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William P. Ford, 72, Rights Advocate, Dies

By Real Cost of Prisons Project (The Sentencing Project)

June 3, 2008 William P. Ford, 72, Rights Advocate, Dies By DENNIS HEVESI William P. Ford, a former Wall Street lawyer who spent more than two decades seeking to bring high-ranking military officials to justice after his sister and three other American churchwomen were murdered in El Salvador?s civil war in the 1980s, died on Sunday at his home in Montclair, N.J. He was 72. The cause was esophageal cancer, his son William Ford III said. Mr. Ford?s efforts eventually led to a $54.6 million liability ruling against two former Salvadoran generals in a 2002 civil trial in Florida, where the generals were living after being granted residence by the United States. Although the ruling was not directly connected to the murders of Mr. Ford?s sister and the other women, it resulted largely from his long and tenacious campaign...continue to full post

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