After months of getting brushed off by state agencies, members of an interfaith coalition seeking an end to the death penalty in Indiana got an encouraging response from Gov. Mike Braun’s office this week.
Indianapolis First Friends Quaker Meeting and Shalom Zone, an interfaith group, hand delivered dozens of letters, which called for the abolishment of capital punishment, to the governor’s office in the Statehouse on Tuesday morning. The small group walked silently into the office’s lobby and remained there for several minutes, while Molly Craft, Braun’s deputy chief of staff for communications, came out and spoke with them.
According to First Friends Associate Pastor Beth Henricks, Craft said she did not want the group to feel it was being put off. Also, Craft said she is working to schedule a meeting with the group in the coming weeks…