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Equal Justice USA (EJUSA) is a national, grassroots organization working to build a criminal justice system that is fair, effective, and more humane, starting with repeal of the death penalty and increased services to families of homicide victims. EJUSA has been a longtime leader in the movement to end the death penalty, partnering with state organizations to strengthen and train local leadership, provide intensive, strategic support, and build grassroots campaigns that win. Our recent accomplishments include ending the death penalty in New York in 2005 and in New Jersey in 2007, and gutting Maryland’s death penalty in 2009. As each state repeals the death penalty, EJUSA continues our work there to refocus resources towards more common sense criminal justice policies, with an emphasis on increasing services for families of murder victims.