Brandon has followed all the rules and yet the denied him his first hearing. This is his first time getting into trouble and they would not even give him the first offenders. I need your help please.

The Alcoholic Beverage Control agents involved in the brutal nighttime assault on honor student Martese Johnson had no regard for the upstanding University of Virginia student's safety when they viciously slammed the 20-year-old's head onto a brick walkway, causing blood to spray in several directions and pool in rivulets beneath his gaping forehead, while passersby looked on. It was later revealed that the young man had been arrested after his valid, state-issued identification was found to be "overly suspicious." Martese was ultimately arrested for "public intoxication, swearing, and obstruction of justice," of which many believe he is innocent. This type of policing is dangerous, divisive, and has no place in American society.

The governor's decision to pause executions is the right decision for our state. In 2011, the Pennsylvania Senate passed Senate Resolution No. 6, “Directing the Joint State Government Commission to establish a bipartisan task force and an advisory committee to conduct a study of capital punishment in this Commonwealth and to report their findings and recommendations.” The results of the study will be presented to the legislature and the governor. It is only right to pause executions while awaiting this report. In a series of articles published in December 2014, the Reading Eagle found that Pennsylvania taxpayers have spent over $350 million on the death penalty over a period in which the state has carried out just three executions. All three executions involved inmates who had dropped their appeals. Our system is clearly costly and broken, the governor is right to take a closer look. Read HR 143: http://openstates.org/pa/bills/2015-2016/HR143/

* Since 1973, at least 150 men and women, including six in Pennsylvania, have walked off our nation’s death rows after evidence revealed that they were sentenced to die for crimes they did not commit. * The DNA era has taught us that murder cases are often riddled with problems, including mistaken eyewitnesses, incompetent lawyers, shoddy forensics, jailhouse snitches, and coerced confessions, but DNA alone can’t solve the problem because it isn’t available in most cases. * About 90% of those persons facing capital charges cannot afford to hire their own attorney. On the national level, poor defendants sentenced to die have been represented by attorneys who were drunk, asleep, or completely inexperienced. The death penalty is like a lottery of geography, race, and socio-economic status: * Almost 80% of those executed in the U.S. were convicted of murdering a white person even though people of color are the victims in about half of all homicides. * Numerous states have found that a large percentage of death sentences originate from just one county. * The death penalty is supposed to be reserved for “the worst of the worst” – but many times the most heinous crimes end up with a deal or a life sentence while robberies “gone wrong” or even accomplices are sentenced to die. The death penalty’s long and complicated process has been harmful to murder victims’ families: * The death penalty process is longer because a life is on the line. Yet the extra time has delayed justice for victims’ families, sometimes leaving them in limbo for decades wondering if the sentence will be carried out. * Capital cases are so riddled with errors that the majority of them are reversed at some point – forcing victims’ families to endure one retrial after another. * The death penalty has split families apart, forcing relatives with different views on capital punishment to engage in a polarizing debate at the time when they need each other most.

My brother was careered and is in the 9 th year of a15 year sentence of a crime that only carries a 5 year sentence. Please release him time served. We've filed a commutation of sentence in 2013.

This petition is to request immediate involvement from the DOJ in the recent police shooting death of Antonio Zambrano-Montes. Millions have seen the video which clearly shows police gunning down an unarmed man. The investigation has been turned over to the special investigation unit, headed by the Kennewick Police. Kennewick is an adjacent town whose police force is known for excessive use of force and excessive ticketing. To date SIU has never found an officer at fault for use of lethal force, and by the way the investigation has gone so far there is no reason to expect a different outcome this time. The officers involved have not yet been questioned, and are not barred from communicating with each other. Most of the SIU investigation has centered around Mr. Zambrano-Montes and not the officers involved. An independent autopsy has already contradicted the official one on both the numbers of rounds that hit and where they hit. This petition is a call for an unbiased and fair investigation, not one headed by a police force that's works closely with the one in question and has a history of not holding officers accountable for their actions.

My son was ambush and murdered excecutioner style, by a Caucasian fourteen year old male. The case is being presented to the Grand Jury, on the " Stand Your Ground Law," which is biased against the life and protection of Minorities.

To expedite the request for extradition of Pedro Pablo Barrientos Nuñez, former Chilean army officer charged by Chilean tribunals as one of the direct perpetrators of the murder of world-beloved singer Victor Jara.

Yes I have been affected by this because am a wife who go to bed every night cry with my kids we pray fir him we see people do worst crime than him getting Parole out, am just lost by GA law see am.from CT, not even Contraval visit GA Don't give while other state do, yes my husband did his crime but Good God almighty he was a teenager not that it justify his crime, but he isn't the same guy after 17 years I really would like the GA Parole board to better I wrote on 2 Occassion and I don't even know if they receive my letter,we as blacks have to do better

Execution in itself is morally wrong, and to partner it with the use of a firing squad is inexcusable. There may be a shortage of lethal injections, but a firing squad should not be the answer to this problem.

Four years and counting is too long for justice. Please be a voice for a little boy that didn't deserve to have his life taken from him!

Everyday we find the public officials are committing crimes and are sentenced like regualr citizens. Public officials must be held to a higher standard so we have better people in office!