Amnesty International has monitored a significant rise in executions as China celebrates the lunar New Year. According to incomplete statistics, there were 200 executions reported in the two weeks leading up to the start of the lunar New Year, February 9.

Learn more:
http://takeaction.amnestyusa.org/ctt.asp?u=677776&l=11929

by Sean Haugh

Liberty For All

02/15/05

There are a whole lot of good reasons to be against the death penalty. I'm sure you've heard them all: it's inhumane; it's used disproportionately against the poor; we could be executing an innocent man; it's expensive; it really doesn't deter crime; and so on. But here's one that maybe you haven't thought of before. The death penalty is just another outrageously overgrown government program. You see, from a Libertarian perspective, it is the nature of government to grow until it's simply out of control...

http://www.libertyforall.net/2005/feb27/Death-Penalty.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp

All day today, January 25, experts from Amnesty International, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, and Center for Policy Alternatives will be answering questions about efforts in the states to halt the death penalty.

Don't miss this opportunity to ask an expert about death penalty legislation and policies today at http://www.movingideas.org/chat/linkchat.php.

You can also learn more about the death penalty and read answers from the panelists at http://www.movingideas.org/chat/deathpenalty.php.

Featured Panelists:

David Elliot, Communications Director, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5997904&url_num=4&url=http://www.ncadp.org/

Bernie Horn, Policy Director, Center for Policy Alternatives
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5997904&url_num=5&url=http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5468501&url_num=6&url=http://www.stateaction.org/

Kristin Houle, Program Associate, Amnesty International USA
http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5997904&url_num=6&url=http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=5468501&url_num=7&url=http://www.amnestyusa.org/

I hope you will join us for this powerful discussion about state opposition to the death penalty!


Diana Onken

Strategy Director, Moving Ideas



Online Chat: Opposition to the Death Penalty

Read the transcript from the Moving Ideas and Amnesty International online chat about opposition to the death penalty in the states.

http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/track.jsp?key=6053513&url_num=4&url=http://www.movingideas.org/chat/deathpenalty.php