MCADP, MA Citizens Against the Death Penalty

05/06/2026

Yaghoub Karimpour, 43, and Nasser Bakerzadeh, 26, were hanged on Saturday, and Mehrab Abdollahzadeh, 28, was executed on Sunday in Orumiyeh Central Prison.

04/24/2026

Our battle for a civil society continues!!

Arizona State Sen. Kevin Payne has a very bad idea.

04/15/2026

Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty position on new Israeli Death Penalty Law.

Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty’s reaction to Knesset Law: Israel’s New Death Penalty Law is a Step in the Wrong Direction Recently, the Israeli Knesset passed a death penalty bill whose main feature would impose the death penalty on West Bank residents who commit murderous act....

04/13/2026

Organisations warn many more people could be executed in the wake of the anti-government protests which swept Iran earlier this year.

04/10/2026

The justices did not make the outcome of this case obvious.

04/02/2026

The Boston North Chapter of Massachusetts Citizens Against the Death Penalty is having its annual Good Friday Anti-Death-Penalty Vigil on Reading Common on Friday, April 3, 2026, from 4:00-5:30 p,m. We usually stand along the Main Street/Route 28 side of the Western section of the Common.

Reading Common is located at the junction of Route 28 and Route 129 in Reading, MA. The Reading Town Hall is closed on Fridays, so you will probably be able to find a parking spot in the Town Hall parking lot (16 Lowell Street (Route 129, West of Route 28)).

We hope that you will join us for any part of the time!

03/27/2026

A simple DNA test could halt an upcoming ex*****on. The Supreme Court refused to order it.

03/16/2026

Stories From The States America’s complicated relationship with the death penalty Mar 13, 2026 | 7:00 am ET Share Executions in the United States have been on the decline over the past few decades, yet 27 states still enforce the death penalty – and many are imposing it more often. One very ...

03/16/2026

The governor of Alabama has granted clemency to a man on death row for three decades, a rare move that spares the accomplice in a 1991 murder from ex*****on on Thursday.

02/16/2026

Charles Flores was convicted of the January 1998 killing of Betty Black during an attempted robbery. Right from the start, he has maintained his innocence.