For Victims, Against the Death Penalty

In our Spring/Summer newsletter , we wrote about MVFHR's participation in a workshop, sponsored by the Quaker United Nations Office (QUN...

MVFHR was represented today at the annual Mother's Day Walk for Peace that the Louis D. Brown Peace Institute has organized for 17 year...

Susan Herman, author of the book Parallel Justice for Victims of Crime and long-time friend of MVFHR, was just honored with the National Cri...

We've just posted our Spring/Summer newsletter , with features on the United Nations Human Rights Council's consideration of childre...

Some of us from MVFHR were in Milwaukee this past weekend, at Marquette University Law School's conference on “The Death Penalty Versus...

More from Maryland! Last week's Washington Post headline was " Murder victim's mother continues push for repeal of Maryland...

From MVFHR Project Director and Staff Writer Susannah Sheffer: I'm delighted to announce the publication of my book  Fighting for Th...

The Eldersburg Patch has this news video of supporters of repeal speaking in front of the Maryland State Capitol in Annapolis. MVFHR membe...

It's helpful when news headlines recognize that not all victims' family members support the death penalty -- like this recent headli...

Today is  International Human Rights Day  marking the anniversary of the signing of the   Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UNDR)   in ...