Each year when the Georgia General Assembly meets, members of GFADP mobilize to lobby Georgia legislators for death penalty reform. We advocate for an end to executions and we work stop any proposed expansions of the death penalty. On this page you can learn about current legislative issues facing Georgia's system of capital punishment and take action against the death penalty.
- Urge District Attorney's Not to Seek the Death Penalty
- HR 250 and SR 155 urge district attorneys not to seek the death penalty and instead direct those funds to services for victim families, solving homicides and public safety programs.
- REPEAL THE DEATH PENALTY
- SB 342 calls for the repeal of the death penalty because it: drains vital state and county resources; has little impact of public safety; process re-traumatizes victim's families and is racially biased.
- Indigent Defense
- 80% of Georgians accused of crimes cannot afford their own attorney, yet Georgia has repeated slashed the public defender budget.
- Insufficient funding for indigent defendants prevents the state from fulfilling its Constitutional obligation to provide attorneys for all those accused of crimes.
- Urge your legislators to support HR 977 and HB 648, which provide for dedicated funding for the public defenders system.
- Physical Evidence Requirement
- SB 442 requires District Attorneys to present physical evidence in seeking a death sentence and excludes eye witness testimony as the sole factor in pursuing the death penalty.
| (L-R) GFADP Board Members Sen. Vincent Fort, Martina Correia, and Sara Totonchi at GFADP Lobby Day 2009.
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