THE FACTS
Since 1973, at least 190 people have been freed after evidence revealed that they were sentenced to DIE for crimes they did not commit.
The death penalty can cost up to ten times more than life without parole because of the additional preparation in capital cases, the separate sentencing phase, many appeals, and more.
There is currently no one on Wyoming’s death row, and yet the state still spends hundreds of thousands of dollars every year, just to have the death penalty.
THE CAMPAIGN
We are a diverse group of individuals who come from different organizations working to end the death penalty in Wyoming in 2021.
The death penalty’s history of deep injustices, skyrocketing costs and entrenched discrimination defies party lines. Repealing the death penalty in Wyoming will help eliminate racial and jurisdictional bias, reduce unnecessary waste of tax dollars and eliminate the risk of executing innocent people.
It’s time to end the death penalty in Wyoming!
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Innocence and the death penalty
This summer, I’m going to be sending a series of monthly educational newsletters highlighting all of the different components of, and flaws with, the death penalty. This month I’d like to touch on the issue of innocence and the death penalty. As long as the death penalty exists, there will always be the risk of executing an innocent person. This is a big reason why I am against the death penalty. […]
Racial Injustice & the Wyoming Death Penalty: A Conversation.
Join Jalissa Fletcher, Pastor Stephen Latham, and Antonio Serrano for a conversation about racial injustices within Wyoming's death penalty system.
Victims for Repeal: Part Two
Watch Christal Martin and Susan DeBree share their personal stories of loss and perseverance and why they are opposed to the death penalty as murder victims' family members.
Keine: My execution was scheduled before real killer confessed
From Writer's on the Range in the Casper Star Tribune: I am a lifelong conservative Republican whose faith in the criminal justice system was shattered by my near-death experience with it. I came within nine days of being sent to the gas chamber for a crime I did not commit.