Folder 36: “Death Penalty”, 1992-1998

File — Container: Box 2, Folder: 36

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

Article; “1786; A Fight Over Strawberries; A Girl Is Hanged,” Colin Poitras, Hartford Courant, May 23, 1996

Article; “The Place For Vengeance” U.S. News and World Report, October 1998

Pamphlet; “Newsletter of the Friends Committee to Abolish the Death Penalty” The Quaker Abolitionist, Spring 1995, vol. 1, no. 1

Essay; “Execution-inspired Murder: A Form of Suicide” Katherine van Wormer, MSSW, Ph.D.

Article; Rowland Ready to Turn on the Justice by Jennifer Kaylin from Connecticut, March 1995

Ad; The Death Penalty: We Can Live Without It; membership to The Quaker Abolitionist

Photocopy; “Author’s note on violence…” Edward Bord

Article; Discovering Buddha on Prison’s Death Row by Kevin Sack from the New York Times, May 29, 1996

Brochure; “National Commission on Capital Punishment”

Presumed photocopy of a letter asking for support for the new “Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty”

Article; State to Require Inmates to Pay for Some Medical Care by Mike McIntire from the Hartford Courant

Article; Voices From Death Row from The Other Side, September – October 1992

Dates

Creation: 1992-1998

Conditions Governing Access

This collection is open to the public and must be used in the John M.K. Davis Reading Room of the Watkinson Library, Trinity College Library, Hartford, Connecticut. Researchers must register and agree to copyright and privacy laws when using this collection.

Extent

From the Collection: 23.5 Cubic Feet (23 records center cartons with 475 folders, and one flat box of oversized materials (box 24)) ; 1 box (16.25 in. x 13 in. x 10.5 in.) equals 1 cubic foot ("cubic foot" defined in SAA Dictionary) 1 flat box (2.5"H x 17"W x 20.75"D) equals .51 cubic feet (as defined by UNLV Archives Calculator)