We need your help! In 2021, Illinois narrowed its felony-murder rule. The necessary change only ensures someone is culpable for first-degree murder before they face our state’s harshest possible punishment.

Now, Illinois House Republican members are calling for repeal of the SAFE-T Act and misleading the public about the scope of the Act’s changes to the felony-murder rule.

Before the SAFE-T Act, Illinois had one of the broadest felony murder laws in the country. People were charged with first-degree murder when a police officer, store owner, or other third party killed someone. Some states don’t have felony-murder laws, and in the majority of those that do, people can only be held accountable for deaths they or their co-defendants cause. The SAFE-T Act moved Illinois into that category.

Please follow the steps of this petition to make sure your legislators have the facts AND to ask them to protect the SAFE-T Act and changes to the felony-murder rule.