2007 Action Biographies -
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Published on: 1/1/2007
Last Visited: 8/28/2009
Thomas W. Muther , Jr. is a 56 year-old psychiatric RN from Topeka, KS.
A past vice-president of the Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty, he first became active in the abolition movement in 1994, the year Kansas reinstated capital punishment.
In 1997, he was one of the "DC-18" who was arrested on the steps of the Supreme Court for peacefully demonstrating against the DP.
He has also been active as an opponent of child-abuse -- advocating for legislation that would outlaw corporal punishment -- as well as other human rights and environmental issues.
He is the proud uncle of 9 nieces and nephews and is a movie fanatic.