Stop the executions that Trump has scheduled to occur before he leaves office

On December 4, 2020, Public Citizen (www.citizen.org), the non-profit organization Ralph Nader founded half a century ago, issued this urgent action alert:

Please read, and please take action.

  • Before July of this year, the federal government had executed only three people in the past half century.
  • But then William Barr — Donald Trump’s sycophantic Attorney General — unilaterally overturned a 17-year ban on the federal government’s use of the death penalty.
  • And in the few months since, the Trump administration has executed eight people.
  • Including — two weeks ago — the first execution carried out by a lame-duck administration in over 100 years.
  • Barr is also about to make firing squads and gas chambers legal.
  • Firing squads.
  • And gas chambers.
  • Most sickeningly of all, Trump and Barr are trying to rush through five more executions before Trump leaves office.
  • Four of the five people Donald Trump wants to execute while he still can are Black.

We have to stop Donald Trump and William Barr from carrying out their vile, racist intentions to rush through more executions before Trump leaves office.

Add your name now:

The Trump administration must not be allowed to carry out any further executions for the remainder of Donald Trump’s time in office.

 

 

 

 

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Since the late 1960s Glen Anderson has devoted his life to working as a volunteer for peace, nonviolence, social justice, and progressive political issues. He has worked through many existing organizations and started several. Over the years he has worked especially for such wide-ranging goals as making peace with Vietnam, eliminating nuclear weapons, converting from a military economy to a peacetime economy, abolishing the death penalty, promoting nonviolence at all levels throughout society, and helping people organize and strategize for grassroots movements to solve many kinds of problems. He writes, speaks, and conducts training workshops on a wide variety of topics. Since 1987 he has produced and hosted a one-hour cable TV interview program on many kinds of issues. Since 2017 he has blogged at https://parallaxperspectives.org He lives in Lacey near Olympia WA. You can reach him at (360) 491-9093 glen@parallaxperspectives.org