The cruelty is the point

 

Content warning: This email discusses the death penalty

This week, the Republican Governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, signed a bill requiring some people on death row to choose between a firing squad or the electric chair for their own execution.

Make no mistake: the cruelty is the point.

Congress must act with urgency to pass the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act, Ayanna’s transformative bill to abolish the federal death penalty and require re-sentencing of those currently on death row.

Will you become a grassroots co-sponsor of Ayanna’s legislation to end the death penalty on the federal level once and for all?

State-sanctioned murder is not justice, and it never will be. The death penalty — which disproportionately kills people who are Black, Latinx, and poor — does absolutely nothing to make our communities safer. It is a devastating tool of oppression, and it has no place in our society.

That’s why we’re mobilizing the political will necessary to put an end to this draconian, cruel practice on the federal level — and our nationwide movement is gaining momentum.

More than 90 members of Congress and 265 national and grassroots organizations have joined in support of this bill — but Ayanna needs you with her in this fight for justice.

Sign on to become a grassroots co-sponsor of the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act to officially and permanently end the practice of state-sanctioned murder in the federal government.

Together, we will keep up the fight to transform our criminal injustice system.

In solidarity,

The A-Team 

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The death penalty is a draconian, cruel practice that has no place in a just society.

Ayanna needs you in this fight for justice with her. The only way that we will make progress on this important issue is by raising our collective voices, organizing together, and demanding an end to this cruel practice.

Add your name right now to join Ayanna in the fight to end the death penalty on the federal level.

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