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 | Innocence Matters:
Act Now to Save Damien Echols
Damien Echols is on Arkansas’ death row. He was convicted of murdering three eight-year old boys, despite an absence of physical evidence, weapon, or motive. Now, 15 years later, new DNA evidence has emerged that could absolve Damien beyond a reasonable doubt. Yet, the state of Arkansas is continuing plans to execute him. Please help flood the governor’s office with postcards asking for justice
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 | Cut the death penalty from California's budget!
California wastes millions on its dysfunctional death penalty—more than $125 million per year. Plus, we're poised to spend another $400 million on a new death row facility (since the current one is too rundown to hold the nation's largest death row population). Those costs add up: over the next five years, California will spend $1 billion on the death penalty. Tell the governor there are better ways to close the budget gap without risking vital social services. |
 | Tell Your District Attorney to End Death Sentencing in Your County!
California has become a rogue state when it comes to the death penalty. With more than 700 people, California’s death row is the largest and most costly in the nation, and is expected to cost the state $1 billion over the next five years. The tide is turning in the rest of the United States, with death sentences falling in state after state – but not here in California. Last year California sent more people to death row than any other state. |
 | Support S.650 "The Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2009"
As momentum builds in states to abolish the death penalty, U.S. Senator Russ Feingold reintroduced legislation on March 19, 2009 to abolish the death penalty at the federal level. Feingold's Federal Death Penalty Abolition Act of 2009 would put an immediate halt to federal executions and forbid the use of the death penalty as a sentence for violations of federal law. The use of the death penalty has been questioned by a range of prominent voices across the country, recently repealed in New Mexico and New Jersey. Feingold's bill would stop executions on the federal level, which are part of a death penalty system that has proven to be ineffective, wrought with racial disparities, and alarmingly costly. |
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