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Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty

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P.O. Box 120552 Nashville, TN 37212

EIN Number: 62-1577038

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Phone: 615-256-3906

Hours: No Set Business Hours - Call to Inquire

Website: https://tennesseedeathpenalty.org

Email: info@tennesseedeathpenalty.org

NTEE Code: W24: Citizen Participation

MISSION - WHAT WE DO

Tennesseans for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (TADP) seeks to honor life by abolishing the death penalty in Tennessee. TADP works to accomplish this mission by educating Tennesseans about the problems with the death penalty system and empowering citizens to act for change.

SERVICES - HOW WE DO IT

Sharing Our Stories Sharing Our Stories is an innovative program pairing TADP staff with surviving family members of murder victims, death row exonerees, corrections officials, and families of the executed to provide presentations to faith communities, schools, and organizations. This program allows those most directly impacted by this policy to share their stories about the broken death penalty system. TADP empowers these individuals through speaking engagements and events specifically organized to offer support to those who have been directly impacted by the death penalty. Leadership Development TADP has developed several workshops designed to educate and empower citizens with the basic tools to organize themselves and advocate for their own interests. The training workshops include public speaking and citizen advocacy. Student Conference on the Death Penalty High school and college students from across the state gather at a college or university to attend the annual Student Conference on the Death Penalty. During this day-long conference, students hear from those directly impacted by the death penalty system and receive training on how to educate students and faculty on their respective campuses. Tennessee Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty Conservatives in Tennessee are taking a stand to re-evaluate the current capital punishment system. Polls show that national support for the death penalty has steadily decreased over the past two decades and has reached a 40-year low, even among conservatives who have traditionally been strong proponents of capital punishment. Our state continues to spend millions of dollars a year on an unpopular punishment that has been used 11 times since 1960. The 2004 Tennessee Comptroller’s “Tennessee’s Death Penalty: Costs and Consequences” report revealed that death penalty trials cost an average of 48 percent more than the average cost of trials in which prosecutors seek life imprisonment. The death penalty fails at both efficiency and results. Tennessee Conservatives Concerned about the Death Penalty (TNCC) provides a platform for Tennessee conservatives to question this system marked by inefficiency, inequity, and inaccuracy and to educate other conservatives statewide about this failed policy that doesn't make us safer, risks executing the innocent, and is wasteful and expensive. Tennessee Alliance for the Severe Mental Illness Exclusion (TASMIE) Working with the TASMIE coalition, TADP educates Tennesseans about the human and financial costs of pursuing the death penalty for those who have severe mental illness and why these individuals should not be eligible for a death sentence. Recognizing the need for public safety, life without parole would still be an option for these violent offenders, but with death off the table, victims' families will be provided legal finality much sooner, and the state will save millions of dollars that can be used for mental health treatment, compensation for victims' families, and additional resources for law enforcement. TADP Shelby County Initiative Through a community organizer, this initiative will educate and create awareness about the impact of the criminal justice system in Shelby County, and, as part of a collaboration with Just City, will serve as the primary vehicle for TADP in Memphis. This collaborative work will support Just City and TADP in achieving their common goals of reducing the size, scope, and disparate treatment within the criminal justice system.