Articles About vigil

• A call for justice

  By Audrey HackettAugust 10, 2017

  

  About 150 people gathered outside the Beavercreek Walmart last Saturday, Aug. 5, to mark the third anniversary of the death of John Crawford III, who was shot by Beavercreek police inside the store in 2014.

• Vigils to resume with new executions

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 27, 2017

  

  After a 3½-year moratorium on executions, Ohio prison officials are preparing to put convicted killer Ronald Phillips to death on Tuesday, July 26. Villager Carl Hyde plans to be in vigil outside Lucasville Prison.

• Local death penalty opponents decry Ohio’s plans to resume executions

  By Carol SimmonsJuly 21, 2017

  

  State prison officials plan to put convicted killer Ronald Phillips to death Wednesday, July 26, more than three years after a controversial and apparently painful execution led to a moratorium on capital punishment in Ohio.

• A powerful silence

  By Diane ChiddisterJuly 21, 2016

  

  More than 150 villagers lined Xenia Avenue for an hour beginning at noon last Sunday in silent protest against recent shootings of blacks.

• Antioch College student organizes vigil for slain Mexican students

  By Matt MindeDecember 10, 2014

  

  Last Friday, Dec. 3, several Antioch College students, faculty and townspeople participated in a candlelight vigil in a display of solidarity with Mexico for the disappearance and subsequent murder of 43 students.

• Vigil over vigilantism

  By Megan BachmanJuly 25, 2013

  

  White and black neighbors came together for a silent candlelight vigil on Sunday night for Trayvon Martin, the 17-year-old African-American victim of a fatal shooting in Florida.