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| Death penalty opponents rally |
| By Associated Press |
| Published: 10/20/2003 |
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Death penalty opponents gathered in Alaska last weekend for a rally aimed at maintaining the state's capital punishment prohibition. Though Alaska hasn't had capital punishment since territorial days, opponents told a crowd at the Town Square last Sunday to be ever vigilant. State Sen. Hollis French, a Democrat from Anchorage, said he doesn't expect such a law to pass the Legislature. French was one of several speakers at the "Day of Faith in Action" which brought together religious and other local leaders to talk about their opposition to capital punishment for the second year in a row. Rich Curtner, former president of Alaskans Against the Death Penalty, said there hasn't been a strong movement in the Legislature to institute capital punishment since the mid-1990s. The Territory of Alaska acquired the death penalty statute in 1884 when Congress applied the laws of Oregon to Alaska. Nine people were hung in this territory before 1957 when the territorial government repealed the statute. Though Alaska doesn't have the death penalty, the federal government does and it still applies to Alaska, said Hugh Fleischer, president of AADP. |
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