New Voices: League of Women Voters Supports Abolition of the Death Penalty

The League of Women Voters of the United States has adopt­ed an offi­cial nation­al pol­i­cy call­ing for abo­li­tion of the death penal­ty. During the orga­ni­za­tion’s 47^th bien­ni­al nation­al con­ven­tion in Minneapolis, del­e­gates adopt­ed pol­i­cy lan­guage stat­ing, ​“The League of Women Voters of the United States sup­ports the abo­li­tion of the death penal­ty.” The League of Women Voters has more than 130,000 mem­bers and sup­port­ers. It is a non-par­ti­san polit­i­cal orga­ni­za­tion that encour­ages the informed and active par­tic­i­pat­ing of cit­i­zens in gov­ern­ment, works to increase under­stand­ing of major pub­lic pol­i­cy issues, and influ­ences pub­lic pol­i­cy through edu­ca­tion and advo­ca­cy. Mary G. Wilson, the League’s new­ly-elect­ed nation­al pres­i­dent, not­ed that, ​“This Convention proved that the League remains a vibrant, grass­roots orga­ni­za­tions. We debat­ed many crit­i­cal issues fac­ing cit­i­zens across the nation.” (League of Women Voters Press Release, June 15, 2006) See New Voices. Read the Press Release.