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Celebrate Life -- Alternatives to the Death Penalty |
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Written by Administrator
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Wednesday, 25 February 2004 |
 Juliet Yackel
| |  Juliet Yackel speaking on the Darnell Williams Case |
Juliet
Yackel has challenged the death penalty for more than a dozen years. As
a law student, Juliet's opposition to state-sanctioned killing
motivated her to work with attorneys fighting death sentences in
Louisiana. As a lawyer, she seeks to discover and understand the life
events which led her clients being suspected of, charged with and
convicted of death penalty offenses.
While a deputy
to the Public Defender of Indiana, Juliet began her representation of
Darnell Williams. That representation continues, as Juliet strives to
prevent the improper execution of Darnell Williams. Juliet has
represented, as attorney or as mitigation investigator, dozens of
people facing the death penalty. Three of those men were Illinois death
row inmates who received clemency. Her work with the Northwestern
University Law Clinic helped secure a full pardon for Leroy Orange, who
was exonerated a released. Sponsors:
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