The highest criminal justice priority of the current Supreme Court majority is apparently to make the state’s machinery of death work as efficiently as possible
Author: aacp
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.
The Death Penalty for Drug Offences: Global Overview 2018
The death penalty for drug offences is a clear violation of international human rights law. Numerous international authorities and legal scholars have reaffirmed this point,
Fabulous Podacst from ACLU
ACLU sits down with Rocky Myers’ lawyers and the discuss what’s broken in the US justice system: https://www.aclu.org/podcast/rocky-myers-case-ep-36?ms_aff=NAT&initms_aff=NAT&ms=190308_criminallawreform_massincarceration_clemency_signers&initms=190308_criminallawreform_massincarceration_clemency_signers&ms_chan=eml&initms_chan=eml&af=kO92Otn60IZX7I%2BbjyvYfumDRXVYYmXveN%2B2oXIeCCS3jW4DEaI3VeVt1iH7JO9HPt36WMH9iZc9%2FAKSUCg0H5wfX9lGMtBdqf%2FRcodmxRvgcvbFDRUvF4BBCF7L8wA6u9l0Nz7OD0XhushNc5hNYlVRiPlhV19JLmexd3M%2Fd1c%3D
Sign Amnesty Petition to Prevent Resumption of Executions in Sri Lanka
Tell President Sirisena that Sri Lanka must not take this backward step: https://www.amnesty.org/en/get-involved/take-action/death-penalty-sri-lanka/
Urge the Governor to save the life of Rocky Myers
A wrongful conviction must not be allowed to proceed to execution: https://action.aclu.org/petition/save-rocky-myers?ms_aff=NAT&initms_aff=NAT&ms=190221_criminallawreform_massincarceration_clemency&initms=190221_criminallawreform_massincarceration_clemency&ms_chan=eml&initms_chan=eml&af=kO92Otn60IZX7I%2BbjyvYfumDRXVYYmXveN%2B2oXIeCCS3jW4DEaI3VeVt1iH7JO9HPt36WMH9iZc9%2FAKSUCg0H5wfX9lGMtBdqf%2FRcodmxRvgcvbFDRUvF4BBCF7L8wA6u9l0Nz7OD0XhushNc5hNYlVRiPlhV19JLmexd3M%2Fd1c%3D
Urge the Governor to Save Rocky Myers
A wrongful conviction must not be allowed to proceed to execution: https://action.aclu.org/petition/save-rocky-myers?ms_aff=NAT&initms_aff=NAT&ms=190221_criminallawreform_massincarceration_clemency&initms=190221_criminallawreform_massincarceration_clemency&ms_chan=eml&initms_chan=eml&af=kO92Otn60IZX7I%2BbjyvYfumDRXVYYmXveN%2B2oXIeCCS3jW4DEaI3VeVt1iH7JO9HPt36WMH9iZc9%2FAKSUCg0H5wfX9lGMtBdqf%2FRcodmxRvgcvbFDRUvF4BBCF7L8wA6u9l0Nz7OD0XhushNc5hNYlVRiPlhV19JLmexd3M%2Fd1c%3D
Vicki Schieber: Amazing Inspiring Person
Inspiring when a person who has suffered greatly rejects the death penalty and actively campaigns against it: https://catholicsmobilizing.org/people/vicki-schieber
Bigotry and the Death Penalty in Alabama
Stephen Cooper on religious bigotry as an addition to all the other things that are wrong with the death penalty in Alabama: https://www.counterpunch.org/2019/02/05/alabama-executions-strictly-a-christian-affair/
