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Wednesday, 13 February 2008
From Sister Helen Prejean, Founder
Welcome to The Moratorium Campaign.
Ever since my first book, Dead Man Walking, was published I have been traveling across the country giving talks, helping people to see through the illusions of the death penalty and call for its termination. Every talk I give ends with an invitation for citizens to sign a petition calling for a moratorium on government killings, and people have signed, in the hundreds of thousands.
Now, with the completion of my second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, The Moratorium Campaign is working with renewed vigor to deepen the discourse around the death penalty and to bring about moratoria across the USA.
We see a number of states, including New Mexico, New Jersey and New York, seriously contemplating either a moratorium or the complete abolition of the death penalty. We see the number of innocent people exonerated from death row now 117 and growing. We see mounting evidence that convinces even proponents of the death penalty that the system is seriously flawed.
Here, at The Moratorium Campaign, we are working to see every state declare a moratorium on executions. We are currently mapping out a plan of action to help people throughout the country take solid, practical steps towards achieving a moratorium in their state.
As part of that plan of action, we are redesigning and refocusing this Web site. So please check back soon to find out what you can do to help end state killings.
See the site and sign the Moratorium Campaign Petition: