Death Row Watch in Both Idaho and Oregon
Death Row Watch in Both Idaho and Oregon
When I wrote my previous blog entry describing my visit to Death Row at the Idaho Department of Correction, I was told that there were no executions planned. Since then, I have learned that an execution is scheduled to take place in Idaho on November 18. This would be the first non-voluntary execution in over 20 years. The person who is scheduled to be executed is not the person that I had the opportunity to meet and pray with when I visited Death Row. On November 18, Paul Ezra Rhoades is scheduled to die by lethal injection. This means that in both states of our Annual Conference, we have an opportunity to speak up and voice our faithful conviction that the death penalty should be abolished.
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Bob Hoshibata
Robert Hoshibata is Bishop of the Phoenix Area of The United Methodist Church and presides over the Desert Southwest Annual Conference. Hoshibata presided over the Oregon-Idaho Conference from 2004-2012 and his blog postings are here for reference.