Moratorium 2000 Moratorium 2000 is a nonpartisan, nonreligious organization calling for a worldwide moratorium on capital punishment through a coordinated letter-writing and petition drive. Inspired by the fiftieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and the growing anti-death penalty sentiment in nations around the world, Moratorium 2000 plans to bring a contingent of supporters this fall to the United Nations in New York. Their goal is to deliver a truckload of petitions and letters from around the world calling for a moratorium on the death penalty and to persuade the United Nations to pass a resolution on capital punishment. Magdaleno has assembled a six-member board of directors, including Sister Helen Prejean as Honorary Chair, Dr. Michael Radelet as Chair and Richard Dieter as Vice Chair. Magdaleno is traveling around the country to spread the word on Moratorium 2000.
Organizations are free to distribute their own petitions.
You are invited to help analyze and shape Washington's abolition movement during an exciting and productive session on Saturday, March 20 from 10 AM to 4 PM in Seattle. In December, the state Supreme Court denied any more appeals by death row inmate Blake Pirtle . Issuing a certificate of finality on Tuesday, the court's action forces Pirtle to appeal his death penalty from this point on in federal court. A day after the decision, Pirtle's attorneys won a federal ruling in Spokane's U.S. District Court for Eastern Washington, postponing setting an execution date. Pirtle was convicted and sentenced to death in 1992 of the murders of Burger King employees Tod Folsom and Dawnya Calbreath.