California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (CCV)

09/02/2015

This week the Ninth Circuit heard arguments about whether California's death penalty is unconstitutional. We submitted an amicus brief to share our stories,and make sure they know that the death penalty does more harm than good for victims' families.

Murder Victims' Families Say Death Penalty Does More Harm than GoodAug 31Aundre HarronSenior Staff Attorney at California Appellate ProjectIn his July 16, 2014, ruling in Jones v. Chappell, U.S. District Court Judge Cormac Carney found California’s death penalty system unconstitutional, in violation…

05/29/2015

“I’m no hippie-dippy,” she is quick to say, “but as a mom, I’ve always believed that two wrongs don’t make a right. The idea that we’re ever going to make these murders right is ridiculous.”

The legacies of Orange County’s worst mass murder are many, including a town that rose up and bonded. But for Bethany Webb, who lost her sister and nearly lost her mother, there can be no greater legacy than abolishing the death penalty.Make no mistake. Webb’s mission has nothing to do with forgiven…

05/27/2014

Splitting the difference on the Death Penalty doesn't give us justice.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled Tuesday that states must look beyond an intelligence test score in borderline cases of mental disability

05/27/2014

You can't "fix" the Death Penalty.

Just like opposing torture does not mean one condones terrorism, opposing the death penalty does not mean one condones murder....

05/15/2014

How do we compare to the rest of the world? When it comes to the Death Penalty at the bottom.

With the bungling of an ex*****on in Oklahoma, the death penalty was, once again, headline news across the United States and much of the rest of the world. While the issue of capital punishment is p

05/15/2014

Come 2016 we know what ballot measure we will support:

Two years after fending off an initiative to abolish the death penalty in California, prosecutors and other backers of capital punishment were hoping to go to the voters this fall with a measure to bolster it. The ballot measure would seek to shorten the lengthy review process for death sentences by…

05/13/2014

Uncomfortable conversations about the Death Penalty must be had: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2014/05/the-inhumanity-of-the-death-penalty/361991/

05/05/2014

Thank you to the Sacramento Bee for still standing with us.

State-imposed death never will be antiseptic or devoid of discomfort.

05/05/2014

How bad does it have to get before we call it quits?

If you’ve been reading the news at all this week, you’ve been inundated with some pretty gruesome news in the death penalty arena. News that has caused outrage and should give every person in this country pause.

05/01/2014

There are currently 745 inmates on Death Row in California, 122 of them from the combined Inland counties of Riverside and San Bernardino. This is not justice.

There have been no ex*****ons in California since 2006 as the protocols for lethal injection play out in federal court

05/01/2014

Powerful words against the botched ex*****on.

NCADP Blog > Tragic Botched Ex*****on in Oklahoma: Joint Statement from NCADP & OKCADP Share this story:April 30, 2014 This evening Clayton Lockett died after the State of Oklahoma botched his ex*****on. Witnesses say that he called out “man” and “something’s wrong,” and writhed and twitched in agon…