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  2. Sister Helen Prejean on Capital Punishment, Justice, and ...

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    First of all, the average wait of victims' families from the time a death sentence is given in the United States to execution is 17 years. All these years, that grief is public. The media are at ...

  3. Helen Prejean - Wikipedia

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    Prejean served as the National Chairperson of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty from 1993 to 1995. She helped establish The Moratorium Campaign, seeking an end to executions and conducting education on the death penalty. Prejean also founded the groups SURVIVE to help families of victims of murder and related crimes.

  4. When families of murder victims speak at death penalty trials ...

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    The Trump administration is spending its final months authorizing executions. Ten federal death row prisoners have been killed so far this year, ending a 17-year federal moratorium on applying the ...

  5. Relief, defiance, anger: Families and advocates react to ...

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    COLUMBIA, South Carolina (AP) — Victimsfamilies and others affected by crimes that resulted in federal death row convictions shared a range of emotions on Monday, from relief to anger, after ...

  6. Capital punishment debate in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Anti-death penalty groups specifically argue that the death penalty is unfairly applied to African Americans. African Americans have constituted 34.5 percent of those persons executed since the death penalty's reinstatement in 1976 and 41 percent of death row inmates as of April 2018, [ 84 ] despite representing only 13 percent of the general ...

  7. Death Penalty Focus - Wikipedia

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    The group opposes the death penalty as "ineffective, racist, and fiscally inefficient." [2] In 1999, the organization said the death penalty is "an ineffective and brutally simplistic response to the serious and complex problem of violent crime.” [3] DPF has partnered with numerous families of victims of violent crime to abolish the death ...

  8. Governor Jeff Landry says Louisiana owes it to victims ...

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    Gov. Jeff Landry said Louisiana owes it to victims and their families to resume executions of prisoners sentenced to the death penalty and he will ask legislators to expand methods to carry out ...

  9. Business leaders and families of murder victims urge Biden to ...

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    Family members of murder victims, including Valerie Lucznikowska of Warwick, New York, whose nephew, Adam Arias, died at the World Trade Center on 9/11, told the president: “The death penalty ...