the scissors she had used to try to defend herself, is not disputed.
		Penry is considered mildly to moderately retarded with an IQ of between 51 and 63.
	edition.cnn.com /2001/LAW/03/26/penry.video/index.html (488 words)

	XVII. The Marprelate Controversy: Bibliography. Vol. 3. Renascence and Reformation. The Cambridge History of English ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		[By John Penry.] A Treatise containing the aequity of an humble supplication which is to be exhibited unto hir gracious majesty, and this high Court of Parliament in the behalfe of the Countrey of Wales, that some order may be taken for the preaching of the Gospell among those people….
		[By John Aylmer.] An harborowe for faithfull and trewe subjectes, agaynst the late blowne Blaste, concerninge the Government of Wemen, wherin be confuted all such reasons as a straunger of late made in that behalfe, with a breife exhortation to obedience.
		Imprinted by John Anoke, and John Astile, for the Baylive of Withernam, cum privilegio perennitatis, and are to bee sold at the signe of the crab tree cudgell in thwackcoate lane.
	www.bonus.com /contour/bartlettqu/http@@/www.bartleby.com/213/1700.html (4090 words)

	Die Forest Die
		Penry was set to become 38th Texas inmate to be executed this year -- the highest number by any state since the U.S. Supreme Court allowed capital punishment to resume in 1976.
		Penry was sentenced to death for raping and fatally stabbing and beating 22-year-old East Texas housewife Pamela Moseley Carpenter in 1979.
		Penry's lawyers described him as having an IQ of 50 and the mental age of a 7-year-old.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/criminal_law/53373 (520 words)

	John Penry's Body of Work (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Penry apparently got the attention of Archbishop of Canterbury John Whitgift on February 28, 1587, with a protest to Parliament against episcopalianism in the Church of England.
		Penry was not the first reformer to protest the bishops and their unlearned ministers taking church land without living on it.
		John Penry was an exact contemporary of Marlowe's at Cambridge and also a "Gentlemen." If Marlowe and Penry did collaborate on the Marprelate Tracts, then their macabre reunion on May 30, 1593 would be fraught with Dickensian irony.
	members.aol.com /marlovian/inquest/penry.htm (2147 words)

	www.amnesty.org: USA: Texas set to execute mentally disabled man as it heads for judicial killing record
		John Paul Penry, who has an IQ of between 50 and 63 and the mind of a seven-year-old child, is scheduled for lethal injection in Huntsville at 18:00 hours local time on 16 November.
		In a landmark decision, the US Supreme Court overturned John Penry's death sentence in 1989, saying that juries must be allowed to consider mental retardation as a mitigating factor, but that the execution of the mentally retarded was not unconstitutional.
		John Penry was resentenced to death in 1990.
	socsci.colorado.edu /~mciverj/2481_DP_AMR511752000.html (815 words)

	Penry, John - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		PENRY, JOHN [Penry, John] 1559-93, British Puritan author, an instigator of the Marprelate controversy, b.
		Puritans were aroused, and Penry and several associates were helped to set up a hidden printing press from which emerged (1588-89) seven pamphlets attacking alleged evils of the Church of England and its clergy.
		Elizabeth I: as the second Elizabethan age closes in disillusionment, Penry Williams reconsiders whether the first deserved the same fate.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-penry-jo.html (367 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Penry, (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Penry, John PENRY, JOHN [Penry, John] 1559-93, British Puritan author, an instigator of the Marprelate controversy, b.
		Udall, John UDALL, JOHN [Udall, John], 1560?-1592, English clergyman, educated at Cambridge.
		He adopted Puritan sympathies and aided John Penry in issuing the anticlerical pamphlets published under the pseudonym Martin Marprelate.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Penry, (335 words)

	INCLUSION DAILY EXPRESS -- John Paul Penry
		Penry was convicted in 1980 of murdering Pamela Moseley Carpenter, the sister of former Washington Redskins kicker Mark Moseley.
		In 1980, Penry was convicted in the 1979 rape and stabbing murder of Pamela Moseley Carpenter.
		Penry was convicted again of the crimes, and was within hours of his scheduled death in November 2000 when the Supreme Court halted his execution a second time.
	www.inclusiondaily.com /news/laws/penry.htm (3543 words)

