New York’s real scandal.  Your help is needed, again, now. 

Please share this request with your families, friends and colleagues.

Please share this request with your families, friends and colleagues.

Our State Senate continues to ignore the state’s shameful problem of wrongful convictions although reinstating the death penalty is at the top of its agenda, with 2 bills slated for a vote by the end of April.  The Senate will repeat last year’s scenario, in which the same Senators who voted to reinstate the death penalty voted against an amendment designed to protect innocent people. The inescapable fact is that some Senators believe that it is more important to restart the machinery of the death penalty system than to concern themselves with the demonstrable risk that innocent people will be executed.  It speaks volumes about them.    

New York and Texas lead the nation in wrongful convictions for the most serious crimes, according to “Lessons Not Learned,” a recent report of the Innocence Project.  New York trails the nation in addressing this problem.

Please contact your State Senator now to and say that

you want him/her to vote no on reinstatement and yes on addressing wrongful convictions. This message is important even if you know your State Senator has done the right thing in the past. As always, the briefer the better, as long as you let them know you live in their district (the key to successful constituent action.).

Now, more than ever, we know how wrong the death penalty is and how great the risks. 

To identify your State Senator and get contact information, visit, in NYC: http://www.lwvnyc.org/TRY_find.html

and elsewhere in NYS,

http://www.capwiz.com/lwvny/state/main/?state=NY, scroll down to My Elected Officials.

Thanks,

Susan