February Updates

New Hampshire Events

New Hampshire is considering death penalty repeal legislation yet again! Next week, there are a series of events in the state that CCATDP supporters are encouraged to attend.

Click here for the full list of events.

Seven States and Counting

A total of seven states have bills to repeal the death penalty that have been introduced this session by Republican lawmakers, and not all states have reached their filing deadline this year. This movement is on trend with what we’ve seen in recent years with more and more conservatives taking a stand for repeal.

Read more here.

CPAC

We will be at CPAC in Washington, D.C. from February 27th through March 2nd. We’d love to see current supporters and meet new ones! If you’re in town, be sure to swing by our booth #616 and say hello!

Restoring Justice Summit

We will also be participating in the Restoring Justice Summit at Tulane University in New Orleans, LA on Saturday, March 16th. The event will take place between 10:00 am and 5:00 pm CT and is hosted by Students for Liberty. If you’re in the area and would like to help us table, please let us know!

Event details here.

Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty (CCATDP), a project of Equal Justice USA, is a network of political and social conservatives who question the alignment of capital punishment with conservative principles and values. For news and updates from CCATDP, join their email list.

By Hannah Cox

Hannah joined EJUSA in 2018 to educate and mobilize conservatives around the systematic flaws with the death penalty. Her work has led to the repeal of the death penalty in two states while supporting dozens of Republican lawmakers to sponsor death penalty repeal bills across the country. Hannah graduated from Belmont University, and previously worked as the Director of Outreach for the Beacon Center of Tennessee, a Policy Analyst for the National Alliance on Mental Illness, and as the Director of Development for the Tennessee Firearms Association. She is also a Newsmax Insider.