On June 20, the state of Pennsylvania since the state's 1978 reinstatement of capital punishment. The marked by rallying public support for the passage of , which would place a moratorium on executions for two years and create a study commission on the use of capital punishment.
Vicki Schieber, whose daughter was murdered in Philadelphia in 1998, spoke at a press conference in May that announced the formation of the PMC. You can watch a clip of the press conference on (the video was edited by Dan Kovacs and Abby Wheeler, one of the ÀÏ°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û's 2007 Youth Scholars), and get more death penalty news from the Capital Punishment Project's webpage.