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Viewer's Guide for

We are delighted to let you know that a Viewer’s Guide for NO TOMORROW is now available and can be downloaded from our website at http://www.pppdocs.com/notomorrow.html.  

Soon a downloadable version of the Guide will also be posted on WNET.org and PBS.org.  The guide includes a synopsis of the film; a Who’s Who in the film; Directors’ statements about our motivations for making the film and our concerns about the unexpected use of our previous documentary; a map of states with the death penalty as well as states with pending legislation to reform or abolish capital punishment; a map of the world showing which countries still use the death penalty; a discussion guide that breaks down the key issues raised by the film; a brief sketch of significant Supreme Court rulings on the death penalty; an analysis of public opinion polling on the death penalty; a list and description of key organizations working on the death penalty with links to their websites and publications; and a list of important books, articles, and films about capital punishment.  
 
We hope you to take advantage of this useful resource.  

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December 19, 2011

Death Row Inmate Gary Welch Attempts Suicide

http://newsok.com/article/3633297

 

EXECUTION ALERT: Gary Roland Welch

January 5, 2012

Gary Roland Welch is set for execution on January 5, 2012. OKCADP will stand in "DON'T KILL FOR ME" protest beginning at 5:15 pm until 6:00 pm. At 6:00 pm, the coalition will go into silent vigil until time of death is pronounced. Protest and vigil take place in front of the Governor's Mansion located at 820 NE 23rd in Oklahoma City, OK.

 


July 2011

The Death Penalty Information Center has released a new report, "Struck by Lightning: The Continuing Arbitrariness of the Death Penalty Thirty-Five Years After Its Reinstatement in 1976." The report shows that despite the changes to sentencing schemes approved by the U.S. Supreme Court on July 2, 1976, race, geography, money and other factors continue to make the implementation of the death penalty arbitrary and unfair.  A majority of the nine Justices who served on the Supreme Court in 1976 when the death penalty was approved eventually concluded the experiment had failed. The report concludes, "Thirty-five years of experience have taught the futility of trying to fix this system.  Many of those who favored the death penalty in the abstract have come to view its practice very differently.  They have reached the conclusion that if society’s ultimate punishment cannot be applied fairly, it should not be applied at all."

 

 

 

 

  


 

 

 

Capital punishment harmful for families of victims 

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Published: August 27, 2010
 
 Regarding “Federal judge issues stay of execution for Oklahoma death row inmate” (news story, Aug. 18): I extend my sympathies to the families of Otis Short and Jeffrey Matthews, who faces execution for the murder of Short, his great uncle. I understand their hurt. My daughter, Julie Marie Welch, died in the 1995 Oklahoma City bombing. My anger and pain was like no other. I wanted nothing more than the perpetrators’ execution. But I remembered a conversation with Julie some time before she was killed. She said that killing people who kill solves nothing.

 I subsequently met Timothy McVeigh's father. He and I found we had in common our love for our children and grief over losing my daughter and his son. In my work sharing Julie's memory around the world, I've met many people close to the death penalty. I know firsthand the harm it causes to the family members of murder victims and those facing execution; to the prison personnel conducting executions; and to our communities still victimized by homicides because capital punishment doesn't deter them.

It's particularly disturbing that capital punishment has few protections against wrongful executions. In recent years, 10 Oklahomans were freed from death row by evidence that proved them innocent. If no evidence links Matthews to his great uncle's murder, every precaution must be taken so Matthews is not mistakenly executed and the anguish of both families over their loved one's murder isn't compounded by Matthews' wrongful death.

Bud Welch, Oklahoma City

Welch is a member of the board of directors of the Oklahoma Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.


Click here to see an article from Catholics Against Capital Punishment regarding teachings in the Catholic Church.