Wenn Sie sich gegen die Todesstrafe engagieren möchten, finden Sie hier aktuelle Online-Petitionen und Briefaktionen, an denen Sie sich beteiligen können.

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USA: Petition an den Justizminister - keine neuen Todesurteile auf Bundesebene:

Thank Attorney General Merrick Garland for the withdraw of death notices in the seven cases known so far, and urge him to declare that the death penalty will not be sought in any federal prosecutions; order the withdraw of all remaining "death notices;" and support efforts in Congress to pass the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act of 2021.

Petition an US-Präsident Biden zur Abschaffung der Todesstrafe auf US-Bundesebene:

We are calling for Joe Biden to use his executive power to end the federal death penalty and commute the sentences of the 40+ individuals currently facing execution by the federal government.

Petition des Catholic Mobilizing Network an Präsident Biden:
Katholiken und "Menschen guten Willens" fordern den neuen US-Präsidenten zur Abschaffung der Todesstrafe auf Bundesebene auf - getreu des Katechismus der Katholischen Kirche, der die Todesstrafe unmissverständlich ablehnt. Joe Biden ist selbst Katholik.

Petition an US-Präsident Biden - Abschaffung der Todesstrafe auf Bundesebene:

We are thanking President Biden for his declared intention to sign an Executive Order halting federal executions, and calling on him to declare the federal death penalty over by taking the following actions: Sign the Executive Order halting federal and military executions; Immediately commute the sentences of those currently on federal and military death rows; Demolish the federal execution chamber and the building it is housed in at FCI Terre Haute.

Online-Petition an US-Kongress zur Abschaffung der Todesstrafe:

To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate - Abolish the death penalty: save millions of dollars for children's education, and stand up to unjust discrimination.

Online-Petition an den US-Kongress wegen Hinrichtungen auf Bundesebene:

The federal death penalty is being used as a political tool by the Trump Administration and the campaign to re-elect Donald Trump. The administration is ignoring the law, ignoring compelling issues which demand executive clemency, ignoring the danger of executing during the pandemic, and even ignoring the families of victims in several cases who adamantly oppose the execution of the person convicted of killing their loved ones.

Online-Petition gegen die Reaktivierung der Gaskammer in Arizona:
Arizona recently announced that it has refurbished its gas chamber and is prepared to use cyanide gas to execute any current death row prisoner who was sentenced to be executed prior to November, 1999. 

Gegen die Wiederaufnahme von Hinrichtungen im US-Staat Arizona:

On April 6, 2021, it was reported that State Attorney General Mark Brnovich has asked the Arizona Supreme Court to issue execution warrants for two death-row inmates in what would be the state’s first executions in almost seven years.

An den Gouverneur des US-Bundesstaates Ohio zur Abschaffung der Todesstrafe:

On September 4, 2020, Ohio Governor Mike DeWine kicked the can down the road yet again by pushing back execution dates and saying he is doing so because Ohio doesn't have a mechanism to carry out the law. It's time for Governor DeWine to lead Ohio to repeal its death penalty once and for all!

Online-Petition gegen die Wiederaufnahme der Hinrichtungen in Ohio:

There is too much risk associated with Ohio's death penalty. We are some of the nine men exonerated from Ohio's death row, proving that innocent people have been sentenced to death in our state. We cannot restart executions until there are better safeguards in place to ensure that Ohio never executes an innocent person, which would be unthinkable.

Petition für Anthony Apanovitch, Ohio - DNA belegt seine Unschuld:

DNA proves that Anthony Apanovitch did not kill Mary Anne Flynn, and yet he remains on death row. According to the Court, the DNA statute in Ohio applies only where the prisoner makes the request to test DNA. Tony didn’t ask for the testing to be done, the state did the testing itself in secret without telling Tony or his lawyers, and then hid the results even though the DNA testing proved that Tony was not the perpetrator.

