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Robert Perske

American author and disability rights activist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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Robert Perske (1927 – August 14, 2016)[1] was an American author, theologian, and disability rights activist.

He advocated in particular for intellectually disabled people wrongly convicted for crimes they did not commit.[2] He formulated the dignity of risk concept.[3] As an ordained Methodist minister some of his writing was influential in changing the way people with intellectual disabilities are treated in religious communities.[4] His most widely known work, Deadly Innocence?, follows the story of Joe Arridy, known as the Happiest Man on Death Row.

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