RESOLUTION TO ABOLISH THE DEATH
PENALTY
Adopted at the National
Student/Youth Conference to Defend Affirmative Action and Integration
and Struggle for Equality, on June 3, 2001
83 voted for, 2 against, 7
abstaining
Acknowledging that the criminal justice system is
inherently biased and racist,
Noting that police brutality, the prison industrial complex, abuse
within prisons against youth, women and lesbian/gay/bisexual/transgender
individuals and all forms of injustice within the criminal justice
system must be stopped,
Further noting that the death penalty is the execution of the
irreversible final step of a corrupt judicial process; corrupt by virtue
of the classist and therefore inherently racist nature of the US
injustice system,
Understanding that in order to rectify the inequalities within the
criminal justice system we must actively organize
This conference calls for the abolition of the death penalty and all
forms of injustice within the criminal justice system.
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