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Judith W. Kay is a member of the WCADP Steering Committee and Associate Professor of Religion at the University of Puget Sound

From the book:  "In Murdering Myths: The Story Behind the Death Penalty, Judith W. Kay goes beyond hype and statistics to examine Americans' deep-seated beliefs about crime and punishment.  She argues that Americans share a counterproductive idea of justice--that punishment corrects bad behavior, suffering pays for wrong deeds, and victims' desire for revenge is natural and inevitable.  Drawing on interviews with both victims and inmates, Kay shows how this belief harms perpetrators, victims, and society and calls for a new narrative that recognizes the humanity in all of us."

  
Mike Farrell has transformed a noted acting career into a singular passion for the abolition of the death penalty in California and throughout the United States.  Farrell's autobiography chronicles that journey with unique insight and a powerful sense of purpose in the battle against state-sanctioned killing.

  
Sister Helen Prejean travels extensively, giving, on average, 140 lectures a year, seeking to ignite public discourse on the death penalty. She has appeared on ABC’s World News Tonight, 60 Minutes, Oprah, NPR, and an NBC special series on capital punishment. She is a member of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Medaille and lives in Louisiana.  Sister Helen has been involved in many WCADP events including guest speaker to the 2004 Annual Dinner and Auction.

Truth Be Told is a touching compilation of correspondence between Friday Harbor , WA resident Agnes Vadas and Richard Nields, currently a death row inmate in Ohio .  Through their friendship and letters readers can come to know the true humanness and kind soul of a jazz musician on death row--and the gentleness and compassion of the only person supporting him.  The state of Ohio must not put this man to death.  A must read for death penalty opponents and supporters alike.

On September 2, 1983, Jimmy Lee Gray died smashing his head into a metal pole located behind his head as a result of being strapped to a chair and forced to inhale a deadly mixture of sulfuric acid and hydrogen cyanide. On May 4, 1990, Jesse Tafero, at the time living and breathing, died after being set on fire while completely incapacitated being bound to a chair. These instances sound much like the works of a sadistic serial killer torturing his victims, but they are in reality the works of State Departments of Corrections here in America. These documented cases as well as many more wrongs involving the administration of capital punishment in the United States are found in 15,543 and Counting. Each and every step, from the very beginning of the guilt trial to the very end of the cooling of the corpse, is addressed and accounted for in 15,543 and Counting. Among the countless informative sources are testimonies of corrections officers assigned to the care and custody of death row inmates, as well as actual quotes from death row inmates themselves.