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NCADP 2008: Lighting the Torch Award

By National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

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We continue our series of NCADP 2008: Reaching for the Dream awardees. The highlight of the conference is tonight, with a reception and book-signing by Mike Farrell, star of M*A*S*H and so many other programs. Following that is our awards banquet.Today we bring you the NCADP 2008 Lighting the Torch Award, presented to the people of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico for their resolute opposition to the death penalty.Please check back in tomorrow as we will bring you our final 2008 awardee.The People of the Commonwealth of Puerto RicoLighting the Torch AwardPuerto Rico is not a likely candidate to be on the front lines of the struggle against the death penalty. After all, the Commonwealth first abolished the death penalty in 1929, and then followed that up by drafting a Constitution in 1952 that specifically banned the use of capital punishment ? a document that was approved by the U...continue to full post

Full post as published by Abolish the Death Penalty on January 19, 2008 (boomark / email).