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Press Conference

Open to the Public
Wednesday May 17, 2000
11:00 a.m. Friends Congregational Church
2200 Southwood Drive, College Station

To announce Resolutions calling for a Death Penalty Moratorium by:

  • St. Mary's Catholic Church
  • St. Thomas Aquinas Catholic Church 
  • Students for Peace, Texas A&M 
  • Democratic Socialists, Texas A&M 
  • Friends Just Peace Institute 
  • Brazos County Democrats 
  • Aggie Democrats 
  • National Organization of Women, Texas A&M 
  • Students for a Free Tibet 
  • Amnesty International, Texas A&M
  • Brazos Chapter of the ACLU of Texas
  • Bethune Women's Club
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    and others

    Special Guest Speaker: Randall Dale Adams

    		 In 1977, Randall Adams was wrongly convicted of murdering aDallas police officer. After 12 years on death row, at one time coming within 72 hours of being executed, Adams was freed in 1989. The key witness against Adams, a 16-year-old who had stolen the gun used in the murder, virtually confessed to killing the officer years later. Adams’s story is retold in the 1988 film, The Thin Blue Line. Among other irregularities in his trial, Adams’s sentence was influenced by Dr. James Grigson, a forensic psychiatrist who was later expelled from both the American Psychiatric Association and the Texas Psychiatric Association for unethical behaviour, as a direct result of his grossly unscientific predictions in death penalty trials.

    Sponsored by the  Just Peace  Institute.