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| Size | 1.5 feet of linear shelf space (approximately 100 items) |
| Abstract | North Carolina State Senator Ellie Kinnaird was born in 1931 in Rochester, Minn. She has served in the North Carolina Senate since 1997, serving as co-chair of both the Appropriations on Justice and Public Safety Committee and the Mental Health/Youth Services Committee. Before being elected to the Senate, she was mayor of Carrboro, N.C., 1987-1996. The collection contains items chiefly related to Ellie Kinnaird's opposition to the death penalty. Included are letters of thanks for her support of a death penalty moratorium bill; files on people executed in North Carolina between 1999 and 2003; speeches and writings by Daniel H. Pollitt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School professor emeritus, concerning his legal and personal objections to the death penalty; information about the efforts of the children of Elias Syriani to get their father's death sentence commuted to life in prison after he killed their mother; programs and organizational emails, primarily written by Chapel Hill lawyer Marilyn Ozer about vigils held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Congregations for the Abolition of Capital Punishment; informational papers from People of Faith Against the Death Penalty; and assorted papers, publications, fact sheets, and newspaper clippings against the death penalty. Some materials deal with discrimination in capital punishment and others deal with capital punishment and people with mental disabilities. |
| Creator | Kinnaird, Ellie (Eleanor G.), 1931- |
| Language | English |
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Biographical Information
North Carolina State Senator Ellie Kinnaird was born in 1931 in Rochester, Minn. She has served in the North Carolina Senate since 1997, serving as co-chair of both the Appropriations on Justice and Public Safety Committee and the Mental Health/Youth Services Committee. Before being elected to the Senate, she was mayor of Carrboro, N.C., 1987-1996. She received her bachelors degree from Carleton College, a masters in Music from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and a J.D. from North Carolina Central University.
As of 2008, her major accomplishments as state senator have included advocating for election and voting reform and accountability, promoting the self-determination movement for people with disabilities in North Carolina, stopping the execution of the mentally disabled and making widespread changes to make the death penalty more fairly applied, preventing the creation of a nuclear waste dumping site in Chatham County, and passing a moratorium on the creation of new hog waste lagoons.
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Scope and Content
The collection contains items chiefly related to Ellie Kinnaird's opposition to the death penalty. Included are letters of thanks for her support of a death penalty moratorium bill; files on people executed in North Carolina between 1999 and 2003; speeches and writings by Daniel H. Pollitt, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Law School professor emeritus, concerning his legal and personal objections to the death penalty; information about the efforts of the children of Elias Syriani to get their father's death sentence commuted to life in prison after he killed their mother; programs and organizational emails, primarily written by Chapel Hill lawyer Marilyn Ozer about vigils held by the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Congregations for the Abolition of Capital Punishment; informational papers from People of Faith Against the Death Penalty; and assorted papers, publications, fact sheets, and newspaper clippings against the death penalty. Some materials deal with discrimination in capital punishment and others deal with capital punishment and people with mental disabilities.
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Papers, 1999-2006.
| Folder 1-2 |
Ellie Kinnaird Correspondence #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 1-2Contains letters and emails related to the death penalty, primarily notes of thanks for Kinnaird's support of the death penalty moratorium. Folder 1Folder 2 |
| Folder 3-10 |
Moratorium #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 3-10Internal records and clippings about Ellie Kinnaird's research into a death penalty moratorium, press clippings about the moratorium movement, a book of organizations that support the moratorium, and legislative details about the supporters of the bill. Includes a DVD "Study the System," (DVD-5356/7) and videotapes "Nothing but the Truth" (VT-5356/2), "Focus On... Legal Executions" (VT-5356/3), and "Legislative Issues: Death Penalty Moratorium" (VT-5356/4). Folder 3Folder 4Folder 5Folder 6Folder 7Folder 8Folder 9Folder 10 |
| Folder 11-15 |
Chapel Hill-Carrboro Congregations for the Abolition of Capital Punishment #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 11-15Information about the Chapel Hill-Carrboro Congregations for the Abolition of Capital Punishment, particularly about the vigils held on the eves of executions. Included is information about people willing to speak against the death penalty and about contacts in different churches for vigils and about death row inmates from 1999 to 2003. Also included is a videotape marked "Ronnie Fry" (VT-5356/1). Folder 11Folder 12Folder 13Folder 14Folder 15 |
| Folder 16-17 |
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty and other organizations #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 16-17Information from and about other groups that are opposed to the death penalty, primarily People of Faith Against the Death Penalty, Murder Victims Families for Reconciliation, and Moratorium Now. Folder 16Folder 17 |
| Folder 18-19 |
Elias Syriani #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 18-19Information about the case of Elias Syriani, in particular the efforts on the part of his children to get his sentence commuted to life without parole. Includes DVD-5356/1-6. Folder 18Folder 19 |
| Folder 20 |
Church Views #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 20Papers describing the positions of various religions on the death penalty, the bulk of which is about the United Methodist Church. |
| Folder 21 |
Daniel H. Pollitt #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 21Speeches and writing by Daniel H. Pollitt, professor emeritus of law at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, against the death penalty. |
| Folder 22-25 |
Death Penalty Information #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 22-25Assorted papers and publications that are aimed at educating people about biases in death penalty application, economic cost of the death penalty, and related issues. Folder 22Folder 23Folder 24Folder 25 |
| Folder 26 |
Ronnie Fry Poster #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." Folder 26Poster of Ronnie Fry as a young child, with injuries on his body from abuse by his father. |
| Audiocassette C-5356/1 |
Ellie Kinnaird Audiocassette #05356, Series: "Papers, 1999-2006." C-5356/1Audiocassette with Kinnaird talking about the Ten Commandments in the classroom. |
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Processed by: Benjamin Bromley, September 2008
Encoded by: Benjamin Bromley, September 2008
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