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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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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