The group's most effective tool has been the Declaration of Life, a wallet-size card that declares, "If I die as a result of a violent crime, I request that the person or persons found guilty for my killing not be subject to the death penalty".
The vulgarity, the noise, the glorious, gossamer folderol are all a bold and fierce declaration of life.
At least two church members say they think that Mrs. Hawke-Petit endorsed an anti-death-penalty document known as a Declaration of Life.
The group took up as one of its hallmarks the Declaration of Life, a document that people could sign to state that if they were murdered, they would not want their killer to be executed.
Michael Dearington, the state's attorney who is prosecuting the suspects in the Petit killings, said he did not know whether Mrs. Hawke-Petit had signed a Declaration of Life.
It's not uncommon for members of the clergy to sign Declaration of Life pledges.
For 131 years we have celebrated Labor Day as an extension of our founders' Declaration of "life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness".
It's not uncommon for members of the clergy to sign pledges, sometimes referred to as a "Declaration of Life," which request mercy in the event that they are murdered or violently killed.
The tumbling over of a new year on the ol' chronometer arrives with some familiar traditions: the declaration of life-improving resolutions for the months to come, the illusion that one might hit the gym more often than in years past and the announcement of dates for the Allman Brothers Band's residency at the Beacon Theater in Manhattan.
Sometimes speaking for just several seconds, other times for more than a minute, the disembodied voices convey highly charged moments of excitement or calm declarations of what life is like in Egypt, the Arab world's most populous country, as it seeks to remove its leader.
