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I. Reaffirming Our Moral Commitment to Abolishing the Death Penalty
Rabbi Kerry Baker—Congregation Kol Halev
Brother Richard Daly—Texas Catholic Conference
Dr. Joseph Parker—Pastor, David Chapel Missionary Baptist Church
Suzii Paynter—Texas Baptist Christian Life Commission
II. State Legislators Speak Out
Gary Bledsoe (Moderator)—Texas State NAACP
Renny Cushing—Former State Representative (NH)
Representative Rodney Ellis (D-TX)
Assemblyman Joseph Lentol (D-NY)
Representative Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ)
III. Framing to Win—How to Change Public Opinion
Peter Loge (moderator)—M & R Strategic Services
Dr. Frank Baumgartner—Professor of Political Science, Penn State
Laura Burstein—Communications Director, The Justice Project
David Elliot—Communications Director, NCADP
Rachel Lyon—Filmmaker
Alberta Phillips—Columnist, Austin American Statesman
Brenda Bowser Soder—Communications Director, Death Penalty Information Center
IV. Texas Journey of Hope 2005
Rachel King (moderator)—Author, Don’t Kill in Our Names
Marietta Jaeger-Lane—Mother of murder victim
Juan Melendez—Death row exoneree
Bill Pelke—Grandson of murder victim and founder of Journey of Hope
Lois Robison—Mother of death row inmate
Bud Welch—Father of Oklahoma City bombing victim
George White—Husband of murder victim and exoneree
- Building the Base: Reaching Out to Key Constituencies (Students and Youth, People of Faith, Famlies of Murder Victims, and Death Row Inmates)
- The Power of One: How to be an Effective Citizen Lobbyist>
- Winning Step By Step: How to Organize and Win Moratorium and Abolition Resolutions
- The Art of Activisim: Using Documentary Films to Change the Minds and Build the Movement
- New Allies: Working with Consultants to Maximize Success
- Human Rights, Human Wrongs: How to Work Against the Death Penatly for People with Mental Disabilities
- Creative Activisim: Using the Internet to Educate and Engage the Public
- The state of federal habeus corpus relief.
- The application of international human rights laws to capital cases in U.S. courts.
- Access to post-conviction relief for death row inmates with mental retardation in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s Atkins decision.
- DNA law and the death penalty
- Overcoming obstacles to prohibiting the execution of people with mental disabilities.
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