PRESS RELEASES
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PRESS RELEASES (in PDF)
11/10/2025: Group Expresses Concerns Ahead of South Carolina Firing Squad Execution
06/27/2025: 32nd Fast and Vigil: Largest Annual Execution Protest at U.S. Supreme Court
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
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
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
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
11/19/2022: Family of Innocent/Former Death-Sentenced Ohio Prisoner Kevin Keith to Deliver Petitions to Governor DeWine
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)
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)