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Get the latest update on what's going on at MADP, including
- A report on our evening with actor Mike Farrell
- What's going on at the Missouri Capitol
- The latest in our series 'Murder Victim Families and the Death Penalty'
Senate hearing on death penalty reform on Monday 25th February
A public hearing on SB 162, sponsored by Senator Joseph Keaveny (D-St. Louis), will be held on Monday 25th February at 5pm at the State Capitol in Jefferson City. SB 162 proposed several progressive reforms of criminal procedure We encourage our members and supporters to attend the hearing.
Senate holds hearing on bill to analyze cost of the death penalty
Missouri Senate Committee to hold hearing on SB 61 on Wednesday January 23rd
At 3pm on Wednesday January 23rd in Senate Committee Room 1 in the State Capitol, the Senate Committee on Government Accountability and Fiscal Oversight will hold a hearing on SB 61. This bill requires the state auditor to conduct a cost analysis of the death penalty system in Missouri.
We encourage anyone who can make it to Jefferson City to attend.
MADP Presents an Evening With Mike Farrell
Why does B.J. Hunnicut care about the death penalty?
Actor Mike Farrell, who played B.J. Hunnicut in M*A*S*H, will talk about his work as a social justice advocate at 7:00 pm, Saturday, January 19, at All Souls Unitarian Universalist Church. The evening is a fund raiser for Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty. Missouri ranks fifth among the fifty states in the number of prisoners executed. Of those formerly on death row in Missouri, three have been found to be innocent; nationally, that number is 141.
The American Bar Association finds major flaws with the use of the death penalty in Missouri.
To assess fairness and accuracy in Missouri’s death penalty system, the Missouri Death Penalty Assessment Team researched the twelve issues that the American Bar Association identified as central to the analysis of the fairness and accuracy of a state’s capital punishment system.