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Pennsylvanians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is a grassroots non-profit organization dedicated to ending executions in Pennsylvania. Through grass roots outreach, focused campaigns and citizen mobilization we have defined a comprehensive strategy to end the death penalty in Pennsylvania. By mobilizing citizens throughout Pennsylvania, PADP is cultivating a cohesive and consistent statewide voice against the death penalty. Our regional chapters establish structures, goals and tactics to meet their particular geographical needs while carrying out the organization’s mission. The PADP state office manages the chapters and oversees the statewide strategy.

Speaker’s Bureau Campaign

PADP’s Speakers Bureau Campaign is its primary source of voices for community education events around the state of Pennslvania. Multiple perspectives and diverse individuals make up PADP’s Speakers Bureau.

The death penalty punishes entire societies, not just the one individual being sentenced to death. There are many different individuals that can speak to the injustices of the capital punishment system and those are the unique and eloquent individuals that make PADP’s Speakers Bureau. Every story is different, but they all share a commonality, the fact that the death penalty was and is a disservice in their lives and in the lives of those nearest and dearest to them.

The Speakers Bureau consists of:

• Death row exonerees, men that have served time on death row for crimes that they did not commit.
• Murder victim family members, individuals that have experienced first hand the pain and suffering that murder causes.
• Experts on the criminal justice system, professionals and activists that have dedicated their careers to sharing the truths about capital punishment.
• Defense attorneys that know the legal system and its flaws.

Moratorium Campaign

The Pennsylvania Moratorium Coalition (PMC) is a collaborative of civil rights, human rights, and religious organizations. PADP facilitates and coordinates the coalition. The Pennsylvania Moratorium Coalition supports a suspension of executions in Pennsylvania while all aspects of the death penalty as currently administered in Pennsylvania are reviewed and any resulting recommendations fully addressed. The Pennsylvania Moratorium Coalition is composed of diverse organizations from all across the state of Pennsylvania. Regardless of their philosophical position on the death penalty, the organizations that make up the Pennsylvania Moratorium Coalition agree that the current practice of capital punishment in Pennsylvania needs to be reviewed because it is discriminatory and does not guarantee against the possibility of a wrongful execution.

Execute Art, Not People! Campaign

Our communities are hungry for outlets to express themselves in creative ways. PADP’s Execute Art, Not People! Campaign was formed in a direct response to that hunger. There is an undeniable symbiosis between the arts and activism — Execute Art, Not People! is a way to explore that juxtaposition while educating the public about capital punishment. Each event is different and reflects the creative drive of the people that organize it, but typically each one features three basic elements: performance, visual and interactive art.

When we execute art we…..

• Raise awareness and educate our local community about the death penalty through the arts.
• Create a space for local and activist artists to display, share and sell their artwork to a captive, interested and motivated audience.
• Inspire activists to make art and to inspire artists to use their work to inspire social change.

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