Brutal and inhumane punishment

 

The death penalty needs to be abolished.

South Carolina just signed a bill into law that forces incarcerated folks on death row to choose between a firing squad or the electric chair. That is brutal and inhumane.

	Charles Booker  @Booker4KY
	This is brutal, inhumane, and does nothing to deter crime. The death penalty needs to be abolished. Axios  @axios JUST IN: South Carolina Gov. Henry McMaster signed a bill today to require death row inmates to choose between firing squad or the electric chair.

A 2016 study found that 71.6% of Kentuckians agree that the capital punishment system risks executing the innocent — and, in fact, at least 155 people in the U.S. have been wrongfully convicted and sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit.

We now have the opportunity to end the death penalty on the federal level. If you agree it’s time to end the cruelty of capital punishment, will you add your name in support of ending the death penalty once and for all?

In Kentucky, a two-year review on capital punishment in the state by a team of Kentucky attorneys found an error rate of more than 60 percent on death penalty cases – meaning most death sentences have been overturned on appeal by Kentucky or federal courts.¹

The review also found that there were no statewide standards governing the qualifications and training of attorneys appointed to handle capital cases, an absence of uniform standards on eyewitness identifications and interrogations, and no requirement that evidence in criminal cases be retained as long as a defendant remains incarcerated.

The death penalty, which kills Black and Brown people disproportionately, does absolutely nothing to make our communities or our country safer.

Add your name now to show your support for ending the death penalty on the federal level.

This practice must end, and the only way to make progress on this issue is by raising our collective voices and demanding an end to this brutal and inhumane punishment.

Thank you,

Team Booker

 The Death Penalty in Kentucky

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