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THE ADVOCATE Volume 24, No. 3 May 2002 DPA’s Interview Fair 2002 On February 7 & 8, 2002 the Kentucky Department of Public Advocacy conducted it’s second annual Interview Fair. This year’s interviewees were primarily graduating law students that successfully “interned” with the agency. Gill Pilati Among those in attendance were graduating law students representing all of Kentucky’s Schools of Law. These students interviewed for various statewide staff attorney vacancies for offices located in Frankfort, Murray, Paducah, Bowling Green and Hopkinsville. Potential employment offers were made with the invitation for a “new beginning” as a Public Defender serving Kentucky’s Indigent. If you are interested in employment with DPA, contact me: GILL PILATI DPA Recruiter 100 Fair Oaks Lane, Suite 302 Frankfort, KY 40601 Tel: (502) 564-8006; Fax: (502) 564-7890 E-mail: gpilati@mail.pa.state.ky.us The Occasion of the 100th Exoneration of a Death Row Inmate in America Statement of Robert E. Hirshon, President, American Bar Association, April 9, 2002: The release and exoneration of Ray Krone in Arizona, the 100 th person in the United States on death row found to be innocent, confirms what the ABA has been saying since 1997 - our current death penalty system is deeply flawed. Until we can assure that due process is accorded to persons charged in capital cases we should not impose the ultimate sanction. As has been said, “A system that will take life must first give justice.” The ABA continues to urge our leaders in each state and in the federal government to cease executions until we achieve that goal. 50
THE ADVOCATE Volume 24, No. 3 May 2002 Statement by The Justice Project On the 100th Death Row Exoneration Today our nation reached a shameful milestone of 100 death row exonerations. 100 innocent lives were put at risk, 100 victim families had to relive the horror of the crime, and 100 times our system failed us in its most important task. What we do not know is how many other innocent men and women are on death row, and how many may have been executed. Our nation’s death penalty system is broken. 100 innocent people have been exonerated, nearly 68% of all death penalty appeals are reversed, and studies show that executions have more to do with economics, race, geography and just plain bad luck than crime. The 100th exoneration should finally quiet the debate on whether there is a problem with our capital punishment system, and focus the debate on how to fix it. That fix should start with the Innocence Protection Act, which guarantees access to DNA testing and encourages states to adopt real standards for capital defense attorneys. The 100th exoneration drives home the need for policies to ensure that innocent people will not waste years of their lives on death row while the guilty remain at large and, most importantly, to prevent the “ultimate nightmare” - the execution of an innocent person. Wayne F. Smith Executive Director The Justice Project http://www.CJReform.org/Newsroom/100Exon The Justice Project is a national, non-profit, non-partisan organization focusing on identifying and solving issues of fairness in our judicial system. DPA LIBRARY WEBPAGE Two new publications from the Criminal Justice Council are now on-line and available through the DPA library webpage (via link to the CJCs website: http://www.kcjc.state.ky.us/). If you need to locate Criminal Justice agencies throughout the state, try the Criminal Justice Resource Guide. It lists most groups involved in Criminal Justice Functions. The true goldmine on CJCs website is the Sourcebook of Criminal Justice Statistics. It gives all sorts of figures about population and crime statistics for Kentucky. Only the 2000 edition is currently available. Both of these files can be accessed via the library webpage at www.dpa.state.ky.us/library.html. The links appear at the bottom of the page in the suggested links section. Both files are pretty good size and are in PDF format so it may take a while for them to open. I’ve looked at both of them and they are worth the wait, especially the sourcebook. — Will Hilyerd, DPA Librarian 51
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