 |
| Mid-Missouri Fellowship of
Reconciliation The Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR) is a group composed of people from many faiths, and no particular faith -- all coming together to support nonviolence and justice. Offering people of conscience an action response to a morally-impaired U.S. foreign policy. |
| Newsletter | Capital Punishment | War & Peace | Links | Who We Are
|
|
A Report on the Injustice in the Application of the Death Penalty in Missouri (1978-1996)(Microsoft Word document) News
Common Dreams Background Iraq Crisis Issue Guide by Phyllis Bennis of the Institute for Policy Studies U.S. History with Iraq, 1980 - 2 August 1990 Commentary Common Dreams News Center April 12, 2003 April 8, 2003 March 30, 2003 March 29, 2003 March 25, 2003 March 24, 2003 U.S. steps up secret surveillance March 23, 2003 March 22, 2003 March 20, 2003 |
Local News and Announcements... Don't miss anything...please scroll downDeath Penalty Moratorium CampaignAn Organizational Meeting for the Columbia chapter of a statewide moratorium campaign, will take place from 2:00 p.m.- 4:00 p.m., Saturday, 24 January in the Main Squeeze Restaurant, 28 S. 9th St. in downtown Columbia. Please join for whatever portion you can attend. Call Jeff at 573-449-4585 or e-mail jstack@no2death.org or jstack@coin.org for more details, to offer items for an agenda and/or to let us know if you can't attend but are interested in future efforts. This meeting is being convened by the Mid-Missouri F.O.R. 0 Comments (perma-link) Email this:  
Death Penalty abolition, etc. bills filed this session in Jeff CityRep. Craig Bland recently, quietly pre-filed legislation, House Bill 890, which would impose a moratorium on executions while an appointed commission studied various aspects of the death penalty in Missouri. Please contact Rep. Bland (D-Kansas City) by conventional mail to his attention, House Post Office, Jefferson City MO 65101; e-mail at cbland@mail.state.mo.us; or by phone 573-751-2124. Thank him for his leadership and compassionate vision in advancing this initiative. Rita Linhardt and I visited with the lawmaker on Thursday to express our appreciation and offer our ongoing assistance. He enthusiastically received us; thanked us for past information which we provided him on the death penalty; and noted great willingness to meet again in the next few weeks to discuss possible changes in the bill’s text to include in a substitute for HB 890 (the bill for instance as written, would only allow for a 1 ½- year moratorium, scant time for commission members to research various aspects of the more than 10,000 Missouri homicides which they would be directed to study). Rep. Bland, chair of the Black Caucus in the state legislature, also agreed to schedule a presentation by Rita and myself before that body in the next few weeks, to implore the Caucus to formally adopt a resolution endorsing a moratorium. Bland has conscientiously been a co-sponsor of abolition and moratorium bills in the past few sessions. He is also the son of Sen. Mary Bland of Kansas City, who has been lead sponsor of the moratorium bill in the Senate each of the past five years. HB 890 brings to five the number of death-penalty bills that were pre-filed in the legislature, which began its 2004 session on Monday. If you haven’t already done so, please contact the sponsoring lawmakers to thank them for their actions. Below are the bills, the sponsors and their contact information…. Letters can also be addressed c/o any lawmaker, either to the House or Senate Post Office, Jefferson City MO 65101. * SB 713 Abolition of the death penalty. Sen. Ed Quick (D-Kansas City), 573-751-4524, ed_quick@senate.state.mo.us; * HB 793 Abolition of the death penalty. Rep. Vicky Riback-Wilson (D-Columbia), 573-751-1169, vwilso01@mail.state.mo.us; * SB 726 Moratorium on executions and commission to study Missouri's death penalty. Sen. Mary Bland (D-Kansas City), 573-751-2770, mary_bland@senate.sate.mo.us; * SB 838 Restoration of sentencing responsibility to jurors in capital cases. Sen. Wayne Goode (D-St. Louis), 573-751-2420, wgoode@senate.state.mo.us. This legislation would return Missouri law to its pre-1984 language, directing courts to impose a life sentence without the possibility of parole, if jurors can not unanimously agree on sentencing. Currently, when jurors deadlock on sentencing, Missouri trial judges have been directed by state statute to impose the sentence. That so many lawmakers have taken the initiative to sponsor these bills speaks volumes to the positive change in our society regarding the growing opposition/concerns with capital punishment. A decade ago, death-penalty activist-abolitionists were typically hard-pressed to find legislators willing to sponsor such bills. These times they are a changing—though not nearly quick enough. 0 Comments (perma-link) Email this:
ArchivesMay 2003 June 2003 July 2003 August 2003 September 2003 October 2003 November 2003 December 2003 January 2004 February 2004 March 2004 April 2004 May 2004 June 2004 July 2004 September 2004 October 2004 November 2004 December 2004 February 2005 March 2005 April 2005 May 2005 June 2005 July 2005 September 2005 October 2005 November 2005 December 2005 January 2006 February 2006 March 2006 April 2006 May 2006 August 2006 December 2006 January 2007 April 2007 July 2007 December 2007 May 2008 July 2008 December 2009 June 2010 December 2010 January 2011 October 2011 |
| Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation |
P.O. Box 268 Columbia, Missouri 65205 |
| Questions about the Fellowship of Reconciliation? -- contact Jeff Stack at
573-449-4585 or jstack@no2death.org An appeal to conscience and purse-strings Free DHTML scripts provided by Dynamic Drive |
|