Death Penalty Action
@DeathPenaltyAct
Death Penalty Action provides high visibility anti-death penalty resources, support, educational and direct-action events and activities.
🎨 Calling all creatives! DPA is redesigning the movement’s uniform—and we want YOUR art on our next shirt. Submit your design by August 31 👉 bit.ly/DPAShirtContest #JusticeCantWait #AbolishTheDeathPenalty
Ready to level up your activism? 💥 We’re launching TWO new volunteer teams—starting with the Social Media Action Team—and we need passionate people like you to help us #StopExecutions. Sign up now 👉 actionnetwork.org/forms/social-m… #JusticeCantWait
Some current updates and stats on the death penalty in Nevada today.
New questions emerge over DNA evidence in the 1983 Chino Hills murders case of Kevin Cooper. Critics accuse the state's review of bias, citing forensic discrepancies and racial bias concerns. Cooper remains on death row despite doubts about his guilt. #kevincooper,…
New: #RobertRoberson, facing execution for a crime that never occurred, asks TX CCA to stay his Oct. 16 execution in “shaken baby syndrome” innocence case. Read more here: tinyurl.com/26d72apc
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BREAKING: Robert Roberson’s attorneys filed two motions this morning asking the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals to stay his Oct. 16 execution and to hear oral argument to review the mountain of new evidence in his case never reviewed by the court. bit.ly/3ID9Nv5
Now more than ever, we need to look out for each other.❤️ Shared from @littlejusticeleaders.
🔥 This episode is one you can’t afford to miss. Abe and Alli from DPA break down myths, expose truths, and call out the system on Secrets of the Underworld. They get real about what it’s like to take on a system designed to destroy. 🎧 Tune in now: open.spotify.com/episode/470Sl9…
Could Indiana approve firing squads? Several state lawmakers have suggested legislation, but it’s unclear whether Republican leadership will back the effort. indianacapitalchronicle.com/2025/07/18/a-h… @INCapChronicle @SmithCaseyA @INAbolition #deathpenalty
Judge orders Tennessee to turn off death-row prisoner Byron Black’s heart-regulating implanted device at execution. apnews.com/article/execut… @AP @JonathanMattise @Tndeathpenalty #deathpenalty
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BREAKING: Texas schedules Oct. 16 execution date for #RobertRoberson. He would become the first person in the U.S. executed based on the widely-discredited “shaken baby” hypothesis. innocenceproject.org/news/breaking-…
💔 The death penalty tears families apart.
Michael Bell's brother, Lamar Bell, was killed in 1993. His daughter Lakishea has shared the following statement with us ahead of her uncle's scheduled execution.
The @FlaCathBps are urging Gov. DeSantis to stay Mike Bell's execution. They acknowledge the victims’ families’ profound loss and advocate that "there is a way to punish without ending another human life." Read their letter. files.ecatholic.com/11291/document…
Ex*cution Vigil for #MichaelBell x.com/i/broadcasts/1…
#MichaelBell has been denied in his final appeals and will be killed at 6pm ET this evening in Florida. Join the live virtual vigil here or at bit.ly/MichaelBellVV - and take action to oppose all executions at DeathPenaltyAction.org
🚨 Florida plans to ex*cute Michael Bell tomorrow—despite no full federal review. His trial was steeped in r@cism. His own lawyer dehumanized him. Now the state wants to k!ll him without ever confronting the injustice. ✍️ Sign + ☎️ Call NOW: bit.ly/MichaelBellFL…
