Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty was featured in an editorial in the Dallas Morning News. The editorial states,
The driving principles are capital punishment’s incompatibility with the conservative ideals of restraining government, protecting life and maintaining fiscal responsibility.
Pat Monks, a concerned conservative, was quoted as saying,
He came to see no deterrent value for a punishment that’s imposed unevenly at an intolerable expense to the public.
Dear District Attorney Anderson,
We are 27 Evangelical Christians from across Texas and the United States, and we write to respectfully request that you support a new, fair sentencing hearing for death row prisoner Duane Buck. Although opinions on the death penalty vary within each of our churches, we are strongly united in our view that no death sentence should be a product of racial discrimination, as it was in Mr. Buck’s case.
In June 2000, the Office of the Texas Attorney General identified six prisoners with death sentences it believed to be unconstitutional. In each of these cases, the prosecution relied on testimony from a psychologist linking race to future dangerousness in order to secure the death penalty. Mr. Buck’s case was one of those identified by the Attorney General. In recognition of the fact that these death sentences were based on false and offensive racially biased stereotypes and that they thereby undermined the integrity of Texas’ criminal justice system, then-Attorney General John Cornyn assured Texans that his office would do everything that was necessary to ensure that no such unfair death sentences were carried out.
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We are proud to announce that Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty (CCATDP) has formed a strategic partnership with Young Americans for Liberty (YAL), the largest, most active, and fastest growing pro-liberty organization on America’s college campuses. As a Strategic Partner of YAL, CCATDP looks forward to working closely with YAL chapters across the country and providing students with opportunities to become involved in the growing movement to end the death penalty.
Jeff Frazee, Executive Director of YAL, said “In a free and just society, we should always strive to protect life, most especially all innocent life. And, ultimately, it costs the taxpayers more to put a man to death than keeping him locked up for life. So after studying the issue, I now strongly oppose the death penalty.”
Last week, CCATDP was featured on MSNBC’s The Last Word with Lawrence O’Donnell who said, “We now have reason to expect that support for the death penalty will continue to drop thanks to Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty.”
An article in PolicyMic described how new key players are changing the national death penalty debate – Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty and Young Americans for Liberty. The article states,
“While some of the strongest advocates against capital punishment are murder victims’ family members, it is great to have young conservatives on board to end the expensive, dysfunctional, and dangerous scourge of capital punishment.”
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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