National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
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The National Coalition To Abolish The Death Penalty or NCADP is a large organisation dedicated to the abolition of the death penalty in the United States.
Founded in 1976 (the same year the death penalty was reinstated by the Supreme Court of the United States), the NCADP is the only fully-staffed nationwide organisation in the United States dedicated to the total abolition of the death penalty in the country. They cite several reasons for this view: it claims the death penalty reduces the value of human life, violates basic human rights, is fallible and is overwhelmingly biased against ethnic minorities and the poor.
The NCADP uses a number of non-violent methods to draw attention to, and advance, their campaign at local, state and national levels:
- Promotion of anti-death penalty legislation.
- Using local and state media to disseminate information about the death penalty.
- Using their numerous links with like-minded organisations to speak and act against the death penalty.
- Focusing on the human rights violations which are widely thought to be inherent in the death penalty.
It also provides extensive information regarding imminent and past executions, death penalty defendants, numbers of people executed in the U.S., as well as a detailed breakdown of the current death row population, and a list of which U.S. state and federal jurisdictions use the death penalty.
[edit] See also
- Helen Prejean - a leading U.S. anti-death penalty campaigner and former chair of the NCADP.
