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Laura Moye on EJUSA

“Georgia’s moratorium campaign has entered into its second year and each step of the way has been a learning experience! From the beginning we have relied on EJUSA to provide us with the technical support that we were lacking. “EJUSA staff visited with our activists at the outset of our campaign and offered successful strategies…

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Ed Martone

Ed Martone on EJUSA

“We in the Garden State are on the verge of a series of victories. Our bill to convene a Capital Punishment Study Commission to conduct one of the country’s most comprehensive death penalty reviews is on the verge of passing. Thanks to a recent Federal Circuit Court decision that delayed executions in New Jersey for…

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From the Field

Stefanie Faucher on EJUSA

Stefanie Faucher, Campaign Coordinator Californians for a Moratorium on Executions a campaign of Death Penalty Focus “The Legislative Toolkit prepared by Equal Justice USA is an incredibly useful resource for activists working to establish a moratorium on executions in their states. Navigating through the legislative circus in an enormous state like California is a daunting…

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Our Impact

In 2002, EJUSA’s Northeast Field Office…

…Provided direct, on-the-ground assistance to groups in New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Delaware. …Produced action alerts that were distributed via postcard and email to 8,000 New Jerseyans. …Co-produced New Jersey-ans for a Death Penalty Moratorium (NJDPM) video, “Time-Out: Perspectives on New Jersey’s Death Penalty.” …Co-wrote NJDPM White Paper on NJ’s death penalty for…

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Announcement

Maratorium Now Turns Five

Five years ago, we set out to build a movement to halt executions, resolution by resolution, church by church, and school by school. We dreamed that our strategy would shatter the political inertia of the anti-death penalty struggle and build the people’s movement that is now sweeping the nation. Capturing the imagination of local and…

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Over 2,500 groups call for a moratorium

The National Tally of Moratorium Endorsers has surpassed 2,500 groups calling for a halt to executions. The list includes faith communities, civil rights groups, businesses, unions, professional associations, 78 city, county, and town councils, and more. Some of the more recent additions include the New Jersey chapter of the National Organization of Women, 75 Texas…

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Our Impact

The Abolitionist of the Year and the Bold Dreamer

The Quixote Center’s Equal Justice USA program made history this year when we won the nation’s second state moratorium in the country in our home state of Maryland. On October 26 in Chicago, the national movement honored that achievement when the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty named Equal Justice USA project coordinator and…

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From the Field

New Jersey moratorium legislation moves closer to victory

The New Jersey legislature is poised to move moratorium legislation to victory early next year. The Equal Justice USA Northeast field office has been working side by side with our state partner, New Jerseyans for a Death Penalty Moratorium (NJDPM), throughout the year to help make the dream a reality. The groups upped the ante…

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Governor Ryan’s last stand

As Illinois Governor’s term ends, those on death row may find a ray of hope Illinois Governor George Ryan made history in January 2000 when he made Illinois the first state in the country to halt executions while questions of fairness were studied. The study commission the Governor established completed its report earlier this year,…

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Director's Corner

When snipers come home

“You know, they’d come back from war, it might be three months, it might be two years, it might be five years, all of a sudden they relive it again, and all that has to come out.” – Fred Allen, Witness to an Execution radio documentary Before police finally caught sniper suspect John Allen Muhammad,…

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