After reading and becoming informed about any social issue, it is important to speak out and take action for or against an issue you feel strongly about. In this section you will find ideas and links that will help in your quest to use your voice.
• connect with organizations such as the Moratorium
Campaign or Pro-Death
Penalty
• write to your local elected representatives or send letters to the
editor of your local newspaper
• correspond
with a Death Row inmate
• engage in discourse here when we launch our discussion forums.
The Moratorium Campaign is working to deepen the discourse around the death penalty and to bring about a moratorium on executions across the USA. 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 and that the executions must stop. 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. (www.moratoriumcampaign.org)
If you are interested in writing an inmate on death row, you
can visit the Death
Row Support Project (www.brethren.org/genbd/witness/drsp.htm)
or the Death
Penalty Information Center - Inmate Correspondence Groups (www.deathpenaltyinfo.org/article.php?
did=547&scid=37#Correspond ) for more information.
There are a number of organizations involved at the national and international level in death penalty work. See Links and also Resources for additional information.
Read some briefs here about ways schools have encouraged discourse on campus as well as in the local community. These may give you ideas to use on your own campus. In addition, in the coming months, the Play Project will launch addition to this website to provide opportunities for discourse with people from around the country. You will be able to login to discussions on this website to exchange ideas with students and faculty from other campuses involved in the Play Project. In the meantime, watch for the Play Project blog in these pages for news of who's doing what--and where! And let us hear from you!
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An evil deed is not redeemed by an evil deed of retaliation. Justice is never
advanced in the taking of human life. Morality is never upheld by legalized
murder. 
~ Coretta Scott King
If we execute murderers and there is in fact no deterrent effect, we have
killed a bunch of murderers. If we fail to execute murderers, and doing so
would in fact have deterred other murders, we have allowed the killing of
a bunch of innocent victims. I would much rather risk the former. This, to
me, is not a tough
call.
~ John McAdams, Marquette University
Americans who debate and question government policies and laws do so because
they love this nation and want to see it live up to its true potential. To
engage in vigorous examination of issues that affect us is to live up to the
noble ideas enshrined in our Constitution.
~ Tim Robbins