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"Anti-death penalty movement wooing conservatives"

By Douglas A. Berman

The title of this post is the headline of this notable article in today's Washington Post.  Here are excerpts: The Roman Catholic church has long been an organized and vocal critic of the death penalty, but [a] new effort is trying to bring in other conservatives shaped by both evangelical faiths and political ideology.  Now, liberals and conservatives ? longtime opponents on contentious social issues from abortion to capital punishment ? are working together in a time of strong political polarization. The effort took center stage at the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's annual conference over the weekend in Louisville....  Shari Silberstein, executive director of Equal Justice USA, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based anti-death penalty organization, said working with conservatives is about common sense and common ground...continue to full post

Full post as published by Sentencing Law and Policy on January 18, 2010 (boomark / email).