"I come from a country where we have had, in northern Ireland, many people who are imprisoned for political reasons and whose voices are silenced.... So I feel a certain sisterhood with this particular cause. I'm against the death penalty because it shames me. I think that we only stand at the door of the cave as far as civilization goes but I would like to think that I could move out into the light without shame and I can't do that until the death penalty is erased."

Fionulla Flanagan, actress,
at a reading for Mumia 911 in Los Angeles, September 11, 1999