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Voices of Innocence

A personal face on the death penalty’s deadly mistakes Pennsylvania is home to three exonerated former death row inmates with a powerful message to share. Thanks to Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty (PA Abolitionists), the message of those wrongly convicted was heard loud and clear across the state this fall. The “Voices of…

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New State by State Partnership

EJUSA seeks donors to support the launching of a new Partnership dedicated to underwriting state capacity building activities. The Partnership provides participants (State by State Partners) with a means to closely monitor and support the development of local grassroots groups working for state legislative moratoriums. The objective of the State by State Partnership is twofold:…

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Field Office Report: Networking across states the key to success

Covering campaigns in NJ, PA, MD, NY, and DE The Field Office’s second year started off strong with a multi-state tour of the Journey of Hope…from Violence to Healing, which came through Delaware, New Jersey, and New York in April. To share ideas and get a jump-start planning the tour, Field Organizer Celeste Fitzgerald facilitated…

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Peak season for executions in Alabama

from Petra Wendeler of Amnesty International, Group 513, Mobile When it comes to the death penalty, Alabama has never produced the big headlines that Texas has. However, with the fastest growing death row population per capita in the United States, this might soon change. Alabama’s capital punishment system is one of the worst in the…

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Connecticut: Organizing under new challenges and new hopes

from Stephen Kobasa of the Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty In May 2001, the Connecticut House of Representatives came within three votes of approving a death penalty moratorium. The legislature did pass a law that would prohibit the execution of the mentally retarded and established a commission to study the application of the…

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Georgia legislature considers moratorium legislation for the first time

by Laura Moye of Georgia Moratorium Campaign (www.GeorgiaMoratorium.org) Late last year, a coalition of groups including Amnesty International, Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty, and the Georgia Coalition for the People’s Agenda launched the Georgia Moratorium Campaign. The campaign is Georgia’s first concerted legislative push for a moratorium, and resulted in the introduction of…

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IL Commission Issues Landmark Report

Illinois Governor Ryan’s Commission on Capital Punishment released the long-awaited results of its two-year review of the state’s death penalty system on April 15. News about the report’s findings is having a ripple effect around the country. The majority of the 14-member commission voted to abolish Illinois’ death penalty either on moral grounds, because no…

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Our Impact

Breaking 2,000

The Moratorium Now campaign hits a milestone What do the following places have in common? A church basement. A Democratic Club board meeting. City council chambers. A union hall. In places like these across the country, ordinary people debated the death penalty, examined the issues, and decided collectively to add their group’s name to the…

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VICTORY! Maryland Governor Declares Moratorium

May 9, 2002. The state of Maryland is set to execute Wesley Baker in less than a week. Thousands of calls have been pouring in to the Governor from around the country calling for him to halt executions. Whatever the Governor’s decision, we know it will have to come sometime in the next two days….

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Maryland Campaign Accomplishments

developed and mailed an action alert to 25,000 Marylanders. published an ad in a Sunday edition of The Sun in Baltimore with a readership of nearly a half million people; over 400 Marylanders signed the ad’s call for a moratorium, including three U.S. Congressional Representatives, the current and former Mayors of Baltimore, two county executives,…

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