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On October 3rd, Florida plans to put to death Michael Duane Zack during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot. Michael is guilty of the horrific murders of...
In a horrific synchronicity, September 21st has become a date that forever will be darkened in the United States by the state killing of innocents. On...
Mr. Robert L. Roberson, my yearslong pen pal, is an innocent man on Texas death row who lives with a diagnosis of autism and who now is in danger of...
Mme Mariame Toure Sylla, z’l (of blessed memory), was a beloved 59 year old 2nd and 3rd grade teacher at the elementary school where my daughter...
Jedidiah Isaac Murphy – a Jewish man slated for state killing in Texas on World Day Against the Death Penalty (October 10th) – has shared with...
While offering a D’var Torah/sermon about capital punishment at my former synagogue in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, I shared the...
This past Shabbat, as we read Parshat Shof’tim – which includes the phrases “Tzedek Tzedek Tirdof – “Justice, justice you shall pursue,”...
The eleven martyrs of the Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue shooting – October 27, 2018: Joyce Fienberg (Idit Balt’chah bat Abba Menachem),...
On October 10th, which is World Day Against the Death Penalty , Texas plans to use the Nazi legacy that is lethal injection to put to death a ...
Jews have agreed to disagree with one another on the issue of the death penalty – along with many other topics – for millennia. Judaism’s...
The thousands of members of L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty begin every execution vigil with a traditional memorial prayer for the victims,...
This past week’s guilty verdict for the perpetrator of the horrific Pittsburgh Tree of Life synagogue massacre and the prospect of the US government...
The death penalty kills off – quite literally – any opportunity for restorative justice. To be sure, there are many reasons to oppose the blatant...
In the latest egregious example of the danger of the very existence of the death penalty, Tom Ascol — the pastor who delivered the invocation at...
Florida’s Governor Ron DeSantis recently signed a death warrant for Duane Owen , a former child sex abuse victim who himself was convicted of...
The thousands of members of the group “ L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” firmly believe that Judaism in the 21 st century must...
It is essential that international news outlets offer more press coverage of the executions that continue to plague our world. Though state killings...
Note: A version of this article first appeared in the Kansas City Star on May 16, 2023 under the title “Mike Tisius is a lot like me. Missouri,...
We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” shall continue to beg for the life of our long-time death row pen...
I used to be an ardent supporter of the death penalty; today, I am the co-founder of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty,” a group whose...
On April 18, 2023 – which was Yom HaShoah /Holocaust Memorial Day in the Jewish calendar – Florida’s Senate passed a bill that will make that...
We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” are against capital punishment in every single instance. This includes...
Every single business day, we, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” , make phone calls to American political...
Recently, the mayor of my current hometown of College Park, MD, Patrick Wojhan, submitted his resignation ahead of his arrest on dozens of counts...
Until just recently, Texas had plans to execute our pen pal Anibal Canales, a Jewish-born victim of anti-Semitism with an innocence claim, via the...
Politically motivated executions are the foremost mark of a repressive regime, and Florida now clearly fits this bill. In a wanton pursuit of...
Dear Friends in the Bay Area Jewish Community, Shalom Aleichem from the thousands of international members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death...
Dear South Carolinians, My name is Cantor Michael Zoosman. I am an ordained Jewish clergyperson, a former Jewish prison chaplain, a multifaith...
On Monday, February 27th, 26-year-old American citizen Elan Ganeles, z’l, (zichrono livracha – may his memory be for a blessing) was brutally...
Shalom Aleichem Governor Josh Shapiro! We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” offer this toast to you...
“Hang ‘em high like Haman!” Such is the retort that death penalty supporters often sling at us, the thousands of members of “L’chaim!...
Supporters of the death penalty would do well to learn some of the names of American and global humanitarians across the centuries who disagree on...
In a wanton pursuit of political aspirations, Governor Ron DeSantis is seeking to unleash the shadow of the Angel of Death upon Florida, threatening...
As the world now once again prepares to honor International Holocaust Remembrance Day on January 27th, Texas is marking the occasion by edging ever...
We, the thousands of members of “L’chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty” – like countless other death penalty abolitionist groups –...
“Death is not the answer.” Such was Holocaust survivor Eli Wiesel’s response when asked about the death penalty. This simple phrase should...