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The Other Death Penalty Project Announces Letter-Writing Campaign to Anti-Death Penalty Groups
February 22, 2010Today, thousands of prisoners around the country will be mailing letters to numerous death penalty abolitionist groups asking them to stop advocating for life without the possibility of parole as a supposedly humane alternative to lethal injection. The Other Death Penalty Project, a group comprised solely of prisoners serving life without possibility of parole, the other death penalty, categorically rejects this hypocritical position taken by too many death penalty abolitionists. Death at the hands of the state, whether by lethal injection or lethal imprisonment, is the death penalty. The Other Death Penalty Project, similarly, rejects the proposition that life without the possibility of parole is a necessary first step toward ultimate abolition of the death penalty. Full release.