We are 500+ business executives calling for an end to the death penalty and advocating for a fairer, safer world. #BizVsDP
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This page now belongs to our global campaign, Business Leaders Against the Death Penalty.
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📰 New: Records show Tennessee has spent nearly $1.2 million on lethal injection drugs over the past few years. The state’s last two executions made international headlines for being botched. Read more from the @Tennessean ➡️ bit.ly/4dVbVek
Yesterday was #WorldDayAgainstTheDeathPenalty, and capital punishment is in the headlines. Botched executions. Wrongful convictions. They’ve defined the death penalty from the start, and the only solution is to end it.
Join us: bizvsdp.org
Yesterday, Tennessee tried to execute Christa Pike. Her lethal injection went horribly wrong and she was taken by ambulance to a hospital. None of this had to happen.
Before the scheduled execution, we spoke with @UN Special Rapporteur Dr. Morris Tidball-Binz. His thoughts ⬇️
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BREAKING: Despite agreement of all parties, sharply divided Texas Court of Criminal Appeals rejects trial court’s finding of constitutional error in #MelissaLucio's case. Trial court had previously found her "actually innocent”.
Read: bit.ly/4rtkfaP.
Retired attorney Jack D’Aurora argues in @CrainsCleveland that capital punishment undermines Ohio’s reputation as a place to do business — and urges Gov. DeWine to commute all death sentences to life without parole.
#BizVsDP
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Our campaign has joined 44 member organizations from World Coalition Against the Death Penalty @WCADP in a letter urging Gov. Newsom to commute all 550+ death sentences in CA. #BizVsDP
Read the letter ➡️ bit.ly/4pURG5o
We just sent a letter on behalf of 16 businesses urging Gov. DeWine to clear death row. Ohio’s death penalty is costly, error-prone, and bad for business.
Commuting death sentences would free up resources for public safety and economic development. Read the letter ⬇️ #BizvsDP
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Fifty years ago, the Supreme Court's decision in Gregg v. Georgia brought back the death penalty in the United States. Death Penalty Action and our coalition partners invite you to join us for a rally on July 2, 2026, at 6pm EDT at the U.S. Supreme Court. We will send a clear message: 50 years of the death penalty, 50 years of failure. End the Death Penalty Now!
Can't make it to DC? Join us online via the Abolitionist Action Committee’s Facebook page or Death Penalty Action’s YouTube channel.
BREAKING: Ohio Governor Mike DeWine just called on lawmakers to repeal the state's death penalty, saying it fails to deter violent crime.
He's right.
It's time to replace this broken system with one that actually makes us safer. #BizVsDP
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Major news.
Last night, the U.S. Supreme Court blocked Alabama's eighth nitrogen-gas execution, upholding a lower-court ruling that the method — opposed by human rights leaders, medical experts, and major corporations — is unconstitutionally cruel.
nytimes.com/2026/06/11/us/su…
For two years, Alabama has executed people by suffocating them with nitrogen gas over the objections of human rights leaders, medical experts, and major corporations.
Yesterday, a federal court ruling placed the method under new legal scrutiny. #BizVsDP
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Hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars spent trying — and so far failing — to execute #TonyCarruthers, a man with a strong innocence claim.
This is not what accountability, fiscal responsibility, or good governance looks like.
End the death penalty.
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What if your art could send you to death row?
James Broadnax’s handwritten rap lyrics were used as evidence in his 2008 Texas death sentence. Hip-hop industry leaders say prosecutors mistook them for a confession.
Read the full story from @adamliptak.
nytimes.com/2026/03/09/us/su…
Over the past several years, Indiana spent $1.275 million on pentobarbital, the lethal injection drug used in its three recent executions.
Each dose cost $100,000 or more.
Executions are a waste of public resources. #BizVsDP
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🎥 WATCH: A few days before the #SuperBowl, sports podcaster @PabloTorre travels to Texas’ death row to interview Charles Flores, a football superfan fighting to prove his innocence.
Watch their conversation ⬇️
"I'm innocent. I can prove it."
Charles Flores, a wrongfully convicted football fan, is running out of time. He sat down with @PabloTorre for the one hour of the day when he's not in solitary confinement, to talk about life on death row — a decade after the real killer went free.
Carrie Harambasic, Head of Business Development at LUSH North America, writes in @Capitol_Weekly about the company's campaign calling on California Governor Gavin Newsom to commute the state’s death row.
Read it here ➡️ capitolweekly.net/lush-cosme… #BizVsDP
Great news: Philadelphia is strengthening their hiring laws to ensure second chances are available to all.
The City Council recently passed an amendment to their current “ban the box” law which will go into effect on January 6, 2026.
@Forbes ⬇️ forbes.com/sites/alonzomarti…
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Opinion: Illinois needs skilled workers. It's time to hire people with criminal records. chicagobusiness.com/opinion/…
