Help NJ take the lead against the death penalty!

For years, the abolition of capital punishment in the United States has been high on our list of priorities. Now, we have the chance to do so in our state and thus set a precedent for the rest of the country! As expected, the New Jersey State Legislature is going to vote on bills to abolish the death penalty in December. This vote comes as the culmination of years of activism that led to a moratorium on capital punishment and the creation of an official commission that recommended overturning the death penalty! Now that victory is within our reach, we need to remind our lawmakers to vote to end capital punishment. It would be a shame to lose this vote after so much dedicated action!

Please send letter letters to your representatives in the State Senate and the Assembly. You can find out who they are and how to contact them by clicking HERE. Short, handwritten letters would be great. The message is simple: As a resident of your district, I strongly urge you to sponsor and support S171/A795 to abolish capital punishment in New Jersey. You can also include reasons why you are against the death penalty, such as:

The New Jersey Death Penalty Study Commission recommended replacing the death penalty with life without parole.
Capital punishment is not an effective deterrent.
Killing is wrong, whether it done by individuals or the state.
Wrongful executions can not be corrected, and we can never be one-hundred percent sure that a condemned prisoner is guilty because courts have convicted innocent people.
Revenge does not bring the victims of violent crime back.
Supposedly “humane” execution methods such as lethal injection can result in agonizing deaths.

Please also keep an eye out for media coverage of this issue and send in letters to newspapers supporting the abolition of capital punishment!