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Listening to: From the Choirgirl Hotel. Not for long, though... it's not really matching my mood quite like I was expecting it too.

Currently Reading: Just barely started Jonathan Lethem's Gun, With Occasional Music. Kind of saving it for the train, as well as a stack of others (both fiction and non). Also, I recently read Laurie Notaro's I Love Everybody (and Other Atrocious Lies): True Tales of a Loudmouth Girl (again) in like two days, and peed myself laughing. Highly recommended. I also devoured The Broke Diaries by Angela Nissel in, like, a mere few days. Laughed until I peed. Also highly recommended.

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01 March 2002 | 5:09 PM

Death Row

Okay.

Today is National Death Penalty Abolishment Day. Today's entry is dedicated entirely to all those on death row, and to you, dear reader, who can help to make a difference in our world. Today's information is from Amnesty International, the NAACP, and the Moratorium Campign. Thank you for reading today's entry.

95% of death row inmates cannot afford an attorney.

Prosecutors seek the death penalty far more frequently when the victim of the homicide is white than when the victim is black.

Prosecutors may, in most states, remove potential black jurors by peremptory challenge-without giving any reason.

One defendant may receive a death sentence while another receives prison time for exactly the same crime.

In several states, trial judges may override the jury's sentencing recommendation.

Jury interpretations of aggravating or mitigating circumstances may lead to a sentence of death in one case and prison time in another.

Poor people are being subjected to convictions and death sentences that equally or more culpable but more affluent people would not have received.

No system in which fallible human beings decide the fate of other human beings can be free from some degree of arbitrariness and error.

For more information on the death penalty, and action you can take, please visit Amnesty International. Also, please visit the Moratorium Campign to sign the petition against the death penalty in the United States. For every person who signs the petition, and then signs my guestbook, I will pledge one dollar to Mercy Corps.

Rent Dead Man Walking at your local video store. Read Sister Helen Prejean's book,Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States.

Thank you for your time, and have a great day. Love each other.

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