Death Penalty

On May 22, the bill to repeal the death penalty in Connecticut went to the desk of Connecticut Governor Jodi Rell, who in media reports is saying that she still supports the death penalty and is suggesting that she may veto the bill. Continue to pray for the signing of this legislation. For more information go to Death Penalty Watch.
The focus of this month's Bin It! campaign is Bangladesh. Bangladesh sentenced at least 185 people to death and executed five people in 2008, and there are more than 800 people on death row there
Burundi's new penal code, which abolishes the death penalty, was signed into law on April 22.

New Mexico's governor Bill Richardson signed the repeal of the death penalty in to law on March 18, 2009, attracting praise from the global abolitionist community.http://www.deathwatchinternational.org/the_news.php