Ask Australia to Help End the Death Penalty

In the lead-up to the recent executions in Indonesia, thousands of Australians from all corners of the community voiced their strong opposition to the death penalty.

Australian leaders from all political parties made passionate pleas for mercy, right up to the eleventh hour.

Tragically, the executions were carried out in spite of these efforts.

The death penalty is cruel, inhuman, and unnecessary.

Australia is part of a global movement of countries which has abolished the death penalty, but we must do more.

So, while Australia is grieving for our citizens and the six other people who were executed alongside them, it is up to the Australian Government to do everything in its power to ensure this does not happen again.

We can do more to end the death penalty in our region — through diplomacy, our aid program, and our federal law enforcement agencies.

Please call on the Australian Government to commit to ending the death penalty world wide — for good.
Dear Minister,

After the needless deaths of Australian citizens Myuran Sukumaran and Andrew Chan, I am calling on you to take action to ensure that no further people suffer under the death penalty.

I urge you to:

- Develop a foreign policy strategy aimed at ending the death penalty, everywhere

- Commit funding through the aid program to support civil society organisations campaigning for the abolition of the death penalty in countries that still use it

- Join forces with other nations - through the United Nations and other multilateral and regional bodies - to push for universal adoption of a global moratorium on the death penalty

- Put in place stronger legislation so that the Australian Federal Police is required by law and in operational procedures not to share information with other law enforcement agencies that would potentially result in suspected perpetrators facing the death penalty.

[Your comments here]

Yours sincerely,
[Your name]
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