Abolish the Death Penalty, with Murder Victims’ Families for Human Rights (MVFHR), launches a new series:
Creating More Victims: How Executions Hurt the Families Left Behind:
We know that each execution involves and affects many people. The murder victim, though no longer present, is always part of the story. The family members of the victim are affected. The inmate facing execution is of course affected. And so are the family members that the executed inmate leaves behind.
But we seldom think about this latter group. We have had more than 1,000 executions in this country since 1976. How many thousands of people have lost loved ones to execution? Where are their stories? Why don’t we hear, see, and read about them?
MVFHR, in a breathtaking and groundbreaking report, recently closed this gap. Creating More Victims: How Executions Hurt the Families Left Behind tells the stories of dozens of family members – daughters, mothers, brothers, others – and what they endured as the result of their loved one’s execution.
Today, in the first of a 10-part series over the next two weeks, we bring you one of these stories.
They have completed the first five that you can see here:
This is a great series that will finish up next week or so.
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