Deans, Marie McFadden, 1940-2011
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Name (Latin)
Deans, Marie McFadden, 1940-2011
Date of birth
1940-06-08
Date of death
2011-04-15
Gender
female
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Sources of Information
- A courageous fool, 2017:ECIP t.p. (Marie Deans)
- Internet, URL: http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=69053210, viewed Sept. 16, 2016Home page (Marie McFadden Deans, of Charlottesville, VA, b. Jun. 8, 1940, Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA, d. Apr. 15, 2011, Charlottesville, Charlottesville City, Virginia, USA ; Following the murder of her mother-in-law, Deans was so disturbed by the idea of the murderer's execution that she began a lifelong quest to abolish the death penalty and to advocate for the rights of death row inmates. She led the local chapter of Amnesty International, founded Murder Victims' Families for Reconciliation, founded the Virginia Coalition on Jails and Prisons, and worked to help bring justice and basic human rights to more than 200 inmates)
Wikipedia description:
Susan Marie Deans (June 8, 1940 – April 15, 2011) was an American anti-death penalty activist who was committed to finding attorneys for men who were facing execution without legal representation. Marie's work began on death row began in South Carolina in the early 1980s and continued in Virginia for the next twenty years where she won reduced sentences for over 200 death-row inmates in Virginia and South Carolina. A memoir of Deans' life and work, titled A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty, was released in 2017.
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