Dudley Sharp

Dudley Sharp

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Mr. Dudley Sharp was the Vice President, Political Director, Chairman of the Endorsement Committee and member of the Board of Directors of Justice For All from July 1993 to January 2000. Formerly the Resource Director for JFA until 2003. Justice For All is a criminal justice reform organization based in Houston, Texas.

Mr. Sharp created the process for endorsing political candidates, forming a political endorsement committee, investigating the background of candidates, developing a questionnaire used to explore the candidates true positions on criminal justice and victim’s issues resulting in a committee recommendation for endorsements.

Formerly an opponent of capital punishment, in December 1995 he made himself a death penalty expert and changed his position.

Mr. Sharp has appeared on ABC, BBC, CBS, C-Span, FOX, NBC, NPR, PBS, VOA [Voice of America] and other TV and radio networks on such programs as Nightline, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, The O’Reilly Factor, et cetera – and has been quoted in newspapers throughout the world, as well as a published author. The following is a partial list of links to his testimonies and essays concerning the reasoning that capital punishment should be enforced:

New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission – the complete review can be found at NJ Death Penalty Commission Made Significant Errors.
Equal Treatment and the Death Penalty: A Conference – a participation in discussion at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, New York, November 2002.
Rethinking the Death Penalty - Nightline, ABCNews, June 2000. Discussion with former Florida Supreme Court Justice Kogan.
The Death Penalty – This Week with Sam Donaldson and Cokie Roberts, ABC News, June 2000, with an appearance of Illinois Governor George Ryan.
Guest Lecturer, US Department of State Senior Seminar, National Foreign Affairs Training Center, March 1999.
Do We Need the Death Penalty? Yes. – An essay, The World and I magazine, September 2002.
Executions Are Justified – Opinion, The Oklahoman, March 2004.
And many more lectures, discussions, debates and essays.

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