Student Abolition

Students Against the Death Penalty (SADP) works to end the death penalty through campaigns of public education and the promotion of youth activism.

[Student Abolition @abolishdp]

Today the man who let #ToddWillingham die is on @DancingABC. Will judges give @GovernorPerry a reprieve & let him dance another day? #DWTS

[Witness to Innocence @WTIUSA]

Meet Ray Krone, Co-Founder of WTI, he spent 3 years on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Support the work of exonerees like Ray who are fighting the death penalty this #WrongfulConvictionDay by sharing this post and visiting https://t.co/9FNSSmNsyy to help make a difference

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

An NPR analysis determined that 84% of those who have been executed over recent years experienced the excruciatingly painful sensation of drowning alive while their lungs filled with frothy liquid. This is unconstitutional torture: https://t.co/nRwMfGsReq

[Yahoo News @YahooNews]

Sen. Lindsey Graham justifies his treatment of Merrick Garland: "If an opening comes in the last year of President Trump's term, and the primary process has started, we'll wait to the next election"

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

I raise my voice in fervent opposition to the National Catholic Prayer Breakfast's scandalous offer of an award to Attorney General Barr for his "exemplary Christlike" behavior. I urge the group to immediately rescind their inivtation, and I urge anyone reading this to join me.

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Who in the U.S. is seeking to carry out executions during a pandemic? Mostly, nobody. Then there is Texas (1), Tennessee (1), and the federal administration (4). https://t.co/tXQFOtFBJG @DPInfoCtr #deathpenalty

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

World #deathpenalty news—Parents of murdered British backpacker 'grateful' to Thai king for sparing killers the death penalty. https://t.co/pZcmQClrFb @BBCWorld @MVFRUS @Journey0fHope @DPInfoCtr @DeathPenaltyWW

[Student Abolition @abolishdp]

https://t.co/3AETlbAqOj

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

Justice Breyer, writing for himself and Justice Ginsburg: “I remain convinced of the importance of reconsidering the constitutionality of the death penalty itself.”

[Innocence Project of Texas @innocencetexas]

Justice has been further delayed and still currently denied to our client Lydell Grant. Please see this press release issued yesterday evening.

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

The @ACLU is suing the federal government on behalf of a Buddhist priest and death row spiritual advisor who is medically vulnerable and could put his life at risk if he attends the execution of Wesley Purkey during this pandemic. I wrote a declaration in support of the lawsuit:

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

#BillyJoeWardlow has filed his reply brief in #SCOTUS in support of his claim that the #Texas #deathpenalty statute unconstitutionally relies upon predictions of future dangerousness for defendants under age 21. https://t.co/JQStxKiYPM @DPInfoCtr

[Abbas Milani @milaniabbas]

Faced with a deadly second wave of Corona, dire economic realities and a shrinking political base, the clerical regime has condemned three young demonstrators from last year to death. Powerful international protest to this barbarity might save the three. #اعدام_نکنید

[Ali Pahlavan @PahlavanAli]

Millions of Iranians around the world are demanding a stop to the death sentence in Iran by trending a hashtag. @abcnews @ljayes @SBSNews #اعدام_نکنید

[Masih Alinejad @AlinejadMasih]

I cried several times before making this video. Please listen and say their names.  

#SaeedTamjidi #AmirHosseinMoradi & #MohammadRajabi.

#StopExecutionsInIran
به زبان‌های مختلف در مورد کسانی که جان‌شان در خطر است اطلاع‌رسانی کنیم
#اعدام_نکنید

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

“‘To oppose the #deathpenalty is not to be “soft on crime.” Rather, it is to be strong on the dignity of life.’ To this end, I implore Attorney General Barr and President Trump to abandon this path to preside over the first federal executions in 17 years.“ @USCCB @DPInfoCtr

[Witness to Innocence @WTIUSA]

Send an email to the Texas Board of Pardon and Paroles asking them to stop the execution of Billy Joe Wardlow: https://t.co/MZH1dOvWfV #StopAllExecutions #deathpenalty @EJUSA @TCADPdotORG

[Sister Helen Prejean @helenprejean]

The federal government is trying to execute Wesley Purkey even though he has advanced Alzheimer’s disease, dementia, and severe brain damage. Wesley is not mentally competent and it would be unconstitutional to execute him. The Dept. of Justice should end this political charade.

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

#Birmingham District Attorney Says #Alabama Man Who Has Spent Over Two Decades on Death Row Should Get New Trial/ https://t.co/Z42WbfsAfw @theappeal @laurenk_gill @DPInfoCtr #ToforestJohnson #deathpenalty

[Laura Burstein @LauraBurstein1]

BREAKING: After spending nearly 30 years on Pennsylvania’s death row for a crime he did not commit, #WalterOgrod to be freed today. His release is supported by the victim’s mother. Attorney statement here: https://t.co/hDXSla4XeE