ORGANIZATION

"Citizens for a Moratorium on Federal Executions is a diverse group of prominent Americans that has called upon Presidents Bush and Clinton to declare a moratorium on federal executions pending a thorough review and full debate of the fairness of the federal capital punishment process."

Members listed as of October 2006, though obviously this is an older list, as some are deceased: Mary Frances Berry, Julian Bond, Alan Cranston, Kerry Kennedy, Lloyd Cutler, Thomas Eagleton, Rev. Joseph A. Fiorenza, John Hope Franklin, Bishop Thomas J. Gumbleton, Wade Henderson, Antonia Hernandez, Rev. Theodore M. Hesburgh, Jesse Jackson, Fred Korematsu, Anthony T. Kronman, Rev. James Lawson, Jr., Norman Lear, Jack Lemmon, Robert Litt, Joseph Lowery, Roger Cardinal Mahony, Irvin Nathan, Angela E. Oh, Mario G. Obledo, Robert Reich, Arturo Rodriguez, Michael Rosier, Rabbi David Saperstein, H. Lee Sarokin, Stanley K. Sheinbaum, Sidney Sheinberg, Paul Simon, George Soros, Barbra Streisand, John Van de Kamp, Arturo Vargas, Rev. C. T. Vivian, Rev. Jim Wallis, Bud Welch, Elie Wiesel.

Official Website:
http://www.federalmoratorium.org/

Name	Occupation	Birth	Death	Known for
Mary Frances Berry	Government	17-Feb-1938		Civil Rights Commissioner, 1980-2004
Julian Bond	Activist	14-Jan-1940	15-Aug-2015	NAACP Chairman, 1998-2010
Alan Cranston	Politician	19-Jun-1914	31-Dec-2000	US Senator from California, 1969-93
Lloyd Cutler	Attorney	10-Nov-1917	8-May-2005	White House Counsel for Carter, Clinton
Thomas Eagleton	Politician	4-Sep-1929	4-Mar-2007	US Senator from Missouri, 1969-87
John Hope Franklin	Historian	2-Jan-1915	25-Mar-2009	From Slavery to Freedom
Wade Henderson	Activist	1948		Leadership Conference on Civil Rights
Jesse Jackson	Activist	8-Oct-1941		Rainbow Coalition
Kerry Kennedy	Activist	8-Sep-1959		Human rights activist
Norman Lear	Film/TV Producer	27-Jul-1922		Creator of All in the Family
Jack Lemmon	Actor	8-Feb-1925	27-Jun-2001	The Odd Couple
Joseph Lowery	Activist	6-Oct-1921		Co-Founder of the SCLC
Roger Cardinal Mahony	Religion	27-Feb-1936		Cardinal, Archbishop of Los Angeles
Robert Reich	Government	24-Jun-1946		US Secretary of Labor, 1993-97
Sid Sheinberg	Business	14-Jan-1935		President and COO of MCA, 1973-95
Paul Simon	Politician	29-Nov-1928	9-Dec-2003	US Senator, one-time Presidential candidate
George Soros	Business	12-Aug-1930		Financial speculator
Barbra Streisand	Singer	24-Apr-1942		You Don't Bring Me Flowers
John Van de Kamp	Government	1936		Attorney General of California, 1982-91
Elie Wiesel	Activist	30-Sep-1928		Anti-Holocaust and human-rights activist

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