The 14th Annual Fast & Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty
at the U.S. Supreme Court
June 29th - July 2nd, 2007
A four day vigil maintaining a presence at SCOTUS, the Supreme Court Of The United States. Some of the participants fast during this time, but fasting is not required. We encounter thousands of visitors to the Court and share our message that no matter how you slice it, the death penalty is BAD PUBLIC POLICY. Much of the time is spent talking to individuals and creating visibilty. Several larger events are held at key times during the event to highlight specific concerns, with a series of speakers each evening to educate, enlighten and entertain…
at the U.S. Supreme Court
June 29th - July 2nd, 2007
A four day vigil maintaining a presence at SCOTUS, the Supreme Court Of The United States. Some of the participants fast during this time, but fasting is not required. We encounter thousands of visitors to the Court and share our message that no matter how you slice it, the death penalty is BAD PUBLIC POLICY. Much of the time is spent talking to individuals and creating visibilty. Several larger events are held at key times during the event to highlight specific concerns, with a series of speakers each evening to educate, enlighten and entertain…
Among the confirmed Evening Program speakers for 2007 are the following. You never know who might show up... Each evening will feature full-length talks plus Q&A with between two and four speakers, including people with direct experience and also movement activists and professionals.
CLICK HERE to see the schedule of who is speaking when!
- Moreese Bickham - whose death sentence was changed due to the Furman decision and who completed his sentence and was released.
- SueZann Bosler, Murder Victim Family Member
- Joan Cheever - Author of "BACK FROM THE DEAD: One Woman's Search For The Men Who Walked Off America's Death Row."
- Renny Cushing - Murder Victim Family Member
- David Elliot - Communications Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
- Georgi Fisher - Murder Victim Family Member
- Shujaa Graham, California Death Row Survivor
- Marshall Hartman - Advocate for the Condemned/Participant in Furman Legal Effort
- Jennifer Bishop-Jenkins and Bill Jenkins - Murder Victim Family Members
- Art Laffin - Murder Victim Family Member
- Christina Lawson - murder victim family member and widow of an executed prisoner
- Ron McAndrew - former prison warden who has participated in executions
- Bill Pelke - Co-founder of the F&V; Murder Victim Family Member
- Phyllis Prentice - Organizer & Spouse of an Exonerated Death Row Prisoner
- Delia Perez Meyer - Sister of Texas Death Row Prisoner
- Shabak WaQlimi - Exonerated and Freed from Florida's Death Row
- George White, Murder Victim Family Member, Exonerated Prisoner
And other Death Row Family Members and Murder Victim Family Members....
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DEATH PENALTY ISSUED FOR COMMERCE CODE OFFICER SLAYING
Dallas, Texas – June 26, 2007 – Today, a Hunt-county jury sentenced 24-year-old Adam Kelly Ward to death for the June 13, 2005 killing of Michael “Pee-Wee” Walker.
The jury found the defendant, Ward, guilty of capital murder on June 15, 2007. The jury heard one week of testimony before rendering its death sentence. Hunt county Assistant District Attorney Steve Tittle prosecuted, along with Assistant District Attorney Keli Aiken.
In closing arguments, Tittle told the jury, “Adam Kelly Ward’s violent background makes him a future danger. He has hit, kicked, bit, cut, and stabbed others. Now he has committed murder.”
Ward shot and killed Walker, a code enforcement officer in Commerce, Tex., as he took photographs of the defendant’s home after issuing a code violation notice. Ward shot Walker between seven and nine times with a .45 caliber handgun. The crime was a capital murder because Ward murdered a public servant.
The jury of eight men and four women deliberated for six hours before pronouncing the death sentence. Tittle tried the case in Greenville, Tex., located 45 miles northeast of Dallas. Defense attorneys Dennis Davis and Jay Burnett argued for life imprisonment.
Currently there are 380 Texas inmates on death row. Texas leads the nation in the number of executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976. Texas’ liberal use of the death penalty is the subject of intense United States Supreme Court scrutiny.
Very nice information thanks for posting.
He left two young children orphans he needs to be kept far away from others forever.
I was assigned to guard Ward during his trial. He never showed ANY remorse for his actions. He is where he belongs. Those two children deserved to have a daddy while they grew up. Ward took that away from them. No mercy here. Hate me if you want to. Makes me no difference. I'd expect nothing less from bleeding heart liberals.
I am not sure why Anon would find it necessary to take a shot at "bleeding heart liberals". It is my understanding that the Ward's are a conservative family who collected guns. Most progressives do believe in the death penalty and many conservatives do not. Usually the same group that doesn't believe in abortion would not believe in the death penalty.
So your name calling seems to just a rant who has a issue with anyone who is different or believes different than you.
Poor kid...sentenced to death because he was being harassed by a self important dick who was rude, arrogant and an all around jackass
Marta - you are so STUPID!
Marta - really? What a stupid comment. How about the poor kids left without a father? I think I know who the jackass is!
Ralph competently turned his son into his own killing machine...Munchausen's would be an apt diagnosis, causing great harm to Adam his entire life through psychological manipulation, creating the outcomes for the public attention that so-called "Dr." Ward so desperately craved. Ralph was , and still is, a loser who never did anything constructive in his life, having to make his son provide him his 15 minutes of fame. Disgusting. Ralph should have been charged as an accomplice.
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