Here's How You Abolish the Death Penalty
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Hi Friend,
Rob Poggenklass is Executive Director of Justice Forward Virginia, a public-defender led nonprofit that promotes criminal justice reform through smart, contemporary, evidence-informed policy advocacy. In this 11-minute video, Poggenklass explains how Virginia abolished the death penalty and how other states can too.
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The death penalty's slow death is accelerating. At least 140 nations no longer use it. No nation in Europe uses the death penalty. No nation in the Western Hemisphere uses it, except the United States.
RootsAction activists were part of a campaign that succeeded in ending the death penalty in Virginia. Now 23 U.S. states, plus Washington, D.C., have abolished the death penalty, and 6 more have imposed moratoriums. That leaves 21 states yet to go, most of which have effectively stopped using capital punishment, but just not abolished it.
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The RootsAction Team
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