Biography
Jack Payden-Travers was individually named among fourteen death-penalty abolition protesters arrested at the U.S. Supreme Court on January 17, 2012.
A June 27, 2012 Abolition Action Committee report individually names Jack Payden-Travers among fourteen protesters arrested after displaying a “STOP EXECUTIONS!” banner at the U.S. Supreme Court on January 17, 2012. The group opposed executions and asserted First Amendment protections. The report explicitly states that Judge Juliet McKenna imposed a five-day jail sentence on June 27 and that this individual began serving it that afternoon. It does not report the actual discharge or completed time served. Contemporary Abolition Action Committee report, preserved in the WashLaw mailing-list archive.