Petition für Michael Slaughter, Kalifornien:

Michael Slaughter, who is Black, has been on Death Row in California since he was 19, for 30 years now.  He was asked by a friend to take a package to a man he didn’t know. He DID NOT have a gun and never imagined he would need one...

Julius Jones in Oklahoma - Todesurteil ist umgewandelt, Freilassung gefordert:

Please sign the petition asking Governor Stitt and the Pardon and Parole Board to do everything within their power to ensure Julius Jones does not face execution and to seek a path to clemency in the case. 

Online-Petition für Melissa Lucio, unschuldig im Todestrakt von Texas:

Melissa Lucio has spent over a decade on death row for the alleged murder of her two-year-old daughter, Mariah. In 2008, Lucio became the first Latina woman sentenced to death in Texas. A 2020 documentary highlights many of the concerning facts around Lucio’s case, including that Mariah may instead have died from head trauma caused by falling down a flight of stairs. A fall that was witnessed by Melissa’s children.

Online-Petition für Gerald Pizzuto, Idaho:

Gerald Pizzuto, Jr. WAS scheduled for execution in Idaho on June 2, 2021 for the 1985 murder of Berta Herndon and her nephew Del Herndon. The Board of Pardon and Parole voted to grant a hearing. The June 2 execution date is stayed! Please continue to sign this petition in case Mr. Pizzuto has a new execution date sat.

Online-Petition für Ramiro Ibarra, Texas:

Ramiro Ibarra was scheduled for execution in Texas on March 4, 2021 for the 1987 murder of Maria Zuniga. This execution date has been STAYED pending a review of several matters. Please continue to sign this petition for use in the event that a new execution date is set.

Online-Petition für Carlos Trevino, Texas:

Carlos Trevino was scheduled to die by lethal injection on September 30, 2020 in Huntsville, Texas. The execution has been stayed pending resolution of COVID19. This petition will remain active. If you have not yet signed it, please do.

Online-Petition für Tracy Beatty, Texas:

Tracy Beatty was scheduled to die by lethal injection on March 25, 2020 in Huntsville, Texas. The outbreak of the coronavirus has prompted the top Texas appeals court to grant an execution stay. Petitions signatures are still being collected and will be delivered once a new date is set.

Online-Petition für Blaine Milam, Texas:
Blaine Milam hatte schon mehrere Hinrichtungstermine - jedes Mal bekam er einen Aufschub. Die Petition für ihn läuft dennoch weiter. Texas ist der US-Bundesstaat, der mit Abstand die meisten Todesurteile vollstreckt.

Online-Petition für Edward Busby, Jr., Texas:
Edward Busby sollte am 10. Februar 2021 durch den US-Bundesstaat Texas hingerichtet werden. Er erhielt einen Aufschub. Die Petition für ihn läuft dennoch weiter für den Fall, dass ein neuer Termin festgesetzt wird.

Online-Petition für Oscar Franklin Smith, Tennessee:
Oscar Franklin Smith sollte am 4. Februar 2021 durch den US-Bundesstaat Tennessee hingerichtet werden. Er bekam einen Hinrichtungsaufschub - die Petition für ihn läuft dennoch weiter.

Petition für Richard Moore, South Carolina:

HIS EXECUTION HAS BEEN REPRIEVED DUE TO LACK OF DRUGS. Please continue to sign this petition for use when the state tries again to move forward. Moore's attorneys are seeking to stay the execution, citing the dangers of the coronavirus pandemic to those involved in the execution and its witnesses.

Online-Petition für Billie Allen, Todestraktinsasse auf Bundesebene der USA:

Billie Allen was wrongfully convicted of the 1997 armed robbery and murder of security guard Richard Heflin which took place at the Lindell Bank & Trust in St. Louis, Missouri. Despite no physical, forensic nor documentary evidence linking him to the crime, he was arrested the next day.

Online-Petition für Gerald Marshall, Texas:

Gerald Marshall was wrongfully sentenced to death 16 years ago in Harris county, Texas, for capital murder in the course of a robbery attempt of a Whataburger Restaurant. He is a victim of false accomplice testimony, prosecutorial, police and judicial misconduct, eye witness misidentification and systemic racism in Harris county at the time of the trial.

