Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty will be presenting at a groundbreaking conference in Nashville, TN on September 18th. The Criminal Justice Reform and Addiction Conference will target evangelical leaders and focus on ways the church, community, and government can work together to achieve meaningful results.
You can register now! Tickets are free but required.
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty is pleased to announce its latest addition, Kylie Taylor. Taylor has been hired as the Wyoming State Coordinator for CCATDP and will be overseeing death penalty repeal efforts in the Equality State for the organization.
Wyoming fell only four votes shy of repealing the death penalty in 2019. The bill was sponsored and championed by Republican state house member Jared Olsen and enjoyed significant conservative support.
Taylor joins CCATDP from the Wyoming Department of Education where she worked as an education program specialist. Prior to that, Taylor worked as a lobbyist at Holland & Hart, LLP.
After a 16-year hiatus on executions, the federal government announced that it will resume executions this year.
The federal death penalty system has all of the problems that the state systems are known for, but it has even fewer reviews. That means the likelihood of a wrongful conviction is increased.
Our national manager reacted to this disturbing news at Fox News, read the full piece here.
Republicans and Democrats banded together to override the Governor’s veto of a bill to repeal the death penalty in the state, making the Granite State the 21st to do away with capital punishment. When accounting for the states that have placed moratoriums on the death penalty, that brings us to half of all states that have made this move.
Of the 25 states that still have the death penalty, over a third of them have not used it in a decade or more as executions continue to fall out of favor on both the right and left. Which state will be the next to go?
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty seeks someone sharp, personable, and highly organized to work alongside a growing anti-death penalty coalition in Wyoming. The Wyoming Coordinator will support the coalition and help implement a multi-pronged plan to educate Wyoming residents about the death penalty, with a particular focus on increasing the visibility of Wyoming conservatives who support repeal. The ideal candidate will have experience and credibility working with conservatives; comfort collaborating across political differences; strong communication and outreach skills; knowledge of Wyoming landscape and culture; and a commitment to fairness and racial equity.
This week, Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty filed an Amicus Brief in support of 26 men on Tennessee’s death row.
In their case, the men are seeking to prove that the state’s execution method rises to the level of torture and should be banned. But, due to other laws, they must also show that execution methods that would cause less pain are available.
Tennessee passed a secrecy law in 2011 that blocks public knowledge of the drugs and suppliers used in executions, and because of this the state was able to prevent the defendants from accessing information about the availability of alternative methods during the discovery phase of the trial. This is a violation of the due process rights of the defendants.
You can read the brief here.
Last week, Louisiana and Georgia both saw Republican-sponsored bills to repeal the death penalty introduced, making them the ninth and tenth states to see bills of this nature introduced in the 2019 session. This remarkable year is set to break records for the numbers of conservative lawmakers pushing repeal, and is surely evidence of a growing bipartisan wave against capital punishment.
On Tuesday, April 2nd the New Hampshire Senate Judiciary Committee passed a bill to repeal the death penalty with a vote of 4-1! The bill will now move on to the full senate as soon as next week. Congratulations to our New Hampshire coalition and all of the amazing activists there!
Join the EJUSA Evangelical Network and Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty for this upcoming, groundbreaking event! We’ll be hosting a panel at the New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary on Tuesday, April 2nd from 6:30-8:00 pm CT in the Nelson Price Auditorium.
We will be presenting a panel that will include two members of the Seminary’s staff, former death row inmate Billy Neal Moore, and the sister of Officer Bruce VanderJagt who was murdered in 1997, Gail Rice. The panel will be followed by a Q&A segment and will coincide with the official launch of our Louisiana Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty Chapter.
Please join us if you are in the area, or help us spread the word if you cannot attend! The event is free and open to the public. You can register here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/discussing-the-death-penalty-tickets-59120013552
Questioning a system marked by inefficiency, inequity, and inaccuracy.
Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty is a network of political and social conservatives who question the alignment of capital punishment with conservative principles and values.
We are a project of Equal Justice USA, a national organization working to end the death penalty in the United States.
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