Apr 99 About Peacework Subscribe Now Current Issue Events & Resources Back Issues National AFSC NERO Office American Friends Service Committee Peacework Magazine Patrica Watson, Editor Sara Burke, Assistant Editor Pat Farren, Founding Editor 2161 Massachusetts Ave. Cambridge, MA 02140 Telephone number: (617) 661-6130 Fax number: (617) 354-2832 Email address: pwork@igc.org Peacework has been published monthly since 1972, intended to serve as a source of dependable information to those who strive for peace and justice and are committed to furthering the nonviolent social change necessary to achieve them. Rooted in Quaker values and informed by AFSC experience and initiatives, Peacework offers a forum for organizers, fostering coalition-building and teaching the methods and strategies that work in the global and local community. Peacework seeks to serve as an incubator for social transformation, introducing a younger generation to a deeper analysis of problems and issues, reminding and re-inspiring long-term activists, encouraging the generations to listen to each other, and creating space for the voices of the disenfranchised.

Contents: April 1999 From the Editor's Desk 4 Thinking about the Death Penalty Today By Hugo Bedau "The public's much-vaunted love affair with the executioner is actually considerably overrated" 6 "Innocence is Irrelevant" by Charles Wilton The harsh realities of wrongful conviction 8 When Anti-Racism and Vengeance Collide by The Rev. Edward W. Rodman Sentencing in the James Byrd killing-a peculiar balance of terror 10 Justice: Retribution or Restoration by Howard Zehr Understanding "an eye for an eye" in context, and moving beyond it 11 Considering Life Without Possibility of Parole by Laura Magnani "In AFSC's many years of work with prisoners we have seen people change" 12 State House Testimony on Reinstatement of the Death Penalty by Betty Zisk "If we believe at all in the possibility of redemption" 13 To Heal These Wounds by Pat Clark Calling on the voices of the religious community 14 Not in Our Name Interview with Renny Cushing "Part of it is continuing to honor my father and his life and what he was about" 15 Victim Impact-"to turn our rage" by Cecil and Shirley Rice "Reparation will not being them back, but it can shape the future" 16 "How do you live through that?" Interview with Renee Wormack Keels "When the state kills, the people they kill also have family members" 17 "It was all so horribly implausible" by Kurt Rosenberg Downstairs from where the murders took place, members of the Religious Society of Friends have gathered for worship for many years 18 "Revenge and hate is what resulted in the death of 167 people" by Bud Welch Once the murderers are tried and executed, what then? 19 "This started in tragedy and is ending in tragedy" by Maria Hines Forgiveness is not in the abstract, but face to face 20 Give this Poster a Ride by Jaime Suarez-Potts Most of us use public transportation every day--a suggestion from a veteran organizer 21 To Repair our Society by Rep. Byron Rushing "This is a punishment for the poor, for the working class, a punishment that reflects our prejudices at any particular time because of its innate inequality" 22 Events and Opportunities 24 Notes of Urgent Causes, Violence, and Kosovo by David McReynolds "There are times when those of us who believe in peace cannot provide answers. We can be as truthful as possible, see as clearly as possible, but we may not have answers". Death Penalty Resources

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