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Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty
(CADP), formerly Coloradans Against the Death Penalty,
is a nonprofit organization dedicated
to making our justice system more effective
by establishing smart alternatives that abolish
capital punishment. We are concerned
citizens, religious leaders, political leaders,
criminal defense lawyers, and relatives of murder
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Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty will have booths at most of the major 2012 summer festivals. We'll be in Denver, Colorado Springs, and Fort Collins. See the schedule of summer festivals.
Volunteers are needed for these summer festivals. Sign-up for a two-hour slot and help staff our information booth at a festival this summer. Fun, sun, and death penalty education! All events are free and open to the public. Please email us at organizer@coadp.org or give us a call at (303) 495-2910 to sign up for one or more of the festival dates. (5/17/12, CADP)
The US state of Texas is likely to have executed an innocent man due to careless handling of the case, a report by US law students claims. Carlos de Luna was killed by lethal injection in 1989 for the brutal murder of a single mother six years earlier. Right up until his execution, de Luna maintained a fellow Hispanic called Carlos Hernandez was the real culprit. The Columbia University report backs his claim. It says "shoddy police work" probably led to the wrong man dying. (5/16/12, BBC)
It caught our attention that a high-profile injustice here in Colorado was being reported on and shared among those opposed to the death penalty nationwide. But why? Robert Dewey was not among the three men sitting on Colorado's death row. ... So someone who used to pursue the worst murderers in court witnessed an imperfect system, the 130 exonerated death row inmates experienced an imperfect system, and Dewey was a victim of it for 18 years. Colorado should join Connecticut and other states that have eliminated the death penalty. (5/6/12, Editorial by The Daily Camera)
Related story:
Exonerated Coloradan Mulls Release From Prison
New CADP Web Site Coming Soon
Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty will soon be launching a brand new Web site. We're currently hard at work on the new site and hoping it will be ready real soon. Check back and see. (5/14/12, CADP)
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Gov. Dannel P. Malloy quietly signed a new law Wednesday that ends the state's death penalty for future crimes, making Connecticut the 17th state to abolish capital punishment. The Democrat signed the bill behind closed doors, without fanfare. An aide said Malloy was surrounded by lawmakers, clergy and family members of murder victims. While he called it "an historic moment," Malloy said in a written statement that it was a moment "for sober reflection, not celebration." (4/25/12, The Denver Post)
A recent editorial in the New York Times called Connecticut's decision to repeal the death penalty part of "a growing movement against capital punishment." The editorial attributed the trend away from the death penalty to new research that shows "gross injustice in its application and enormous costs in continuing to impose it."
... Ultimately, the paper concluded, it would be better to abolish the death penalty entirely. (4/16/12, DPIC Update)
Coloradans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty Foundation (CADPF) is working to educate the community about the problems with the death penalty in Colorado. The focus of our work is education and grassroots organizing. CADPF will use public educational forums, grassroots leadership trainings, rallies, media relations, and coalition building as tools to support the campaign. This team of project organizers will be responsible for developing and implementing a plan of systematic outreach to communities of color, communities of faith, law enforcement, conservative groups, and surviving family members of murder victims, under the direction of the CADPF's executive director and an advisory committee made up of coalition partners. See job description. (4/9/12, CADP)
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the community. Want to learn more about the death
penalty - and safe, sensible alternatives? Your
group can line up a free informative speaker
for its next event, borrow an educational video,
or combine the two. Get more information about our
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"Society changes. Knowledge accumulates.
We learn, sometimes, from our mistakes. Punishments
that did not seem cruel and unusual at one
time may, in the light of reason and experience,
be found cruel and unusual at a later time."
-- John Paul Stevens, retired Supreme Court
Justice
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