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Alabama is set to execute Kenneth Eugene Smith tomorrow using nitrogen hypoxia. There are many people who say that it’s an inhumane way to kill people. The state tried to kill Smith by lethal injection last year and spent two hours trying to find a...
by joeschmeaux
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on Wed Jan 24, 2024 at 10:31 PM PST
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“Tortuguita” Teran, known by his friends in the green movement, was shot and killed by dozens of police officers three months ago in a forested public park to be razed and turned into a police training center called Cop City. He was one of many forest...
by Pakalolo
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on Fri Apr 21, 2023 at 05:12 AM PDT
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Oklahoma has a long and horrendous history when it comes to lethal injections of its death row inmates. The latest incident is extraordinarily alarming. On Thursday, as John Marion Grant, 60, was strapped to an execution gurney and the first dose of...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Fri Oct 29, 2021 at 08:24 AM PDT
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A Taliban judge pronounced last month that the penalty for homosexuality would be death under its rule. "There are only two penalties for gays: Either stoning or he has to stand behind a wall that falls on him. The wall must be 2.5 to 3 metres high,"...
by johnnygunn
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on Mon Aug 16, 2021 at 05:41 PM PDT
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In the early morning of Jan. 13, the U.S. federal government executed Lisa Montgomery, the only woman on federal death row and the first woman to be put to death by the federal government in 67 years. In the months leading up to Montgomery’s death,...
by Tamar Sarai Davis
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on Wed Jan 13, 2021 at 07:40 AM PST
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While some may see it as a clueless failed attempt and view the participants as a bunch of clowns, there was at least one faction within that was serious, equipped, dangerous and which had an evil and dangerous plan. It seems to be very similar to the...
by Dem
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on Mon Jan 11, 2021 at 08:30 AM PST
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Daniel Lewis Lee He was the first person to be executed by the Federal Government in 17 years. Do you think Drumpf was cheering? He has his first federal execution carried out. I wonder if his trousers got slightly damp with all of the excitement? It...
by Mollytraveler
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on Tue Jul 14, 2020 at 06:31 AM PDT
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Please excuse my rambling post, but I am horrified and saddened by this. This story is horrific and heartbreaking. Nate Woods was convicted of killing three cops. Only he was not the shooter, and the prosecution never argued that he was. According to...
by mochajava13
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on Thu Mar 05, 2020 at 09:56 PM PST
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Why Victim Family Members are Calling on President Trump to Stop First Federal Execution in 16 Years Earlene Branch Peterson lost her daughter Nancy and granddaughter Sarah in the crime that put Daniel Lewis Lee on federal death row. Mrs. Peterson and other family members are now speaking out against Mr. Lee’s scheduled execution and asking President...
by clairelmartin
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on Wed Nov 06, 2019 at 11:52 AM PST
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Growing up gay since I was a wee lad, and coming out in the 1980s…. I can tell you for a fact that the view of many in the US towards gays has been more accepting.
Of course as recently as 2014 gay people were more likely than any other minority...
by BFSkinner
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on Sat Jun 15, 2019 at 01:42 PM PDT
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On Thursday, Donald Trump held one of his infrequent press-like conferences. When reminded that by throwing around the term “treason,” Trump was in essence saying that the people he believed were “treasonous,” should be given a death sentence, Donald...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Fri May 24, 2019 at 10:06 AM PDT
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This Wednesday, the state of Texas is scheduled to execute Kwame Rockwell, a severely schizophrenic man who doesn’t know why he is in prison. Rockwell, who has a lifelong history of several mental illness that predates the crime, suffers from fixed...
by cchwang
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on Fri Oct 19, 2018 at 10:50 AM PDT
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Murderer's rare disease could make his execution tonight in Missouri a 'gruesome and painful' affair Russell Bucklew has been on Missouri’s death row for more than two decades. Four years ago, he was within a couple of hours of getting a lethal injection from the state of Missouri when the sentence was stayed by the U.S. Supreme Court. This was done...
by Meteor Blades
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on Tue Mar 20, 2018 at 11:27 AM PDT
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The word in Trump World is that the big guy’s solution to drug addiction is to knock off the drug dealers. And there we were thinking all we needed was a wall. As he often does, he floated the idea as a joke. (From Axios)
He often jokes about...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Mon Feb 26, 2018 at 04:17 PM PST
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The Republican Party in all its lack of wisdom is behind the preservation of the Death Penalty. They tout baby killers at a woman’s right over her body, yet the mantra kill, kill, kill they display when thoughts of war or state murders rear its ugly...
by thinkingblue
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on Mon Feb 26, 2018 at 07:35 AM PST
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I used to post as “moltar”, after Space Ghost’s thick-as-lead sidekick, but now I’m moltar2, with a follow-up to a previous diary,
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2004/12/4/77784/-From-a-Homicide-Survivor
The problem is that my brother is still...
by moltar2
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on Mon Jan 22, 2018 at 05:22 PM PST
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A BBC news report has several twists on the death penalty issue.
A white supremacist convicted of racially motivated murders three decades ago in Florida has been executed by lethal injection.
Mark Asay is the first white man in state history...
by xaxnar
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on Sat Aug 26, 2017 at 07:08 AM PDT
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CA-Gov: Courage Campaign Pushes Brown (D) To Order A Review Of Kevin Cooper's Case With New DNA Test Received this e-mail today from Courage Campaign:
The state of California may be on the verge of executing an innocent man -- and only Governor Jerry Brown can help the truth come to light.
There's overwhelming evidence that the San Bernardino...
by poopdogcomedy
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on Fri Jun 23, 2017 at 09:49 PM PDT
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Tomorrow in a Cincinnati courtroom, the future of Ohio’s ability to execute prisoners may come down to statements made by Ohio state officials in years past, specifically, their announcement that they would never again use a drug to paralyze prisoners...
by cchwang
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on Tue Jun 13, 2017 at 08:35 AM PDT
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Going to a country that executes people with swords and dancing around in public with one.
by CA148 NEWS
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on Fri Jun 02, 2017 at 08:51 PM PDT
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