[FADPUpdate] June Events

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Friends,

The League of Women Voters of Florida's letter to Governor Charlie Crist calling for a permanent halt to executions can now be found at the Death Penalty Information Center web site: http://www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/newsanddev.php?scid=16.  

The DPIC is an excellent resource for analysis and info on capital punishment issues.  Their Death Penalty Factsheet makes a great handout.  Please continue to grow the effort to contact Gov. Crist.  See: http://www.fadp.org/takeact.html.

Here are a few of the upcoming events of the Abolition Movement.  

Shine the light,

---Mark

CONTENTS:

June 9 - Recinellas - Boca Raton
June 18-19 - Lethal Injection Hearings - Ocala
June 29-July 2 - Fast & Vigil - DC
October 19-21 - National Weekend of Faith in Action

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FLORIDA CATHOLIC BISHOPS' CAMPAIGN AGAINST THE DEATH PENALTY

Dale and Susan Recinella will be in speaking in Boca Raton on Saturday, June 9.  Dale is Catholic Lay Chaplain for Florida's Death Row and Solitary Confinement.  Dale ministers to the condemned prisoners, their families and the families of the original murder victims.  He is also also an attorney who left a high-powered international law firm to follow his destiny.  His wife Susan is a Clinical Psychologist for 
mentally ill adults, and Catholic Lay Minister to families of the executed and families of the original murder victims.
 
Dale has written a very well researched book "The Biblical Truth About America's 
Death Penalty."   Northeastern University Press, 2004.  
 
From Dale and Susan's web site, www.iwasinprison.org :

Dale S. Recinella and Dr. Susan M. Recinella are the featured speakers in this program on the Catholic Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty in America. The Bishops of Florida have approved this series of presentations to educate Catholics and interested others about Church teaching on the death penalty. Attendance by catechists, educators, Respect Life coordinators, and Peace and Justice Committee members is particularly encouraged. The program will be offered in every diocese in Florida during 2007. 

Diocese of Palm Beach
June 9, 2007
9 a.m.-12 p.m.

St. Joan of Arc Parish - Mercy Hall
370 South West Third Street

Boca Raton, Florida 33432
Contact:

Don Kazimir (561) 775-9565 or dk at diocesepb.org 

Sheila Hopkins (Florida Catholic Conference): (850) 205-6826 or shopkins at flacathconf.org 

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EIGHTH AMENDMENT TEST CASE

Crucial hearings continue at on June 18 and 19 in Ocala at the Marion County Courthouse.  As directed by the Florida Supreme Court, the Lightbourne Appeal will be heard in the 6th Judicial Circuit.  If you can attend any part of the hearings, please do.  The Marion County Courthouse is located at 110 NW 1st Ave, in the center of Ocala, just NE of the intersection of Hwy 301 & Hwy 40.  FADP attended the previous hearings and will be there again.

 

This is the first legal test of impact of the botched execution of Angel Diaz on the future of executions in Florida.  There have been some amazing revelations.  FADP will report more on this soon.  

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STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE

14th Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty at the U.S. Supreme Court.

June 29 - July 2 (Arrive June 28 and depart July 3, for full attendance).

Read the who, what, when, where, why and how of this important annual 
abolitionist event by visiting http://www.abolition.org 

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NATIONAL WEEKEND OF FAITH IN ACTION ON THE DEATH PENALTY

October 19 - 21.  From AIUSA, "The National Weekend of Faith in Action on the Death Penalty (NWFA) is an opportunity for faith communities, interfaith groups, human rights activists and others to examine the Death Penalty from a faith-based or values-based perspective.  Set aside some time during the weekend of October 19 - 21 for an activity or event that focuses on a Death Penalty issue, using the ideas and resources of Amnesty International USA as your guide."

Register now.  The opportunity and the materials (Resource Guidebook, NWFA Organizing Guide, DVD's) are excellent and free.  This event can also be held on any other date that works better for your group.
 
http://www.amnestyusa.org/faithinaction 

For additional information, please contact NWFA Coordinator Brian Evans at bevans at aiusa.org or 202-544-0200, ext. 496, or me.

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Mark Elliott

Director, Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, FADP.org

2840 W. Bay Drive, #118
Belleair Bluffs, FL 33770 
(727) 215-9646

 mark at fadp.org
mark at fadp.org

 

"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
"Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal."
"The time is always right to do what is right."
Martin Luther King










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