Dave Parkinson

Dave Parkinson is the director and co-founder of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Parkinson's work with the coalition resulted in Governor George W Bush being invited to the execution of Shaka Sankofa in 2000.

Parkinson's submission to the US Supreme Court by the ACLU on the violation of free speech rights imposed by AZ HB 2378 resulted in a ruling overturning the law that prevented prisoners from using a third party to post information on the internet about their cases.

Parkinson was invited to meet with the Italian Ambassador to Canada and Italian Senators Melchiorre Cirami and Fausto Marchetti as guests of the Italian Embassy in Ottawa over concerns about Canada's extradition policy with the US. The senators were given unprecedented intervenor access before the Supreme Court of Canada in United States v. Burns which ruled that Canada could not extradite people to face capital punishment without first receiving assurances that the death sentence would not be sought. The ruling also reaffirmed capital punishment as a violation of Section 7 of Canada's Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Parkinson was featured on a number of television and radio news programs as a representative of the CCADP, including Court TV, MSNBC, Fox News, ABC, CBC, Citytv, ichannel, Vision TV, Canada's National Post, Toronto Star, Miami Herald, National Enquirer, People.

External links

• United States v. Burns.
• Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty

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