HUMAN RIGHTS IN CRISIS: U.S. Federal Execution Spree Virtual Conference
Join us for a series of on-line panel discussions about the unprecedented federal execution spree and state of the death penalty in the United States today.
TODAY, November 30: 11:30 EST, LIVE from Rome!
Today is the anniversary of Tuscany becoming the first jurisdiction in the world to abolish the death penalty. Please join the Sant Egidio community webinar #stand4humanity #nodeathpenalty to hear about death penalty abolition efforts worldwide. Click here to register!
ANNOUNCING: STARTING SUNDAY AND ALL NEXT WEEK:
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Human Rights in Crisis: The U.S. Federal Execution Spree
A Virtual Conference on the Death Penalty
December 6 through 12, 2020
Five federal executions are scheduled between December 10 (international Human Rights Day) and January 15 (Martin Luther King Jr’s birthday), and more could be scheduled. Please join us for a series of on-line panel discussions about this unprecedented federal execution spree and state of the death penalty in the United States today.
Click here for details, sponsorship and free registration information.
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CALL TO ACTION from Death Penalty Action Advisory Board Chairman Shane Claiborne.
“It is time to take away the power of the federal government to execute its own people.” Watch this powerful two minute video clip of Shane Claiborne on Facebook or Twitter, and please share share share, and click here to write your members of congress!
TWO NEW PETITIONS TO SIGN & SHARE:
- Call on President-Elect Joe Biden to speak out strongly against the federal execution spree in the final weeks of the lame duck Trump Administration.
- South Carolina EXECUTION DATE on 12/4/2020 — Sign the petition for Richard Moore!
Then….
Thank you. Yours in the Struggle,
— abe
Abraham J. Bonowitz
Director, Death Penalty Action
PS: Please share our posts on Twitter, Facebook, and now on Instagram too!
PPS:
- Trump administration proposing the firing squad? Read our response here and here.
- Your petitions delivered: Read about it in Newsweek!
- Send a letter to your members of congress
- Quoted in the Washington Times.
