Support Petition to Outlaw the Death Penalty

10 August 2009

Reprieve Australia has applauded plans recently announced by federal Attorney-General for legislation to ban Australian states from ever re-introducing the death penalty. Reprieve strongly endorses this Petition, and encourages all its members and supporters to sign, so that together we can urge our politicians to shut the door once and for all on the death penalty in Australia.

Support Petition to Outlaw the Death Penalty

Reprieve Australia has applauded plans recently announced by federal Attorney-General for legislation to ban Australian states from ever re-introducing the death penalty.  Reprieve's President, Rachel Walsh, said "By this initiative, we will protect Australian justice from a barbarous practice, and hopefully recover our once-proud reputation as an abolitionist nation that opposes the death penalty without hesitation in all circumstances, wherever it is imposed, for whatever reason."

The Australian Services Union and the Victorian Committee of Make the Death Penalty History have launched a petition that will support the government's initiative, which calls for the national outlawing of capital punishment to protect Australians both here and abroad from the death penalty. 

Reprieve strongly endorses this Petition, and encourages all its members and supporters to sign, so that together we can urge our politicians to shut the door once and for all on the death penalty in Australia.  

You can sign the Petition here: http://www.asu.asn.au/media/general/20090807_deathpenalty.html.

This Petition, which will be sent to the Federal Parliament, and was launched in Melbourne over the weekend by Lee Rush, whose son Scott faces the death penalty in Indonesia as one of the Bali 9: http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1069767/End-to-death-penalty-petition-launched-in-Melbourne.

Reprieve Australia fights for the rights of those facing the death penalty.  It works to provide effective legal representation and humanitarian assistance to those facing execution, to educate the community about the death penalty and to raise awareness about human rights. Visit www.reprieve.org.au

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