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		<title>New Study Shows Harm of Executions for Murder Victims&#8217; Families</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Jan 2013 21:37:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A landmark study has been released which challenges the steadfast notion that the death penalty brings satisfaction and closure to murder victims&#8217; families. It is the first systemic inquiry dealing directly with homicide survivors about whether obtaining capital punishment affects their healing. The study used in-person interviews with a randomly selected sample of survivors from four [...]]]></description>
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		<title>People of Color are Disproportionately Excluded from Capital Juries</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:28:14 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Prof. Joel Devine of Tulane University conducted a survey that examined over 500 jury trials in Jefferson Parish and found that in an incredible 80% of criminal trials, there was no effective black representation on Jefferson juries. Read more here. These trends are found in capital prosecutions throughout the state. Most recently, the Louisiana Supreme Court [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Blackstrikes Study</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 06:25:45 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After two Jefferson Parish capital convictions were overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court and the Louisiana Supreme Court because prosecutors had used race-based reasons to exclude black jurors during jury selections, a study called Black Strikes: A Study of the Racially Disparate Use of Peremptory Challenges by the Jefferson Parish District Attorney&#8217;s Office revealed that these cases [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Crime Victims&#8217; Guidebook</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 05:37:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[In the immediate aftermath of a murder Crime Victims Guidebook: For Those Who Have Lost Their Loved Ones to Violence, by Rose Preston In 2003, Rose Preston&#8217;s husband and mother-in-law were brutally murdered. The Crime Victims Guidebook is a product of her experience, a resource for victims&#8217; families as well as victims of crime. Rose [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Interfaith Communities</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 04:22:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Interfaith Prayer Service Hosted by Archbishop Aymond In March, 2012, Archbishop Gregory Aymond hosted an interfaith prayer service to end state killings at the historic St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans. The service included guest speakers: Tom Lowenstein, who lost his father to murder Calvin Duncan, who was wrongfully incarcerated for 28 1/2 years for murder Sr. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Catholic Church and the Death Penalty</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:41:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Representatives from the Archdiocesan Respect Life Office, Catholic Charities Office of Justice and Peace, Loyola University’s Jesuit Social Research Institute, the Vincentian Peace and Justice liaison, the Louisiana Conference of Catholic Bishops, the Loyola Institute for Ministry, the Moratorium Campaign, and the Jesuit Province were all involved in the creation of the Louisiana Catholics Committed [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Here A Few of Our Favorite Things in 2012</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Dec 2012 00:56:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[ Our Favorite Things: 2012 in Review &#160; The LCADP Team has compiled a list of &#8220;Our Favorite Things&#8221; from 2012 to celebrate this Holiday Season. We hope you enjoyed them as much as we did! &#160; &#160; Louisiana Juries Rejected the Death Penalty: Three out of four capital juries rejected death sentences in favor of life-without-parole sentences during [...]]]></description>
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		<title>McCleskey&#8217;s Omission: The Racial Geography of Retribution</title>
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		<comments>http://www.dpalternatives.org/2012/11/mccleskeys-omission-the-racial-geography-of-retribution/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Nov 2012 16:59:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Twenty-five years after the Court in McCleskey refrained from addressing the overwhelming evidence that race, and particularly the race of the victim, plays a role in the administration of the death penalty, with no corrective measures taken to ensure that the worst of the worst offenders receive the death penalty, the death penalty in America [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Faith communities and the death penalty</title>
		<link>http://www.dpalternatives.org/2012/04/faith-community-positions/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:49:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The following is a list of faith communities and and a description of their official position on capital punishment. This list was provided by the Pew Forum on Religious and Public Life. &#160; American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. Since 1982, the American Baptist Churches in the U.S.A. has opposed capital punishment in the United [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The LCADP Member&#8217;s Handbook</title>
		<link>http://www.dpalternatives.org/2012/04/out-now-members-handbook/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Apr 2012 16:40:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Experience shows that when you give people solid, accurate information about how the death penalty operates and you then invite them to think about alternatives, most people recognize our current system is unworkable, unfixable and unnecessary. The trouble is, the vast majority of people have never thought deeply about the death penalty and, because of [...]]]></description>
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