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Universalist Family and the Death Penalty  General Assembly 2001
Event 2055  Sponsor: Unitarian Universalists for Alternatives to
Death Penalty  Speakers: Lois Robison, Ken Robison  Tim Stanton,
Executive Director of Unitarian Universalists Against the Death
Penalty (UUADP) opened the workshop with a note that this was
that organization's fifth birthday. He also noted that the
execution in Utah of Elroy Tillman was once again stayed. The
large workshop room was packed, with many standing.Mr. Stanton
then turned the workshop over to Mrs. Lois Robison, a Unitarian
Universalists (UUs) from Burleson, Texas, who described the
ordeal she and her husband Ken and their family endured over the
last eighteen years. What follows is taken from their handout
(PDF), which formed the outline for her remarks. Her simple,
eloquent and courageous description of their ordeal brought most
of those listening to tears.  My husband Ken and I are the co-
directors of HOPE,