This week (21 to 27 April 2013) is
the 2013 National Crime Victims’ Rights Week. Please attend if you are a victim
of crime. We will post information from Wikipedia and other websites.
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| 23rd Annual Victims March on the State Capitol [Tues 24 April 2012] |
Crime Victims' Rights
Week
is an annual commemoration in the United
States that promotes victims' rights and services. The week is marked by an
award ceremony held in Washington, D.C., in which individuals and
organizations that demonstrate outstanding service in supporting victims and
victim services are recognized. The exact date of the observance varies year to
year, but it is always in the month of April.
Established by Ronald
Reagan in 1981 as a part of an expanding initiative to provide for victims
of crimes (later manifested in Executive Order 12360, signed in 1982, which
established the President's Task Force on Victims of Crime), Crime Victims'
Rights Week is sponsored by the Office for Victims of Crime (OVC).
Several states and localities conduct local events to mark the week, as do
private victim rights organizations like the National Organization for Victim
Assistance.
INTERNET
SOURCE:
http://ovc.ncjrs.gov/ncvrw/
PLEASE
GO TO THE FOLLOWING LINKS TO LEARN MORE:
3. President Ronald Reagan’s Pro-Death
Penalty Quote:
4. John Stuart Mill’s 1868 Speech in Favor
of Capital Punishment:
5. GASSED TO DEATH: ROBERT ALTON
HARRIS THE FIRST MAN EXECUTED IN CALIFORNIA (15 JANUARY 1953 TO 21 APRIL 1992):
6. Marsy’s Law:
A Prayer for All Conditions of Men:
O God, the
Creator and Preserver of all mankind, we humbly beseech thee for all sorts and
conditions of men; that thou wouldest be pleased to make thy ways known unto
them, thy saving health unto all nations. More especially we pray for thy holy
Church universal; that it may be so guided and governed by thy good Spirit,
that all who profess and call themselves Christians may be led into the way of
truth, and hold the faith in unity of spirit, in the bond of peace, and in
righteousness of life. Finally, we commend to thy fatherly goodness all those
who are in any ways afflicted or distressed, in mind, body, or estate;
[especially those for whom our prayers are desired]; that it may please thee to
comfort and relieve them according to their several necessities, giving them
patience under their sufferings, and a happy issue out of all their
afflictions. And this we beg for Jesus Christ's sake. Amen.
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