Campaign to End the Death Penalty Organizing News

Submitted by CEDP on Fri, 2012-05-18 18:51
Author: 
Lily Hughes

CONTENTS

-- Growing momentum against the New Jim Crow

-- The new issue of the New Abolitionist is out!

-- The California SAFE Initiative for death penalty repeal – call announcement.

-- Ways you can support the Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Yes, America, We Have Executed an Innocent Man


Credit: (Corpus Christi Police Department)
Carlos De Luna
By: Andrew Cohen
The Atlantic
Monday, May 14, 2012

Carlos DeLuna was put to death in December 1989 for a murder in Corpus Christi. But he didn't commit the crime. Today, his case reminds us of the glaring flaws of capital punishment.

THE JUDGE


Reaching Out

Tales from death row: Justice for Rodney Reed by Caitlin Adams

Injustice time as of this writing 132,145 hours.  5,506 days.

Last week's Visit Day blog came out of my witnessing of a mother, a father, a wife and children visiting their loved one for one of the last times before his murder by the state of Texas.  It had a profound effect on me. Witnessing a family’s last visit day took on new meaning to me as I chronicle my visits here. RIP Beunka Adams 4/26/12.

A broken system needs fixing

A new documentary takes on the crisis of racism in the criminal justice system


By: Randi Hensley

A REPORT issued in early April told the horrifying truth of a war being waged within the U.S.: 29 African Americans had been killed by police or security personnel since January, 18 of them definitely unarmed. 


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