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CONUS Archive
264770
DEATH PENALTY PROTEST (1996)
WASHINGTON, DC
TVD
7/2/1996
26:32
2:31
Rick Halpern / Board Member, Amnesty International
The Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty and Equal Justice USA begins a four-day demonstration to protest the death penalty.
(SUGGESTED TRANSCRIPT OF AUDIO) 00:00 As when one speaks about the death penalty, one is truly speaking about the day when this will be abolished. Not if we will have an America without a death penalty This is coming. To be sure, these are indeed dark days. It appears that the pace of executions may Quicken more lives may indeed be lost. But this will not be the final verdict. We will come back to this court year after year after year on this date, we will continue to express our outrage that the best our current leaders can do is offer this false hope. We will we will indeed triumph on this issue, but in a broader context as a human rights violation. It in essence not only is a barrier to social progress in this country, but it is the single most important factor of why human rights cannot be advanced on a global level when the United States speaks about a Better World Vision death penalty has got to go you know America. 01:51 Abolition. 02:09 For me
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