[FADPUpdate] Fla. DP Events - Oct.

Sat Oct 6 17:28:07 EDT 2007

Friends, 

Death Penalty events and actions coming soon near you.  If you are 
holding an event in your area or want to plan an event, please let FADP 
know and we will help you network with others.  If you need speakers or 
materials, we can help.  We are all in this together.

Other dates to mark on your calendar:

OCTOBER 11 - the Florida Supreme Court in Tallahassee is to hear oral 
arguments in the appeals of Death Row inmate Ian Lightbourne and Mark 
Schwab (Death Warrant).  Thursday, attorneys for Mark Schwab asked the 
State Justices to put his appeal on hold until the U.S Supreme Court 
rules next year on other cases that raise the same questions about 
lethal injection.

NOVEMBER 15 - the scheduled execution date for Mark Schwab at the 
Florida State Prison near Starke.  Thursday, his attorneys asked the 
Florida Supreme Court to stay his execution until the U.S. Supreme 
Court issues it's ruling in other lethal injection appeals.

Vigils for the November 15 execution are being planned statewide.  
Please contact us with information on planned vigils in your area and 
we will post them.

Shine the light, 
---Mark 

Coming attractions: 

GCADP - Gainesville Oct. 9
Catholic Teaching and DP - Orlando Oct. 10
UU Social Justice - Orlando Oct. 16 
AIUSA - Miami Oct. 19, 20, 21 
Recinellas - Sarasota Oct. 27
The Exonerated - Pensacola Nov. 9-11

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GCADP FAITH IN ACTION WORKSHOP EVENT - GAINESVILLE - TUES, OCT 9 

The Gainesville CItizens for Alternatives to the Death Penalty will 
host a Faith in Action Workshop Event On October 9, 2007 at 7:00PM at 
Hurley House. Father Dennis O’Neill will be speaking. Father O’Neill’s 
focus will be his journey from being a warden on Death Row in Florida’s 
prison system to being an Episcopal Priest at St. Mark’s Episcopal 
Church in Starke, Florida. Refreshments will be served. 

For more on Father O'Neill, see: http://www.fadp.org/news/spt-20061128/ 

Hurley House is located behind St. Augustine's Catholic Student Center, 
1738 W. University Ave., Gainesville, Fla. Hurley House is off 1st Ave 
at the East end of the parking lot behind the church. Parking is free; 
just tell the attendant that you are there for a meeting. 

For more info, please contact Ramona Caponegro at (352) 514-9475 or 
Rev. Glenn Dickson at (352) 378-4032.

I will be there along with former FSP Warden, Ron McAndrew and others.  
Hope to see you there...Mark

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"THE DEATH PENALTY" WHAT DOES THE CHURCH TEACH? - ORLANDO - WED, OCT 10

presented by:
BERNIE WELCH & HOWARD MOON
Commissioned Lay Ministers
>From the Diocesan Respect life Office

Included in the presentation:
What does Scripture say - Old Testament & New Testament Church Teaching 
in the Catechsim of the Catholic Church
Arguments Around the Death Penalty - Retribution, Deterence, 
Rehabilitation
Florida Bishops Video - Death Penalty
Questions and Observations

Blessed Trinity Catholic Church
4545 Anderson Rd
Orlando, FL 32812
(407) 277-1702

Wednesday, October 10th from 7 pm - 9 pm

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UNIVERSALIST UNITARIAN SOCIAL JUSTICE TUESDAY
EXAMINES FLORIDA'S DEATH PENALTY - ORLANDO - TUES, OCT 16

Mark Elliott, Executive Director of Floridians for Alternatives to the 
Death Penalty, discusses current issues surrounding Capital Punishment.

First Unitarian Church of Orlando
Hiett Library
1901 E. Robinson St.
Orlando, FL 32803

Free. 7 to 9 PM. Coffee and light refreshments.

Joe DuRocher  407-859-0386

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AIUSA S. REGIONAL CONFERENCE - MIAMI - OCT 19-21 

Amnesty International USA's 2007 Southern Regional Conference is being 
held at the Miami School of Law from Oct. 19 through 21. For more info 
please see: 

http://www.amnestyusa.org/Regional_Conferences/South/page.do?id=1103892&n1=5&n2=48&n3=784 

Jeanne Rewa of Equal Justice USA and Mark Elliott of FADP will be 
co-facilitating a DP101 Death Penalty workshop.  Jared Feuer, AIUSA So. 
Regional Director and Mark Elliott will be facilitating a DP201 
workshop.   Attorney, Jessica Morris of AIUSA-Miami will be 
facilitating a Spanish DP101 Death Penalty workshop.  There will be 
other DP related activities and and meetings during the conference. 

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RECINELLAS IN SARASOTA - OCT. 27

Florida Catholic Bishops' Campaign to End the Use of the Death Penalty

Dale Recinella, J.D., Catholic Lay Chaplain and Spiritual Advisor to 
the condemned on Florida's Death Row and author of The Biblical Truth 
about America's Death Penalty,and Susan Recinella, Psy.D., Senior 
Psychologist at Northeast Florida State Hospital for the severely 
mentally ill. Susan is a lay minister to the families of inmates during 
deathwatch and executions and to the families of murder victims.

Dale and Susan talk about their personal experiences.  I attended this 
program in Tampa last month and it is absolutely a must-see for anyone 
interested in understanding more about the real impact of executions on 
humanity.

Saturday, October 27, 1:30-4:30PM 
St. Ann Hall 
Bishop Nevins Academy 
4380 Fruitville Rd. 
Sarasota, FL 

Contact: Marina Kopko (941) 441-1112 

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THE EXONERATED - PENSACOLA - NOV 9, 10 11

The Pensacola Little Theater is staging a production of this 
award-winning play.  "Culled from interviews, letters, transcripts, 
case files and the public record, THE EXONERATED tells the true stories 
of six wrongfully convicted survivors of death row in their own words" 
(Mark's note - four of these six were wrongfully convicted in 
Florida...no surprise here).

http://www.pensacolalittletheatre.com/productions/studio400/exonerated.html

Friday and Saturday at 8pm.  Sunday at 2:30pm.

Tickets: (850) 432- 2042

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It is not about what they did...It's about what we do. 

Mark Elliott, Executive 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 

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