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Abolish the Death Penalty

Advocacy for abolishment of capital punishment. Features personal stories of crime victims, death row inmates and activists.
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Rev. Pickett on the Hill

Posted on June 20, 2008
"At the Death House Door" was screened for Congressional staff and interns on Thursday, June 19, 2008 in a special presentation hosted by Congressman Bobby Scott and co-sponsored by the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, Amnesty International and the United Methodist Church Genral Board of Church and Society...

Meeting with the Special Rapporteur

Posted on June 20, 2008
This morning (June 19, 2008) Amnesty International hosted a meeting with Professor Philip Alston, the UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions. Providing perspective for him were Sue Vaughn of Amnesty International USA, Dick Dieter of the Death Penalty Information Center, Deborah Fleischaker of the ABA's Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project, Renny Cushing of Murder Victim Families for Human Rights and Diann Rust-Tierney of the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty...

Sleeping with the Judge

Posted on June 17, 2008
Texas is at it again. The eight month moratorium on executions has come and gone and Texas is moving forward with executions even in the face of utter and complete injustice. Do you remember the case of Calvin Burdine or George McFarland. Their lawyers fell asleep during their capital trial and they still got sentenced to death...

March from NC to DC starts Sunday...

Posted on June 12, 2008
Click here to learn more about, support, and/or participate in the Pilgrimage and Walk of Remembrance 2008."The Pilgrimage and Walk of Remembrance 2008 is a 300-mile walk from Raleigh NC to Washington, DC. We embark on a spiritual pilgrimage and walk of remembrance ? remembering murder victims and their families, people on death row and their families, persons executed and their families and calling for abolition of the death penalty...

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15th Annual Fast and Vigil Approaching

Posted on June 11, 2008
Every year, for the past fifteen years, from June 29 ? July 2nd, something amazing happens in Washington, DC. Abolitionists from around the country and world come together for a four day Fast and Vigil to Abolish the Death Penalty.They set-up shop on the sidewalk of the U...

Mike Kennedy, RIP

Posted on May 21, 2008
More is here. People who didn?t know Mike but saw him could easily have mistaken him for a homeless drunk, but his hard to understand speech and his imbalance was due to his illness. That he was usually bedraggled was as much a matter of choice as it had to do with all the hassle involved for someone with his degenerative cerebral condition (I forget exactly what it was)...

Goodbye -- but not farewell

Posted on May 07, 2008
When I was in college in Austin, we used to crash the fundraisers of Democratic candidates for statewide office. Free food, free booze, this was in the early 1980s, Democrats were still strong in Texas back then. (And they will be again soon!)Once in 1982 I crashed the fundraiser of Jim Mattox, Democratic nominee for attorney general...

Protesting #1,100 at SCOTUS

Posted on May 06, 2008
Above: Mike Stark of the Campaign to End the Death PenaltyAnother doggie for Abolition!Art Laffin shares the story of the murder of his brother and his opposition to executions.

The Road to Abolition - New Book by NJ Senator Raymond Lesniak

Posted on May 02, 2008
"During my 30 years in the state Legislature, I never prepared statements to be delivered in committee, on the floor or at public appearances, always relying on my glibness to either captivate an audience or stumble through a presentation of my views...

Pope Thanks Corzine for Abolishing the Death Penalty in Jersey....

Posted on April 21, 2008
Well, it was not the public reiteration of the Catholic Church's condemnation of the death penalty that some of us would have liked to have seen, but the Pope did not leave the US without saying something about it. Click here to read the news account...

Bearer of bad news

Posted on April 18, 2008
The pending execution list to the left is back. My apologies.

Doubts about death

Posted on April 17, 2008
Dallas County (Texas) District Attorney Craig Watkins shared some interesting thoughts on the death penalty with the Dallas Morning News yesterday:"I sit here and I see the worst, the worst of what humans can do. And when you sit here and see that, the only logical conclusion that you can come to is we have to seek the ultimate punishment...

Survivors' stories available online

Posted on April 15, 2008
A few weeks ago a team of abolitionists, death row exonerees, and murder victims' families toured Pennsylvania, holding public talks at churches, colleges, high schools, and community centers. 10 days, 13 towns, 21 events, 1690 miles, and a countless number of cups of coffee...

200,000 and counting!

Posted on April 09, 2008
Early this afternoon, Abolish the Death Penalty received its 200,000th visitor: Total 200,001 Average Per Day 276 Average Visit Length 0:35 Last Hour 17 Today 155 This Week 1,933 Our readership is down a bit these days, probably because in recent times other activities have prevented me from blogging as often as I would like...

Innocent people on death row? It's no myth

Posted on April 08, 2008
For years, proponents of the death penalty have claimed that the list of innocent people released from death row is greatly exaggerated. The official list, maintained by the Death Penalty Information Center, is 128 people released from death row after evidence of their innocence emerged...

A walk to abolish the death penalty

Posted on April 07, 2008
This morning we in NCADP's office were graced with the presence of "Capital X," who is walking from New Jersey to Texas in support of death penalty abolition. (Above you can see a map of Capital X's journey. The link button to contribute doesn't work from this blog -- but to contribute or buy a t-shirt, just go here...

