USA: Commute Billie Allen’s death sentence
Petition to: President Biden
Billie Allen has been on federal death row in the US for well over half his life. Sentenced to death in 1998 at just 19 years old, Billie has now spent a total of 25 years in prison, despite racial bias affecting his case and a lack of evidence linking him to the crime.
He is one of two Black men sentenced to death in 1998 for the murder of an armed security guard. The judge, legal teams and all but two jurors were white, even though the crime occurred in St. Louis where the Black population is around 46% of the total population. Billie Allen’s lawyers have long sought DNA testing of evidence, which they say could show Billie is not guilty, but for years the government has refused this.
Billie’s death sentence has been defended under five Presidents – Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, Barack Obama, Donald Trump, and now Joe Biden.
More than 40 men remain on federal death row today. President Biden promised to work to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level — but his administration is yet to take any action.
Call on President Biden to use his constitutional authority to commute the death sentence of Billie Allen and all others on federal death row.
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This petition is brought to you by Politic in partnership with Amnesty International Aotearoa.
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