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Shifts seen in support for death penalty

Kevin Johnson | Religion News Service | Apr 25, 2012 | Comments (0)

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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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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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Community leaders to discuss death penalty

Tracy Simmons | Mar 1, 2012

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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On death and diapers

Liv Larson Andrews | Mar 6, 2012

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...
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Spokane author says death penalty is inhumane, should be abolished

Tracy Simmons | Sep 27, 2012

They stand in front of River Park Square, shackled together, heads down, nameplates dangling around their necks, bearing the names of men and women killed on America’s death row. Cal Brown. Teresa Lewis. Cameron Todd Willingham. Behind them, stands Victoria Ann Thorpe. Dark makeup paints her cheeks and she waves a bloodstained-painted sign above her head, “Their blood is on our hands.”
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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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