QUOTE: "I don't care how much it costs to
execute someone, we need the death penalty," she said. "The death penalty opponents want to argue that it is
cruel and unusual punishment. My daughter was abducted, then raped for hours
and shot repeatedly. Was that not cruel and unusual punishment? The punishment
needs to fit the crimes and for some murders, the death penalty is the only
appropriate punishment."
Shehane's daughter Quenette
was kidnapped and killed in Birmingham in 1976.
Three men were convicted of
her murder. One was executed, another was sentenced to life in prison without
parole and the other sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. [Wednesday 30 May 2012]
AUTHOR: Miriam Shehane was appointed to the original Commission of The Alabama
Crime Victims's Compensation Commission (ACVCC) in 1984 for a four-year-term by
Governor George Wallace was re-appointed by Governor Guy Hunt in 1988. She
served until 1992 and was re-appointed in July 1993 by Governor Jim Folsom,
July 1998 by Governor Fob James and July 2001 by Gov. Siegelman. She is a
former banker and has worked as the Victim Service Officer in the District
Attorney's Office in Montgomery and as the Supervisor of the Attorney General's
Office of Victim Assistance. Mrs. Shehane's dedication to the victims' movement
in Alabama has been acknowledged throughout the nation where she has been asked
to speak at national conferences on victims' issues. Mrs. Shehane was one of
the founding members of VOCAL, Victims of Crime and Leniency, and has served on
the Board since its inception in 1982. She found out about trauma of
victimization first hand when her 21 year old daughter Quenette, was murdered
in 1976 while enrolled at Birmingham Southern. Miriam and her husband Edward
have two children and seven grandchildren and reside in Clio, Alabama.
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