Post by CCADP on Jul 28, 2005 10:06:09 GMT -5
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Canadians Create Site for Peterson
Christie Tucker
Dose Magazine
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
SCOTT PETERSON, the convicted murderer awaiting death in San Quentin prison, Calif., has been given a voice, thanks to a Canadian organization.
PETERSON was sentenced to death in March for killing his wife, LACI, and their unborn child, CONNOR. Now, PETERSON has been given a chance to speak from death row for the first time. The Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP) has created a website for PETERSON to post messages to the public. The website, launched yesterday for the first time, carried a personal message from PETERSON.
Visit the CCADP site
His first posting thanked people who have written to him in prison. “For me, the amount of support we have received is just incredible. Those who have decided to reach out to our family have made such a difference. The thoughtfulness and benevolence shown is a source of strength and spirit, an affirmation of considerate community,” he wrote.
The CCADP was approached by SCOTT PETERSON asking for help in establishing a website. The organization has provided around 500 such websites to prisoners on death row across the U.S. “He essentially had a trial by media,” said coalition co-founder DAVE PARKINSON. “We’re not here to judge his guilt or innocence, we just wanted to help him to speak his mind.”
PETERSON will be posting messages several times a year, and will soon post family photographs on the site.
SCOTT PETERSON wrote on the website that he cannot respond personally to letters he receives in prison because of the fact that his correspondence has been sold in what he called an “irritating, unfortunate situation.”
In May, “murderabilia” website supernaught.com had a letter by PETERSON listed for sale at $300. The website has a selection of morbid memorabilia for sale, including letters by AILEEN WUORNOS and DAVID “Son of Sam” BERKOWITZ, a musical recording by CHARLES MANSON, and a brick from a house once lived in by JEFFREY DAHMER.
Canadians Create Site for Peterson
Christie Tucker
Dose Magazine
Wednesday, July 27, 2005
SCOTT PETERSON, the convicted murderer awaiting death in San Quentin prison, Calif., has been given a voice, thanks to a Canadian organization.
PETERSON was sentenced to death in March for killing his wife, LACI, and their unborn child, CONNOR. Now, PETERSON has been given a chance to speak from death row for the first time. The Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty (CCADP) has created a website for PETERSON to post messages to the public. The website, launched yesterday for the first time, carried a personal message from PETERSON.
Visit the CCADP site
His first posting thanked people who have written to him in prison. “For me, the amount of support we have received is just incredible. Those who have decided to reach out to our family have made such a difference. The thoughtfulness and benevolence shown is a source of strength and spirit, an affirmation of considerate community,” he wrote.
The CCADP was approached by SCOTT PETERSON asking for help in establishing a website. The organization has provided around 500 such websites to prisoners on death row across the U.S. “He essentially had a trial by media,” said coalition co-founder DAVE PARKINSON. “We’re not here to judge his guilt or innocence, we just wanted to help him to speak his mind.”
PETERSON will be posting messages several times a year, and will soon post family photographs on the site.
SCOTT PETERSON wrote on the website that he cannot respond personally to letters he receives in prison because of the fact that his correspondence has been sold in what he called an “irritating, unfortunate situation.”
In May, “murderabilia” website supernaught.com had a letter by PETERSON listed for sale at $300. The website has a selection of morbid memorabilia for sale, including letters by AILEEN WUORNOS and DAVID “Son of Sam” BERKOWITZ, a musical recording by CHARLES MANSON, and a brick from a house once lived in by JEFFREY DAHMER.