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Among the many reasons to oppose the death penalty is that corrupt or incompetent investigations produce wrongful convictions: https://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article232356647.html

In a 7-2 decision written by Justice Brett Kavanaugh, the US Supreme Court struck down a conviction for murder of a Mississippi man on the

Don’s miss this remarkable event: Julian McMahon in conversation about his work opposing the death penalty in conversation with Ed Ayres: https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/conversation-a-world-without-the-death-penalty-tickets-63095705955?aff=odeimcmailchimp&mc_cid=28dd109919&mc_eid=a33cc8e5cd

Aramis Ayala, the Florida Attorney-General, has announced that she will not seek re-election as attorney-general in the wake of the Florida Supreme Court’s decision to

New Hampshire has just become the 21st State in the United States to abolish the death penalty: https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/5/30/18646033/new-hampshire-just-became-the-21st-state-to-abolish-the-death-penalty

The resistance world wide has caused the Sulta of Brunei to say that his country will not now carry out its plan to impose the

Khizar Hayat dies after 16 miserable years on death row with schizophrenia: https://www.dawn.com/news/1471220

This article which is about using the criminal justice system to create neo-slavery. It has close parallels to the links between the end of lynching