by Kathleen Lucas | Jan 3, 2020 | Uncategorized
Once you and your friends have seen this movie, they’ll want to join the fight to end capital punishment in Pennsylvania. Make sure to welcome them aboard. Ask them to share their name, address, and email address to info@padp.org to join the over 10,000...
by Kathleen Lucas | Sep 5, 2019 | News
The only way to ensure that the state does not execute an innocent person is to stop using the death penalty altogether When I was a young mother of my beautiful baby girl Shannon many years ago, I could never have imagined I would lose her to violent crime. I never...
by Kathleen Lucas | Mar 13, 2019 | News
Today, Governor Gavin Newsom took the historic step of declaring a moratorium on executions in California. Four other states have a moratorium in place — Colorado, Oregon, Pennsylvania, and Washington. The 737 California death row inmates represent over...
by Kathleen Lucas | Mar 7, 2019 | News
Pennsylvania’s death penalty is, by all accounts, embattled. There hasn’t been an execution in two decades, even before Gov. Tom Wolf imposed a moratorium on them in 2015. The courts have long scrutinized death sentences, throwing out scores of them at appeal. And...
by Kathleen Lucas | Oct 29, 2018 | Blog, Marshall Dayan
With Vicki Schieber, Pittsburgh October 2018 To My Concerned Friends, This past Saturday morning, I was in synagogue, standing next to the Torah. As we were reading of the binding of Isaac, other folks got word of the shooting at Tree of Life synagogue in the Squirrel...