	John Paul Penry v. Texas, Letter to Governor George W. Bush, November 7, 2000
		John Paul Penry, a U.S.citizen, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on November 16.
		Penry would be in contradiction with the minimum standards set forth in several international instruments.
		Penry's sentence to any penalty other than capital punishment as is compatible with international law.
	www.eurunion.org /legislat/DeathPenalty/Penry.htm (301 words)

	Doubts raised over killer's retardation - John Paul Penry Alert! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Penry, 46, was abused as a child only seemed to surface whenever he got into trouble, and then it was unclear who abused him.
		Penry's lawyers, responded that he was amazed prosecutors would argue that his client was not mentally retarded.
		Penry was taken to a cell a few feet from the death chamber to await lethal injection.
	www.freerepublic.com /focus/news/698155/posts (958 words)

	Should John Penry Die? - November 27, 2000
		That would hardly be a rare occurrence in the state of Texas: Penry, 44, would have been the 38th man executed in Texas this year, a record for a single state since authorities began keeping track in 1930.
		He was removed from school before finishing the first grade by his mother, who, according to relatives and a former neighbor, habitually beat Penry on the head with a belt buckle, locked him indoors for prolonged periods and made him drink his own urine.
		Penry stands at the center of a debate that bedevils even some supporters of the death penalty: Should the state execute people who have committed brutal acts but have the mentality of children?
	edition.cnn.com /ALLPOLITICS/time/2000/11/27/penry.html (767 words)

	The Austin Chronicle News: Death Sentence Overturned
		Penry's case has bounced back and forth between state and federal courts for nearly 25 years and was instrumental in raising the debate over whether it is constitutionally sound to execute mentally retarded offenders.
		Penry's defenders argue that he has repeatedly scored under 70 on IQ tests – the benchmark for a diagnosis of mental retardation – and that he is too childlike to understand the consequence of his crime.
		On Wednesday, a 5-4 majority of the CCA overturned Penry's sentence – the first time the state appellate court has ruled in Penry's favor – opining that Penry's jurors were restricted during the punishment phase of his trial from fully considering his claims of mental retardation.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/dispatch/2005-10-14/pols_naked4.html (413 words)

	Media Notice - John Paul Penry Thanksviging Vigil (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Penry had been scheduled to be executed Jan. 13 and was granted a stay of execution on Dec. 30 by the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.
		Penry was convicted of rape and murder in 1979.
		Penry was given a retrial in Huntsville, Texas.
	www.salsa.net /peace/penry2.html (360 words)

	Penry, McCarver: Linked
		That case involved John Penry, a Texas death row inmate who had been convicted in 1980 of stabbing a woman to death with a pair of scissors.
		The Supreme Court decisions in 1989 said that Penry's IQ scores of between 50 and 64 could not keep him from being legally executed, but that the jury should have been told about his IQ before sentencing him to death.
		When Penry's first case was presented to the court in 1989, only two states banned executions of people with mental retardation.
	www.raggededgemagazine.com /extra/deathrow040201.htm (713 words)

	NACDL amicus brief emphasizes unclear instruction
		Now Penry, and NACDL as amicus curiae, claim that the instruction in the second trial was confusing and required the jury to contradict other instructions in the case in order to conclude that Penry's retardation and other mitigating factors allowed them to not impose the death penalty.
		Penry's case will be argued in the Supreme Court for the second time on Tuesday.
		In the original Penry case, the Court declined, by a 5-4 ruling, to declare execution of mentally retarded persons unconstitutional, citing a lack of "national consensus" in that only two states had outlawed such executions at the time.
	www.nacdl.org /public.nsf/newsreleases/2001mn021?opendocument (354 words)

