Friends,

We are sad to announce that the State of Alabama took the life of Keith Gavin tonight.

Our thoughts are with Keith’s family, his spiritual Advisor for the past 10 years Imam Aswan Abdul-Addarr, his friends, his attorney and his many friends on death row at Holman.

We thank all of you who wrote, faxed, tweeted and called the Governor to let her know that Alabama does not kill in our name. We thank everyone who organized and attended vigils around the state and who joined with us from abroad. We thank Death Penalty Action, Amnesty International, AL state Conference of the NAACP, Alabama Arise, the ACLU, Alabama New South Coalition, San Egidio in Rome, Witness to Innocence, the Evangelical Network of EJUSA, L’Chaim! Jews Against the Death Penalty, Faith In Action Alabama and many others for how they stood with us. We also thank the Alabama organizations who sent out information. As always, we especially thank our sister organization JAM in Birmingham.

We thank all who contributed and helped reach the goal of the fundraiser Keith’s Final Wish for a respectful Muslim burial, initiated by his friend, Lisa.

 R.I.P, Keith! We love you and we will not forget!

Esther and the Board of Project Hope to Abolish the Death Penalty