NCADP News
It has been a busy and exciting first quarter of the year, and we wanted to share with you the great news that NCADP will be welcoming three new members to our team starting on April 1st. Read More
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Lost in the U.S. Senate
On March 5 the Senate voted 52-47 on a procedural matter against confirming Debo Adegbile to head the Justice Department’s civil rights division. Every Republican present and seven Democrats took the position that Mr. Adegbile, a former lawyer with the NAACP Legal Defense and Education Fund, and Senior Counsel with the Senate Judiciary Committee, was not fit to lead the civil rights division because he had been one of several lawyers representing Mumia Abu Jamal. Read More
Why Does Mississippi Want to Execute Michelle Byrom?
The state wants to execute a 56-year-old mentally ill woman Thursday even though no one now seems to believe that she murdered the husband who had battered and abused her for years. Read More
Exoneration of Glenn Ford Reveals Deep Flaws in Our Capital Punishment System
After spending 30 years on Louisiana’s death row for a crime he did not commit, Glenn Ford was exonerated and walked free on Tuesday, March 11. Mr. Ford is one of the country’s longest serving death row inmates, and his case exemplifies why, if we speed up the appeals process, we increase the likelihood that an innocent person will be executed. Read More
Forgiveness Takes Precedence Over Wrath
In an early battle in defense of Islam’s still-struggling first community in Medina, the prophet Muhammad’s son-in-law Ali brought a traitor to his knees and was about to kill him when the man spat in his face. Ali sheathed his sword, knowing that to strike out of anger rather than out of acting for justice would be a sin. Read More
Supporter Profile: Wendy Kaminer
I oppose the death penalty because I have limited trust in government and have long regarded support for capital punishment as an exercise in cognitive dissonance. Read More
