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On death and diapers

Liv Larson Andrews | Mar 6, 2012 | Comments (1)

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On Monday night a handful of organizers, five panelists and 40-some interested individuals gathered at Liberty Park United Methodist Church to discuss abolishing the death penalty. Shar Lichty of the Peace and Justice Action League of Spokane arranged the event, involving Sarah Schmidt of Amnesty...

Topics: Ethics, Death & Dying
Beliefs: Christian - Orthodox
Tags: death penalty

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Liv Larson Andrews believes in the sensus lusus, or playful spirit. Liturgy, worship and faithful practice are at their best when accompanied with a wink, she says.
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On March a group of panelists will discuss death penalty alternatives at Liberty Park United Methodist Church. The forum is presented byThe Peace & Justice Action League of Spokane's Inland Northwest Death Penalty Group, which has been working toward the abolition of the death penalty in Washingto...
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Panel: death penalty is morally reprehensible

Tracy Simmons | Sep 19, 2012

Panelists agreed at a forum Wednesday night that the death penalty is morally reprehensible and should be done away with in Washington state and the rest of the country. The Rev. Todd Eklof, of The Unitarian Univesralist Church of Spokane, said killing people to teach that killing is wrong, is senseless.
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Shifts seen in support for death penalty

Kevin Johnson | Religion News Service | Apr 25, 2012

The campaign to abolish the death penalty has been freshly invigorated this month in a series of actions that supporters say represents increasing evidence that America may be losing its taste for capital punishment.
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Spokane woman walks across Southern California to raise death penalty awareness

Tracy Simmons | Oct 15, 2012

Today Victoria Ann Thorpe, of Spokane, began a 17 ½ day journey across Southern California — one day for each year that her sister , Kerry Lyn Dalton, has survived on California’s death row. “My purpose for this walk is to honor Kerry’s life and bring public awareness to her wrongful conviction,” said Thorpe, author "Cages."
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“I am a Human Being, Y’all !” A cry from death row

Guest column by Victoria Ann Thorpe | Mar 4, 2013

The pumping sounds repeated over and over through a reggae tune on my car stereo, “I’m a Human being y’al!” hit me hard since I had just left the visitors’ room for the death row residents in the Washington State Penitentiary. Michael Franti’s song, A Little Bit of Riddim, was washing over my ears as I drove out of Walla Walla. It was my initial visit to the small city of Walla Walla, Washington State Penitentiary, and my first time to meet the man on the other side of the glass partition.
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