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Phil Wahl Abolitionist of the Year & Lifetime Abolitionist Awards The Phil Wahl Abolitionist of the Year Award is presented at the OCADP Annual Meeting and Awards Dinner each May. A retired United Methodist Minister, Phil Wahl served as a model of untiring work for abolishing the death penalty. Any person is eligible who has worked diligently during the year to move us toward repealing the death penalty and discrediting it in the minds of both the public and legislature so reenactment is unlikely. The Lifetime Abolitionist Award is conferred upon persons whose work for the abolitionist cause represents extraordinary effort and dedication. This award is not granted annually; it is given when the Coalition wishes to recognize stellar efforts against the death penalty. |
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Recipients
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| 2005 |
Rev. Bob Lambert Lanita & Mark Hendrickson, lifetime abolitionist awards |
director, Harvest
Ministries, OKC defense attorneys |
| 2004 |
Rex Friend Johnnie Carter, lifetime abolitionist award |
attorney, human rights
activist family member of murder victim |
| 2003 | Shirley Cox
Kevin Acers, lifetime abolitionist award |
attorney, Social Justice
Committee, Catholic Charities human rights activist |
| 2002 | Jim & Ann Fowler | Parents of executed death row inmate; family members of murder victim |
| 2001 | Rep. Opio Toure Dr. Bill & Bea Martin, lifetime abolitionist award |
Oklahoma state house
representative; criminal defense attorney human rights activists |
| 2000 | Thomas Gallagher | human rights activist |
| 1999 | Robert W. Jackson & Steven M. Presson | attorneys for Sean Sellers |
| 1998 | Bud Welch (in memory of Julie) | father of Oklahoma City bombing victim |
| 1997 | Scotty Moore | death row prisoner and human rights activist |
| 1996 | K. Leslie Delk | attorney for Scotty Moore |
| 1995 | Michael Johns | human rights activist |
| 1994 | Charles A. Salatka | Bishop, Archdiocese of Oklahoma, Roman Catholic Church |
| 1993 | Rev. Phil Wahl | Methodist minister |
| 1992 | Allen Hailey | student activist |
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