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SIGN THE PETITION!Save California $1 billion in five years by suspending the death penalty and using permanent imprisonment instead.  [Read More]


Job OpportunityCalifornia Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is hiring a Victim Outreach Coordinator for Southern California. [Read More]


New Report Shows that Cameron Todd Willingham, Executed in Texas in 2004, Was Innocent An exhaustive new investigative report shows that Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas in 2004, was innocent. The report comes three years after the Innocence Project released analysis from some of the nation's leading forensic experts who found that the central evidence against ... [Read More]



Italian Catholics Changed My Perspective on the Death PenaltyI was not always against the death penalty. Like earthquakes, I accepted the death penalty as part of life in California. Growing up as a Catholic in Modesto, and then attending college at UCLA, including attending services at the Newman Center, I never heard my parents, teachers or priests talk ... [Read More]
Clergy and Faith Community Mobilization ProjectThis project seeks to identify, energize and mobilize clergy and the faith community in California against the death penalty.  [Read More]
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