CALL TO ACTION!

Subject: TAKE ACTION: CONTINUE THE TIME-OUT ON EXECUTIONS!
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Dear friends,
Late last year, executions in Florida were put on hold because of the flawed
process of lethal injection.  Now that a government commission has reviewed the lethal injection process (www.fadp.org, Governor’s Commission on the Administrationof Lethal Injection Releases Report), Read More

Blessed are the Peacemakers

“On Sunday, March 18, friends of Lee Rivers gathered to dedicate a tree that had been planted by TCADP to honor Lee’s memory and to recognize his long and faithful opposition to the death penalty. Read More

More Lawmakers Take a Stand Against Death Penalty

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TCADP will sponsor a talk by Father Dennis O’Neill

A preview of a coming attraction. On the evening of Thursday, March 29, TCADP will sponsor a talk by Father Dennis O’Neill, a man with a unique story to tell. Dennis O’Neill was the warden at the state prison at Starke, where some of Florida’s Death Row prisoners are housed. He then changed careers, enrolled in a seminary, and became an Episcopal priest. Now he is back in Starke, serving as rector of St. Mark’s Episcopal Church. He is also an opponent of the death penalty.

Fr. Dennis will speak at Holy Comforter Episcopal Church. Stay tuned for more information, and mark your calendar now.

RESPONSE TO THE FINAL REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR’S COMMISSION ON THE ADMINISTRATION OF LETHAL INJECTION

Tallahassee Citizens Against the Death Penalty
Contact:  Walter Moore, Chair
(850) 877-1609;  wl_moore@comcast.net
RESPONSE TO THE FINAL REPORT OF THE GOVERNOR’S COMMISSION ON THE               ADMINISTRATION OF LETHAL INJECTION

The more information our citizens have about the actual administration of the death penalty, the less comfortable they will be with capital punishment as public policy.  Because we believe that,  we welcome the work of the Governor’s Commission on the Administration of Lethal Injection, and we commend former Governor Bush for directing that the Commission be established.  Their open hearings and their published report have shed a bright light on the methods and protocols of lethal injection as it has been practiced in Florida.  Read More

Final Report available ….

Friends,
The Final Report of the Governor’s Commission on the Administration of Lethal Injection is now available at www.FADP.org.
More coming soon.
Statements by coalition partners to the Commission will be posted.
More details upcoming.
Call For Action next.

—Mark

Report: State’s killings flawed Recommendations include training for executioners and a review of drugs used.

By Linda Kleindienst
The Orlando Sentinel
Friday, March 2, 2007

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s executioners need better training, and the mix of chemicals now used in lethal injections should be re-evaluated, a commission charged with reviewing a botched December execution said in a report released Thursday. Read More

AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL PRESS RELEASE : Florida Lethal Injection Commission’s Findings

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:            Contact:  Ben Somberg, 212/633-4268
Thursday, March 1, 2007                     or Wende Gozan, 212/633-4247

Florida Lethal Injection Commission’s Findings “Should Give Pause to Those Who Assume That the Process is Orderly,” Says Amnesty International
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