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As part of Amnesty International's South Carolina State Meeting, SCADP board members Ron Kaz and Anna Shockley will conduct a workshop on the death penalty on Saturday, March 10 at 4:00pm. The workshop will take place in room 304 of USC's Russell House and is free to the public. Please come, pick up some fact sheets and a free button or bumper sticker, and find out what you can do to help SCADP and Amnesty International with current campaigns and to move South Carolina closer to abolishing the death penalty. To find out more about the workshop, email anna(at)charlestonpeace.net. For more information about Amnesty International and the State Meeting, which will take place that Saturday and Sunday, click here or email Kali at esancy(at)email.sc.edu.

The Death Penalty Information Center's Richard Dieter will discuss recent developments in the death penalty, the factors behind the decline in its use, and the implications for South Carolina.

Dieter has served as Executive Director of DPIC since 1992 and is an Adjunct Professor at the Catholic University School of Law. A graduate of the Georgetown University Law Center, Dieter was one of that university's first Public Interest Law Scholars. He has worked for many years on issues related to human rights and the death penalty. He prepared reports for the U.S. House of Representatives and testified at numerous legislative hearings. The author of many articles and reports on the death penalty, Dieter is frequently quoted in national and international media.

Date: January 27, 2011

Time: 7pm

Location: Room 103, AT&T Building., 385 Meeting Street, Charleston School of Law

Mr Dieter was invited by Charleston's Amnesty International Group 168, and his presentation is co-sponsored by SCADP, the South Carolina ACLU, the Criminal Law Society of the Charleston School of Law and the College of Charleston's Amnesty International student group.

 

The South Carolina Supreme Court has granted Quincy Jovan Allen a stay of execution, so that his attorneys can file a petition with the U.S. Supreme Court. Their concern is that in South Carolina inmates who plead guilty lose their constitutional right to a jury trial and are sentenced by judges. Mr. Allen is not expected to be given another execution date before March 16.

This Friday, September 23 at 5:00p.m., the USC chapter of Amnesty International will host a teach-in about Troy Davis in Gambrell 153 on the USC campus. Mr. Davis has been on death row in Georgia for the 1989 murder of Savannah police officer Mark Allen MacPhail. He is almost certainly innocent of that murder, but remains in grave danger of being executed. SCADP co-chairs Ron Kaz and Anna Shockley will be the speakers.

WHAT: Teach-In for Troy Davis

WHEN: Friday, September 25

WHERE: 153 Gambrell Hall, University of South Carolina, Columbia

Contact: LOONEYS(at)mailbox.sc.edu

On May 8, 2009, in revenge for the murder of police officer Thomas Harrison, the State of South Carolina carried out the legally sanctioned premeditated killing of Thomas Ivey.

On May 7, a vigil for everyone afffected by the death of Thomas Harrison and the impending death of Thomas Ivey was held at Saint Thomas Moore Catholic Chapel, followed by a candle light vigil at the Governor's mansion, asking for commutation of the death sentence to life. On the day of the execution protesters gathered in front of the South Carolina Department of Corrections Administration building on Broad River  Road.
 
This has been an ongoing effort for more than 20 years to ask the  state  "Do not Kill In Our Name." It will continue until the death  penalty is abolished in our state.