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    TAKE ACTION: Pledge To Fight The Death Penalty -- And Ask Your Senators To Join You

    In America, policymakers only seem to take action when something terrible has happened.  Well, something terrible happened this week:  Troy Davis, whose guilt was never proved, was executed in Georgia. Thankfully, Davis’s execution is renewing calls to overturn the death penalty. 

    Former Senator Russ Feingold introduced legislation to abolish the capital punishment -- but nobody's carried the torch since he left office in January:  No Senator appears to have introduced anti-death penalty legislation this session.

    Please use the form at right to both sign Amnesty International's anti-death penalty pledge (below) and to urge your Senators to introduce legislation to end the death penalty.

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    Amnesty International's pledge to fight the death penalty:

    The state of Georgia shamefully executed Troy Davis on September 21, 2011 despite serious doubts about his guilt.

    But Not In My Name.

    While a majority of the world – more than 65% of all countries – has abolished the death penalty in law or practice, the United States remains one of the top countries responsible for executing people.

    Not In My Name.

    Officials continue to allow this deeply-flawed, extremely arbitrary and severely-biased (both economically and racially) system to run rampant without checks, balances or concern for moral decency.

    Not In My Name.

    Guilty or innocent every person is a human being with human rights. Executions are always wrong.

    I won't stand for it.

    THE DEATH PENALTY MUST BE ABOLISHED. I take this pledge because human rights and human lives are on the line.

    Just fill out the form at right to sign the pledge and send an email to your lawmakers.

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