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Group That Shaped Death Penalty Gives Up On Its Own Work
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The Death Penalty Resource & Defense Center
is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving the quality of death penalty representation in South Carolina. |
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April 24th Fundraiser to benefit the Death Penalty Resource & Defense Center was a success.
Trustus Theatre hosted a production of "The Exonerated" on April 24. The play told the stories of six people sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. The production was followed by a panel discussion on the death penalty moderated by Alex Sanders, chairman of the Charleston School of Law and a former chief justice of the S.C. Court of Appeals.
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Last Words of the Executed by Robert K. Elder is a compilation of the final statements of death row inmates shortly before their execution. The book, with a foreword by Studs Terkel, also describes the crime and some of the social setting of each case presented. According to a review in The Economist, "The last words are remarkable for their remorse, humour, hatred, resignation, fear and bravado…. America's diverse heritage is stamped even onto its killers' final moments." Sister Helen Prejean wrote, "This is a dangerous book. Who knows how we will emerge from the encounter?" Robert Elder has written for the New York Times, Chicago Tribune, Salon and many other publications. He currently teaches journalism at Northwestern University.
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INDIVIDUALS CURRENTLY ON DEATH ROW IN SOUTH CAROLINA |
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Bell, Jr. , William Henry |
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