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Opponents of capital punishment charged that the mishap again proved that the death penalty constitutes cruel and unusual punishment. "A lot of people think lethal injection is like putting a dog to sleep," says Kica Matos, research director of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's Capital Punishment Project. "But things still go wrong with all types of executions. It's as gruesome and barbaric as torture." Of 237 executions since the death penalty was reinstated in 1976, Matos estimates, 18 have been "botched." Gacy's was among the least painful...
Press coverage and clever soundbites only take an organization so far, according to youth leaders from large grass-roots groups like the Urban League, Campus Greenvote and the NAACP. And groups like the United States Associations (USAA), which has 350 member campuses, 3.5 million members and registered 200,000 young voters in 1992, may lack the media savvy of Third Millennium, but they can still make legislators sit up and listen. "Third Millennium can't get 30,00 students to write in to their Congressmen like we can," says USSA president Tchiyuka Cornelius...
...recently began working here as a computer programmer after 12 years with IBM. From 1981 to 1992, I worked as a systems programmer and volunteered nights and weekends with the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) and other civic groups...
Alex Walker is the former co-chair of the Duchess County (New York) Committee Against Racism and the former vice-president of the Northern Duchess County branch of the NAACP...
Radcliffe also plays an important role in advocating for women. The fact that a body exists to speak for women does not mean that women can't speak for themselves. Do such advocacy groups as the NAACP "send the message that [Black people] can't control their own affairs or be their own advocates...