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- CommuteTheRowCo-Sponsors Additional Supporters Background We have until January 20 to persuade President to commute the sentences of those on federal death row. The death penalty is a system that perpetuates injustice, particularly for Black, Brown, and economically disadvantaged people, who are the most vulnerable to wrongful convictions and death sentences. It does not deter crime […]

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There are 40 men on the federal death row - and their lives are at stake.

With a temporary federal execution moratorium currently in place, no death sentences can be carried out. But that status could be changed by any future administration.

We have a very real opportunity to convince President Biden to commute the sentences of everyone on the federal death row before he leaves office, but we need to act fast. Can you please add your name to our joint petition urging President Biden to act?

During the last seven months of the previous Trump administration, President Trump executed 13 men and women who were on the federal death row. Many of those executed had intellectual disabilities, serious mental illnesses, and histories of deep trauma, and their legal proceedings were tainted by racial bias, junk science, and other flaws. These deaths also occurred despite calls for mercy from victims’ families and demands for fairness from a broad coalition of Americans across political and faith backgrounds.

Will you please help us urge President Biden to save the lives of the 40 individuals currently on the federal death row by converting their sentences to prison terms?

Urge President Biden:

Commute The Row

The federal death penalty is a deeply flawed system, particularly for Black, Brown, and economically disadvantaged people, who are the most vulnerable to wrongful convictions and death sentences. It does not deter crime or enhance public safety. Continuing the federal death penalty increases the risk of killing innocent people and deepening systemic inequalities.

We believe that if we stand together, we can convince President Biden to use his authority to protect and save the lives of the individuals on death row.

Will you join us?

Thank you,

Cathy Harmon-Christian, PhD

Executive Director, GFADP

P.S. You can learn more and add your name here:

https://bit.ly/commuteGFADP

CALLING ALL FAITH LEADERS

Are you a Georgia Faith leader, or do you know one?

October 10th is World Day Against the Death Penalty.

This year, we are gathering faith leaders (ordained or not) at Central Presbyterian Church (across from the Georgia Capitol) at 9am for a morning of conversation, collaboration, strategic thinking, and action.

This time will be followed by a press conference on the steps of the Georgia Capitol at 12:30pm with Sen Rev Kim Jackson.

If you are a person of faith who wants to put your faith into action against the death penalty, please join us!

We affirm a collective statement of faith:

"As faith leaders of varying religious traditions and practices, we stand in direct and firm opposition to the death penalty as a crime for any punishment in the state of Georgia. We believe the state should not engage in the practice of taking life, no matter the crime. Along with concerns about fairness, intellectual disability, discrimination and the potential error in its application, we believe that the death penalty is a violation of human rights, welfare and dignity and that the state of Georgia should not be responsible for such an irreversible decision”.

World Day Against the Death Penalty was first organized by the World Coalition Against the Death Penalty in 2003.

Twenty-two years on, where are we with death penalty abolition?

Internationally, more than 70% of the world’s countries have abolished capital punishment in law or practice.

In recent decades, there has been a clear trend away from capital punishment, as many countries have either abolished the death penalty or discontinued its use. The U.S. remains an outlier among its close allies and other democracies in its continued application of the death penalty.

We must, and will, end the death penalty.

Multi-faith Event Steering Committee:

Cathy Harmon-Christian, PhD - Georgians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (GFADP)

Joia Erin Thornton, MPA, MPP - faith leaders of color coalition (flocc)

Jayna Hoffacker - Georgia Catholics Against the Death Penalty (GCADP)

Archdeacon Carole Maddux - Georgia Interfaith Public Policy Center (GIPPC)

Leslie Anderson - Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC)

GFADP is working to end capital punishment in Georgia and around the world. We are a strong, diverse, statewide, grassroots movement which:

- - Opposes individual executions;
  - Supports legislative initiatives aimed at reducing the application of the death penalty until it is ultimately abolished;
  - Protects the humanity of individuals on death row;
  - Educates our fellow Georgians about the death penalty;
  - Provides concrete action steps for individuals and groups.

Death Penalty Information Center's (DPIC) fact sheet on the death penalty:

DPIC's fact sheet

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Executive Director

M. Cathy Harmon-Christian, PhD
Contact information can be found HERE

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