Publications & Testimony

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Dec 31, 1999

International News and Developments: 1999 – 1998

On December 27th, Turkmenistan became the first of the five for­mer Soviet Central Asian republics to abol­ish the death penal­ty. The peo­ple’s coun­cil passed a res­o­lu­tion amend­ing the con­sti­tu­tion and remov­ing the death penal­ty. Now in our coun­try nei­ther the gov­ern­ment nor any­one else has the right to take away human life,” said Turkmen President Saparmurat Niyazov. (Reuters,…

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Sep 15, 1999

Historic Illinois Hearings Address Innocence and the Death Penalty

Following a series of cel­e­brat­ed releas­es of inno­cent defen­dants from its death row, Illinois’s House of Representatives held hear­ings to address the state’s sys­tem of cap­i­tal pun­ish­ment on September 15 & 16, 1999. Among those who tes­ti­fied were Sister Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking; Mike Farrell, actor and human rights activist; Renny Cushing, Director of Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation; Bryan Stevenson, Director of Equal Justice Initiative; Professor Lawrence…

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