Democracy Now : July 19 : Death Penalty Debate

Democracy Now : July 19 : Death Penalty Debate / Pacifica Foundation| Produced by Julie Drizen and Amy Goodman| Hosted by Amy Goodman. - A daily program produced by Pacifica Radio which takes an in-debt look at the political landscape. Includes interviews with visionaries, including members of grassroots organizations, who challenge the status quo. - CONTENT: pt.1. Political headlines (3:00) -- pt.2. Guests Linda Thurston, Director of the Program to Abolish the Death Penalty, Amnesty International U.S.A. and a member of the Board of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty since 1990, she is now Vice-President of the Coalition's Board and Paul Cunningham, member of the Steering Committee for Amnesty Internatina's Death Penalty Event.Both guests are participating in Amnesty International's Third Annual Conference on the Death Penalty ( 26:00) -- pt.3. Death penalty debate - cont.| Guests Palmer Singleton, staff attorney at the Southern Center for Human Rights in Atlanta and retired Marine Major George Cullins, Board member of the Citizens for Law and Order who in the mid-1980's helped organize the campaign to kick out the three California judges, including Rose Bird, who opposed the death penalty.(28:00) -- pt.4. Death penalty debate cont. (17:00) - Satellite, July 19, 1996.