take action NY Senate voted on death penalty again today
Mon Jul 16, 2007 at 07:54:53 PM PDT
Despite the fact that New York leads the nation with Texas in wrongful convictions, the New York Senate came back today for a special one day session and passed a death penalty bill for cop killers. This was the same bill they passed just two months ago. In the wake of the tragic deaths of several police officers the Senate responded with a cynical and empty gesture.
NY leads in wrongful convictions and Senate votes for death penalty
Wed Jun 20, 2007 at 02:21:01 PM PDT
Today, the New York State Senate on its second to last day of session decided to waste time on voting for a new death penalty bill that has no chance of passing. This is despite the fact that New York has the dubious distinction of leading the nation with Texas in wrongful convictions.
New York Take Action death penalty vote
Thu May 03, 2007 at 05:12:37 PM PDT
We need your help. Please call your elected State representatives today.
Ask 5 friends to do the same. The New York Senate is voting on Tuesday!
In the aftermath of the murder of another state trooper, Trooper David
C. Brinkerhoff, Albany pols are calling for a return of the death
penalty. Once again, some members of the State Senate as well as some
in the State Assembly are misusing a tragic event.
Action Alert NY Residents
Thu Jun 08, 2006 at 09:25:44 AM PDT
NY State Senate to vote on reinstatement of the death penalty early next week. They are doing this with no hope of it actually passing in the Assembly just as a dividing and base building tool
Politics and the death penalty
Thu Apr 20, 2006 at 06:26:50 PM PDT
When you see a political candidate in the United States who opposes the death penalty it tells you a lot more about that person than just their view on this issue. Why? Because the death penalty in the United States is used as a political football. Given that poll after poll shows that most Americans ignore the details of how the death penalty is used in the United States, there is no upside for a politician to be against getting rid of murderers. Everyone wants to say they want death for the child molester, the terrorist and the serial killers. A politician who takes the unpopular stand against the death penalty is showing the world that when he/she is asked to have a stance on a life and death issue he/she is willing to act on principal despite current popular opinion. That is what I look for in a candidate.
