Tracy Lamourie

Tracy Lamourie is a long time human rights activist and a director and co-founder [cite news|url=http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2005-05-01-inmates-internet_x.htm|title=Inmates use intermediaries to escape to the Internet|last=Mandak|first=Joe|date=2005-05-01|publisher=USA Today|accessdate=2008-10-11] of the Canadian Coalition Against the Death Penalty. Lamourie's work with the coalition resulted in a direct rebuke from Governor George W. Bush in 1999 over the threat of an international tourist boycott of Texas when the execution of convicted Canadian murderer Stan Faulder was pending. Faulder was executed in 1999 for the beating and stabbing death of 75 year-old Inez Phillips.

Lamourie was also instrumental in obtaining a Federal court ruling on a First Amendment basis, overturning the law that prevented prisoners in Arizona from using a third party to post information on the internet about their cases.

Lamourie 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 United States. 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 the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.

Lamourie has been featured on a number of radio news programs across North America and Europe as a representative of the CCADP, including Television appearances on Court TV, CBC, The Debra Duncan Show, and newspaper articles that include Canada's National Post, Toronto Star, Miami Herald, Houston Chronicle, Der Spiegel, National Enquirer, and People.

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