Content warning: This email discusses the death penalty
This week, the Republican Governor of South Carolina, Henry McMaster, signed a bill requiring some people on death row to choose between a firing squad or the electric chair for their own execution.
Make no mistake: the cruelty is the point.
Congress must act with urgency to pass the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act, Ayanna’s transformative bill to abolish the federal death penalty and require re-sentencing of those currently on death row.
State-sanctioned murder is not justice, and it never will be. The death penalty — which disproportionately kills people who are Black, Latinx, and poor — does absolutely nothing to make our communities safer. It is a devastating tool of oppression, and it has no place in our society.
That’s why we’re mobilizing the political will necessary to put an end to this draconian, cruel practice on the federal level — and our nationwide movement is gaining momentum.
More than 90 members of Congress and 265 national and grassroots organizations have joined in support of this bill — but Ayanna needs you with her in this fight for justice.
Together, we will keep up the fight to transform our criminal injustice system.
In solidarity,
The A-Team
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