The ACLU opposes the death penalty in all circumstances, and looks to the day when the United States joins the majority of nations as an abolitionist state. The ACLU Capital Punishment Project (CPP) works to abolish the death penalty nationally through direct representation as well as through strategic litigation, advocacy, public education, and mentoring and training programs for capital defense teams. More...
Idaho must abolish the death penalty.State-sponsored killing, particularly in its premeditation and ceremonial fashion is wrong and we must do away with it. It is factual that the death penalty is far more costly than to keep a person in a life sentence without parole. In our current hard economic times, the state must reconsider its options for how it allocates its funds.Additionally, the death penalty re-victimizes family members during the long process as they endure decades of appeals and media attention focused not on their loved one, but on the murder.
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IDAHO EXECUTION PROCEDURES VIOLATE FEDERAL LAW The public and the press have Constitutional rights to view execution procedure in its entirety
Boise, ID—The American Civil Liberties Union of Idaho (ACLU of Idaho) takes issue with the Idaho Department of Corrections (IDOC) execution procedures that are in clear violation of federal law and a formal letter was submitted to IDOC regarding the legal concern. A Ninth Circuit ruling in California First Amendment Coalition v. Woodford, clearly stated that the “public enjoys a First Amendment right to view executions from the moment the condemned is escorted into the execution chamber, including those “initial procedures” that are inextricably intertwined with the process of putting the condemned inmate to death.”IDOC in their Standard Operating Procedures (SOP) manual, which lays out the detailed process for an execution, indicates a concealment of multiple aspects of the execution process from the press and public, in clear violation of federal law. READ MORE.
