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Our view: Since taking office, Gov. O'Malley has presided over a long-term moratorium on executions in Maryland; next year he should push to end capital punishment outright
December 2, 2012
The Baltimore Sun
Having successfully pushed for historic changes in Maryland laws regarding expanded casino gambling, in-state college tuition rates for some undocumented-immigrant students, and the right of gay people to marry, Gov. Martin O'Malley is now in a position to address one of the last great pieces of unfinished business of his time in Annapolis: abolishing the state's death penalty.
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No More Death Penalty: What a Deal |
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November 27, 2012
We had Black Friday and got deals. We had Cyber Monday and got deals.
Today is Giving Tuesday. Let’s give the gift of justice and a country free of the death penalty.
People of Faith Against the Death Penalty is working with groups in a dozen states to mobilize clergy and lay leaders of faith communities to help with campaigns to repeal the death penalty and for clemency for people facing execution.
Join us in helping more and more people to rise up and unbind our hearts, our souls, our legislatures, and our country from the death penalty.
Please make a tax-deductible contribution to People of Faith Against the Death Penalty today. It's easy. Click here.
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CO: New Religious Call on Death Penalty |
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MEDIA RELEASE
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
November 15, 2012
Groups Launch New Campaign to Mobilize Religious Call to Repeal Colorado's Death Penalty
DENVER -- People of Faith Against the Death Penalty and Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Foundation have teamed up to promote online letters from Colorado religious leaders and lay people calling for Colorado to repeal the death penalty.
"In the wake of Connecticut repealing its death penalty and Illinois, New Mexico, New Jersey and New York doing the same in recent years, the time has come for Colorado to put an end to the death penalty for the failed public policy that it is," said Lisa Cisneros, executive director of Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Foundation. "The religious communities in Colorado are at the forefront of this effort."
One letter is intended for pastors and religious leaders and another letter is for lay religious people to endorse.
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Victory! North Carolina’s Year Without |
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November 5, 2012
The year 2012 is the first year in the modern era when no one was sentenced to die in North Carolina.
On Friday a jury in Smithfield sentenced a man convicted of first-degree murder to life imprisonment without parole. He could have been sentenced to death. This is the last capital case that will be tried this year in North Carolina.
Let’s keep North Carolina moving in the right direction. Please give to PFADP today by clicking here.
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On California: We’ve Only Just Begun |
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November 7, 2012
We came so close last night in California to repealing the death penalty through Prop 34. We should not lose heart.
In fact, there are plenty of reasons to be heartened and excited.
Nearly half – 47.3% – of California voters told the state to stop condemning people to death. The 52.7% who voted to keep the death penalty represent historically low levels of support.
So close!
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NC Book Tour on a Different “The Inferno” Starting Tonight |
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October 15, 2012
“The most detailed, intimate and complete look at a death row prisoner that I have encountered.” – Sr. Helen Prejean, author of Dead Man Walking on The Inferno: A Southern Morality Tale
The Rev. Joe Ingle, a United Church of Christ minister and author of the new book The Inferno: A Southern Morality Tale, will be speaking across North Carolina over the next week. The Inferno chronicles Philip Workman's 25-year journey through “the Tennessee killing machinery” for the murder of a police officer that Workman did not commit. Workman, framed by Memphis police and prosecutors, had evidence unearthed post trial that the victim was accidentally shot by another police officer, that the only eyewitness recanted his testimony and admitted he was not at the scene of the crime, and that medical examiner’s evidence was withheld. Rev. Ingle was the late Philip Workman's spiritual adviser and with him through six death warrants.
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