Contact your legislators and ask them to support the anti-death penalty bills. Please thank the bill sponsors (see below) for their moral leadership…..
*Abolition of the Death Penalty
Senate Bill 169 Sen. Ed Quick (D-KC) 573-751-4524
House 223 Rep. Vicky Riback-Wilson (D-Columbia) 573-751-1169, wilson01@mail.state.mo.us
* Moratorium on Executions While Commission Studies System
SB 22 Sen. Mary Groves Bland (D-KC) 573-751-2770, mbland@senate.state.mo.us; House bill will be introduced likely by early February (lead sponsor yet to be identified).
*Restoring Sentencing Decision for Juries in Capital Trials (Missouri law currently directs that when juries deadlock in sentencing during capital murder trials, that judges impose either "death" or "life without the possibility of parole.")
SB 256 Sen. Wayne Goode (D-St. Louis) 573-751-2745, wgoode@senate.state.mo.us; HB 200 Rep. Bob Johnson (R-Lee’s Summit) 573-751-1456, rjohnso2@mail.mail.state.mo.us;
*Juvenile Death-Sentencing Ban—would move legal age from 16 to 18 at which individuals can be considered for the death sentence.
HB 255 Rep. Larry Crawford (R-Center-town) 573-573-751-2134, lcrawfor@mail.state.mo.us;
SB 312 Sen. Jon Dolan (R-Lake St. Louis) 573-751-4964, jdolan@senate.state.mo.us.
To find your legislators check the Missouri government site.
For more information contact MADP, 573-635-7239, or 573-449-4585.