TAKE ACTION - What You Can Do

After reading and becoming informed about any social issue, it is important to speak out and take action for or against those issues you feel strongly about. In this section you will find ideas and links that will help in your quest use your voice.

Call for a moratorium

The Moratorium Campaign is working to deepen the discourse around the death penalty and bring about a moratorium on executions across the U.S. The number of innocent people exonerated from death row is now at 123 and growing. There is mounting evidence that convinces even proponents of the death penalty that the system is seriously flawed. Legislators in a number of states, including New Mexico, New Jersey, and New York, are seriously contemplating either a moratorium or the complete abolition of the death penalty.

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Connect with a death row inmate

If you are interested in writing to an inmate on death row, visit here for more information:
Death Row Support Project or
Death Penalty Information Center - Inmate Correspondence Groups

Get Involved

There are a number of organizations involved at the national and international level in death penalty work.

International Organizations

Amnesty International

Moratorium 2000 Community of St. Egidio

National Organizations

ACLU: Death Penalty Campaign

Amnesty USA

Catholic Mobilizing Network

Citizens United For Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Death Penalty Information Center

Equal Justice USA

Friends Committee on National Legislation- Death Penalty

Human rights watch: the death penalty in the USA

National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

The Moratorium Campaign

Murder Victim's Families for Reconciliation

Prison Activist Resource Center

Prison Talk

Pro-Death Penalty

"A Culture of Life and the Penalty of Death" (pdf) - US Conference of Catholic Bishops

State Organizations

Alaskans Against the Death Penalty

Campaign to End the Death Penalty

Coalition of Arizonians to Abolish the Death Penalty

Coloradans Against the Death Penalty

Connecticut Network to Abolish the Death Penalty

Death Penalty Focus of California

Floridians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

Illinois Coalition Against the Death Penalty

Iowans Against the Death Penalty

Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty

New Mexico Coalition to Repeal the Death Penalty

New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty

Ohioans to Stop Executions

Pennsylvania Abolitionists United Against the Death Penalty

South Florida Committee Against the Death Penalty

Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Texas Moratorium Network

Virginians For Alternatives To The Death Penalty

Washington Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

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