Ask Biden to vote in support of the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty

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You can help us stop innocent people from being executed in every corner of the world!

We are death row exonerees.
We were each innocent yet sentenced to die for something we didn't do.

We are asking President Biden to vote YES on the UN resolution calling for a moratorium on the death penalty

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To date, 190 innocent people have been exonerated from a death sentence.
An unknown number of innocent people have been executed.
It's time to end the death penalty at home and around the world.

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Subject: Death row exonerees are asking you to support the UN resolution for a death penalty moratorium

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Thank you for all you have done to bring attention to the issue of innocent people who are sentenced to death in our country. I'm joining with the death row exonerees of Witness to Innocence to ask you to shift the U.S. vote on the United Nations resolution for a death penalty moratorium. As you know, innocent people are executed in countries which still have the death penalty. The UNGA vote on Thursday is your chance to help stop that tragedy. Researchers have estimated that 4% of people on death row in the U.S. are innocent. We can only imagine what that percentage is in countries with even greater challenges to ensuring conviction integrity. Moreover, the death row exonerees of Witness to Innocence, having lived on death row and seen the reality of it for those facing execution, can attest to the reality that a death sentence and execution are forms of torture. In my view, the death penalty is a human rights issue and should be abolished here at home and in every corner of the globe. As the past Board Chair of Witness to Innocence and Florida death row survivor, Freddie Lee Pitts, said “You can free an innocent man from prison, but you can’t free him from the grave.” Thank you for your consideration.

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