Voices from California Crime Victims...

The people you will meet in this booklet have endured unimaginable, heartbreaking loss: the murder of a child, a parent, a sibling, a friend. Despite all efforts, their wounds may never entirely heal. Yet they choose to speak. They choose to raise their voices, individually and collectively against the death penalty and to share their most personal and painful stories of loss. Why? Because all too often, the loved ones of murder victims find that other people purport to speak for them, while their own voices are stilled. They are invoked as a reason to support the death penalty because it is assumed that all victims’ families want executions. Yet, for so many victims’ survivors — like those featured in this booklet — the death penalty solves nothing and can even perpetuate their suffering.

» Read their stories...

Newsletters

» June 2008

» December 2007

Op-Eds, Newspaper Articles, Commentary

» "Death penalty and race: Scales of justice may weigh heavily against blacks," Claire Cooper featuring Bill Babbitt, op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Sunday, July 6, 2008

» "State Auditor Finds Proposed California Death Row Facility to Cost Millions More Than Originally Projected," Judy Kerr, blog, California Progress Report, June 12, 2008

» "The death penalty is not civilized," Aundré M. Herron, op-ed, Sacramento Bee, Sunday, April 20, 2008

» "We should be devoted to ending injustice, not ending more lives," op-ed, Naomi White and Derrel Myers, San Jose Mercury News, January 18, 2008

» "Walk on Saturday to stop executions," op-ed, Azim Khamisa, The North County Times, September 12, 2007

Brochures and Fact Sheets

» California Crime Victims for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (2008)

» Victimas de Delitos a Favor de Alternativas de la Pena de Muerte (2007)

» Why California Crime Victims Oppose the Death Penalty