Local lawyer's Death Row mercy misson

Jan 3 2009 by Joanne Douglas, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

Roz off to help Death Row prisoners

A YOUNG woman who has never set foot inside a prison is to come face to face with some of the USA’s most notorious criminals in their Death Row cells.

Lawyer Roz Breaks from Brighouse will work on appeals for inmates awaiting execution in the USA.

It is a cause close to the 24-year-old’s heart, describing their lengthy wait for the death penalty as inhumane.

Roz will move to Jackson in Mississippi, where she will spend five months working with some of the 61 men and three women on Death Row in the state.

If they are executed they will be given lethal injections.

Roz, of Millroyd Mill flats in Brighouse, said: “I’m totally against the death penalty. It’s disgusting that a state can execute its own people.

“It’s inhumane to put someone through that after making them wait five, 10 or even more years.