“The opposite of poverty is not wealth. … In too many places, the opposite of poverty is justice.” (Bryan Stevenson)” Bryan Stevenson is a public-interest
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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.
Connecticut abolishes the Death Penalty – Amnesty International
Connecticut has ended the death sentence, becoming the fifth state in the U.S. in five years to repeal the cruel and inhuman punishment as the
The wrong Carlos: how Texas sent an innocent man to his death – from The Guardian
A few years ago, Antonin Scalia, one of the nine justices on the US supreme court, made a bold statement. There has not been, he
Death-row innocents trapped in a living hell – From Port Macquarie News
04 Mar, 2012 In his 12 years on death row, Larry Swearingen’s execution date has been set three times. Three times he has known when
Oregon’s Governor halts execution calling the death penalty morally wrong and unjustly administered
Gov. John Kitzhaber stops executions in Oregon, calls system ‘compromised and inequitable’ By Helen Jung, The Oregonian SALEM — Gov. John Kitzhaber announced today he
World Day Against the Death Penalty Dinner
On May 10, Australian Scott Rush’s death sentence was repealed and Scott was sentenced to life imprisonment while the death sentences of Andrew Chan and
Stop the Execution of Mark Stroman – from Amnesty International
Mark Stroman is scheduled to be executed on July 20 for killing Indian immigrant Vasudev Patel in a series of shootings of people he believed
Chan holding up after failed appeal – from the ABC
By Helen Brown in Bali and staff Friends of Bali Nine inmate Andrew Chan say he is holding up well after learning his bid for
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