Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty was featured in the Sunday edition of the Washington Post. The article’s author, Marin Cogan, interviewed CCATDP’s Heather Beaudoin and myself, and Cogan highlighted why conservatives are increasingly changing their views on the death penalty. She wrote, Beaudoin reaches out to evangelical and other faith-based leaders and gets them… Continue reading Meet the red-state conservatives fighting to abolish the death penalty
Author: Marc Hyden
CCATDP’s Marc Hyden on Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler
Last week, I was a guest on Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler to discuss Oklahoma’s damning grand jury report on their lethal injection scandal and Florida’s unconstitutional death penalty. You can watch the segment below: Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCATDP), a project of Equal Justice USA, is a network of political and social… Continue reading CCATDP’s Marc Hyden on Tipping Point with Liz Wheeler
Why conservatives are abandoning the death penalty
Earlier this week, an article that I wrote was published in the ultra conservative Washington Examiner. In the piece, I expanded on the conservative case against the death penalty. I wrote: Regardless of whether one supports the death penalty in theory, in practice capital punishment has a long documented history of failing to live up to conservative… Continue reading Why conservatives are abandoning the death penalty