What we do...

Abolition U.K is a grassroots organisation formed in 2008. We are the only nationwide grassroots organization focused solely on the issue of death penalty abolition. We aim to strengthen the international dimension of the struggle against capital punishment.

We recognise the death penalty is the ultimate, irreversible denial of human rights. By working towards the abolition of the death penalty we look to end the cycle of violence created by a system tarnished with fatal flaws and injustices.

We oppose the death penalty on the grounds that it is racist, arbitrary, costly and unfairly applied. Innocent people have been sentenced to death and there is no doubt that many innocent people have been executed.

The death penalty system hides falsely behind the name of justice. It is a punishment reserved for the poor, for people of colour and those who are mentally ill. It has been given to the innocent and to our children.

Only a small percentage of those convicted of murder receive a death sentence. It does not bring justice to that same percentage of victims’ families who seek the death penalty nor does it bring justice to the victims’ families who do not.

We are committed to educating the public about the injustices of the death penalty worldwide through:

•campaigns of public education

•political lobbying

•media outreach

•tactical grassroots activism

•mobilizing communities to act to abolish capital punishment

•promoting alternatives to the death penalty

Public support for the death penalty is at an all time low. There is no better time to join the fight to end it.

Together we can make the death penalty history.

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