The Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty brings together civil and religious organizations in Arkansas to oppose the death penalty and work together to get it replaced with a sentence of Life Without Parole.
So who opposes the death penalty? The people who oppose the death penalty are Republicans and Democrats, Baptists and Jews, poor and rich, black and white. Although we may not agree with each other on the morality of the death penalty, we cannot ignore the realities of the death penalty:
If Arkansas is going to put people to death -- and that means if WE are going to put people to death, because WE are Arkansas -- shouldn't the system be as good as it can possibly be?
Capital punishment is an ineffective deterrent to murder, it’s too costly, and has insufficient protections against wrongful executions. If we eliminate the death penalty for capital murder, then the judge will have to impose a sentence of life without parole upon conviction. Though we share different perspectives on the death penalty, every one of us agrees that Arkansas’ capital punishment system doesn’t work, and that Arkansas is better off without it.
ACTION NEEDED TODAY!!
Arkansas was set to execute its first person in more than four years on March 16, 2010, when Jack Harold Jones, Jr. was scheduled to die. The Arkansas State Supreme Court issued a stay in those proceedings.
Don Davis was scheduled to die April 12, 2010, but the Arkansas State Supreme Court issued a stay just hours before the execution was set to occur due to the serious constitutional issues present in the case. One more execution had been scheduled in Arkansas – Stacey Johnson on May 4, 2010. This execution was also stayed.
Please contact Governor Mike Beebe and ask that he stop any future executions in Arkansas until a thorough review has been done of the Arkansas criminal justice system.
To contact the Governor, please write to Governor Mike Beebe, State Capitol, Room 250, Little Rock, AR 72201 or click here to send him an email.
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Click the above link to read about Cameron Todd Willingham, an innocent man executed in Texas, and then read about our Coalition and join us in Arkansas!