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. […]
Join Jalissa Fletcher, Pastor Stephen Latham, and Antonio Serrano for a conversation about racial injustices within Wyoming's death penalty system.
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.
The Wyoming Interfaith Network and Conservatives Concerned About the Death Penalty hosted an online forum with murder victim's family member, Christal Martin.
Leaders in the faith community have unique voices in matters of justice. Many have been lifting their voices in these last several months as our country has grappled with the COVID-19 pandemic, an economic crisis, and the systemic racism that saturates our criminal legal system.
Christal Martin, who lost both her mother and her husband to murder, is speaking out against the death penalty and in favor of more resources for families of murder victims.
Join us on October 29th at 6:00 pm via Zoom to hear from the family member of two murder victims.
Wyoming State Representative and death penalty repeal sponsor Jared Olsen write about why he is committed to ending the death penalty.