Ellie Kinnaird papers, 1999-2006.

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Ellie Kinnaird papers, 1999-2006.

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The collection contains items chiefly related to Ellie Kinnaird's opposition to the death penalty. Included are letters of thanks for her support of a death penalty moratorium bill; files on people executed in North Carolina between 1999 and 2003; speeches and writings by Daniel H. Pollitt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School professor emeritus, concerning his legal and personal objections to the death penalty; information about the efforts of the children of Elias Syriani to get their father's death sentence commuted to life in prison after he killed their mother; programs and organizational emails, primarily written by Chapel Hill lawyer Marilyn Ozer about vigils held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Congregations for the Abolition of Capital Punishment; informational papers from People of Faith Against the Death Penalty; and assorted papers, publications, fact sheets, and newspaper clippings against the death penalty. Some materials deal with discrimination in capital punishment and others deal with capital punishment and people with mental disabilities.

About 100 items (1.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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SNAC Resource ID: 7158273

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

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Kinnaird, Ellie (Eleanor G.), 1931-

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North Carolina State Senator Ellie Kinnaird was born in 1931 in Rochester, Minn. She has served in the North Carolina Senate since 1997, serving as co-chair of both the Appropriations on Justice and Public Safety Committee and the Mental Health/Youth Services Committee. Before being elected to the Senate, she was mayor of Carrboro, N.C., 1987-1996. From the description of Ellie Kinnaird papers, 1999-2006. WorldCat record id: 262476910 North Carolina State Senato...

Chapel Hill-Carrboro Congregations for the Abolition of Capital Punishment.

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People of Faith Against the Death Penalty.

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Pollitt, Daniel H.

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Daniel Hubbard Pollitt was born in Washington, D.C., in 1921 to Mima Riddiford and Basil Hubbard Pollitt. Both parents were lawyers in the New Deal administration of President Franklin Roosevelt and committed to principles of social justice. In 1939, Pollitt set off to college at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Conn., where he earned a bachelor of arts degree in government. In 1943, he joined the United States Marine Corps and served as an infantry officer in the Pacific theater ...

Ozer, Marilyn.

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Syriani, Elias.

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North Carolina. General Assembly. Senate

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