Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 3.29.17

Under the able leadership of our Chairman the Board has begun to take a closer look at our history. Over the past 28 years we have had leaders who could be the envy of any free world organization. And yes, we have stories to tell, amazing stories and we are determined to tell them. We want to tell them so that we do not forget our history and the men who are no longer with us and also so we might learn from them and be inspired. We are proud and grateful to our trailblazers and founding fathers.  

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 3.29.17

Under the able leadership of our Chairman the Board has begun to take a closer look at our history. Over the past 28 years we have had leaders who could be the envy of any free world organization. And yes, we have stories to tell, amazing stories and we are determined to tell them. We want to tell them so that we do not forget our history and the men who are no longer with us and also so we might learn from them and be inspired. We are proud and grateful to our trailblazers and founding fathers.  

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 3.22.17

Alabama lawmakers will vote next month on whether to prohibit a judge from imposing a death sentence when a jury has recommended life imprisonment.

The Alabama House of Representatives is scheduled to debate the bill on April 4 when lawmakers return from a two-week spring break. The Senate has already approved the measure. The bill is third on the proposed debate agenda for the day.

The 11th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Alabama Death Row inmate Vernon Madison can't be executed.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 3.15.17

To begin with a positive, we were delighted to see the AP article published today about Senator Hank Sanders. Lone lawmaker crusades against the death penalty in Alabama. There is absolutely no doubt that who Senator Hank Sanders is and what he does has made it possible for us not to give up hope over the years. He has encouraged us not just by words but by deeds. We are forever in his debt!

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 3.8.17

We asked members of our organization to write on the topic “What Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty means to me”. This is the sixth article in this series. We hope it will give you some insights into who we are as well as what we are all about.

Project Hope is the voice of consciousness, our way of expressing our humanity which is like the scales of justice; that kind of balance, two points of view, from two sides. We pour out our thoughts to fill the pages to the rim with our sweet as well as our bitter feelings, thoughts, pains, shames, love and point of views.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 3.1.17

We asked the Board to write on the topic “What Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty means to me”. This is the fifth article in this series. We hope it will give you some insights into who we are as well as what we are all about.

When you put 185 men in a small place, all charged with the same kind of crime, looking at the same kind of punishment like the death penalty, if they don’t kill each other first, you will get something like Project Hope.

Weekly Report from the Board Meeting at Holman Prison 2.22.17

The U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to hear Thomas Arthur’s challenge to Alabama's execution method, prompting liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor to assert that the court should have considered whether the lethal injection procedures amounted to unconstitutional cruel and unusual punishment. This is bad news indeed!