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Arkansas Abolish Responds to Execution Date Request for Jack Greene

Arkansas Attorney General Leslie Rutledge has requested the Governor to set an execution date for Arkansas inmate Jack Gordon Greene. Despite Greene displaying clear signs of mental illness and documented brain damage, he has been on death row since 1993 for twenty-four years. Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty has responded with a statement calling for Governor Hutchinson to not set an execution date for Greene. "Jack Greene is not competent to be executed, and capital punishment should not be used on vulnerable people like the severely mentally ill. Tell the Governor that Arkansans are tired of these killings and the international shame that it brings on our state!"

Click here to read the full article concerning Jack Greene and Arkansas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's statement. 

If you are from Arkansas take action NOW by clicking this link to tell Governor Hutchinson to say NO to the death penalty.

Call Governor Hutchinson at 501-682-2345 to tell him why executing a severely mentally ill man is cruel and wrong.

Issue: 
Death Penalty
State: 
Arkansas

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