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Rachel King Book Signing

Saturday, 19 March 2005
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM

Rachel King Book Signing, “Capital Consequences”

Rachel King is the State Campaign Coordinator for the American Civil Liberties Union’s Capital Punishment Project where she works with ACLU state affiliates on their legislative campaigns to eliminate and reform death penalty laws. She has a broad number of experiences working in the criminal justice system and teaching criminal law. After graduating from Northeastern Law School in 1990, she clerked for Chief Justice Alexander Bryner of the Alaska Court of Appeals, the criminal appellate court in Alaska. From there she worked for the Alaska Public Defender Agency practicing in several areas throughout the state. In 1993 she left her job as a public defender to work full-time in a campaign to fight reinstatement of the death penalty in Alaska. The campaign was successful – Alaska still does not have a death penalty. She also served as the interim director of the Alaska Civil Liberties Union. In 1996 she left Alaska to take a teaching fellowship at Temple Law School in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. In 1998 she became a legislative counsel in the ACLU’s Washington National Office lobbying on criminal justice issues before Congress. She left that position in February of 2003 to work at the Capital Punishment Project.

She is the author of “Don't Kill in Our Names: Families of Murder Victims Speak Out Against the Death Penalty” and is now touring with her most recent book, “Capital Consequences.”

Location:
Lucy Parsons Center
549 Columbus Avenue
Boston's South End

URL: http://www.lucyparsons.org