Richardson reconsidering stance on death penalty

• AP NewsBreak: NM gov. reconsiders death penalty

  The State - Mon Feb 16, 8:37 pm ET

  New Mexico Gov. Bill Richardson said Monday he has softened his stance on the death penalty and may sign a repeal bill if it reaches his desk. The Legislature is considering a measure that would abolish capital punishment and replace it with a sentence of life without the possibility of parole.
  

"Reflections on the Guillotine, Resistance, Rebellion & Death"

"An execution is not simply death. It is just as different from the privation of life as a concentration camp is from prison. It adds to death a rule, a public premeditation known to the future victim, an organization which is itself a source of moral sufferings more terrible than death. Capital punishment is the most premeditated of murders, to which no criminal's deed, however calculated can be compared. For there to be an equivalency, the death penalty would have to punish a criminal who had warned his victim of the date at which he would inflict a horrible death on him and who, from that moment onward, had confined him at his mercy for months. Such a monster is not encountered in private life."

Albert Camus---"Reflections on the Guillotine, Resistance, Rebellion & Death" (1966)

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State by State Information

Welcome to DPIC's new State-by-State information database. Here you will find the information once maintained on several individual pages.

DEATH PENALTY SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

Ron McAndrew is available for speaking engagements on the subjects of prisons, jails, the death penalty and related matters anywhere in the world. Air/ground transportation/hotel and a modest stipend to defray expenses is all that is needed. Ron can present his speeches in both English/French.


Ron's current 2009 calendar update:

• January 22 - 25, 2009, Helena, Montana; Ron has two speaking engagement during evenings of 23rd & 24th in Helena with publicly advertised events and will speak to the Montana State Senate Judiciary Committee Chair & Members on July 25th.

• February 25, 2009, Gainesville, Florida, speech on the death penalty to The Retired Faculty of the University of Florida

• February 26th, 27th, 2009, Lincoln, Nebraska; Ron will speak at a public event in Lincoln during evening of 26th on My Life as a Pro Death Penalty Warden and Why I Became an Abolitionist." Ron will speak to the Nebraska State Legislature on February 27th relative to Legislative Bill 306.

• March 4, 2009, 7 PM Blessed Trinity Catholic Church, Ocala, FL, Speech on Death Penalty Church # 629 8092 x 207 for additional information.

• March 7, 2009, Diocese of St. Petersburg, Venice, Florida, Leaven Conference (speaking at two work shops during conference) Times to be announced.

• October 3, 2009, Human Writes Foundation, Ron will speak on the death penalty in the USA, 34 Downsview Crescent, Uckfield, East Sussex, TN22 1 UB, London, England

More information here : http://www.ronmcandrew.com/p1148001.htm