• There are many activists, lawyers, former inmates, and experts located in your area.

• Contact us or fill out a speaker request form for help finding a speaker.

• Quick and easy...simply gather information--posters, articles, statistics, etc.--and set up a table at your school during a meal or assembly.

• Contact us for help collecting information, or print pamphlets and newsletters from our website.

• Create posters or fliers with death penalty statistics and information. Display them around your school or community!

• Be sure to note any relevant upcoming events such as elections or group meetings.

• Get your peers and organization to sign local moratorium and anti-death penalty petitions.
  

• Sign a petition now!

• Write an article for your school or community newspaper or newsletter. You might explain your own position, provide facts, or discuss current issues or legislation.

• Know your audience: poll students on their feelings about the death penalty. Report your findings!

• Be sure to include additional source information so that readers can check your facts and learn more about your topic.

• You may also write a letter to the editor of your local paper. Be sure to check on individual newspapers' requirements, or write to major California papers here.

• Find students and teachers on both sides of the issue and host a school or community debate.

• Contact us or fill out a speaker request form for help finding a speaker.

• Less formal than a debate, and more inclusive. Designate one or a few moderators, think up some leading questions, and open the topic up for conversation!

• Need to write a paper, give a speech, or create a presentation on an issue of social justice, ethics, civil liberties, a related subject, or on a topic of your own choosing? There's tons of scholarly information on the death penalty!

• Visit our facts page or contact us for supplementary resources.

• These events can be used to discuss different aspects of the death penalty (i.e. race, innocence, juveniles, etc.) as well as the subject in whole.

• Create your own piece to share at an open-mic-style event.

• There are several movies that highlight this issue, including (but not limited to) Dead Man Walking, The Green Mile,Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story, and Return to Paradise.

• Follow the film screening with discussion, asking questions about the movie and the broader picture. How do themes from the movie reflect and relate to reality?

• Most of these movies are available at any video store, or call us and we will lend you a copy. You may also purchase these and other movies, books, and music.
  

• Stand up and be heard! Contact your local elected officials and voice your opposition to the death penalty.

• Already agree with their position? Thank them; let them know they have your support!

• Begin a group for interested students, staff, faculty, or community members.

• With your group, choose and sponsor events from this list or come up with your own ideas and let us know about them!

• For ideas, try Texas Students Against the Death Penalty, the first student anti-death penalty group in the country.

• Many websites contain pages and resources just for students. Explore them yourself, show them to friends, link to them in your profile!

• Click here for Michigan State University and the Death Penalty Information Center's interactive high school curriculum.
  

• Click here to comment on Amnesty International's death penalty blog.

• Click here to visit and learn about The American Civil Liberties Union's grassroots education and mobilization program against the death penalty. Includes contact information for further assistance.

• Combine some or all of these programs into one week and host an Awareness Week on your campus or in your community.
  

• Not ready to organize a whole week? Try an Awareness Day.
  

• The World Day Against the Death Penalty is October 10!

• There are rallies, group meetings, and public speaking events all over the country. View the calendar to find an event in your area!

• We're always looking for student interns. Click here to fill out an application or learn more about this exciting opportunity.

• VIDEO 1

This clip features Glen McGinnis who was executed for a crime he committed when he was 17 years old. ("Juvenile Offenders in Their Own Words", CNN & Time, January 9, 2000)

• VIDEO 2

Hear the stories of innocent men and women that were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death. ("Burden of Innocence", PBS Frontline, 53 mins.) The Story can be watched in seven different segments.