Testimony and Statements

The League of Women Voters of Florida is urging Governor Charlie Crist to continue the moratorium on executions and to consider alternative sentences. In a letter from Florida League President Dianne Wheatley-Giliotti to Governor Crist, the organization noted that concerns about fairness, innocence, costs, and public safety have led them to question the value of capital punishment. In their call for a moratorium, the League stated: Dear Governor Crist: The League of Women Voters of Florida…

The League of Women Voters of Florida is urging Governor Charlie Crist to continue the moratorium on executions and to consider alternative sentences. In a letter from Florida League President Dianne Wheatley-Giliotti to Governor Crist, the organization noted that concerns about fairness, innocence, costs, and public safety have led them to question the value of capital punishment. In their call for a moratorium, the League stated: Dear Governor Crist: The League of Women Voters of Florida…

Three organizations whose memberships include family members of murder victims recently issued a joint statement in conjunction with National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, which takes place April 22 — 28, 2007. The statement, issued by the leaders of Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights, Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation, and Journey of Hope, called for governmental policies that serve the true needs of family members. The groups called for an end to the death penalty, noting that…

Three organizations whose memberships include family members of murder victims recently issued a joint statement in conjunction with National Crime Victims’ Rights Week, which takes place April 22 — 28, 2007. The statement, issued by the leaders of Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights, Murder Victims’ Families for Reconciliation, and Journey of Hope, called for governmental policies that serve the true needs of family members. The groups called for an end to the death penalty, noting that…

Florida Commission Recommends Changes to Lethal Injection Process MARYLAND GOVERNORS CALL FOR ABOLITION OF DEATH PENALTY Maryland Governor Martin O’Malley Notwithstanding the executions of the rightly convicted, can the death penalty ever be justified as public policy when it inherently necessitates the occasional taking of wrongly convicted, innocent life? In Maryland, since 1978, we have executed five people and set one convicted man free when his innocence was discovered. Are any of us…

Judiciary Committee — Colorado House of Representatives: Testimony of Richard C. Dieter (February 7, 2007)

The Death Penalty in the United States: Strategies for Change (visuals) by Richard C. Dieter at the World Congress on the Death Penalty (February 1, 2007)

DPIC’s Lethal Injection Page Federal Judge Carolyn Dineen King Speaks on the Death Penalty at Red Mass October 4, 2006 marked the annual liturgy held for members of the legal profession called the Red Mass. This year’s keynote speaker in Corpus Christi, Texas, was Judge Carolyn Dineen King of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. She chose to speak about the death penalty from both a legal and moral point of view, while clearly stating that her religious views are not a part of her…