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Take a Stand Against Capital Punishment
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Support a Worthy Cause
An Eye for and Eye .....         Would leave the world blind
Henry FordCapital punishment is as fundamentally wrong as a cure for crime as charity is wrong as a cure for poverty.
Jesse JacksonCapital punishment turns the state into a murderer. But imprisonment turns the state into a gay dungeon-master.
Canada Library Online: The removal of capital punishment from the Canadian Criminal Code in 1976 has not led to an increase in the murder rate in Canada. In fact, Statistics Canada reports that the murder rate for 2001 stayed stable for the third year in a row at approximately 1.8 homicides for every 100,000 population.

Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun: From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. . . . I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually self-evident to me now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive regulations ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional deficiencies.

Jim Lobe,OneWorld US A ban on the execution of child offenders in the United States--favored by a growing public consensus--is the next frontier for the death penalty abolitionist movement, according to Amnesty International, which is leading a campaign to end executions worldwide.

 

My Mission
  • To inform as many as I can with a website to educate others about the injustice in the death penalty.
  • To be an active advocate against the death penalty and encourage others to be an  activist for this worthy cause

What can you do to support this cause?

1. speak out against capital punishment
2. write your congressman
3. become informed and start a national petition http://www.ccadp.org
4. support amnesty international enghttp://www.amnesty.ca/support_amnesty
Just think.......

If you were wrongfully convicted of murder and sentenced to death!
Once the sentence is served it is too late to say "sorry" when a mistake is discovered. This has happened! Below are a sample of such Canadian cases where we see how fortunate Canadians do not believe in the death penalty 

David Milgaard - sentenced to life imprisonment for the 1969 murder of Gail Miller, a Saskatoon nursing aide. Milgaard spent 22 years in prison, The Supreme Court set aside Milgaard's conviction in 1992, and he was cleared by DNA evidence in 1997.

Donald Marshall Jr. - convicted of the 1971 stabbing murder of Sandy Seale in Sydney, Nova Scotia. Marshall was acquitted in 1983 after spending 11 years in prison.

Guy Paul Morin - sentenced to life imprisonment in 1992 for the first-degree murder of nine-year-old neighbour Christine Jessop, Morin was exonerated in 1996 by DNA testing. 

Thomas Sophonow - tried three times and convicted twice of the 1981 murder of donut shop waitress Barbara Stoppel in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Both convictions were overturned on appeal, and the Supreme Court of Canada prevented a fourth trial of Sophonow. DNA evidence cleared Sophonow in 2000.

Clayton Johnson - convicted in 1993 of the first-degree murder of his wife. In 2002, the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal overturned the conviction and ordered a new trial. The Crown said it had no new evidence and Johnson was set free.