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Bomani Shakur from Ohio’s Death Row: Racism is evil – kill...

They won’t cut your fingers off these days, or hoist your body over a bonfire; worse, they’ll give you what appears to be a fair trial, then find you guilty with no evidence to support the verdict, then throw you in solitary confinement for decades (until you either lose your mind or exhaust your appeals), then strap you down to a gurney and pump poison through your veins – and, worst of all, after all is said and done, they’ll call it justice!

Last minute appeal from death row: Vote No on 34 to...

If Proposition 34 passes, it will endorse everything that is wrong with the criminal justice system and allow the appeals of innocent people on death row to go unheard. It will take away the one guarantee, through habeas counsel, that death row prisoners have to be able to clear their names and prove their innocence. Vote No on Prop 34; do not destroy due process rights.

NAACP LDF joins Mumia Abu-Jamal’s defense team

On Jan. 28, 2011, Mumia Abu-Jamal, the world’s best known death-row prisoner, retained the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund to represent him in the ongoing appeal of his capital murder conviction and death sentence.