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 Devoted to Abolishing Capital Punishment

 The United States is moving away from the death penalty because of growing concerns about innocence, unfairness, discriminatory application, lack of efficacy and other reasons, including the ways the death penalty causes more pain for the survivors of homicide victims. These concerns have led to an eight year decline in death sentences nationwide. In 2007, the number of defendants who received a death sentence was at its lowest point since the death penalty was upheld in 1976.

Our Approach
 

“The humblest citizen in all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause is stronger than all the hosts of error.”
                         --William Jennings Bryan

We believe that the struggle against the death penalty will be won state by state when good people of all walks of life demand change.  As the public comes to understand that the death penalty operates unfairly, harms the very people it purports to help and drains precious resources from solutions that prevent crime, hold people accountable and keep our communities safe, more will demand that policy makers support measures to narrow the scope and reach of the practice and ultimately repeal death penalty statutes.