Miriam Shehane, who founded a victims’ rights movement in Alabama after the killing of her daughter, died Monday. She was 91. Shehane in 1982 founded Victims of Crime and Leniency. She led a victims’ rights movement that reshaped Alabama’s judicial and parole system. VOCAL announced her death Monday night.
FILE - Miriam Shehane shows a scrapbook about her slain daughter, Quenette, Dec. 4, 2012, at the headquarters of Victims of Crime and Leniency in Montgomery, Ala. Shehane, who founded the victims’ rights movement after the 1976 murder of her daughter, died Monday, June 17, 2024. She was 91. FILE - Miriam Shehane shows a scrapbook about her slain daughter, Quenette, Dec. 4, 2012, at the headquarters of Victims of Crime and Leniency in Montgomery, Ala.
Shehane told The Associated Press in 2012 that she didn’t intend to be a crusader but that changed with the death of her daughter. Shehane founded VOCAL in 1982 at a time when the victims and families seemed forgotten in the justice system, she said. The group serves as advocates for victims and their families.
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