Capital punishment, also known as the death penalty, is a state-sanctioned practice of killing a person as a punishment for a crime. The sentence ordering that an offender is to be punished in such a manner is known as a death sentence, and the act of carrying out the sentence is known as an execution.

We are repairing the Commonwealth through the education of our shared history and advocacy for the abolition of the death penalty.

Those who profess to favor freedom and yet depreciate agitation are men who want crops without plowing the ground.

– Frederick Douglass

What's going on?

KCADP NEEDS YOU!

We are calling on Governor Beshear to commute the sentences of the 25 folks on death row AND to commit to signing a death penalty abolition bill if it crosses his desk. Lend you voice to the call TODAY!

TELL GOVERNOR BESHEAR TO DO THE RIGHT THING!

OPPOSE SB 251!

A dangerous bill that can help facilitate a return to executions and hide the execution process from the public is currently in the KY House of Representatives! Call your rep today and tell them to reject this bill!

SUBMIT A LETTER!

Death Penalty and Abolition: National and Local Updates

How a Kentucky death penalty case could have national implications David Sanders not only wants a judge to overturn his death penalty conviction, but to declare a law unconstitutional.
AG Russell Coleman moves to restart executions On March 7, 2024, General Coleman filed a motion with the Franklin Circuit to lift its temporary injunction on the death penalty.
What to Know About Robert Roberson Facing Execution on Oct. 16 for a Crime That Never Occurred Mr. Roberson faces execution in Texas, despite new evidence that he is an innocent man wrongly convicted under the now-debunked shaken baby syndrome...