Forty years ago today...

Posted on April 04, 2008
...our nation witnessed the death of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In a way, it was the death of liberalism. Conservatives have had their way with us -- almost unremittingly -- ever since.Today, of course, change is in the air. The word "conservative" has become more of a perjorative than the word liberal...

Rev. Walter Everett: Still going

Posted on April 03, 2008
When we started planning the Voices of Hope Agents of Change Tour ("the VHAC tour"), Rev. Walter Everett of Murder Victims Families for Human Rights told us that he wanted to do four or five events per day. The twenty- and thirty-somethings on the tour planning committee said, "Slow down...

Death, Taxes, and Dry Cleaning?

Posted on March 31, 2008
New reports were released last week focusing on the financial and geographic aspects of the death penalty system in California. Link to them here.In a blog about it, I note this:The Hidden Death Tax also reveals some startling figures that you wouldn't expect to find on an expense sheet for prosecuting a death penalty case...

Voices of Hope tour PA, press the flesh, build the movement

Posted on March 29, 2008
I'm the Central Pennsylvania Abolitionist, and I approve this message.Ok, ok, maybe I'm a little delirious after 15 death penalty events in a six-day period, covering 1087 miles and a whole lot of coffee. Maybe I'm still trying to take it all in after a week that has included hanging with a guy who spent nearly 17 years on PA's death row only to be cleared at retrial, two fathers who lost children to homicide, a Penn State professor who is on the cutting edge of messaging research in the anti-death penalty movement, a progressive Christian community in Philadelphia, and one of the stars of M*A*S*H...

Healing and restoration in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Posted on March 18, 2008
UNC-Chapel Hill will celebrate the life of Eve Carson at 4 p.m. today in the Dean E. Smith Center. Carson, UNC-CH's student body president, was shot to death March 5. Two suspects have been charged in her slaying.While we celebrate the life of Eve Carson and mourn her passing, we are yet again reminded of the obligation to start getting smart on crime...

Eyebrows raised

Posted on March 17, 2008
This from CNN:U.S. Attorney General Michael Mukasey said Friday he is "kind of hoping" the prisoners facing military trials in connection with the September 11 attacks do not receive the death penalty, which would fulfill their desire to be martyrs.During questions from students at the London, England, School of Economics, Mukasey indicated his support for the death penalty in the United States, but then waded into a discussion of his views on potential sentences for al Qaeda defendants at Guantanamo Bay...

Oh, the irony....

Posted on March 09, 2008
George W. Bush became the first president to sing since its 1885 inception during the annual Gridiron Dinner the other night, but the irony is that the lyrics he made up were sung to the the tune of the "Green Green Grass of Home," a song sung in the voice of a man awaiting his own execution...

Walking abolition to Texas

Posted on March 08, 2008
.Andre Latallade, a/k/a Capital-"X", will walk from Trenton, New Jersey to Austin, Texas, approximately 1,700, to bring the torch of abolition from the Garden State to the Lone Star State. Andre Latallade, also known as Capital-"X" will walk from Trenton New Jersey, approximately 1,700 miles to the Governors mansion in Texas in an attempt to bring awareness to the death penalty...

Maryland taxpayers spend $186 million on death penalty statutes

Posted on March 06, 2008
Today a study analyzing the cost of the death penalty was released in Maryland. The study is described as one of the most comprehensive ever conducted. There are, of course, a number of reasons why the death penalty represents flawed public policy. The fact that it is such an enormous drain on taxpayer resources always has been near the top of my list...

'The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley

Posted on March 05, 2008
(Hat tip, For Victims, Against the Death Penalty)There's a must-see play showing in New York City right now. The Two Lives of Napoleon Beazley examines one of the last juvenile offenders executed in the U.S. before such executions were ruled unconstitutional by the U...

Guest blogging on Monte Allen Delk

Posted on February 28, 2008
Today we guest-blogged over at Executed Today, which my friend Jason runs.Here's our entry:Six years ago today the state of Texas executed an FBI agent, a state district judge, the president of Kenya and a war hero who commanded a nuclear-powered submarine during the Civil War...

'This is Tammany Hall, only 100 years later'

Posted on February 27, 2008
Newsweek magazine has taken a look at the strange goings-on inside the Harris County, Texas district attorney's office. This article is sooooo worth posting in its entirety:Newsweek Web Exclusive Race, Justice, and TexasResignation doesn't end trouble for Houston's top prosecutorBy Gretel C...

Show trials at Guantanamo Bay?

Posted on February 20, 2008
This popped up over at Daily Kos. We reprint in its entirety:This was very much how it was done in the bad old days of the Soviet Union:Secret evidence. Denial of habeas corpus. Evidence obtained by waterboarding. Indefinite detention. The litany of complaints about the legal treatment of prisoners at Guant�namo Bay is long, disturbing and by now familiar...

Guest-blogging

Posted on February 18, 2008
Yesterday we guest-blogged over at www.executedtoday.comCheck out our entry here.

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