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-----Original Message----- From: BREAKING NEWS [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, March 01, 2005 9:11 AM To: BREAKINGNEWS Subscribers Subject: FNC Alert U.S. SUPREME COURT STRIKES DOWN DEATH PENALTY FOR JUVENILES **Watch FOX News Channel or go to http://foxnews.com for more ------------------------------ ADVERTISEMENT ------------------------------ Get the latest FOX News gear at the Fox News Shop. Go to http://shop.ecompanystore.com/foxnews/ ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ----------- ================================================= This e-mail is never sent unsolicited. You have received this FOX News Alert because you subscribed to it or someone forwarded it to you. To unsubscribe from FOX News Alerts, or to add/remove a new e-mail address, log on to: http://www.foxnews.com/alerts/unsubscribe.html Copyright 2004 FOX News Network, LLC. 1211 Avenue of the Americas. New York. NY. All Rights Reserved. ================================================= From [email protected] Tue Mar 1 09:25:25 2005 From: [email protected] (Rick Halperin) Date: Tue Aug 16 12:15:31 2005 Subject: [Deathpenalty]death penalty news----USA Message-ID: <[email protected]> NATIONAL COALITION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH PENALTY PRESS RELEASE CONTACT: David Elliot, NCADP Communications Director 202-543-9577, ext. 16 cell phone: 202-607-7036 [email protected] www.ncadp.org 920 Pennsylvania Ave. SE Washington, D.C. 20003 *************************************************************** U.S. SUPREME COURT SAYS KIDS ARE DIFFERENT; U.S. JOINS INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY IN BANNING JUVENILE DEATH PENALTY March 1, 2005 - The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty today welcomed the U.S. Supreme Court decision outlawing the execution of juvenile offenders, a ruling that conforms with public opinion at home and international human rights norms abroad. "This decision confirms what we all know and what science recently has proven: kids are different," said Diann Rust-Tierney, NCADP executive director. "Kids are different from adults and by their very nature cannot qualify as the 'worst of the worst' standard used by some to justify a sentence of death." Rust-Tierney noted that a historically broad coalition of national civil rights groups, religious denominations, legal organizations and medical associations had urged the court to strike down the juvenile death penalty. In addition, polls demonstrate solid public opposition against the practice. "We applaud the fact that the court recognized the strong consensus against the juvenile death penalty," Rust-Tierney said. "This consensus is further evidence that the U.S. public does not want the death penalty applied too broadly." Including Missouri, from which Roper v. Simmons sprang, 31 states ban the execution of juvenile offenders. Of the remaining states, only 12 have juvenile offenders on death row. They are Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Texas and Virginia. To read more about the juvenile death penalty and learn about NCADP's Campaign to End Juvenile Executions, please visit http://www.ncadp.org/juvenile_action.html During the past two decades, 22 juvenile offender executions have occurred in the United States, including 13 in the state of Texas. 9 such executions have occurred since the year 2000. Six of those 9 took place in Texas and involved an African American offender. The other 3 executions took place in Oklahoma and Virginia. More than half of the juvenile offenders on death row are housed in two states - Alabama and Texas - and about two-thirds are people of color. "Today the United States takes a major step toward joining the 21st Century," Rust-Tierney said. "The U.S. Supreme Court has confirmed that standards of decency have evolved and the execution of youthful offenders is indeed a cruel and unusual practice. Today the Court sends a signal to the few states that still execute juvenile offenders that this inhumane practice is no longer an option." *************************************************************** The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty was founded in 1976 and is the only fully-staffed national organization devoted specifically to abolishing the death penalty. NCADP is comprised of more than 100 local, state, national and international affiliates. ***************************************************************
