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Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP) is a statewide organization working to repeal the death penalty in Missouri by educating citizens and legislators regarding the costs and consequences of capital punishment. We seek to empower murder victim family members, exonerees, communities, racial justice advocates, various faith and conscience traditions, as well as individuals, to collaborate in creating new opportunities for abolition. With coalition partners, we address root causes of capital punishment by soliciting direct advocacy to oppose individual executions and the systemic conditions which permit them. Through alerts to our members, media placement, and educational events, we lobby to stop executions and to reform the criminal justice system. Strategic communications and educational work generates print, radio, and news articles in national and local journals, as well as social media. Through targeted advocacy, we facilitate conversations between murder victim family members and the larger community to prevent the imposition of death sentences in high-use counties.
Latest News
Clemency Petition for Walter “Arkie” Barton #SaveArkie
On Tuesday, February 19, 2020 the State of Missouri issued an execution warrant for Walter “Arkie” Barton. His execution is set for May 19th, 2020. We are asking you to sign this petition to spare his life and ask Governor Parsons to grant clemency. Barton was convicted and sentenced to […]
Missouri’s Death Penalty in 2019 – Year in Review
The Status of the Death Penalty in Missouri Number of executions since 1976: 89 Last execution: Russell Bucklew, October 1, 2019 Number of death row inmates: 22 Number of innocent people freed from death row: 4 Nationally, the use of the death penalty remained near historic lows in 2019, according […]
Legislative Priority List 2020
Art: Yarek Waszul Below you will find information related to current legislation that Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty is in favor of. Each of these bills would improve criminal justice practices specifically linked to the death penalty in Missouri. SB 920 / HB 1925: Bills related to Judicial […]
MADP 2020 LOBBY DAY
Missouri State Capital, located in Jefferson City, Missouri.
Film Screening of True Justice: Bryan Stevenson’s Fight for Equality, February 7th, from 7pm-9pm at the Bruce R. Watkins Cultural Center
Alabama public interest attorney Bryan Stevenson, founder and executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative.
An American Tragedy, A Film by Lisa Rhoden Boyd Showing in Kansas City and Columbia, Missouri during the Month of November
Join us THURSDAY, NOV. 14 at 6:30 P.M at Penn Valley Community College, or MONDAY, NOV. 18 at 6:30 P.M at The University of Missouri for a screening of Lisa Rhoden Boyd’s An American Tragedy, a film that challenges societies assumptions about the death penalty. These events are free and […]
Russell Bucklew Executed on October 1, 2019
On October 1st Missouri carried out the execution of Russell Bucklew despite concerns about the violation of his human rights and the 8th Amendment of the Constitution. Russell “Rusty” Bucklew was sentenced to death in 1997 for the death of Micheal Sanders. This was Bucklew’s third execution setting. His previous […]
Support Truth and Reconciliation: Marker Dedication Ceremony for Kansas City Lynching Victim Levi Harrington
Between 1877 to 1950, more than 4,400 African Americans were victims of racial terrorism and lynching. Most communities have said or done nothing to acknowledge their local history of racial terror lynching, and many victims of racial terror and the trauma of these atrocities has been largely ignored. On Saturday, December 1st, […]
Equal Justice Initiative High School Essay Contest
The Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) and Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (MADP) is pleased to announce a scholarship contest open to all students grades 9-12 attending high school where prizes totaling $5000 will be awarded to winning participants. The scholarship contest coincides with our forthcoming dedication of a […]