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Panel speakers included Northeastern Regional Director of Amnesty International USA Joshua Rubenstein, Annie Zirin, a member of the International Socialist Organization, and Bobby Jo Leaster, a former death row inmate...
...Leaster, a former death row convict who was incarcerated for fifteen years before he was acquitted at a retrial, dismissed both the moral and utilitarian arguments for the death penalty...
...seen the chair," said Leaster, "and I'm saying to myself, 'How can Governor Weld say that we've got to lose innocent people to deter crime?' When I was convicted, if they'd had the death penalty I would have got it and I'm innocent...
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