Unit 1012 Cover Photo

Unit 1012 Cover Photo

Tuesday, June 12, 2012

PRO DEATH PENALTY QUOTE OF THE WEEK (VICTIMS’ RIGHTS ACTIVISTS) [SUNDAY 10 JUNE 2012 TO SATURDAY 16 JUNE 2012]














QUOTE: "I don't care how much it costs to execute someone, we need the death penalty," she said. "The death penalty opponents want to argue that it is cruel and unusual punishment. My daughter was abducted, then raped for hours and shot repeatedly. Was that not cruel and unusual punishment? The punishment needs to fit the crimes and for some murders, the death penalty is the only appropriate punishment."

Shehane's daughter Quenette was kidnapped and killed in Birmingham in 1976.

Three men were convicted of her murder. One was executed, another was sentenced to life in prison without parole and the other sentenced to life with the possibility of parole. [Wednesday 30 May 2012]  

AUTHOR: Miriam Shehane was appointed to the original Commission of The Alabama Crime Victims's Compensation Commission (ACVCC) in 1984 for a four-year-term by Governor George Wallace was re-appointed by Governor Guy Hunt in 1988. She served until 1992 and was re-appointed in July 1993 by Governor Jim Folsom, July 1998 by Governor Fob James and July 2001 by Gov. Siegelman. She is a former banker and has worked as the Victim Service Officer in the District Attorney's Office in Montgomery and as the Supervisor of the Attorney General's Office of Victim Assistance. Mrs. Shehane's dedication to the victims' movement in Alabama has been acknowledged throughout the nation where she has been asked to speak at national conferences on victims' issues. Mrs. Shehane was one of the founding members of VOCAL, Victims of Crime and Leniency, and has served on the Board since its inception in 1982. She found out about trauma of victimization first hand when her 21 year old daughter Quenette, was murdered in 1976 while enrolled at Birmingham Southern. Miriam and her husband Edward have two children and seven grandchildren and reside in Clio, Alabama.

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