Georgia Catholics Against the Death Penalty educates Catholics on Church teaching about capital punishment and mobilizes action to eliminate its use in Georgia and around the world.
Working directly with the Archdiocese of Atlanta, Diocese of Savannah, and the Georgia Catholic Conference, GACADP works to build a network of parish leaders and other concerned Catholics to foster ongoing prayerful witness against the death penalty.
Please join GACADP to receive the latest information about efforts to end the death penalty in Georgia. By joining, you will add your voice to thousands of other concerned Georgia Catholics working to heed the Church’s call to end the use of the death penalty.
With this free membership, you will receive up to date information about the latest news and action alerts from around the state and will find new ways to put your faith into action.
In every part of the world, believers, and their Pastors in particular, should be one in demanding dignified conditions for those in prison, respect for their human rights and above all the abolition of the death penalty, a provision at odds with Christian faith and one that eliminates all hope of forgiveness and rehabilitation.
- Pope Francis, Spes non confundit
As we read in Leviticus, "You shall proclaim liberty in the land for all its inhabitants. It shall be a jubilee for you, when each of you shall return to your own property, each of you to your own family" (Lev 25:10). Observed every 25 or 50 years, jubilee years are a period of mercy, forgiveness, and perhaps most of all, of liberation.
Pope Francis identified several "tangible signs of hope" for the Jubilee Year of Hope - one of which is the work to abolish the death penalty.
