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About MD CASE
"The struggle for justice doesn't end with me. This struggle is for all the Troy Davises who came came before me, and all of the ones who will come after me." -- Troy Davis, the day of his execution by the State of Georgia, September 21, 2011
MD CASE - Maryland Citizens Against State Executions - is a coalition of groups and individuals united to end the death penalty in Maryland through education, grassroots action, and public demonstration.
What can you do to help end the death penalty in Maryland?
Staff Jane Henderson, Executive Director Peter Jones, Business Manager Peter Jones is the former director of the Labor Heritage Foundation and a former boycott organizer for the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO. Bonnita Spikes, Murder Victims' Family Members Organizer Bonnita Spikes has made it her life's work to stop capital punishment in Maryland and across the country. Using her skills as a former union organizer, Spikes brings people together to discuss the death penalty and rally against it. Spikes' own life was touched by violent crime in a heartbreaking way when her husband, Michael, was murdered in 1994 - nobody has ever been charged with the crime. Paying particular attention to Baltimore City, a Maryland jurisdiction dealing with the highest homicide rate in the state, Spikes reaches out to others who've lost loved ones in this most tragic of ways.
Board Christa Beverly (Cheverly) Sam Epps (Laurel) Deborah Fleischaker (Silver Spring) Stephanie Gibson (Chair, Baltimore) Trisha Kendall (Baltimore) Vivian Penda (Silver Spring) Mary Ellen Russell (Annapolis, MD) Vicki Schieber (Co-Chair, New Market) Melanie Share (Secretary, Columbia) Scott Sokol (Baltimore County) Holly Syrrakos (Treasurer, Takoma Park)
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