Music Industry Leaders Join Fight to Abolish the Death Penalty: 'We Have a Responsibility'

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Music executives Merck Mercuriadis and Jason Flom have joined a Richard Branson-led campaign to abolish the death penalty worldwide.

, reached out to Branson last year to discuss crafting “a broader business statement against the death penalty,” says Branson, who founded Virgin Records in 1972.

On Oct 10, in recognition of World Day Against the Death Penalty, Virgin Group’s nonprofit foundation, Virgin Unite, held a virtual event around a new series of documentary short films calledthat spotlight stories of individuals wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death.

And yet the risk of executing an innocent person is significant. Since 1973, at least 186 people who were wrongly convicted and sentenced to death in the U.S. were later exonerated, according to the Death Penalty Information Center.

 

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Oh please, worldwilde? No no no, only in those countries where it remains to be done!

Death penalty is wrong. Period!

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