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Black History Month, Slavery, and the Death Penalty

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That's the title of Diann Rust-Tierney's post at Huffington Post.  LINK  Diann is the executive director of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.  Here are two extended excerpts from this must-read:When one hears the term "abolitionists" one automatically thinks of the courageous men and women, white and African American, who aided runaway slaves fleeing to freedom in the nation's Northern states and Canada. A parallel abolitionist movement developed in the U.S. of the late 18th century, continuing into the 19th Century and the present, the movement to abolish the death penalty. Religious groups such as Unitarians and Quakers, who were active in the anti-slavery movement, as well as liberal secularists, were also death penalty abolitionists...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on February 25, 2009 (boomark / email).