KACZYNSKI TO SENATE: LISTEN TO YOUR CONSTITUENTS! THEY VOTE NO TO RESTORING DEATH PENALTY.
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(From an NYADP press release dated June 18 2008.)
Republican state senators who today cynically voted to reinstate the death penalty – a move they know has no chance of becoming law – should listen to their own constituents who have overwhelmingly told them they do not support the death penalty in on-line polls the senators posted.
“Senators should listen to their own constituents who, like the majority of all New Yorkers, have learned that we can live without the death penalty,” said David Kaczynski, Executive Director of New Yorkers Against the Death Penalty, which collected the information from the senator’s own websites. See entire press release.
DEFACTO NATIONAL MORATORIUM ON DEATH PENALTY ENDS
by Suzanne Schnittman
Member, NYADP Board of Directors
Two developments last fall gave the death penalty abolition movement a few months of breathing space. Now that artificial “moratorium” has ground to a halt, both in New York State and across the nation. more
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Kaczynski hails abolition of death penalty in New Jersey. New York State achieved de facto abolition in October. 12.17.07
What New Yorkers say about reinstating death penalty. 10.07
New York is the national leader in this decade in DNA-based exonerations. 10.18.07
Court of Appeals finds NY death penalty Is still unconstitutional. 10.23.07
Ronell Wilson case exemplifies growing use of federal death penalty in New York State. 5.07
Statement by David Kaczynski on eighth exoneration in New York State in a year. 1.23.07
Additional stories on our News and Coming Events pages.
Also by David Kaczynski
On New York’s shameful record as a national leader in wrongful convictions. 10.18.07
On renewed calls for State death penalty. 4.25.07
On Commission Call for Abolition in New Jersey. 1.2.07
On freeing of Peekskill inmate wrongly jailed for 17 years. 9.20.06
In Memorium. 9.6.06