Fellow Georgians, we now need your help - CCBJ is a small voice and your voice is needed as well. It doesn't take a lot of time to work for better justice system, but it is time well spent.

Right now in Georgia (unlike in many other states) there simply is no protection against a wrongful execution based on eyewitness testimony. An advocacy group, Concerned Citizens for Better Justice (CCBJ), has over the last few months been engaging Georgia State Representatives and Senators on a law update that would eliminate the possibility of imposing the death penalty in cases based solely on eyewitness testimony. 

Research has proven that eyewitness testimonies are unreliable and often faulty, and according to the Innocence Project, eyewitness misidentification is the single greatest cause of wrongful convictions nationwide. If the State of Georgia wishes to sentence someone to death, there would have to be physical evidence linking the accused to the crime. 

We have secured very positive responses from several of Georgia Representatives and Senators. The chance for consideration of this update arrived when the Assembly convened on Monday, January 9th.  

Please sign this petition to add your voice on behalf of better justice for Georgia. 

Thank You! 

**********UPDATE******************************************************************

Our law proposal has been introduced as the Senate Bill 442.

 It has made it through Legal Review, Sponsorship, and a First Reading.

It is now "trapped" in the Senate Judiciary Committee. Unfortunately the bill is paralyzed in Committe. Crossover Day (the last day that a bill can make it's way out of committee for action this assembly) is only two weeks off. A strategy to defeat this bill and avoid controversy would be to just hold the bill captive until then appears to what some of the Senators may be trying to do.



Thanks so much for you who have already contributed in any way for your support. Please keep contacting your legislators to ask them to push this bill so that it can be voted on.