Voices for Death Row Inmates Banner of Hope

Voices for Death Row inmates got together with London artist Carrie Riechadrt and came up with the idea of a Hankies for Hope banner ... this banner is made from cotton hankies .. hankies being something we wipe tears of sadness away with. During the time the death penalty was in practice in the United Kingdom, the judge when passing a death sentence would place a black hankie on his head as he did so .
Each hankie represents a soul , a soul awaiting their fate or already executed . The name, prison ID number and State is written on the hankie. There are also birds flying free. Bird cages ,hearts , angels , candl
es , leaves and flowers painted onto the banner, again all symbolic.
They have been stitched together with orange ribbons between each one , orange being the colour of oppression and the colour of the jumpsuit a death row inmate wears when being moved from one place to another ... so this banner is very symbolic in everyway
This banner has grown over the last few months …but we want people to add the names of their loved ones and pen pals to the Banner of Hope.

If you would like to add a name of an inmate who has been executed or is on death row please contact us via our facebook page or via our website
Below see our Banner of Hope SO FAR!! More names will be added soon


The Banner of Hope So far

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Thursday, 16 August 2012

Governor Kasich of Ohio: Commute the death sentence of Donald Palmer


Donald Palmer is scheduled to be executed by the State of Ohio on September 20th, 2012.
We deeply sympathize with the family and friends of Charles Sponhaltz and Steven Vargo but respectfully offer that another death will neither heal nor resolve this tragedy.
We petition Governor Kasich to commute Mr. Palmer's death sentence to life without parole.


http://www.change.org/petitions/governor-kasich-of-ohio-commute-the-death-sentence-of-donald-palmer?
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