Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire
Promoting human rights from Salisbury UK
A former Swindon Amnesty member and lawyer, Catherine Dunmore, has secured funds from a crowdsourcing site to enable her to go to the state of Florida in the USA to work on first degree murder cases. She has been there three weeks now and she has a blog which is worth reading. Florida is one of the states still using the death penalty.
We hope you will follow her blog and also be moved to send funds to her crowdfunding site.
This is the latest urgent action, this time for the ‘sunshine’ state of Florida. Urgent Actions are a key part of Amnesty activity and we ask that people spare a moment or two to write a letter or letters to the people 
concerned. You can try emailing but these are frequently blocked. You can read the details in the attachment below. If you can write it would be appreciated. Our monthly death penalty report is available.
This is the monthly report on the use of the death penalty around the world thanks to Lesley for compiling it. A particularly grim month and of course there are no statistics for China which stills leads the world in the use of the penalty.
It may be the sunshine state but it is also a bloodthirsty one. This will be the 21st execution under the Governorship of Rick Scott. In 2012, a quarter of all executions in the USA were in Florida. This year, there have been 33 executions, 8 of which have been in Florida. The USA is the only country in the Americas still to use the death penalty.
If you are able to write, that would be appreciated.
Amnesty in Salisbury & South Wiltshire 