"Both groups were surprised that they had so much in common. The condemned women were astonished that the nuns had chosen to live a life nearly as confined as their own, in rooms that they, too, called 'cells.'"
Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texass-death-row
#Longreads #Nuns #DeathRow #Faith #Redemption #CapitalPunishment #Jail #Prison #Women #Incarceration #Texas
President Joe Biden commutes sentences for 37 of 40 federal death row inmates, giving them life in prison.
@AssociatedPress reports the incoming president is "an outspoken proponent of expanding capital punishment."
#Biden #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #Crime #Trump #Law #Justice
He would be the first person executed for a shaken baby syndrome death—a crime that he didn’t commit.
Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3BTOMc6
#capitalpunishment #WrongfullyConvicted #DeathPenalty #ShakenBabySyndrome
Robert Roberson was found guilty of the murder of his daughter Nikki based on the now-debunked theory of shaken baby syndrome.
Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3BTOMc6
#capitalpunishment #WrongfullyConvicted #DeathPenalty #ShakenBabySyndrome
Curiously, one of the mandatory reviews under Oklahoma law requires that death sentences be reviewed to see if the sentence was imposed “under the influence of passion, prejudice, or any other arbitrary factor.”
Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3BTOMc6
#capitalpunishment #WrongfullyConvicted #DeathPenalty #ShakenBabySyndrome
"Many states impose the death penalty where the victim is a law enforcement officer, the idea being that someone who would kill a cop wouldn’t have any qualms about killing anyone else, and so should be permanently removed from society." https://bit.ly/3BTOMc6
#capitalpunishment #WrongfullyConvicted #DeathPenalty #ShakenBabySyndrome
"When Nikki Roberson was brought to the Palestine, Texas ER in 2002, medical personnel immediately assumed, based on Nikki’s apparent injuries, that she was a victim of shaken baby syndrome, and told the responding detectives what they thought." https://bit.ly/3BTOMc6
#capitalpunishment #WrongfullyConvicted #DeathPenalty #ShakenBabySyndrome
Child welfare specialists, investigators, and prosecutors ran with the connection and started charging people with child abuse and homicide using the “triad” of injuries supposedly caused by Shaken Baby Syndrome.
Read more 👉 https://bit.ly/3BTOMc6
#capitalpunishment #WrongfullyConvicted #DeathPenalty #ShakenBabySyndrome
The Moral and Legal Failures of the Death Penalty: https://bit.ly/3BTOMc6
#capitalpunishment #WrongfullyConvicted #DeathPenalty #ShakenBabySyndrome
"The idea that we can create paradise by increasing the killing is a very popular notion here in the rather backward and underdeveloped country of the United States. I mean 'backward and underdeveloped' in a moral sense. In an economic sense, the country holds vast wealth…."
~ A.R. Moxon
#USA #CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #immigrants #violence #Trump #ARMoxon
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https://www.the-reframe.com/killing-our-way-to-paradise/?ref=the-reframe-newsletter
In the past week, the U.S. executed two Black men, each of whom might have been innocent of their alleged crimes. Five more executions are slated to follow. In this post on @medium, I write about the man executed last Friday and why we should honor his name, Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah.
Click the link, not the image preview, to bypass the paywall:
#BlackMastodon #BlackLivesMatter #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #CriminalJustice
Five executions in five states — Republican-led states — in one week, as the fall election nears:
"Such a concentrated glut of judicial killing was last seen more than 20 years ago in the US."
~ Ed Pilkington
#CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #Republicans #ProLife #Trump
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/sep/29/america-executions-death-penalty
The same State that you don't trust to levy your taxes accurately or to process your speeding ticket correctly has killed someone in your name... again.
The exonerated "Central Park Five", wrongly convicted of felony 35 years ago, took to the #DNC stage to testify Trump's cruel execution sprees and pursuit of the death penalty. Yusef Salaam, activist against the death penalty, was one of them.
Meanwhile Dems have re-popularized using "felon" as an insult and silently dropped opposition to the death penalty from their platform
https://theintercept.com/2024/08/23/dnc-democrats-death-penalty-executions
#uspol #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #felon #dems #murder #crime #law #justice #execution
"Alabama has carried out the first execution of a death row inmate in the US using nitrogen gas, an untested procedure which the prisoner’s lawyers had argued amounted to a form of cruel and unusual punishment banned under the US constitution. ...
Alabama claimed that the new nitrogen gas method was 'perhaps the most humane method of execution ever devised.'"
~ Ed Pilkington
#Alabama #DeathPenalty #execution #CapitalPunishment #ProLife
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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/alabama-executes-kenneth-smith-nitrogen-gas
"Alabama can proceed with its plan to conduct the first execution in the U.S. with nitrogen gas after a federal appeals court wasn't convinced Wednesday that the method violates the constitutional ban on cruel and unusual punishment."
@nbcnews reports: https://flip.it/AyTHqJ
#CapitalPunishment #Execution #Alabama #Crime #CriminalJustice #News
