Co-Sponsor the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act

The Justice Department is seeking death against 44 defendants and has cleared the way for firing squads, while 203 people sentenced to death have been exonerated since 1973.

A letter to your members of Congress. Facts checked September 26, 2026.

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Subject Co-Sponsor the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act

Since 1973, 203 people sentenced to death in this country were later exonerated and freed. Most of those cases fell apart because of official misconduct or false testimony, not because of new DNA science. Every one of them was a person the system was sure about.

Now the Justice Department wants to execute more people, faster. In April 2026 it announced it is seeking death sentences against 44 defendants, brought back the drug it used for the 2020 and 2021 executions, and cleared the way for firing squads. It is also looking at building a new federal death row.

An execution is the one sentence that cannot be corrected when we learn we got it wrong. The National Research Council reviewed decades of research and found it could not show that the death penalty deters murder. Life in prison protects the public and leaves room to fix a mistake.

The Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act would end the death penalty for federal crimes and resentence the people on federal death row. Please co-sponsor the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act and help pass it.

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I'm calling to ask the member to co-sponsor the Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act.
Since 1973, 203 people sentenced to death were later exonerated. Most of those cases involved official misconduct or false testimony.
In April 2026 the Justice Department said it is seeking death against 44 defendants and cleared the way for firing squads.
An execution can't be undone. Please co-sponsor the bill to end the federal death penalty. I'm a constituent and I vote.

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The Facts Behind the Ask

203 people sentenced to death since 1973 who were later exonerated and freed (source)
44 federal defendants the Justice Department said in April 2026 it is seeking to execute (source)
52% of Americans who favored the death penalty in Gallup's 2025 poll, the lowest in about 50 years (source)

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