There's nothing like receiving a verdict of life or death while doing something embarrassingly trivial to force one out of the mundane.

It was sometime around the sixth inning of a lackluster dog-days game between two dog teams at seemingly vacant RFK Stadium that my old comrade had a text message reporting that a man won't be put to death tomorrow.

Such a tiny little message, and so many mountains moved to get it.

The National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty is debuting InnocentAndExecuted.org, the online extension of a recent report documenting likely instances when innocent prisoners have been executed.

This is a nice basic microsite deployment (redirecting to a content page created in DIA) complete with a toolkit of various resources for organizers, an online action and a project-specific donation page.

"Watching my brother be executed was the hardest thing I ever had to do in my life ..."

Death Penalty USA, the blog of DIA users National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, is two entries into a ten-part series called "Creating More Victims," which tells the heartrending stories of family members who lose loved ones to execution. (Here's the first, and the second.)