The document outlines steps for political action to abolish capital punishment in Indiana, including determining the cause, collecting supporting information from cases and polls, informing others to build contacts and funding through social media and direct mail, holding fundraisers and selling merchandise, composing a bill with group members, introducing the bill through an elected official, calling members to contact officials, demonstrating at trials for press coverage, attending hearings to present information, and tracking and revising plans for future action.

1. Steps to Political Action

2.  Determine the cause
◦ Abolish Capital Punishment in Indiana
 Collect Information
◦ Cases of capital punishment
 Many people on death row have later been found innocent or were
acquitted.
 There are currently 27 prisoners on death row in Indiana.
◦ Public polls
 Inform others of the cause and the group to build contacts
and funding
◦ Create pages on social networking sites
◦ Use direct mail to inform the public of the cause
◦ Film a segment about the cause and group to air on public access
channels

3.  Collect a $50 annual due for membership
 Hold fundraisers such as dinners or possibly
concerts
 Send out monthly newsletters to members
and businesses asking for donations
 Sell shirts, buttons and other merchandise
representing the cause

4.  Indiana Information Center on the Abolition
of Capital Punishment (IICACP)
 Indiana Citizens to Abolish Capital
Punishment (ICACP)
 Bloomington Coalition to Abolish the Death
Penalty
 The National Coalition to
Abolish the Death Penalty

5.  Compose a bill with the help of group members
and contacts to abolish capital punishment in
Indiana
 Introduce bill to an elected official or staffer
through the iron triangle
 Call group members and others to action with
information on how to contact elected officials
◦ Inform through newsletters, radio, and television
 Demonstrate at trials to obtain press coverage

6.  Attend any public hearings on the bill
◦ Present information about innocent prisoners on
death row
◦ Present public polls
 Track the bill’s progress
 Revise the plan, gather more information, and
expand the group for next time