Online-Petition für Ruben Gutierrez, Texas:

Ruben Gutierrez was scheduled for execution in Texas on June 16 for the 1999 beating and stabbing death of Escolastica Harrison. Until further notice this execution is on hold. Gutierrez has consistently maintained that he did not kill Ms. Harrison and has asked for DNA testing for years, which the state has opposed.

Online-Petition für Derrick Quintero, Tennessee:

Derrick has claimed his innocence all along and there is strong evidence to suggest that he is innocent of the crime that he has been convicted of; this petition will allow him to explain, in his own words, how the justice system has failed him over and over again.

Online-Petition für Robin Myers, Alabama:

Robin "Rocky" Myers is a 53-year-old intellectually disabled black man who was convicted of capital murder and sentenced to death in 1993 for a crime he did not commit.

With a vote of 9-to-3, an overwhelmingly white jury in Decatur, Ala., recommended that Robin be sentenced to Life Without the Possibility of Parole. The elected judge presiding over the case overrode the jury and ordered his execution instead.

Online-Petition für Rob Will, Texas:

Rob Will was convicted and sentenced to death in 2001 for a crime he did not commit. More than 18 years later, he is still fighting for his life on Texas Death Row, in one of the most notorious prisons in America: the Allan B. Polunsky Unit. It is essential for awareness to be raised for this miscarriage of justice as Rob comes to the end of his appeals process.

Online-Petition für James Dailey, Florida:

James Dailey was scheduled to be executed in Florida on Nov. 7, 2019. He was granted a stay to explore his claims of innocence, however on December 11th, US District Court judge William Jung ruled that the state's case against Daley was "not strong, but it was sufficient."

Dailey has spent more than 30 years on death row for a murder he did not commit.

Online-Petition für Randy Halprin, Texas:

Randy Halprin is on death row in Texas and was scheduled for execution on October 10, 2019, even though he never killed anyone. Halperin was in a Texas prison and participated in an escape with six other prisoners which eventually resulted in the murder of a police officer by a different escapee. Texas is a state with a so-called "Law of Parties" which holds all participants in a crime equally culpable for the actions of an individual.

Online-Petition für Rodney Reed, Texas:

The State’s entire case against Rodney Reed has been demolished. The timeline is wrong, all the expert witnesses recanted their testimony, and some of the most respected forensic pathologists in the world concur that the prosecution’s theory is impossible. The State’s case doesn’t make sense because Rodney is innocent.

Online-Petition für Rodney Reed, Texas:

Thanks to massive pressure, the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals ordered an indefinite stay of execution for Rodney. But he is still in jail, and there will still be a trial. Mountains of evidence exonerates Rodney Reed. All of that evidence was kept from the all white jury that convicted him.

Online-Petition für Rodney Reed, Texas:

The State of Texas wants to execute an innocent man on November 20, 2019. Rodney Reed was wrongfully convicted in 1998 of the rape and murder of Stacey Stites. He has sat on Texas’ Death Row for 2 decades.

Online-Petition für Marcellus Williams, Missouri:

Marcellus Williams is scheduled to be executed on Tuesday, August 22, 2017. He was convicted of the August 11, 1998 robbery and murder of 42-year-old Felicia Gayle in her St. Louis home. There is no physical evidence linking him to the crime - none of the DNA evidence matches Marcellus.

Petition für Richard Glossip, Oklahoma, unschuldig im Todestrakt:

Richard Glossip is currently on death row in Oklahoma for the 1997 murder of Barry Van Treese. However, there is evidence that Glossip did not commit the murder and was wrongfully convicted for the crime. Another person, Justin Sneed, admitted to the murder, and DNA ties him to the murder scene. Prosecutors destroyed evidence and intimidated witnesses.