	United States of America: An open letter to Governor Bush of Texas on the planned killing of John Paul Penry
		John Paul Penry, a man with severe learning disabilities and an IQ of between 50 and 63, is scheduled to be executed in Texas on 16 November.
		Since John Penry was first sentenced to death in 1980, 13 US states have enacted laws that would exempt this man from the death that Texas has in store for him.
		Putting aside the disputed question of whether the jury at John Penry's second trial in 1990 was able to give mitigating effect to his childhood abuse and mental impairment, we would remind you that the power of executive mercy exists precisely to compensate for the rigidities of the courts.
	www.amnestyusa.org /regions/americas/document.do?id=CE9475E461C6B6F48025699F00418AF4 (1091 words)

	May 29: John Penry swung because of concern for Wales
		Penry wrote Equity of a Humble Supplication in Behalf of the Country of Wales that Some Order May Be Taken for the Preaching of the Gospel Among Those People.
		Having become a Puritan separatist in his thinking, Penry could not accept a state-run system, because, as he phrased it, "The truth of Christ and ministry of Christ as it is his will be in bondage unto no antichristian power.
		Their theme can be summed up in the words of the first tract: "Leave you your wickedness and I'll leave the revealing of your knaveries." An example of the knavery was confiscation of stolen cloth by one bishop for his own use.
	chi.gospelcom.net /DAILYF/2002/05/daily-05-29-2002.shtml (755 words)

	John Paul Penry - Texas To Murder Mentally Ill Man
		Penry was sentenced to die in 1979 for the rape and murder of a
		Penry's attorneys also contended that the jury at his second trial was given confusing instructions by the judge on how to assess evidence that might mitigate against giving him the death penalty.
		Penry was 1st convicted and sentenced to death in 1980.
	www.ccadp.org /johnpaulpenry-news.htm (7964 words)

	English Dissenters: Barrowists
		Penry was able to spent the next five months with his family in the company of the Johnson congregation.
		John Robinson was admitted to the Faculty of Leyden University in 1615.
		A document was drafted by John Robinson, William Brewster (1567-1644), and others in 1617 outlining their current theological positions in an attempt to blight the possible fears of the London-Virginia Company concerning the Leyden congregation theological beliefs.
	www.exlibris.org /nonconform/engdis/barrowists.html (10945 words)

	Do Unto Others Project-Church of the Science of God (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		That would hardly be a rare occurrence in the state of Texas: Penry, 44, would have been the 38th man executed in Texas this year, (November 2002) a record for a single state since authorities began keeping track in 1930.
		In 1989 the Supreme Court ruled that while executing those with diminished mental capabilities does not violate the ban on cruel and unusual punishment, a defendant’s IQ and background are mitigating.
		Texas attorney general John Cornyn has alleged that Penry “can be purposefully deceptive.” Prosecutors points out that Penry, who had been on parole less than three months for a rape conviction when he killed Carpenter, confessed to the crime and said, “I told her that I...
	www.dountoothers.org /johnpenry.html (678 words)

	CHAPTER VII
		John Penry, who was well known in England, became a Baptist preacher in 1586, and had been a very acceptable preacher before this in both of the Colleges, at Cambridge and Oxford.
		All of these details are associated with John Penry, who was an immersionist, and there is nothing to indicate any difference of opinion on this subject between the churches and Penry; indeed, the proof all points to their practicing immersion.
		John Smyth was associated with John Norcott on the subject of baptism on March 24th, 1609.
	www.wayoflife.org /articles/dip09.htm (2331 words)

	Human Rights : Death Penalty : USA: Time to recognize international "standards of decency" - News about ...
		In the 21 years since John Penry was first sentenced to death, more than 50 countries have abolished the death penalty, bringing to 108 the number which have rejected this punishment in law or practice.
		Exactly one month before the Supreme Court overturned John Penry's first death sentence in June 1989, the United Nations adopted a resolution calling on member states to exempt the mentally retarded from the death penalty.
		For the execution of mentally impaired prisoners like John Paul Penry is just the tip of a human rights scandal that deserves the growing international condemnation it is receiving and demands human rights leadership at the highest level.
	www.apologeticsindex.org /news1/an010607-05.html (943 words)

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