JOHN KIRIAKOU: America’s Barbaric Death Penalty
https://consortiumnews.com/2024/11/18/john-kiriakou-americas-barbaric-death-penalty/
Three quarters of the rest of the countries in the world do not have the death penalty. They see it as barbaric and immoral, which it is. By John Kiriakou Special to Consortium News The Texas Supreme Court in October…
#Politics #Column #Commentary #HumanRights #Legal #U.s. #U.s.SupremeCourrt #Alabama #DeathPenalty #DeathPenaltyPolicyProject #EmmanuelLittlejohn #JohnKiriakou #MarcellusWilliams #Missouri #RalphLeroyMenzies #RobertRobertson #Texas
#marcelluswilliams
Do #innocent people die on #deathrow? #marcelluswilliams did and #robertroberson almost did in #Texas as #governors and #politicians are not paying attention to evidence that would retract sentencing.
From the wrongful execution of #MarcellusWilliams to the looming threat over #RobertRoberson, systemic biases and failures are sending innocent people to death row.
Abolish the death penalty. https://innocenceproject.org/the-injustice-of-death-row-the-profound-tragedy-of-marcellus-williams-and-the-fight-to-save-robert-roberson/
#Missouri governor Mike Parson pardoned the McCloskeys (those very fine people in the title photo who pointed guns at peaceful Black Lives Matter protesters) but refused to grant clemency or even commutation to #MarcellusWilliams.
The logic of lynching, indeed.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/missouri-governor-pardons-mccloskeys/
"[Dahlia] Lithwick and [MarkJoseph] Stern marvel at the degree to which the right-wing justices were 'obsessed with due process and judicial review and the possibility of vindictive prosecution' when it came to Donald, but they gave no such consideration to Marcellus Williams."
#Trump #Republicans #ProLife #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #MarcellusWilliams
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"Marcellus Williams was killed by lethal injection on Tuesday, not long after the Republican super-majority, partially engineered by Donald Trump, denied Williams’ request for a stay of execution. The three liberals on the court vehemently dissented."
#Trump #Republicans #ProLife #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #MarcellusWilliams
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The recent execution of Marcellus Williams has revived the debate about innoncence and the use of the death penalty as a capital punishment. #MarcellusWilliams #DeathPenalty #Execution #StateSanctionedMurder
global aid thwarted,
global amnesia,
siblings and relatives gone forever,
parental worries —
in the face of apex arrogance
and ethnic cleansing by any definition...
still your laughter can be heard
and somehow you are able to smile
O resilient Children of Palestine!
— Poet: Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams
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https://www.codepink.org/youre_not_crazy
https://theintercept.com/2024/09/26/marcellus-williams-palestine/
#MarcellusWilliams #KhaliifaWilliams #Palestine #Gaza #GenocideJoe #HolocaustHarris
strategic sanitation,
daily terror,
and terrorized daily,
military maneuvering,
moving here and there,
to return back again to nowhere,
trauma with all its manifestations,
international parleys and hesitation,
defiance to the realization of two nations,
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The Perplexing Smiles of the Children of Palestine
—Marcellus "Khaliifah" Williams
despite the actions of the few,
and excessive retaliation,
drones,
planes,
bombs,
tanks,
rubble,
buildings demolished,
vanished houses and neighborhoods,
hospitals targeted,
U.N. shelters disrespected,
murder,
death,
deliberate killing of noncombatants,
babies buried alive,
amputations,
hunger and political starvation,
lack of or no water,
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7etK7lmGLc
#TurnLeft #NormalIsland 27 sept '24 #news
#MarcellusWilliams Executed 💔 😡 💔 Despite DNA tests
Why #ProLife #Justices Refused to #Save An #Innocent #Black #Man’s #Life.
The #Execution of #MarcellusWilliams exposed #inconsistencies highlighting that the right is actually #probirth and #prodeath, and are not really pro-life.
#Women #Transgender #LGBTQ #LGBTQIA #Conservatives #Extremism #Fascism #Religion #RepublicanParty #Hate #Bigotry #Violence #Racism #WhiteSupremacy #DeathPenality #RightwingDeathCult #ThePartyOfHate #EmptyThePews #BlackMastodon
https://www.levelman.com/why-pro-life-justices-refused-to-save-an-innocent-black-mans-life/
good morning, enjoy a crime cat.
#TheCrimeCats say any system committed to carrying out the murder of innocent people is not worth saving, and in fact must be destroyed.
#comic #comics #ComicStrip #DailyComic #IndieComic #WebComic #cat #cats #crime #anarchy #anticapitalism #antifascism #MarcellusWilliams
This would never have happened if he wasn't a Black Muslim man.
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But no forensic evidence linked Williams to the murder weapon or crime scene, and as local prosecutors have renounced his conviction, the victim’s family and several trial jurors also said they opposed his execution.
“We must all question any system that would allow this to occur. The execution of an innocent person is the most extreme manifestation of Missouri’s obsession with ‘finality’ over truth, justice, and humanity, at any cost,” Tricia Rojo Bushnell, Williams’ attorney, said in a statement just before the execution. “Tonight, we all bear witness to Missouri’s grotesque exercise of state power. Let it not be in vain. This should never happen, and we must not let it continue.”
#racism #whiteness #WhiteSupremacy #FuckRacism #FuckWhiteness #FuckColonisation #AbolishPolice #AbolishPrisons #Abolition #CommunityNotCops #NoJusticeNoPeace #missouri #USPol #USA #DeathPenalty #MarcellusWilliams #MarcellusKhaliifahWilliams
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams
Mark Mansour hits the nail on the head:
"Racism has been part of the national identity since the beginning
Marcellus Williams was executed yesterday despite the pleas of millions. Personally, I believe he would not have been executed if all the facts were the same, save that he was a white man."
#MarcellusWilliams #ProLife #Republicans #Missouri #CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #racism
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