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OADP 2009 ANNUAL MEETING
7:00 May 28th
Fireside Room
1st United Methodist Church
18th & SW Jefferson
Portland
The program will feature the keynote address: 'Coming together for alternatives to the Death Penalty,' by Rachel Hardesty, PhD, Assistant Professor in the conflict Resolution Program at Portland State University, a dramatic reading of the play 'Dead Man Walking' by students from Jesuit High School, a report on the state of New Mexico's successful abolition of the death penalty by Ron Steiner, and a report from Bill Long, chair of OADP's Outreach Committee on OADP's statewide expansion.
April 23, 2009 Editorial: 'Can Oregon Afford the Death Penalty?'--as School Funding is Reduced
An editorial The Daily Astorian, contrasts the state’s use of funds for the death penalty to the state's reduction in funding for education. “The glaring contrast to our unquestioning spending on the death penalty - which Judge Lipscomb called ‘this largely futile attempt’ - is our disinvestment in education,” the paper noted. “Investment in education is about the future, and it is about hope. Investment in prisons and especially in the death penalty is about a final reckoning, an admission of gross failure.
OADP Social Event May 7 at Paradise Bakery
Thursday May 7, 2009 7:00pm
Paradise Bakery Bridgeport Village
April 19: Oregonian Report: Can Oregon afford the death penalty?
In 1988, 18-year-old Randy Lee Guzek became the youngest person in Oregon history on death row. Today, Guzek has another distinction: Oregon's most expensive death row inmate. The taxpayers' tab for Guzek's legal bills stands at $2.2 million -- and it's still growing.
Read the full article here:
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/index.ssf/2009/04/can_oregon_afford_the_d...
