MEDIA ADVISORY FROM

FLORIDIANS FOR ALTERNATIVES TO THE DEATH PENALTY (FADP.org)

Abe Bonowitz
800-973-6548
<abe@fadp.org>
Pager: 888-319-1369

IS THE TAIL WAGGING THE DOG?
The State-Assisted Suicide of Daniel Patrick Hauser

Daniel Patrick Hauser is scheduled to have his state-assisted suicide at 6pm, Tuesday, August 22, at Florida State
Prison at Starke.  Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP) will hold simultaneous protests across the state.  See below for details.

"This is the tail wagging the dog," said Abe Bonowitz, Director of Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
(FADP), an activist organization coordinating statewide public opposition to executions.  "We are letting a confessed
murderer direct his punishment.  Why is it that the ONLY time Jeb Bush is willing to give anything to a prisoner is when that prisoner wants to be killed?  Why is it that an innocent, terminally ill citizen dying a painful death is denied the right to end their life, but we bend over backwards for a killer? Issues of competency aside, this is further proof that morally, economically and socially, the death penalty is BAD PUBLIC POLICY!"

SIMULTANEOUS DEMONSTRATIONS AT EIGHT LOCATIONS

Activists in seven Florida cities will stage simultaneous, peaceful protests in opposition to the state-assisted suicide of Daniel Patrick Hauser. 

SCHEDULED EVENTS

The Tallahassee Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty will hold a press conference at 10:30 a.m. on Tuesday, August 22, in the Florida Press Center Conference Room.  Tallahassee abolitionists will be present outside the Governor's mansion on Tuesday evening, and will hold a vigil at the Capital Rotunda at noon on Wednesday, should Hauser be killed as scheduled.  Contact:  Walter Moore: 850-877-1609

SIMULTANEOUS VIGILS ARE PLANNED for 5:30pm to 6:30pm on Tuesday, 20 June 2000 at the following locations:

STARKE
Florida State Prison at STARKE
Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
Contact: Abe Bonowitz (cell phone) 561-371-5204

GAINESVILLE
Corner of West University Avenue and 13th Street.
Contact Barbara Howe at 271-6989 or <barb@soliloquies.org>

JACKSONVILLE
Friendship Fountain in Friendship Park on the Southbank
of the River.  This is Near the Museum of Science and
History and the River City Brewing Company Restaurant.
Contact:  Bernie Welch <Blwmm@AOL.COM>

MIAMI
The County Courthouse in Miami
South Florida Committee Against the Death Penalty
Contact: Len Kaminsky: 305-754-9884

ORLANDO
The County Courthouse in Orlando
Contact:  Ben Markeson: 407-263-7768

PALM BEACH COUNTY - TBA
Contact:  Abe Bonowitz: 561-371-5204

TALLAHASSEE
The Governor's Mansion (Begins at 5:45)
Contact:  Walter Moore: 850-877-1609

TAMPA
5-6pm, Downtown Tampa, Courthouse Annex
801 E Twiggs St.
Contact: Elke Leinwand: <Ladybug779@aol.com>
or 813-831-4570. 

SENT BY:

Abraham J. Bonowitz
Director

Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (FADP)
800-973-6548
fadp@fadp.org
www.fadp.org
PMB 335, 2603 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Hwy,
Gainesville, FL 32609

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