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Wednesday, October 9,
2002
 Faith
Focus: Protestantism
 Listen
to an interview with Rev. Timothy McDonald. Rev. McDonald is senior pastor of
First Iconium Baptist Church in Atlanta, Georgia, where he has served
since 1989.
He is also president of Concerned Black Clergy, an ecumenical
consortium of black
and white clergy working on behalf of the poor in Atlanta, and a member of the
Board of Directors of People For the American Way Action Fund, a
national nonpartisan
citizens group. He has previously worked as assistant pastor at
Ebenezer Baptist
Church in Atlanta, where Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. served until his
assassination
in 1968.
 Read
the transcript
Issue Focus: Cost
Capital punishment is a far more expensive system than one whose
maximum penalty
is life in prison. For example, in Florida, each execution costs the state $3.2
million, compared to $600,000 for life imprisonment. Read
more.
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Two road signs near
the federal prison in Terre Haute, Indiana, an execution site.
(© Scott Langley) |
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