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	"author_name": "Alabama Arise",
	"author_url": "https://actionnetwork.org/groups/alabamaarise",
	"title": "We the Jury",
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	"description": "In 2017, Alabama took a vital step toward justice. The Legislature passed Senate Bill 16, and Governor Kay Ivey signed it into law, ending judicial override—the practice that allowed a single elected judge to impose a death sentence even after a jury recommended life without parole. However, the reform was left half-finished because the law was not made retroactive. Today, 25 people remain on Alabama’s death row under a previous sentencing law that state lawmakers and Governor Ivey have already rejected. This issue is about correcting a clear constitutional disparity that, if left unaddressed, will result in the state taking more lives solely because of the date a person was convicted. As former Alabama Supreme Court Chief Justice Drayton Nabers, Jr. noted, allowing judges to override juries introduces political pressure and arbitrariness into life-or-death decisions. Currently, two people convicted of the exact same offense can face entirely different fates simply based on the year they were sentenced. Governor Ivey has the authority to finish the job. Through clemency, she can commute every death sentence imposed by judicial override to life imprisonment without parole—a penalty that honors jury verdicts and restores equal protection. Other states that ended override, including Delaware and Indiana, applied the change to those already sentenced. A jury of peers—not one judge—should decide, and the courts should respect the jury’s decision. Let’s finish the job. Add your name to We, the Jury petition and tell Governor Ivey: twelve citizens decide, not one judge. It&#x27;s time for Alabama to finish the job and commute these 25 sentences to life without parole.",
	"url": "https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/we-the-jury"
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