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Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty: The Big Push

By Father Pat Delahanty, KCADP Executive Director - June 17, 2013 - The Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty (KCADP) is gearing up for a big push for abolition over the next two years.To help accomplish this goal KCADP... MORE

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Kentucky Catholics: Education and Conversation Changing Hearts and Minds on the Death Penalty

Kentucky Catholics: Education and Conversation Changing Hearts and Minds on the Death Penalty

By Sharon Schuhmann, Pro-Life Coordinator, In August, 2010, just three weeks into my new ministry as pro-life coordinator for the Archdiocese of Louisville, the governor of Kentucky signed a death warrant. Although the execution never happened, this event sparked three... MORE

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Play Project Update – June 2013

By Greg Callaghan, DMW School Theatre Project Coordinator - June 17, 2013 - The Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project has finished our ninth season. Students and directors in Iowa, New York, California, Missouri, Texas, Tennessee, Florida, Vermont, and Louisiana... MORE

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The Georgia Catholic Conference and Death Penalty Advocacy

The Georgia Catholic Conference and Death Penalty Advocacy

By Francis J. Mulcahy, J.D., M.T.S, Executive Director, Georgia Catholic Conference - May 15, 2013 - The death penalty is not only legal in Georgia, it is routinely carried out and it is widely supported by public officials and the... MORE

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Working in the Memory of Troy Davis: Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Working in the Memory of Troy Davis: Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

By Kathryn Hamoudah, Board Member, GFADP - May 15, 2013 - Founded in 1996, Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP) is a statewide coalition of organizations and individuals working to end the death penalty, build power in communities... MORE

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Play Project Update - May 2013

Play Project Update – May 2013

By Greg Callaghan, Dead Man Walking Play Project Coordinator - May 15, 2013 - The Dead Man Walking School Theatre Project is wrapping up an exciting 9th season. Congratulations to the cast and crew of Dead Man Walking at St.... MORE

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Maryland Formally Ends the Death Penalty

Maryland Formally Ends the Death Penalty

- May 2, 2013 - With the stroke of Governor O’Malley’s pen, Maryland today became the sixth state in as many years to end the death penalty. Maryland’s effort is the latest success in a growing national movement recognizing that... MORE

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Repeal in Maryland: One Member’s Reflections

Repeal in Maryland: One Member’s Reflections

The following is an article which first appeared in the Spring / Summer 2013 newsletter of the Murder Victims Families’ for Human Rights (MVFHR). We celebrate the hard work that so many activists and supporters, including many murder victims’ family... MORE

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CMN Highlighted in National Coalition’s Newsletter

The following article, written by CMN’s Executive Director Karen Clifton and Director for Catholic State Network and Organizations  Cathy Jarboe,  was published in Lifelines: News from the National Coalition to End the Death Penalty (Issue Number 109, Spring 2013). Since... MORE

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Death Penalty Legislative Update - April 2013

Death Penalty Legislative Update – April 2013

- April 15, 2013 - March was an extraordinary month of activity in the movement to end the use of the death penalty! In Delaware, the Senate passed, by an 11-10 margin, SB 19, which ends the death penalty for... MORE

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