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11/10/2025: Group Expresses Concerns Ahead of South Carolina Firing Squad Execution

10/08/2025: Indiana Execution is First of Six in Seven Days Across United States as anti #DeathPenalty movement marks #WorldDayAgainstDeathPenalty

06/27/2025: 32nd Fast and Vigil: Largest Annual Execution Protest at U.S. Supreme Court

03/05/2025: Firing Squad Returns As Execution Method - Brother of Last Man Executed by Firing Squad Among Those Protesting South Carolina Execution on Friday

01/08/2025: Over 430 Groups Launch DC Billboards to Honor President Carter's Legacy Opposing the Death Penalty and Urge President Biden to Commute Remaining Death Sentences

12/31/2024: COALITION OF 400+ ORGANIZATIONS RUNNING ADS & BILLBOARDS WITH MESSAGE FOR PRESIDENT BIDEN / Group Seeks to Nudge Biden While on Vacation

12/26/2024: Coalition of 450 Organizations Thanks Biden, Urges him to Commute Remaining Seven Prisoners on Federal and Military Death Rows

11/14/2024: Breaking News: Judge Says Lucio is Innocent

09/26/2024: Littlejohn Spiritual Advisor To Hold Press Conference Immediately Following Execution or Clemency

09/16/2024: Rally to Demand Walter Surface Technologies Ban Gas Masks Manufactured by Allegro Industries During Executions by Nitrogen Suffocation

02/25/2024: Idaho Execution Opponents to Gather Sunday, Tuesday & Wednesday (link not available)

01/25/2024: Advocacy Groups Decry First-Ever Nitrogen Asphyxiation Execution  (link not available)

01/19/2024: ADVOCACY GROUPS CALL FOR HALT TO EXECUTION - Protesters Decry Experimental Execution Method, Urge Sanctions on "Dr. Death" (link not available)

12/13/2023: Spiritual Advisor Sues Alabama Over Religious Freedom At Planned Gas Chamber Execution (link not available)

11/30/2023: Execution Protests Planned As Silence From Stitt Continues (link not available)

10/09/2023: World Day Against the Death Penalty Marred by Possible Texas Execution of Mentally Ill Jewish Man (link not available)

10/05/2023: Thousands Appeal to TX Board of Pardons and Paroles to Halt Pending Execution

08/23/2023: 2024 Candidates Asked to Sign Death Penalty Action Pledge to State Their Positions (link not available)

07/21/2023: Billboard Campaign Urges AG To Reinvestigate Case

07/20/2023: Groups to Deliver Petitions, Hold Prayer Vigils Opposing Resumption of Alabama Executions

07/19/2023: Executions Set to Resume in Oklahoma Following Six-Month Hiatus

06/29/2023: 51st Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia Comes As U.S. Supreme Court Disregards Innocence as “Relevant.”

06/28/2023: Death Row Survivor Raising $100K For Operation to Walk Again

06/27/2023: Jews & Allies Say "NO" to the Angel of Death

06/25/2023: Follow Death Penalty Action Next Seven Days

06/23/2023: Oklahoma Prisoner Anthony Sanchez Rejects Clemency Process

06/14/2023: Death Penalty Action Joins With Broccoli City and Action Network - Announce New Community Campaign

05/25/2023: Oklahoma Investigator To Detail Evidence of Innocence of Anthony Sanchez

05/19/2023: Family of Rodney Reed to Demand Justice After 25 Years of Wrongful Incarceration on Death Row

05/03/2023: National Anti-Death Penalty Leaders To Participate in Restoration of 25 Crosses Erected to Protest Oklahoma Execution Spree

04/19/2023: Ivan Cantu's Execution Date Withdrawn After Two Trial Jurors Call For Halt to Execution and Review of New Evidence

04/19/2023: Two Trial Jurors Call For Halt to Execution and Review of New Evidence // Cantu's Mother, Investigator to Visit Texas State Capitol Building on Today

04/15/2023: Man Next in Line to Be Executed in Texas Files Clemency Application

03/08/2023: Spiritual Advisor Pleads For Arthur Brown’s Life

02/19/2023: Stabbing Victim/Survivor, Former Florida Executioner & Exonerated Death Row Survivors Featured in Mini-Documentary Series; State-wide speaking tour

01/11/2023: Oklahoma Department of Corrections Backs Down on Jeff Hood Complaint

01/09/2023: Scott Eizember & Rev. Dr. Jeff Hood Sue OK Department of Corrections for Violation of Religious Freedom

01/02/2023: Hundreds of Organizations Urge President, AG to Halt Federal & Military Death Penalty

12/12/2022: US Marine Veteran to be Executed in Mississippi

12/11/2022: Iranian/Saudi/Myanmar Other Executions of Protesters Raise Call For President Biden to Vote YES for Global Moratorium

11/19/2022: Family of Innocent/Former Death-Sentenced Ohio Prisoner Kevin Keith to Deliver Petitions to Governor DeWine

11/15/2022: Four Executions in Two Days Indicate US Execution Spike; Protests Planned in Arizona, Texas, Oklahoma & Alabama

11/14/2022: Brother of Ohio Prisoner Kevin Keith Urges Governor DeWine: "Bring my Innocent Brother Home for Thanksgiving."

10/07/2022: Family of Rodney Reed to Attend Prayer Rally Prior to US Supreme Court Argument

08/16/2022: National Death Penalty Opponents To Visit Little Rock

08/03/2022:  Kosoul Chanthakoummane Family/Supporters Announce Press Conference to Halt Execution

06/29/2022: 50th Anniversary of Furman v. Georgia Comes As Executions on the Rise

06/13/2022: Death Penalty Protesters Join #ShutDownSCOTUS Action in DC

04/17/2022: Tennessee Executions Resume This Week

04/12/2022: Melissa Lucio Family Members and Supporters to Attend Hearing (link not available)

03/04/2022: Group Fighting Federal Death Penalty & Former Congresswoman Who Witnessed The Bombing Decry Reinstatement of Death Sentence for Boston Bomber

1/26/2022: "Pick Your Poison," States Demand of Mentally Challenged Prisoners (link not available)

1/16/2022: Federal Death Penalty Protests in DC Set for Martin Luther King Day/45th Anniversary of First Execution (link not available)

1/12/2022: MLK Day Death Penalty Protests in DC/45th Anniversary of First Execution (link not available)

11/18/2021: Will Oklahoma Kill An Innocent Man Today? (link not available)

11/05/2021: Death Penalty Action Delivers Thousands of Petitions, Phone Calls to Governor Stitt Urging Clemency for Julius Jones (link not available)

05/18/2021: Texas May Resume Executions After Longest Hiatus in 40 Years (link not available)

05/07/2021: Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act of 2021 Becomes Bi-Partisan (link not available)

02/26/2021: Death Penalty Action Announces Second Phase of 100 Day Push to Abolish Federal Death Penalty

01/08/2021: Death Penalty Action Delivers Over 500,000+ Signatures

01/03/2021: Regarding Actions and Protests to Scheduled Federal Executions

12/23/2020: Groups Petition Acting U.S. Attorney General Rosen to Rescind Execution Warrants (PDF link not available)

12/18/2020: Second Positive Covid-19 Case of Federal Prisoners with Pending Execution Dates (PDF)

12/04/2020: Virtual Human Rights Conference Focuses on Trump’s Federal Execution Spree

11/24/2020: Execution by Firing Squad “Just Ridiculous” (PDF)

11/19/2020: Orlando Hall federal execution protests - "Death Penalty Abolitionists Stream Live Protests Nationwide" (PDF)