Grassroots

This week’s repeal vote in Maryland may be getting all the attention right now, but there are 32 other states with the death penalty, and people mobilizing for repeal in all of them.

Maryland citizens converged on the state capitol on Monday to ask lawmakers to end the death penalty The rally, held by EJUSA in collaboration with number of other national groups, featured the voices

Dawn Mancarella and Vickye Coward both lost loved ones to murder. They also were key figures Connecticut’s successful repeal campaign.

They ran out of chairs. That’s how popular Cherrell’s panel was at Facing Race, the largest conference on racial justice in the nation, which was held this year in Baltimore, Maryland.

Why stop at Connecticut? They ended the death penalty in April, but I think we can get one more in before the year is up. Don’t you?

Team Kansas Repeal. The Kansas Coalition Against the Death Penalty, the National

Ben Jealous, president of the NAACP, joined legislators and community leaders yesterday in calling for an end to the death penalty in Maryland.

Imagine opening your door to find the national president of the NAACP, Troy Davis’ sister, or the Davis family’s spiritual advisor at your doorstep wanting to talk to you about the death p

Your old friend from high school could be the key to ending the death penalty.

Yes, I’m serious. Grassroots campaigns are built person by person, one relationship at a time.

Hank Skinner is scheduled to be executed this coming Wednesday - even though critical case evidence has never been DNA tested.