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Catholic Mobilizing Network to End the Use of the Death Penalty
Catholic Mobilizing Network joins Oregon in its work to abolish the Death P
Oregonian: Texas judge ended day as death row appeal waited
Texas judge ended day as death row appeal waited By PAUL J. WEBER (AP) – 7 hours ago SAN ANTONIO — As lawyers frantically tried to file the last-minute appeal that could have halted the execution of a death row inmate, the Texas judge who oversaw the only court who could hear it was preparing to shut the doors for the day. Click here to continue--
Press Release: More Mistakes Found In Death Row Convictions
For Immediate Release July 29, 2009
More Mistakes Found In Death Row Convictions
April 23, 2009 Editorial: 'Can Oregon Afford the Death Penalty?'--as School Funding is Reduced
An editorial The Daily Astorian, contrasts the state’s use of funds for the death penalty to the state's reduction in funding for education. “The glaring contrast to our unquestioning spending on the death penalty - which Judge Lipscomb called ‘this largely futile attempt’ - is our disinvestment in education,” the paper noted. “Investment in education is about the future, and it is about hope. Investment in prisons and especially in the death penalty is about a final reckoning, an admission of gross failure.
OADP Social Event May 7 at Paradise Bakery
Thursday May 7, 2009 7:00pm
Paradise Bakery Bridgeport Village
April 19: Oregonian Report: Can Oregon afford the death penalty?
In 1988, 18-year-old Randy Lee Guzek became the youngest person in Oregon history on death row. Today, Guzek has another distinction: Oregon's most expensive death row inmate. The taxpayers' tab for Guzek's legal bills stands at $2.2 million -- and it's still growing.
Read the full article here:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/can_oregon_afford_the_d...
