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Lori St John, also known as Lori Urs, is an American advocate against wrongful death penalty decisions.^[2][3] In addition, she is a certified public accountant and author.

In the early 1990s, St John studied law at the New England School of Law and later at Rutgers School of Law.^[1][4]

In the 1990s, she led a determined public relations effort to prevent the execution of convicted murderer Joseph Roger O’Dell.

Her public relations campaign in the media drew widespread international support,^[5] particularly from the Italian city of Palermo, as well as from Mother Teresa^[1] and Pope John Paul II^[1] and the Italian and European parliaments,^[1] who petitioned unsuccessfully for O'Dell not to be executed.^[6] She was an investigator on O'Dell's legal team.^[7] She married the convicted murderer hours before his execution, partly in an effort to gain control of evidence.