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EJUSA is pleased to support Mothers in Charge in hosting a national conference on violence prevention!

The Cost of Violence: National Conference on
Violence Prevention and Behavioral Health

Join the Legislation Initiative Against the Death Penalty (LIADP) for their annual dinner on November 8th at 6pm at the Super Buffet in Carlisle.

(UPDATE): The Pennsylvania Supreme Court upheld the stay of execution for Terrance Williams. The Court called for further briefing regarding the grant of a new sentencing hearing.

Today the PA Coalition Against Rape joined numerous groups against sexual violence, hundreds of child advocates, faith leaders, and former jurors in calling on Pennsylvania's governor to stop the exec

A recent study shows a continuing decline in the willingness of Pennsylvania’s juries to pass down death sentences. They have been given in just 3 percent of first-degree murder cases since 2007.

Cameron Todd Willingham was executed in 2004 for setting the house fire that killed his three daughters, but a spate of forensic fire experts have said (both before and after the execution) there is n

Last EJEdition we told you about the Texas Forensic Science Commission's admission that Cameron Todd Willingham's conviction - and eventual execution - was based on flawed arson science.

Our national partners at People of Faith to Abolish the Death Penalty and Witness to Innocence met with pastors in Pennsylvania this week.

Our national partners at Witness to Innocence organized a rally for death row exonerees in Philadelphia this weekend.

March 16th was a day to remember. "People were coming out of the woodwork," said Ashlee Shelton, Executive Director of Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (PADP).