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In January, Charles Keith became a professional abolitionist against the death penalty, taking a job as a community liaison with the Death Penalty Action Network. The goal of the advocacy group started by Abraham Bonowitz and Scott Langley is to eliminate that form of punishment. The group argues the death penalty should be eliminated because too many innocent people have been wrongfully executed and that poor Black men in particular have been disproportionately penalized. About the Death Penalty Action Newtwork Bonowitz, a death penalty abolitionist since 1996, said the network was created in response to Donald Trump s election in 2016. We realized it would only be a matter of time before he resumed federal executions, he said.  And we felt there needed to be an organization to lift up the visibility of the issue when such executions were scheduled. Beyond that, we really realized we needed a movement to make it possible for anybody to have an impact.

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