VADP Awards Luncheon Invitation Bios Final, 2018 September 24, 2018 October 20
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FullscreenVADP Reception Guests Mike Farrell Mike has spoken, written and lobbied against the death penalty for over 30 years. Since 1994 he has been president of Death Penalty Focus, the California group that he founded and one of the abolitionist movement's leading organizations. Mike is best known as an actor for his role as “B.J. Hunnicutt” in the television series M*A*S*H. Joe Giarratano Sentenced to death in 1979 for a crime he did not commit, Virginia Gov. Douglas Wilder gave Joe a conditional pardon commuting his sentence to life. Given parole last year, Joe now works for the Innocence Project at UVA. Joe is being honored by VADP for his legal actions to save the life of Earl Washington, Jr. and for prison reform in Virginia.
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