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Who’s responsible for crime, punishment and the death penalty?

Imagine a concrete box called home for years, 23 hours a day, shuffling in chains when you do get out for that 60 minutes per day.
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BRIEF: Can we afford the death penalty?

On Nov. 2 at 6:30 p.m., five panelists will gather at Gonzaga University for a forum titled, "Can we afford the death penalty? The Loss of Compassion is too Costly."
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Sr. Prejean visits Spokane, speaks against death penalty

Hundreds of students and community members left their signatures on white cards before leaving Gonzaga University Friday night, expressing to state legislatures that they don’t want Washington to be a “killing a state.”
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Catholic nun, author, activist to speak at Gonzaga on death penalty

Sister Helen Prejean, best-selling author and human rights activist, will speak about the death penalty at Gonzaga University on Oct. 11 in a program titled, “The Journey Toward Justice.” Her lecture follows a 7 p.m. performance of a one-act play “Dead Man Walking,” a reading adapted from the Oscar-nominated film by the same name, according to a Gonzaga press release.
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Steps to end death penalty

Advocates are walking from Spokane to Olympia this month in hopes of getting support to abolish the death penalty in Washington.

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BRIEF: Spokane woman plans to walk to end death penalty

Beginning Sept. 3 Spokane resident Victoria Thorpe will lead an 18 and-a-half-day walk across the state to advocate for the abolition of the death penalty.

"Its purpose is to draw attention to the failure of the death penalty system; not only on the factual level, but as a tool designed to preserve our humanity it has only taken us further away," she said in a letter.

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South Hill community hosts life and death discussion

On June 5, at St. John’s Cathedral, five faiths were represented from a panel focusing on this specific question: Should Washington State abolish the death penalty?

This was a forum specially organized to address the issue from religious perspectives.

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