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Local News and Announcements... Don't miss anything...please scroll downJUVENILE JUSTICE IN IRAQ: BEFORE AND AFTER THE US INVASIONA new Peace Porridge from Tom Sager 0 Comments (perma-link) Email this:  
Mid-Mo FOR MeetingWednesday, 10 December 7:00- 9:00 p.m. 1001 Rangeline, Columbia Graciously hosted by FOR member Ruth O'Neil in her home, the most recent addition to the St. Francis Catholic Worker community. If coming from downtown Columbia/UMC campus take Rogers St. (running along the south side of the Columbia College campus) to Rangeline north.... 1001 is about 3 blocks to the north.) 7:00- 8:00 p.m.-- focus on efforts to abolish/reform/support alternatives to the death penalty in Missouri. Part of the time will include discussion of the developing long-term statewide plan to get instituted a moratorium on executions with the establishment of a commission to study various aspects of the death penalty in Missouri; 8:00- 9:00 p.m.-- focus on issues regarding nonviolent resistance and alternatives to war, the Iraqi occupation and unjust U.S. foreign policy. Please join us for what part you can, bring your ideas of the work for justice and peace you’d like to see us labour on together. Call Jeff at 573-449-4585 or e-mail jstack@coin.org for more info and/or to share ideas you'd like to have us discuss. We hope you will be able to join us for this get-together. 0 Comments (perma-link) Email this:
Four death-penalty related bills were filed yesterday, the first official day for filing. All four have also been assigned legislative numbers. ....1) SB 713 Abolition of the death penalty. Sen. Ed Quick has again prefiled his bill to end the death penalty, making a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole (LWOP) as the harshest sentence available under Missouri law. Please thank him for his continued leadership in this human-rights struggle. His e-mail address is ed_quick@senate.state.mo.us. Letters can also be addressed c/o any lawmaker, either to the House or Senate Post Office, Jefferson City MO 65101. 2) SB 838 Restoration of sentencing responsibility to jurors in capital cases. Sen. Wayne Goode (D-St. Louis) pre-filed a bill identical to the measure he sponsored last year. Again this legislation would return Missouri law to the pre-1984 language, directing courts to impose LWOP if jurors cannot unanimously agree on sentencing. Currently, when jurors deadlock on sentencing, Missouri trial judges had been directed by state statute to impose the sentence. In the vast majority of those instances judges chose the death penalty. Following the precedent established in the U.S. Supreme Court decision in the Ring case (directing juries not judges to impose sentencing in capital trials), the Missouri Supreme Court overturned the death sentences of five prisoners because they'd been sentenced to die by judges after jurors deadlocked on sentencing. Sen. Anita Yeckel (R-St. Louis) has agreed to be a co-sponsor, according to her legislative assistant. I also contacted the offices of the senators who co-sponsored the bill last year to see if they would again sign on as co-sponsors. They will have until this week's end before the bill is printed, to add their name to the measure. Don Catlett with the Public Defenders Commission consulted with some of his colleagues. They determined striving to get enacted a bill similar to last year's measure would be best to help codify the court decisions regarding the jury-sentencing issue. We will be contacting Rep. Bob Johnson to see if he again will be willing to co-sponsor the measure in the House, as he did last session. Please contact Sen. Goode at wgoode@senate.state.mo.us to thank him for again sponsoring this bill. 3) SB 726 Moratorium of executions and commission to study Missouri's death penalty. Sen. Mary Bland went ahead and prefiled her moratorium bill, identical to last year's. There are some concerns however, about the bill’s language, which will be addressed in the House version of the bill and through a similar, future revised version of Sen. Bland’s bill. She has expressed a willingness to offer a substitute bill later in the session. Please do contact Sen. Bland, to thank her for continuing to step forward as a public advocate for the moratorium. Her e-mail address is mary_bland@senate.sate.mo.us 4) HB 793 Abolition of the death penalty. Rep. Vicky Riback-Wilson (D-Columbia) prefiled a bill identical to the measure she’s sponsored each of the last five terms, ending capital punishment in our state. Please thank Rep. Wilson, letting her know that you appreciate her years of continued leadership, compassion and commitment to the cause. Her e-mail address is vwilso01@mail.state.mo.us. 0 Comments (perma-link) Email this:
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