death penalty reform

Death Penalty Reform

Submitted by admin on Mon, 01/01/2007 - 12:00pm.

The ACLU consistently ranks reform of the death penalty among our highest priorities. This subject area is comprised of postings related to efforts to address the facts that we have executed persons later shown to be innocent and that the death penalty is inequitably applied to persons of color and of limited means. Our eventual goal is to accomplish the abolition of the death penalty in the United States as a cruel and unusual punishment.


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$100 A Day -A Film Showing and Panel Discussion with Senator Joe Simitian

Submitted by Jesse McLaren on Wed, 03/03/2010 - 1:14pm.

 The Santa Cruz Chapter of the ACLU Announces

$100 A Day -A Film Showing and Panel Discussion with Senator Joe Simitian. Filmmaker Gwen Essegian and Rick Walker. Click here for event details.


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Prison Industrial Complex Awareness Week

Submitted by Richard Hausman on Tue, 05/13/2008 - 1:05pm.

The Inside Out Writing Project has set up a weeklong event entitled Prison Industrial Complex Awareness Week. ACLU-Santa Cruz Chapter has signed on as a sponsor of this event. Throughout the week of May 19th through May 24th events will take place on the UCSC campus with the following goals in mind:


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Talk by Natasha Minsker

Mar 22 2007 - 7:30pm
Mar 22 2007 - 9:00pm

A Strategy for Abolishing the Death Penalty.

Natasha Minsker, director of the ACLU of Northern California’s Death Penalty Policy program, will talk about challenging capital punishment from a policy perspective.

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ACLU position on the death penalty

Submitted by admin on Sat, 03/10/2007 - 11:25am.

The ACLU of Northern California is actively engaged in efforts to abolish the death penalty. Much of this effort revolves around educating people on such issues as wrongful convictions, uneven application among racial and ethnic groups, and the worldwide movement to abolish the death penalty. (Over 100 countries no longer apply a death penalty to criminals.)

wrongfully convicted?


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