World Week Against the Death Penalty

by Jonathan Perri · 2011-10-10 15:14:00 UTC
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Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty.

At Change.org, we know that ending the death penalty is an issue important to many Change.org members and we invite you to use this entire week to take action on campaigns from around the world and make your unique contribution in defending human rights.

In 2010, 23 countries carried out executions - an action that can never be reversed. This year the stories of Troy Davis (executed in the US), Alireza Molla-Soltani (a 17 year old boy hanged in Iran) and of many others continue to remind us that our countries are doing something extremely wrong and inhumane in the name of justice.

To start things off, RSVP to our Facebook Event and start sharing campaigns, telling your stories, and finding out how others are helping to end the death penalty throughout the world. Be sure to invite your friends to join you this week!

Thousands of groups and individuals worldwide work together to abolish death penalty, and here are a few ways that you can help:

1. Take Action on Featured Campaigns Against the Death Penalty at Change.org:

Iranian Government: Release Youcef Nadarkhani
http://www.change.org/petitions/iranian-government-release-youcef-nadarkhani-2

End The Death Penalty: 130 Sent to Death Row Later Proved Innocent
http://www.change.org/petitions/end-the-death-penalty-130-sent-to-death-row-later-proved-innocent

Give Yong Vui Kong a Second Chance
http://www.change.org/petitions/give-yong-vui-kong-a-second-chance

Grant DNA Testing to Hank Skinner on Death Row
http://www.change.org/petitions/in-the-interest-of-justice-grant-dna-testing-to-hank-skinner

Urge President Obama to Free Mumia Abu Jamal
http://www.change.org/petitions/urge-president-obama-to-free-mumia-abu-jamal

Tell Uganda to Back Off Extremely Anti-Gay Legislation
http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-uganda-to-back-off-extremely-anti-gay-legislation

End Death Sentencing in LA County
http://www.change.org/petitions/end-death-sentencing-in-la-county 

Plea to cancel the death sentence wrongly given to innocent Tamils
http://www.change.org/petitions/plea-to-cancel-the-death-sentence-wrongly-given-to-innocent-tamils-rajiv-ghandy-assassination

Tell Walmart: Intervene Before Labor Activists Are Sentenced to Death
http://www.change.org/petitions/tell-walmart-intervene-before-labor-activists-are-sentenced-to-death

2. Search through our petitions at http://www.change.org/ by entering 'death penalty' or 'capital punishment' to find hundreds of other initiatives. 

3. Start your own campaign against the death penalty at http://www.change.org/. 

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