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Detail
of Bartolomeo Vanzetti and
Nicola Sacco from the cartoon of a mural by Ben Shahn © Estate of Ben
Shahn /Licensed by VAGA, New York, NY
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Dear friends, members, and supporters of MCADP:
We are invited to attend a play entitled Not Enough Air at the Central Square Theater at a special discounted rate! Masha Obolensky's play is based on the fascinating story of journalist and playwright Sophie Treadwell who wrote the famous Broadway play Machinal about the trial, conviction and execution of Ruth Snyder in 1928.
After the show on Thursday, February 11, Harvard Law School Professor Carol Steiker (Winner of the MCADP Hugo Bedeau Award in 2008) will lead an audience discussion about the play and issues surrounding the death panalty. Professor Steiker has written extensively on the Death Penalty and teaches courses at Harvard Law School on Capital Punishment in America and Criminal Law.
Please join us at opening night of Not Enough Air at the Central Square Theater in Cambridge on February 11, 2010 at a special discounted rate of to MCADP and its supporters. To receive the discounted rate please contact MCADP office for information prior to ordering your tickets.
To purchase tickets: Call toll free at 866.811.4111 or 617.576.9278
Order online at www.centralsquaretheater.org
We look forward to seeing you on Thursday. Thank you for your continued support of MCADP and the anti-death penalty effort and dialogue.
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Recent Articles of Interest:
New York Times
January 4, 2010
Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work
Lawyer's Weekly
November 30, 2009
What Lawyers Want to Know: Martha Coakley
The New Yorker
September 7, 2009
A REPORTER AT LARGE
TRIAL BY FIRE
Did Texas execute an innocent man?
by David Grann
Slate.com
Posted Saturday, Sept. 5, 2009, at 7:29 AM ET
Not Innocent Enough
The elusive search for the sufficiently innocent death-row victim.
By Dahlia Lithwick
For years, death-penalty opponents and
supporters have been on what now looks to
be an ethical snipe hunt. Everyone was
looking for a moment at which everything
would change: a case in which a clearly
innocent defendant was wrongly put to
death.
See complete article: http://www.slate.com/id/2227222/
Your
membership will help continue our fight against the death
penalty in Massachusetts! |
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