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STARVIN' FOR JUSTICE 2001
PRESS & PICTURE GALLERY
Steve Earle Fights the Death Penalty
Story by Rolling Stone Magazine
Photos by Rolling Stone, Martin Lueders and Abe Bonowitz
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STEVE EARLE didn't let a bit of rain keep him from delivering his message
at an anti-death penalty rally in front of the US Supreme Court. When a
thunderstorm interrupted his set, the alt-country hero led the crowd of
300-strong across the street to a church building, where he played a dozen
songs.
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Earle: "People are looking at [executions] differently then
they used to."
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"The death penalty is violence and murder that we all have a hand
in," says Earle. "If we kill as a country, as a people it diminishes
us. It teaches our children that revenge and retribution are OK and that
an appropriate way to answer violence is with violence."
Story by Rolling Stone Magazine
Photos by Rolling Stone, Martin Lueders and Abe Bonowitz
Photographer Martin Leuders at work
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