To take a life when a life has been lost is revenge, not justice.
Desmond Tutu
The death penalty is a poor person's issue. Always remember that: after all the rhetoric that goes on in the legislative assemblies, in the end, when the deck is cast out, it is the poor who are selected to die in this country.
Sister Helen Prejean
He who is without sin among you, let him throw a stone at her first.
Jesus of Nazareth (John 8:7)
This November, voters will have the opportunity to organize and mobilize and to cast our votes for a more humane and fiscally prudent criminal justice system in California. On Thursday, June 21, Witness To Innocence will be making an appearance at Sacred Heart Catholic Church in Los Angeles at 6:30. Witness is dedicated to giving voice to former death row prisoners who were wrongfully convicted by states. It is well known that the sentencing involved with the death penalty is racist (black and brown men are overwhelmingly overrepresented) and far more expensive than life-in-prison (due to the appeals process and the mandating of one prisoner per cell). CA has more than 700 prisoners on death row and the state has killed 13 prisoners in the past 23 years, costing the state an extra $4 billion.
Join us next Thursday as we listen to the testimonies of death row survivors!
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A 2007 study of death sentences in Connecticut conducted by Yale University School of Law revealed that African-American defendants receive the death penalty at three times the rate of white defendants in cases where the victims are white.
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