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Sunday, January 16, 6pm
Livestreamed and in-person gathering the day before the January 17th action to deliver petitions to the President, the DOJ, Congress and the Supreme Court. 
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Speakers include:

* Kwame Ajamu – Exonerated Death Row Survivor, Chairman, Witness to Innocence
* Rev. Leroy Barber – The Voices Project
* The Right Rev. Mariann Edgar Budde – Bishop of Washington, DC (invited)
* Shane Claiborne – Red Letter Christians
* US Senator Richard Durbin – Prime Senate Sponsor of Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act 
* Charles Keith – Death Penalty Action Impacted Communities Liaison: Murder Victim Family Member / Brother of wrongly convicted prisoner
* Antoinette Jones – Sister of innocent former death row prisoner Julius Jones
* Cece Jones-Davis – Julius Jones Coalition
* Rev. Lisa Sharon Harper – Freedom Road
* Rev. Michael McBride – Live Free USA
* Rev. Doug Pagitt – Vote Common Good
* Sr. Helen Prejean, CSJ
* US Rep. Ayanna Pressley – Prime House Sponsor of Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act 
* Rev. Sharon Risher – Murder victim family member (killer is on federal death row)
* Rev. Rob Schenck – Dietrich Bonhoeffer Institute
* Rev. Brandi Slaughter – Death Penalty Action
* Emma Tacke – Catholic Mobilizing Network
* Adam Taylor – Sojourners 
* John Zokovitch – Pax Christi USA
* US Senator Chris Van Hollen, Co-sponsor of Federal Death Penalty Prohibition Act
* Cantor Mike Zoosman – T’Ruah & L’Chaim: Jews Against the Death Penalty