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fictitious experts based on their personalities.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Meanwhile Thursday, death penalty opponents seized on the 2nd anniversary of Ryan's moratorium on capital punishment to announce a campaign to abolish the death penalty in Illinois.
Legislatures in half of the 38 states with death penalty laws have considered or are now considering stopping executions with a moratorium – or abolishing the death penalty outright.
Several national and international organizations not opposed in principle to the death penalty have called for a moratorium on executions in the USA because of the way the death penalty is being applied.
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Mark Harris,
Priest
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Therefore as archbishop of the Catholic Archdiocese of Oklahoma City, I am hereby calling for a moratorium on the death penalty in the state of Oklahoma.
I speak in favor of HB 1013 and a moratorium on the death penalty from the perspective of a Christian Minister from the Baptist denomination.
Joining our voices to those who call for an immediate moratorium on the death penalty, we take our stand on the side of life and pledge ourselves to do what we can to see that the death penalty is abolished in our land.
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Thomas Owens,
Police Officer
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Death penalty experts say juries and prosecutors appear to be exercising greater care in using the death penalty, particularly considering recent cases in which DNA evidence has proved that people were wrongly convicted.
Death penalty experts say juries and prosecutors appear to be exercising greater care in using the death penalty, especially after recent cases in which DNA evidence proved that people had been wrongly convicted.
Several death penalty cases that had been sent back for retrials, new sentencing hearings, discovery, and evidentiary hearings, remained pending during the year of the Moratorium.
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Bob Greenberg,
Congressional Candidate
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Both President Bush and Attorney General Ashcroft are pro-death penalty and have indicated their extreme reluctance to support a federal moratorium.
Green candidates were also the only candidates calling for a moratorium on the death penalty, and for true educational reform that would re-connect our youth to their community and roots.
The moratorium movement, together with an increasing public awakening to the long-established fact that the death penalty does not deter crime, is seen by many as a step in the direction of abolition.
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