Action alert: January executions and possible actions.

This blog post will give you an overview of this months planned executions with links to articles, websites and petitions. We encourage you to contact governors to protest to the the death penalty every time it is imposed! 

Sample letter, applicable to all cases, is found here. We will also leave contact information to the governors. All you have to do is to copy the letter and send it. Easy, isn’t it? 

This blog post will be continuously updated and if you have additional information, don’t hesitate to leave a comment below!

Thank you so much for taking action against death penalty!

 

 

January 5: Gary Welch, Oklahoma (EXECUTED!)

Rest in peace. Let’s hope this man, at least, didn’t suffer.

To read more: Article 1 and Article 2.

 

 

 

January 17: Ralph Birdsong, Pennsylvania (stay likely)

To read more: Article 1

To contact Pennsylvania’s Governor Tom Corbett:

Governor’s Office
225 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120

Phone: (001)- 717 – 787 – 2500
Fax: (001) – 717 – 772 – 8284

E-mail the Governor, click here.

 

 

January 18: Kenneth Hairston, Pennsylvania (stay likely)

To read more: Article 1

To contact Pennsylvania’s Governor Tom Corbett:

Governor’s Office
225 Main Capitol Building
Harrisburg, Pennsylvania 17120

Phone: (001)- 717 – 787 – 2500
Fax: (001) – 717 – 772 – 8284

E-mail the Governor, click here.

 

 

 

January 18: Charles Lorraine, Ohio (HALTED!)

SIGN PETITION! 

To read more, visit the blog Ohio’s death row.

To contact Ohio’s Governor John R. Kasich:

Governor John Kasich
Riffe Center, 30th Floor
77 South High Street
Columbus, OH 43215-6117

Phone: 001 – 614 – 466 – 3555

E-mail the governor, click here.

 

 

 

January 19: Michael St. Clair, Kentucky

To read more, Article 1.

To contact  Kentucky’s Governor Steve Beshear:

Office of the Governor
700 Capitol Avenue, Suite 112
Frankfort, KY 4060

Phone: (001) - 502 – 564 – 2611

Fax: (001) - 502 – 564 – 2517

Email the governor, click here.

 

 

 

January 20: Robert Gattis , Delaware (SENTENCE COMMUTED)

 SIGN PETITION!

Visit website: Robert Grattis a case for clemency 

To contact  Delaware’s Governor Jack Markell:

Dover Office
Tatnall Building
William Penn Street, 2nd Fl.
Dover, DE 19901

Phone: 001 - 302 – 744 – 4101

Fax: 001 - 302 – 739 – 2775

Email the governor, click here.

 

 

 

January 26: Rodrigo Hernandez, Texas

To read more: Article 1

To contact  Texas’s Governor Rick Perry:

Office of the Governor
P.O. Box 12428
Austin, Texas 78711-2428

Phone: 001 – 512 – 463 – 1782

Fax: (001) – 512 – 463 – 1849

Email the governor, click here.

 

 

Sample letter can be found in a previous blog post, click here.

 

 

  

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