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We still have stalls booked at a number of green fairs and festivals in the London area over the coming weeks. So far we have had a really great response with members of the public taking leaflets, asking us lots of questions, signing campaign letters and wanting to get more involved. It's an excellent way to spread our anti-death penalty message and you will enjoy a fun day out in the sun!! Sound good? - then check out our events and get in touch!

North East Against the Death Penalty

This month sees the launch of a new forum aimed at anti-death penalty supporters in the North East of England. It is a great resource packed full of information on the death penalty world-wide and it also includes specific information relating to the death penalty in each of the U.S states. You can post information, read the latest news, find about events, current cases and share your experiences of writing to people on death row. There is also a place to list petitions,polls and chat to other members of the forum. To read about this and much, much more please check out: http://neadp.fullboards.com/

The death penalty in Taiwan

Just over 100 people have been executed in Taiwan over the last decade, and there are currently more than 100 people on death row there. But no-one has been executed since 2005, and the momentum towards abolition has increased in recent years. For more information visit: http://www.deathwatchinternational.org/bin_it.php.

Death Watch International focuses on U.S death penalty

This month, anti death penalty group Death Watch International turns the focus of its campaign for global abolition to the USA.

The US is one of only a handful of democracies among the developed nations to retain capital punishment - and the country voted against a recent United Nations' resolution calling for a worldwide moratorium on the death penalty. Last year it executed 42 people, and after a 7 month moratorium, executed William Lynd earlier this month.

Death Watch International has asked its supporters to write to the US’ Ambassador to the UN, His Excellency Mr. Zalmay Khalilzad, calling on the country to abandon the death penalty - and to underline their point by adding some (non-hazardous) trash to their message.

 Death Watch International’s Director, Simon Shepherd, explained:

“As our campaign highlights, the death penalty is an outdated and barbaric practice which belongs in the trashcan of history. In retaining the death penalty the US finds itself in an increasingly small minority - we hope she will join the civilised world and abandon it.”

Visit www.deathwatchinternational.org and take action to bin the death penalty.

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