Margaret Summers
- Location
- Washington, District of Columbia, United States
- Birthday
- May 09
- Title
- Communications Director
- Company
- National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
- Bio
- Born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, Margaret Summers attended Ohio State University and Boston University, where she received her Bachelor's and Master's degrees respectively in Print and Broadcast Journalism. After working as a print and radio reporter in St. Petersburg, Florida, Boston, Massachusetts and Washington, D.C., Summers worked in communications and public relations for a succession of individuals and organizations, among them, Congressman Major Owens (Press Secretary), the League of Women Voters of the United States, and the National Immigration Forum. Ms. Summers is the Communications Director for the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
MY RECENT POSTS
- Dr. Mario Obledo: A Leader in
Death Penalty Abolition
November 10, 2010 10:26AM - Gone Too Soon: Honoring
Homicide Victims
September 24, 2010 04:40PM - Lay This Burden Down: Labor
Day and Death Row Personnel
September 05, 2010 02:18PM - Tears Are Not Enough to End
the Death Penalty
July 30, 2010 03:30PM - Swimming against the Death
Penalty
June 30, 2010 03:47PM
MY RECENT COMMENTS
- “The list of exonerees on
the Death Penalty Information
Center
website has been
ca…”
December 28, 2010 09:55AM - “Donnie, the 138
exonerated were not murderers,
but people
wrongfully
convicted of…”
September 26, 2010 01:36AM - “This is a job that must
be very difficult to do.
Abolishing
capital punishment
a…”
September 06, 2010 10:18PM - “Ruhua, thank you soooo
much for your comment on this
article!
You just made my
mo…”
August 30, 2010 09:56AM - “Sort of a "damned if you
do and damned if you
don't"
situation isn't
it…”
August 10, 2010 03:55PM
Margaret Summers's Links
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Dr. Mario Obledo: A Leader in Death Penalty Abolition
This Veterans Day week, I’ve been remembering my first impressions of civil rights leader, death penalty abolitionist, and Korean War veteran, Dr. Mario Guerra Obledo. He was courtly. Reserved. Quiet. Polite. Respectful. I don’t remember his exact height, but to me he stood far above ever… Read full post »
Gone Too Soon: Honoring Homicide Victims
It is beyond difficult to lose a loved one to murder. The horror of a spouse, child, sibling, parent or other relative’s life abruptly ended by a single, violent act is a trauma that lasts forever. I know; I’ve had friends who have lost loved ones in that manner. I lost… Read full post »
Lay This Burden Down: Labor Day and Death Row Personnel
This Labor Day weekend, I was thinking about emotionally taxing and stressful professions. I concluded that working on death row falls into that category.
I was reminded of the film “Monster’s Ball” and the prison executioner played by actor Billy Bob Thornton. The charact… Read full post »
Tears Are Not Enough to End the Death Penalty
Friends and family often ask me if being employed in an organization focused on abolishing capital punishment depresses me. A reporter even asked me if we death penalty abolitionists ever smile or laugh, or if we are always grim given the work that we do.
Usually I… Read full post »
Swimming against the Death Penalty
What would prompt someone to spend a beautiful summer day in July diving into and swimming the chilly, choppy, dangerous waters between “The Rock” – the former maximum-security prison on Alcatraz Island – and the foot of the San Francisco Bay Bridge?
For Lynn Greer,… Read full post »
Mother's Day and the Death Penalty
Carnations - red and pink ones worn on Mother's Day symbolize mothers still living, white symbolizes mothers who are deceased. What symbolizes mothers -- or children -- lost to homicide?
"My life changed forever on November 1, 2004, the night I received the call that my beautiful daughter Leslie Ann… Read full post »
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