Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP)
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Education
Continued education efforts across the state – “changing hearts and minds”; attracting and amplifying voices of political and religious conservatives, as well as other unusual or powerful perspectives (such as victims, exonerees, correctional officials, capital jurors).
County-based Strategy
County-based strategy: A crucial aspect of making progress in Missouri centers on reducing new death sentences. As evidence shows, it is a narrow range of geographic areas in Missouri that account for most death sentences handed down. According to UNC Professor, Frank Baumgartner, “A majority of [Missouri]’s 80 executions that occurred between 1976 and 2014 come from just three, or 2.6%, of the state’s 114 counties and the independent city of St. Louis.” High-use areas comprise the counties of: Jackson, Callaway, St. Louis County and St. Louis City. Furthermore, over the same period, 92 Missouri counties generated no executions and an additional nine only produced one. (According to DPIC, St. Louis County ranks #9 and St. Louis City #10 nationally in performing executions.) Our goal, then, is to work closely with the Public Defender’s office to identify counties where prosecutors are still seeking capital sentences and target strategic communications to those environments, with the aim of decreasing new sentences. Compared to other states, Missouri has relatively few individuals on death row – 22 as of October 2017. Closing the pipeline at the beginning of the process could move Missouri towards a place of de facto moratorium in the years ahead.
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Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP)
Board of directorsas of 10/03/2019
Ms. Rita Linhardt
Missouri Catholic Conference
Term: 2017 - 2017
Rita Linhardt
Missouri Catholic Conference
Denise Carpenter
Community Volunteer
Rob Schaeffer
CPA
Cathleen Burnett
UMKC
Nimrod Chapel
Chapel Law, Head of NAACP-Missouri
Cassandra Gould
Quinn Chapel A.M.E. Church and Missouri Faith Voices
Edna Harden
Citizens United for the Rehabilitation of Errants (CURE)
Paul Jones
Hermitage Spiritual Retreat Center
Wiley Miller
Columbia Chapter Leader, Mid-Missouri Fellowship of Reconciliation
Margaret Phillips
St. Louis Chapter Leader
Edward Ronan
Kansas City Chapter Co-chair
Zenobia Thompson
Jobs with Justice, Coalition of Black Trade Unionists, the Organization for Black Struggle
Donna Walmsley
Springfield Chapter Leader
Jude Huntz
Habitat for Humanity