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Conservatives Concerned is a network of political and social conservatives who question the alignment of capital punishment with conservative principles and values.

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Why we are concerned

For decades, governments have tinkered with the death penalty in an effort to make it fair, accurate, and effective. Yet the system continues to fail.

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Violence Survivor: Jennifer Thompson

In 1984, I was raped at knifepoint in my home in North Carolina. I did not know whether I would live or die that night. But in 1995, Ronald Cotton requested a DNA test. And the results proved he was innocent.

The death penalty fails victims’ families

The longer process prolongs the pain of victims’ families, who must relive their trauma as courts repeat trials and hearings trying to get it right. Most cases result in a life sentence in the end anyway – but only after the family has suffered years of uncertainty. To be meaningful, justice should be swift and sure – but the death penalty is just the opposite.

Pro-Life Advocates

If human life is sacred, do we reserve the right to deliberately end it for those guilty of heinous crimes?

What conservatives are saying

Conservatives have every reason to believe the death penalty system is no different from any politicized, costly, inefficient, bureaucratic, government-run operation, which we conservatives know are rife with injustice. But here the end result is the end of someone’s life. In other words, it’s a government system that kills people.

Richard Viguerie

Advisor to President Ronald Reagan

I believe that support for the death penalty is inconsistent with libertarianism and traditional conservatism. So I am pleased with Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty’s efforts to form a coalition of libertarians and conservatives to work to end capital punishment.

Dr. Ron Paul

Former Congressman and GOP Presidential candidate

I used to support the death penalty, but I oppose it now. It gives the state too much power, it actually cost more money than life in prison without parole, and the government sometimes sentences innocent people to death.

Julie Borowski

Political commentator and author

The death penalty is too perilous to risk to human error.

Bruce Fein

Associate Deputy Attorney General and General Counsel to the Federal Communications Commission under President Ronald Reagan

The death penalty runs a dangerously high risk of killing innocent people, siphons billions of dollars from the public, and gives the government power it cannot be trusted to carry out fairly.

Jeffrey Tucker

Founder, Author, and President at Brownstone Institute

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