 Carole Butcher LifeLines papers
Collection DescriptionHistorical NoteCarole Butcher of Lancaster, England, is a coordinator for LifeLines. LifeLines is a UK-based organization supporting and befriending prisoners on death row through letter writing. James W. Brown, a death row inmate in Georgia, was executed in 2003. Norman Richard Cleary, a death row inmate in Oklahoma, was executed in 2004. Scope and ContentThe collection consists of correspondence between Butcher and death row inmates James W. Brown and Norman Richard Cleary, from 2000-2004. Correspondence concerns personal interests, family, activities in prison, lawyers, trials, other death row inmates, hobbies. Cleary writes several letters about God, Christianity, and another death row inmate's attempt to stab him. There are also emails between Butcher, family members of the inmates; and letters Butcher writes asking for clemency for both inmates. Papers also include offender queries printed from the Georgia Department of Corrections and Oklahoma Department of Corrections, containing Brown's and Cleary's physical descriptions and sentence details; newspaper clippings regarding the executions, and various prison forms; and documents concerning the execution process, and rules and regulations of visiting death row inmates. Administrative InformationPreferred CitationCarole Butcher LifeLines papers, ms3266, Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of Georgia Libraries. Finding Aid PublicationFinding aid prepared on: 2019. Related Materials and SubjectsSubject Terms | ||||||||||||||||||