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It's time for Delaware to repeal the death penalty. It is randomly applied, and disproportionately impacts people based on race, location, and quality of counsel. For more information, go to www.derepeal.org.

What should happen when a law conflicts with someone’s religious practice? Should the person be exempted from the law? Or should the person have to obey like everyone else?

UPDATE: Thanks to your response, the Delaware State Senate voted by a  large majority to pass HB 9 in the final days of the legislative session. This was the “first leg” of the constitutional amendment process. In order for the provisions of HB 9 to become part of the Delaware Constitution, a bill identical to HB 9 must pass in the next General Assembly as well. Thank you for helping take the first steps needed to expand the voting rights of people who were convicted of a felony and paid their debt to society. We look forward to your support again next year. In the mean time, make sure to let your elected representatives know that Delaware deserves expanded participation in our democracy, not restrictions to voting rights.

Kirk Bloodsworth and Shujaa Graham, two death row exonerees, will be giving public talks made possible by Witness to Innocence, The Peninsula-Delaware Conference of the United Methodist Church, and others this May in Delaware.

After almost six years out of the limelight, Delaware’s death penalty system began grabbing headlines again when the state executed Robert Jackson in July of 2011 and Derrick Powell and Leslie Small were sentenced to death in the months following.

On Friday, a Delaware Superior Court in Wilmington issued a stipulated order that respects the private communications of a Delaware same-sex couple married in California prior to the effective date of Delaware's civil union law.

The Metropolitan Wilmington Urban League Young Professionals and the Delaware Human Relations Commission sponsored a forum on voting rights in celebration of Black History Month.

Wilmington parents and students are learning strategies to respond to overly harsh discipline policies, avoid suspensions and expulsions, and increase the odds of graduation from high school as a result of the new ACLU of Delaware Stay in School Project.

At 10am on January 1 2012, Delaware's law adopting same-sex civil unions took effect. Later that afternoon, former ACLU-DE executive director, Drewry Fennell and her partner, Lisa B. Goodman, president of Equality Delaware, became the first couple in Delaware to be joined in a same-sex, civil-union.