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Death Penalty Issues - Execution

Arkansas prepares to execute 8 men in 11 days: Justice, or an ‘assembly line of death’?

Submitted by OADPEditor on Thu, 04/06/2017 - 7:22am
April 3, 2017 Patricia Washington sees a simple calculus: If you take someone’s life, you better be prepared to lose your own. The death penalty is just, she believes — an unsurprising view in this rural town a short drive from the state prison that houses death row. Executions have come up a lot lately in conversations at Washington’s work, a tiny eatery tucked into an Exxon service station off Highway 65.  Learn More

Oct. 17th Salem: A Conversation with the Superintendent

Submitted by OADPEditor on Wed, 09/28/2016 - 4:43pm

Frank Thompson, former superintendent of the Oregon State Penitentiary, has spoken with legislatures in Maryland and Nebraska; with governors in Colorado and Oregon; and was recently published in the New York Times. On Monday, Oct 17th at Salem’s Center 50+, citizens can have a conversation with him.

NY Times: What I Learned From Executing Two Men

Submitted by OADPEditor on Mon, 09/19/2016 - 3:23am
On 9/15/2016, Frank Thompson, the retired Superintendent of the Oregon State Prison and OADP board member, who oversaw the last executions in Oregon, wrote the following op-ed in the NY Times:   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/opinion/sunday/what-i-learned-from-exe... Frank, a fellow member of the board for Oregonians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (OADP), has testified ha throughout the country supporting the abolition of the death penalty.  

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