Proud to be a signer on this letter to Biden. “We write to you as attorneys, judges, advocates, & Americans, urging you to begin w/ an act of mercy to carry our nation closer toward justice: immediately commute sentences of all those on federal death row.”static1.squarespace.com/static/5c894b6… 
“In the last six months, we bore witness to the execution of thirteen people — more Americans put to death in those months than in the last six decades of this nation’s history. These thirteen deaths stand as an affront to the very legal system we operate in every day.”
“Obama halted federal executions, but did not commute sentences of all on federal death row, leaving the door open for Trump to pursue a death spree that hasn’t been seen in well over a century. The very existence of death row leaves many susceptible to the machinery of death.”
“A death sentence is both flawed and irrevocable. It is an instrument of racial bias, disproportionately taking the lives of Black and brown people. Its finality demands that stronger action be taken to protect the integrity of both American morality and the law.”
“By not granting clemency and commuting sentences, the lives of 49 Americans on death row are left vulnerable to political tides and heady partisanship.”
“These 49 people can be spared with no loss of accountability — if anything, the credibility of our justice system will be strengthened by removing the most barbaric vestiges of our nation’s history.”
“President Biden, we are asking only that you take action to shore up the vision of our justice system we have trained to uphold, and to which so many have dedicated their lives.”
“We made an oath to the U.S. Constitution with the abiding hope that justice and ethics would prevail in American courts. America must no longer sanction violence against her own people. We ask you to take that step towards justice for our system, and our nation.”
So many I admire on this letter. So many public defenders & civil rights champions. Adding our voices to those of the members of congress, including @CoriBush, who have made the same request. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty stltoday.com/news/local/gov…
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