“We’re seeing it among Evangelicals”: How death penalty politics radically, shockingly changed
NCADP Executive Director, Diann Rust-Tierney speaks with reporter Elias Isquith of Salon magazine about the current state of the death penalty in the U.S. and the goals of the 90 Million Strong Campaign. Read More
#EXCLUSIVE: Reporter Bailey Elise McBride is Shining A Spotlight on the Death Penalty
Reporter Bailey Elise McBride shares why she is against the death penalty and is partnering with the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty. Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “...I learned that everyone is made in the image of God.”
To kick of Women's History Month, check out why NCADP Executive Director Diann Rust-Tierney is part of #90mStrong against the death penalty. Read More
The Cloak and Daggers of Lethal Injection
On Tuesday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder called for a national moratorium on executions while the Supreme Court revisits lethal injection...He is absolutely right. We need to go further. It's time to stop executions once and for all. Read More
#NEWS: Florida Supreme Court Stays Execution of Jerry Correll
The Florida Supreme Court granted a stay of execution on Tuesday to Jerry Correll pending the U.S. Supreme Court review of the use of midazolam as a lethal injection drug. Read More
#NEWS: Gov. Tom Wolf Announces PA Moratorium on Death Penalty
Governor Tom Wolf has issued a moratorium on the death penalty in Pennsylvania. Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “I believe the death penalty is immoral.”
I believe the death penalty is immoral. It says that society can kill a person to prove that for them to have killed someone is wrong. That makes no sense to me. Read More
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State Sanctioned Murder: the Death Penalty and the Struggle for Racial Justice
As people across the country are rising up against state violence and mass incarceration, we are reminded of the ways our work fits into the struggle for racial justice. Read More
SPECIAL EDITION: Weekly News Round-Up: 12/8/14 - 12/12/14
Broad Coalition Launches National Campaign To End The Death Penalty … IN OTHER NEWS: More Exonerated; More Executed; OH Senate Okays Bill to Keep Lethal Injection Protocols Secret; and Many Connect US Torture Report to US’s Use of Death Penalty & Police Brutality. Read More
Civil Rights, Religious, Human Rights and Pro-Liberty Groups Launch Campaign to End Death Penalty
After year of botched executions, exonerations, and evidence of racial bias in justice system, “90 Million Strong” campaign launches to activate Americans who oppose capital punishment Read More
Behind the Scenes: Interning at NCADP
We asked one of our interns to write about his experience at NCADP, what we got was a reminder of why this movement matters. Read More
STATEMENT FROM OUR EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR ON BOTCHED EXECUTION OF JOSEPH WOOD IN ARIZONA
"Tonight, we learned that yet another American has been put to death in a shocking and cruel way." Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “The justice system is extremely imperfect.”
On secular and religious grounds (Christian specifically), I found the death penalty to be problematic and thus, unjust and immoral. Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “I don’t want to live in a nation where the government supports taking a life.”
I strongly oppose the death penalty because taking a life is not a justice that helps either party. Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “An eye-for-an-eye punishment does not “fix” anything.”
OK, I’ll bite. Something I’ve been hesitant to share, but am beginning to feel compelled to speak about: A growing interest in the movement to abolish the death penalty. Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “The death penalty doesn’t change anyone’s behavior.”
I have believed for most of my life that killing is wrong. Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “Most kids have been told by their parents that ‘two wrongs don’t make a right.’”
I met my father-in-law Fred Gilreath in a Georgia prison where he was on death row for the murder of his wife and her father some 20 years prior. Read More
Voices of Florida: The #90mStrong Speak Out
Tomorrow John Henry is scheduled to be executed in Florida. The #90mStrong in Florida share why they oppose the death penalty. Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “Stop this insane and inhumane procedure now.”
Why Bob is one of the 90 million people who opposes the death penalty Read More
#90mStrong Monday: “I regard execution as a blasphemy, for it limits the power of God to transform.”
Ivy League Professor, Priest, and Activist Paul Jones shares his personal experiences with the death penalty. Read More