NEW JERSEYANS FOR A DEATH
PENALTY MORATORIUM 23 Crane
Fly Circle , Cape May, NJ 08204 800-257-6204 *
www.njmoratorium.org
January 16, 2004
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
CONTACT: Nancy Peters - 201-267-5300 (Days) or
Celeste Fitzgerald 973-635-6396
(Day/Evening)
FORMER DEATH ROW INMATE AND A MURDER VICTIM’S FATHER TO SPEAK
An innocent man, who was sentenced to death for murder and exonerated
10 years later, and the father of a
murder victim will speak about their experiences at A Program on the Death
Penalty February 17 at St. Thomas More Church in Convent Station.
Ray Krone was the 100th
innocent American nearly put to death. Krone, of York, PA, spent 10 years in an
Arizona prison waiting to die, until a DNA test exonerated him and he was freed
in April, 2002. Since the death penalty was reinstated in 1977, 888 Americans
have been executed. In the same time period, at least 112 death
row inmates were found to be innocent and set free.
Lorry Post, of Cape May, NJ, is
disturbed by disparities in sentencing, i.e. that some killers are given prison
sentences and others are sentenced to death for the same crime. Post’s daughter Lisa, the mother of a small
child, was savagely murdered by her husband, who was given a 20-year
sentence. Coordinator of New Jersey Murder Victims’ Families for
Reconciliation, he was formerly executive director of New Jerseyans for a Death
Penalty Moratorium.
Capital Punishment was spotlighted
recently, when Governor James E. McGreevey stunned statewide supporters and
legislators by vetoing a bill to study New Jersey’s death penalty system. The
state’s first execution in 41 years is expected to take place here in 2004. The
study bill had passed the legislature easily by a vote of 104 - 8.
The February 17 program is sponsored
by the church and the Knights of Columbus John H. Feenan 7537 Council. It
begins at 7:30 P.M. and is free and open to the public. St. Thomas More Church is on Madison Avenue,
across from the Madison Hotel.
For information, call Nancy Peters: 201-267-5300.