Kentucky Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty

Almost 2,000 people tell Kentucky’s governor and legislators to abolish the death penalty–-here’s what they’re saying

Zach Everson — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 14:28:11 +0000

Almost 2,000 people—mostly from Kentucky—have signed this petition to abolish Kentucky’s death penalty. If you haven’t done so yet, please let your legislators know you favor ending Kentucky’s broken, risky, and costly death penalty by signing it now. Here are some of the comments Kentuckians—from different political parties, religions, family members of murder victims, pro-life [...]

Catholic Mobilizing Network’s newsletter highlight’s Kentucky’s death penalty abolition efforts

Zach Everson — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 18:11:59 +0000

KCADP chair Rev. Pat Delahanty penned this article on Kentucky’s death penalty abolition efforts for the Catholic Mobilizing Network‘s January 2012 e-newsletter: In 1964, Kentucky Governor, Ned Breathitt, convened a panel of distinguished Kentuckians to study the death penalty and make a recommendation regarding its use. The majority of that panel voted to recommend abolition [...]

Gov. Beshear: Abolishing broken, costly death penalty would lessen your ‘painful’ budget cuts

Zach Everson — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 13:59:50 +0000

Last week the Louisville Courier-Journal published this letter to the editor by KCADP’s coordinator and treasurer, Kaye Gallagher: Last week, Gov. Steve Beshear released a budget that “requires painful cuts that may well force us to retreat on some core services and that risk jeopardizing progress we’ve made over decades in education.” These cuts affect [...]

Kentucky legislators—both death penalty supporters and opponents—consider moratorium

Zach Everson — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 13:50:35 +0000

From today’s Louisville Courier-Journal’s “Kentucky lawmakers weigh execution halt, task force“: Executions in Kentucky could be halted for a year or more if lawmakers decide to form a task force to study how the system works and correct problems with how death penalty cases are handled, legislators said Wednesday.Members of the House Judiciary Committee said [...]

Help promote the petition to end Kentucky’s death penalty

Zach Everson — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 19:00:59 +0000

To promote the petition to abolish Kentucky’s death penalty—1,870 signers and counting—the petition’s organizer is making a video. You can help! Download a full-size .pdf of the sign show to the right here. Take a photo of yourself holding the photo. Email the photo to staff@kcadp.org (we’ll forward them to the organizer) Thanks!

ABA Kentucky Assessment Team to report its findings to House Judiciary Committee on Jan. 25

Pat Delahanty — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 15:00:43 +0000

House Judiciary Committee Chairperson Rep. John Tilley (D-Christian and Trigg) has invited members of the ABA Death Penalty Moratorium Implementation Project to testify before the committee. We reported in December that this team’s two-year investigation found many severe flaws in the process as practiced in Kentucky and made several unanimous recommendations. One recommendation is that [...]

Action needed: Kentuckians, ask your state senator and state rep to support SB63 and HB145

Pat Delahanty — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 19:29:28 +0000

The Kentucky General Assembly is back in Frankfort—now is the time to contact legislators and encourage our friends to do the same. HB 145: Abolish the death penalty for people with severe mental illness In the State House of Representatives, Rep. Darryl Owens (D-Jefferson County) filed HB 145 to end the death penalty for people [...]

1,870 and counting tell Kentucky’s governor and legislators to abolish the death penalty–join them!

Zach Everson — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:55:40 +0000

So far 1,870 people, mostly Kentuckians, have signed this this online petition asking Gov. Steve Beshear and state representatives and senators to abolish the death penalty in Kentucky. If you haven’t done so yet, please sign the petition today. It takes just 30 seconds. Thanks!

New testimonial to abolish the death penalty: ‘This is no sporting event’

Pat Delahanty — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 18:47:14 +0000

Rev. Tanya J. Tyler, an ordained minister with the Disciples of Christ, offers a beautiful reflection on what is lost when we use the death penalty as punishment for murder. Her deep faith in God’s power and in Jesus Christ leads her to conclude we should not be participating in additional acts of violence. KCADP [...]

Republican-nominated Calif. Supreme Court Chief Justice declares that state’s death penalty ‘not effective’

Zach Everson — Thu, 05 Jan 2012 20:43:45 +0000

From the Los Angeles Times’s “California chief justice urges reevaluating death penalty“: Chief Justice Tani Cantil-Sakauye, who heads the state’s judicial branch and its highest court, said in an interview that the death penalty is no longer effective in California and suggested she would welcome a public debate on its merits and costs… “I don’t [...]