If you are interested in covering the NCADP 2009 Annual Conference in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, please send an e-mail to NCADP Director of Communications Margaret Summers, or contact her by phone at (202) 331-4090.
NEW JERSEY GOVERNOR CORZINE,
ARCHBISHOP EMERITUS MCCARRICK,
AMONG HONOREES AT 2009 NCADP DINNER
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A governor, a Catholic Church official, prominent Pennsylvania-based attorneys, and a documentary film production company are some of the individuals and groups to be honored at the 2009 National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty Annual Awards Dinner. The dinner, the highlight of the organization’s training conference, will be held on Saturday, January 24, beginning at 7 p.m. at the Holiday Inn Harrisburg East, 4751 Lindle Road, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The dinner's keynote speaker will be Sister Helen Prejean, CSJ, spiritual advisor and author of the book "Dead Man Walking" on which the feature film is based.
“The Annual Awards Dinner is our way of recognizing the successes of noteworthy leaders in the anti-death penalty field,” says Diann Rust-Tierney, NCADP Executive Director. “More than 300 people attend the event, and given the caliber of our 2009 awardees, we expect the event to be truly outstanding and memorable. The awardees are representative of the growing numbers of Americans, the wide cross-sections of our communities, calling for an end to the death penalty. They exemplify the depth and breadth of the personal power of the people to affect change.”
The 2009 NCADP Awards winners are:
New Jersey Governor Jon Corzine, Abolitionist of the Year
Theodore Cardinal McCarrick, Archbishop Emeritus, Lighting the Torch of Conscience Award
Outstanding Legal Service Award:
Paul Conway, Defender association of Philadelphia, Outstanding Legal Service Award
Robert Dunham and Michael Wiseman, Capital Habeas Unit, Federal Community Defender, Eastern District of Pennsylvania
Judge John Gibbons, Gibbons, P.C.
George Kendall, Holland & Knight
Henderson Hill, Ferguson Stein Chambers Gresham & Sumpter PA
Lifetime Achievement Award:
Lorry Post
Rachel King (posthumous)
Public Education Award:
Kartemquin Films, producers of the documentary “At the Death House Door”
Special Recognition:
Witness to Innocence
Reverend Walter Everett
Rose Vines, Death Penalty Discourse Network
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To arrange interviews with NCADP Executive Director Diann Rust-Tierney, or awardees, contact Margaret Summers, Communications Director, (202) 331-4090.
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