Democracy Now!: Tuesday, Oct. 27, 2009

A Pentagon report found one in three female servicemembers are sexually assaulted. “Rape in the Ranks: The Enemy Within” focuses on the cases of three female servicemembers victimized by rape and sexual assault. We air excerpts and speak to filmmaker Pascale Bourgaux. In the news: Reginald Blanton is set to be executed tonight in Texas for the 2000 killing of Carlos Garza. The scheduled execution comes as the Texas capital punishment system is under increasing scrutiny. Gregg and Jannett Keesling are the parents of Chancellor Keesling, a U.S. soldier who took his own life June 19.They discovered a longstanding U.S. policy to deny presidential condolence letters to the families of soldiers who take their own lives. "Democracy Now!" is a daily independent newshour.