Every Tuesday is execution day in Egypt as President Morsi’s coup regime uses capital punishment as its preferred weapon to crush political opponents: http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-03-06/tuesday-is-execution-day-in-egypt/9512570?utm_source=sfmc&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=%3a8935&user_id=5b2ffa08f03425a05aff0a71803448967e7f88cd2a762fdc2a73d66d83100bf8&WT.tsrc=email&WT.mc_id=Email%7c%7c8935&utm_content=ABCNewsmail_topstories_articlelink
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Australians Against Capital Punishment is a community group formed in early 2007 to advocate for a total abolition of the death penalty across the globe, and to call on our government to once again commit itself to opposing the death penalty in all cases, in all countries wholeheartedly.
We try to raise awareness of the issue through public forums, petitions, letterwriting, leafleting as well as through the media.
We welcome anyone aboard who shares our goals.
Protestors on Death Row in Saudi Arabia
Sign the Petition: https://act.reprieve.org.uk/page/content/saudiexecutions?source=SaudiMBS1shareE&utm_medium=email&utm_source=reprieve&utm_content=2+-+You+can+sign+the+petition+here+with+just&utm_campaign=SaudiMBS1share Saudi Arabia: Do not execute protesters Urgent – We will deliver this petition to the Saudi Crown Prince when he visits
More on the First Commutation since 2007
Even Texas says “no” sometimes
Texas governor commutes death penalty on advice from clemency board: https://deathpenaltynews.blogspot.com.au/2018/02/texas-governor-abbot-commutes-death.html?spref=tw
Court Intervenes on Competency Grounds
The Supreme Court of the United States issued a stay of execution in favour of Vernon Madison against Alabama on competency grounds: https://www.buzzfeed.com/chrisgeidner/the-supreme-court-stopped-alabama-from-executing-a-man-over?utm_term=.oxglVDl6OD#.qvXkBlkJml
Good News from Gambia
Gambia announces moratorium on the death penalty: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-gambia-justice/gambia-announces-moratorium-on-death-penalty-idUSKCN1G20V2 https://www.timeslive.co.za/news/africa/2018-02-19-gambia-announces-moratorium-on-death-penalty/
The horror of capital punishment in Queensland’s past
This Tony Moore article in the Brisbane Times shows how Queenslanders came to know how barbaric and pointless capital punishment is. It is a lesson
AUSTRALIANS AGAINST CAPITAL PUNISHMENT 