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Spying uncovered: Documents show state police monitored peace and anti-death penalty groups
Source: Baltimore Sun
Original Source By Nick Madigan, Sun Reporter Undercover Maryland State Police officers repeatedly spied on peace activists and anti-death penalty groups in recent years and entered the names of some in a law-enforcement database of people thought to be terrorists or drug traffickers, newly released…
Resource type: News
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A year later, state assesses justice without death penalty
Source: The Star-Ledger (Newark, New Jersey)
Rudy Larini Star-Ledger Staff State Sen. Raymond Lesniak likes to share important moments in life with friends and family through photographs on his holiday greeting cards. Four years ago, they featured Lesniak in top hat and tails as grand marshal of New York's Pulaski Day…
Resource type: News
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Maryland and the Death Penalty
Source: The New York Times
Maryland’s governor, Martin O’Malley, chose Jan. 15, the birthday of Martin Luther King Jr., to announce his determination to repeal the state’s law allowing capital punishment. “Hate multiplies hate, violence multiplies violence,” he said, quoting Dr. King.The death penalty does not deter murders, the governor said, since…
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Ray’s Story – A Death Penalty Mistake
Ray Krone was sentenced to death for a crime he did not commit. He has been proven innocent and exonerated, and now helps other “exonerees” share their stories of unjust sentences and close calls with state-sanctioned death penalties. Ray works for Witness to Innocence, which…
Resource type: Video
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Pushing back the death penalty in New Mexico
Source: The Los Angeles Times
In an act of courage, Gov. Bill Richardson repealed capital punishment in the state. Hopefully his decision will make it easier for other officials to follow their conscience. Original Source Editorial New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson has had his share of setbacks recently. He ran…
Resource type: News
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Advocating an End to the Death Penalty
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
The Atlantic Philanthropies and its network of partners are using advocacy and communications to end capital punishment in the United States once and for all. By Annmarie Benedict & Eric Brown The use of the death penalty in the United States is arguably one of…
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Death Penalty Supporter Turns Vocal Opponent
Source: MSNBC
In 2006, police officer John Breckinridge's partner, Michael Briggs, was killed in the line of duty by a man who is now New Hampshire's only death row inmate.In these two video segments, Rachel Maddow discusses ongoing efforts to abolish the death penalty in New Hampshire…
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Lessons Learned: the “Harvest Time” reports
[caption id="attachment_83415" align="aligncenter" width="800"] Atlantic staff in 2016[/caption] In 2010, Atlantic commissioned philanthropy consultant Tony Proscio, in conjunction with Duke University Center for Strategic Philanthropy & Civil Society, to write a series of reports charting the final years of the foundation, the largest endowed institution…
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Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty
$1,240,662
Resource type: Grantee
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Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
$690,000
Resource type: Grantee
