Mike Farrell

Death Penalty Focus

Guest

Actor and anti-death penalty activist, he is president of Death Penalty Focus; author of Just Call Me Mike: My Journey from Actor to Activist

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Propositions 62 and 66 deal with the death penalty.  Proposition 62  would repeal the death penalty in California.

Props 62 and 66: Death penalty

Propositions 62 and 66 deal with the death penalty. Proposition 62 would repeal the death penalty in California.

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Robert Scheer sits down with actor and activist Mike Farrell to discuss his involvement in the anti death penalty movement.

Mike Farrell: Putting an end to the death penalty

Robert Scheer sits down with actor and activist Mike Farrell to discuss his involvement in the anti death penalty movement.

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Yesterday Democratic Governor Pat Quinn made Illinois the sixteenth state  without capital punishment .

Will Illinois' Direction on the Death Penalty Impact California?

Yesterday Democratic Governor Pat Quinn made Illinois the sixteenth state without capital punishment .

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