Meet the red-state conservatives fighting to abolish the death penalty

Nebraska state Sen. Colby Coash
Nebraska state Sen. Colby Coash pushed his fellow conservatives in the state legislature to repeal the death penalty there. (Andrew Dickinson/(for The Washington Post))

In college, Senator Colby Coash celebrated at a tailgate party outside of a prison during an execution. Now he’s part of the growing conservative movement to end the death penalty in the United States – a movement that EJUSA’s Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty has helped spawn. Read The Washington Post’s in-depth article about this trend and EJUSA’s impact, featuring interviews with EJUSA staff members Heather Beaudoin and Marc Hyden, who lead Conservatives Concerned.

Read the full article in The Washington Post.


Sarah Craft

Sarah Craft is the program director of EJUSA's program to end the death penalty in the United States. She has worked with EJUSA’s state partners all over the country to develop winning strategies for their campaigns. Read More