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The Other Death Penalty Project |
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for immediate RELEASE:
Act NOW to abolish LWOP! Join our letter writing
campaigns to elected officials and death penalty abolitionists, and submit an
essay for consideration for inclusion in our anthology, “Too Cruel; Not Unusual
Enough.” Learn more by
clicking here. Our Mission
A sentence of life
without the possibility of parole is a death sentence. Worse, it is a long,
slow, dissipating death sentence without any of the legal or administrative
safeguards rightly awarded to those condemned to the traditional forms of
execution. It exposes our society’s concealed beliefs that redemption and
personal transformation are not possible for all human beings, and that it
is reasonable and just to forever define an individual by his worst act.
Life without the possibility of parole is wrong and should be abolished.
The Other Death Penalty Project’s immediate goals are to raise awareness of the basic unfairness of the life without parole sentence and to organize the tens of thousands of men and women serving “the other death penalty.” Our ultimate goal is to see the permanent end to the use of this form of state-sanctioned execution (along with all other forms), resulting in all life term prisoners having, at least, the possibility of parole. The Other Death Penalty Project is led and comprised solely of prisoners serving life without the possibility of parole. We are thankful to those free people who have offered us their invaluable help.
ATTENTION
FRIENDS AND FAMILY MEMBERS OF LIFE WITHOUT
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