Power Point Presentation

The Death Penalty Experiment Has Failed - A PowerPoint Presentation of KCADP with contributions from the American Civil Liberties Union

Religious Statements and Ceremonies

	November 5, 2003 - Chemicals, Costs, and Procedure in Lethal Injections - This is response to Rep. Jim Wayne who had asked Kentucky officials for informatiion  regarding the execution protocol.
	On October 24, 2002, Rabbi Joe-Rooks Rapport delivered a sermon at The Temple in Louisville Kentucky calling for the abolition of the death penalty. We appreciate his offering it to KCADP for our Resource page. Rabbi Rapport has testified eloquently before the Judiciary Committee in Frankfort Kentucky. Click here to read this sermon. This is in Adobe PDF format.
	Statement: Archbishop Daniel Buechlein, O.S.B. Archdiocese of Indianapolis, May 2001, related to the execution of Timothy McVeigh
	On Tuesday, April 16, 2002, the Kentucky Heartland Institute on Public Policy of Campbellsville University sponsored the "First Annual Roundtable on Christian Perspectives on Public Policy Issues - Capital Punishment." Click here to read Dr. Mark Medley's presentation. Dr. Medley is an assistant professor of Theology at the university.
	Other Materials Related to the McVeigh Execution, June 11, 2001
	U. S. Catholic Conference Statement on McVeigh
	The Death Penalty As Rejection of God's Justice
	Sample Prayer Service -  For Adaptation
	Archdiocese of Louisville Priests Resolution for Abolition of the Death Penalty, 08/2000
	The Challenge of Holiness: A Sermon on the Death Penalty By Rabbi Peter J. Rubinstein, Senior Rabbi of Central Synagogue Delivered at Riverside Church, September 10, 2000

Miscellaneous

	01 07 08 Baze v Rees Oral Argument text 07-5439 - Text of the oral arguments regarding lethal injection procedure in Kentucky.
	Political activity and Non-Profits: what you may and may not do.
	Paul Stevens, a volunteer chaplain at Kentucky State Penitentiary, member of MVFR and KCADP, husband and father, died in February and was buried on March 1, 2003. His close associate and friend, Sr. Chris Beckett, SCN, delivered a eulogy. To read it click here. It is in an Adobe PDF file.
	Rita Brothers, a KCADP member in Owensboro, recently completed her M.A. and has adapted a tribute to Paul Stevens from her Praxis paper written for her degree program. To read it click here. It is in an Adobe PDF file.
	Representative Jim Wayne gave the keynote address at the annual meeting of KCADP, October 23, 2003. We are grateful for his continued support and guidance. Here is the text of his address.
	Booklet Distributed to Judiciary Committee Members for October 16, 2001 Hearing on the Death Penalty The booklet is in Adobe PDF format.
	KCADP Statement for Rally at Vice-Presidential Debate, Danville, Kentucky, October 5, 2000
	University of Louisville Forum - An address delivered by Patrick Delahanty 09/27/99

Research

	Amnesty International Lethal Injection Report October 2007
	Gennaro Vito and/or Thomas Keil, University of Louisville Juvenile Death Penalty JQ Capital Sentencing in KY Fear of Crime and CP Attitudes Back from the Dead Race & Capital Sentencing KY DP Attitudes
	The Kentucky Racial Justice Act: a Policy Analysis by Janet Powell - a 2001 analysis of the effects of the Racial Justice Act in Kentucky.
	Amnesty International Report: The Illusion of Control, May 2001
	Gary Potter - Cost, Deterrence, Incapacitation, Brutalization and the Death

            The above is testimony of Gary Potter before Health and Welfare Committee 2000

In 1965 Governor Ned Breathitt set up a Task Force to study the use of the death penalty in Kentucky and to issue a recommendation regarding its future. It recommended that Kentucky abolish the death penalty. Here is the text of a hearing held, and of two reports issued, one called basic, the other more complete. Proceedings of the Public Hearing Held by the Governor's Task Force on Criminal Justice, December 10, 1965, House Chambers, Capitol Building, Frankfort, Kentucky Report on Capital Punishment, submitted by Governor's Task Force on Criminal Justice, December, 1965 (identified as the basic report) Capital Punishment, prepared by John P. DeMarcus, Administrative Assistant, Information Bulletin No. 40, Legislative Research Commission, Frankfort, Kentucky, May 1965 (Reprinted March, 1970)

Juvenile Fact Sheet in Adobe PDF file - Material updated 2003 and includes reference to HB 180 and SB 15.

Testimony

On Feb. 26, 2007, Carol Heilman and Nancy Rowles, who have both suffered the loss of a loved one because of murder, testified before the House Judiciary Committee in support of HCR 88, a bill to set up a task force to study the process of death sentencing in Kentucky. Click on their names to read their complete remarks.

	Rev. Patrick Delahanty's testimony about banning the death penalty for mentally retarded persons convicted of capital crimes before July 1990
	Jane Chiles' testimony on behalf of the Catholic Conference of Kentucky (Hit back key to return to KCADP website.)
	October 20,  1999 - Opening Remarks by Rev. Pat Delahanty for Health and Welfare Committee Hearing