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More details about the death of Diana Shorthouse

By "Persian Cowboy"

Fellow Abolitionists, I want to let you all know that one of the Abolition Movement's long-time members and a friend to many of us in the Abolition Movement was murdered. Diana Shorthouse began working with us maybe 10 or 12 years ago. She has not been a regular at meetings for a few years now--probably 4 or 5 years. That's because she became a mother 5 years ago and really focused her time and energy on her precious daughter, Jolie. But she did attend important events and every year spent many, many hours addressing our holiday cards to those on death row in her beautiful calligraphy. This past December she had to cancel doing that at the last minute as she had to have surgery for carpal tunnel syndrome. Diana was murdered by her estranged husband, Mbaraka, Jolie's father, on April 8...continue to full post

Full post as published by Texas Death Penalty Blog on April 23, 2008 (boomark / email).