Abolishing the Death Penalty: Lessons from Illinois

Renaldo Hudson, Alice Kim, and Damon Williams speak in this session recorded at Socialism 2023. Abolition of the death penalty in Illinois in 2011 was the result of decades of organizing and mobilizing by grassroots groups, and most important, the intrepid work of Death Row activists themselves as well as their families. Join us to discuss how an abolitionist movement was built step by step as various campaigns and organizations came together to defeat a thoroughly racist system, judicial corruption, and police violence, even while the struggle continues to end “death by incarceration.” Learn more about the Socialism Conference at www.socialismconference.org. Buy books from Haymarket: www.haymarketbooks.org Follow Haymarket on Soundcloud for regular event recordings, book talks, political analyses and poetry readings: soundcloud.com/haymarketbooks