Spotlight on FADP Board Chair, Nancy O’Byrne.  When I was a little girl, probably nine  or ten years old, my mother was raising me by herself and she often had to work long hours and weekends. I was one of those “latch key kids” after school from first grade on. My summer babysitter, a recent…

Spotlight on FADP Board Member, Mary Anne Hoffman.  As I look back at my life I can’t remember ever accepting the death penalty. I grew up in Indiana, a state that to this day, still has the death penalty. I remember asking my mother what the death penalty was all about. She explained the law…

The urgency around ending our state’s flawed death penalty system could not be greater. Which is why last month FADP held Abolition Advocacy Action Days in the state capitol. New relationships with legislators and staff were formed, current relationships strengthened, new opportunities created, and follow-up meetings planned. More than twenty sit-down meetings took place. Each…