mark's lutheran church, today our special guest is laura monani, the program director of the healing justice program of the american friends committee and tell us of the work you are doing specifically. >> we work on a wide variety of prison issues but the ones i thought we would focus on today are the death penalty in solitary confinement. it is a really important moment now on the death penalty because of the decision the new governor, gavin newsom made, to give people a reprieve currently on death row. there are 737 people on death row, 23 are women. his decision is a moratorium that it does not end it. it just says i cannot do this. i was really moved by his taking that stance as it is very personal. and to me it is very faith related. when you are the person who is responsible for signing a death warrant it is a different thing than any of the rest of us usually face. as of his reasons for saying this is wrong and not taking us in the direction that we need to go i thought were excellent and it puts the issue back on the pages to think about because we've had a moratorium in eff