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A gentle Garner dissident is jailed, unbowed

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1180159.html Mary Rider, 48, is the mother of eight children. A gentle Garner dissident is jailed, unbowedExecution protester gets a 15-day term By Yonat Shimron, Staff WriterComment on this story RALEIGH - Among the women confined at the jail on Hammond Road are prostitutes, crack users and an occasional domestic aggressor. Then there's Mary Rider, a 48-year-old mother of eight, with a master's degree in social work from UNC-Chapel Hill. For a jailbird, Rider, who lives in Garner, is not typical, but neither was her sentence. Two years ago, on the night the state executed death row inmate Sammy Flippen, she and three others were arrested outside Central Prison when they walked a few yards onto the prison driveway and knelt in prayer...continue to full post

Full post as published by Lethal Injection on August 16, 2008 (boomark / email).