Online-Petition für Richard Glossip, Oklahoma:

Petition von Schauspielerin Susan Sarandon und Ordensschwester Helen Prejean - Stop the planned execution of Richard Glossip. Richard was convicted of murder after Justin Sneed, the man who confessed to the killing, claimed Richard had hired him to do it, despite a breathtaking lack of evidence.

Online-Petitionen der amerikanischen Organisation DEATH PENALTY ACTION, an denen Sie sich beteiligen können - die Petitionen betreffen Todestraktinsassen der USA mit Hinrichtungstermin oder trotz Aufschub laufender Aktionen.

Online-Petitionen der amerikanischen Organisation CATHOLIC MOBILIZING NETWORK, an denen Sie sich beteiligen können - die Petitionen sind aus der Sicht katholischer Christen formuliert, können aber selbst individuell bearbeitet werden.

Online-Petitionen der katholischen Organisation SANT'EGIDIO, an denen Sie sich beteiligen können - die Petitionen sind aus der Sicht katholischer Christen formuliert. Sant'Egidio hat seinen Ursprung in Italien, ist aber weltweit tätig und verbreitet.

Online-Petitionen der englischen Organisation REPRIEVE, an denen Sie sich beteiligen können - die Petitionen betreffen häufig Todesstrafenfälle weltweit. Reprieve ist eine Menschenrechtsorganisation mit Sitz in Großbritannien.

Say NO to the Death Penalty in Belarus (Weißrussland):

Belarus is the last country in Europe and former Soviet Union that is still carrying out the death penalty. Amnesty International, Human Rights Centre “Viasna”, Belarusian Helsinki Committee and other human rights defenders in Belarus oppose the death penalty in all cases without exception. We call on the President and Parliament of Belarus to immediately declare a moratorium on death sentences and executions as a first step towards full abolition of the death penalty.

Petition für Kinderarzt, dem in Ägypten die Hinrichtung droht:

Dr. Osama Yassin is a paediatrician, he was arrested in 2013 and has been in solitary confinement since - often denied food and water. He was sentenced to death alongside 11 other men in a mass trial of 739 people and faces imminent execution.

Ägypten: Zwölf drohende Hinrichtungen - Petition von Reprieve:

12 men are facing imminent execution right now. The situation is so dire in Egypt that we're worried that even the sacred Islamic holiday of Eid al-Adha may not stop the authorities from illegally executing these men.

Online-Petition für Folteropfer in Bahrain, denen Hinrichtung droht:

Mohammed Ramadhan and Husain Moosa are political prisoners in Bahrain. They were tortured. Husain's eventual ‘confession’ was used to sentence both men to death.

Stop Executions in Sri Lanka!

After 43 years without using death penalty, the President of Sri Lanka, Maithripala Sirisena, is reportedly planning to execute prisoners on death row. If this happens, it will mean that President Sirisena will single-handedly undoSri Lanka’s enviable record of shunning this irreversible punishment in the region.

Online-Petition an UK für von Todesstrafe in Indien bedrohten britischen Aktivisten:

In 2017, British activist Jagtar made his way to India to get married. Just three weeks after his wedding, Jagtar was abducted, tortured, and forced to ‘confess’ to involvement in an alleged conspiracy to cause unrest. Jagtar remains locked up today - facing the threat of the death penalty - far from his home in Dumbarton, Scotland.

Online-Petition für Jugendlichen in Saudi-Arabien:

Abdullah al Howaiti was only 14 years old when he was arrested in Saudi Arabia in 2017. He was tortured until he ‘confessed’ to crimes he could not have committed. He has several alibis. That ‘confession’ was used to sentence him to death in 2019.

Petition für Mohammed Essam al-Faraj in Saudi-Arabien:

Mohammed Essam al-Faraj was 15 years old - a child - when he was arrested. Because of a loophole in the law, Mohammed faces the threat of a death penalty. Mohammed's trial is coming up. Together, we can speak up for Mohammed and remind the Saudi Arabian authorities that the world is watching.