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10 Ways to Help Abolish the Death Penalty

1) Join NCADP’s e@bolitionist listserv to get the latest news and action alerts, and tell a friend about it!  Sign up here.

2) Make a donation to support the work of an organizations working on the death penalty. There are groups at the national and local level that could greatly benefit from your support. Click here to donate to NCADP.

3) Make plans to attend NCADP’s 2011 annual conference on the death penalty in Chicago, IL., Jan. 13 - 16. Details coming soon!

4) Find groups working on the death penalty in your state here and contact them to see how you can get involved locally.

5) If your state legislature has abolition or moratorium bills pending, write your representatives in the state legislature and/or your governor expressing your support for the bill and articulating your personal objections to the death penalty.  If there is no such bill pending in your state legislature, write your representatives to ask that they consider sponsoring such a bill.

6) Wear your opposition to the death penalty. Click here to purchase an article of clothing, bumper sticker or pin.

7) Visit the following websites on a regular basis to stay apprised of death penalty information and breaking news and actions:

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
Death Penalty Information Center
Amnesty International
Equal Justice USA


8) Write a Letter to the Editor in response to an article that appears in your local newspaper on the death penalty or related topics.

9) Talk to your faith leader about engaging your house of worship on the death penalty.

10) Sign up for an account on MySpace.com or Facebook.com and network with others on the death penalty. 

Also see our special campaigns at the top of this web page including our page on Youth Activism!

 


Jul 20: Jeffrey Matthews, OK - Stayed
Jul 21: Joseph Burns, MS - Executed
Jul 22: Jermont Cox, PA - Stayed
Aug 10: Roderick Davie, OH - ACT NOW!
Aug 12: Michael Jeffrey Land, AL - ACT NOW!
Aug 16: Tamir Hamilton, NV - ACT NOW!
Aug 17: Jeffrey Mathews, OK - ACT NOW!
Aug 17: Peter Cantu, TX - ACT NOW!
Aug 17: James VanDivner, PA - ACT NOW!
Aug 18: Anthony Fletcher, PA - ACT NOW!
Aug 19: Dennis Miller, PA - ACT NOW!
Aug 24: Bryan Sean Galvin, PA - ACT NOW!
Sep 2: Holly Wood, AL - ACT NOW!
Sep 14: Anthony Dick, PA - ACT NOW!
Sep 15: Kevin Keith, OH - ACT NOW!
Sep 16: Brentt Sherwood, PA - ACT NOW!
Sep 28: Gaile Owens, TN - Commuted
Oct 6: Michael Benge, OH - ACT NOW!
Oct 14: Gayland Bradford, TX - ACT NOW!
Oct 21: Larry Wooten, TX - ACT NOW!
Nov 9: Stephen West, TN - ACT NOW!
Nov 16: Sidney Cornwell, OH - ACT NOW!
Dec 7: Billy Ray Irick, TN - ACT NOW!
Feb 17: Frank Spisak, OH - ACT NOW!
Mar 10: Johnnie Baston, OH - ACT NOW!

We Are the World: Global Anti-Death Penalty Conference Gathered in Geneva
Abolitionists, human rights activists, death row exonerees, attorneys, murder victims’ family members, students and NGOs (non-government organizations) gathered Geneva, Switzerland, site of th ...
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