Friend,

The last six months of Trump’s presidency involved a hasty killing spree of people on death row. After a nearly 20-year hiatus of federal executions, the Trump administration resumed them last summer with a fervor.

Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote: "To put that in historical context, the Federal Government will have executed more than three times as many people in the last six months than it had in the previous six decades."

This callous disregard for human life is especially horrifying when you consider that a growing number of states have banned or stopped capital punishment, and public support for the death penalty keeps dropping.

Please sign now to tell President Joe Biden: Stop all current federal executions, call for the resentencing of people who are currently sentenced to death, and prohibit U.S. Attorneys from seeking the death penalty.

My sister Rep. Ayanna Pressley, who has been leading on this issue, explained: “State-sanctioned murder is not justice, and the death penalty, which kills Black and brown people disproportionately, has absolutely no place in our society.”

Research also shows that capital punishment does not deter crime and at least 1 in 25 people sentenced to death are innocent.

Our criminal legal system is badly broken and requires many changes. But the death penalty is particularly vengeful, cruel, and barbaric—and it does not make our communities safer. There’s no reason at all to continue it.

And President Joe Biden can take action now to ensure that there’s no one left on death row to kill. While campaigning, he promised to eliminate the federal death penalty and to incentivize states to stop seeking death sentences. We now urgently need him to fulfill that promise.

Sign now to call on President Joe Biden: Halt all federal executions by commuting (or lessening) the sentences of people on death row, ensuring each person can undergo a re-sentencing process, and prohibiting the Department of Justice from punishing people with death sentences.

Thank you,

Rashida