Marie Deans, Date of Birth, Date of Death
TweetMarie Deans
anti-death penalty activist
Date of Birth: 08-Jun-1940
Date of Death: 15-Apr-2011
Profession: activist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Gemini 
About Marie Deans
- Marie McFadden Deans (June 8, 1940 – April 15, 2011) was an American anti-death penalty activist who was committed to finding attorneys for men who were facing execution without legal representation.
- Marie's work began on death row began in South Carolina in the early 1980s and continued in Virginia for the next twenty years where she won reduced sentences for over 200 death-row inmates in Virginia and South Carolina.
- A memoir of Deans' life and work, titled A Courageous Fool: Marie Deans and Her Struggle Against the Death Penalty, was released in 2017.
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