NYT > U.S.5h ago

Choosing How to Kill Death Row Inmates

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/17/us/politics/the-docket-death-row.html

#Law #CapitalPunishment #USPolitics

Choosing How to Kill Death Row Inmates

In a rare ruling for a condemned prisoner, the justices would not let Alabama use a contested method of execution.

The New York Times
Flyover Project5h ago
things you can say when you're not trying to appeal to sadists for votes • #Ohio #humanrights #capitalpunishment
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Ohio Republican governor urges end to death penalty, saying it cannot be morally justified

Departing Mike DeWine, who co-wrote state’s death penalty bill, says ‘I no longer believe [it] is a deterrent to murder’

The Guardian
World news | The Guardian21h ago

Ohio Republican governor urges end to death penalty, saying it cannot be morally justified

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/ohio-governor-death-penalty-mike-dewine

#WorldNews #CapitalPunishment #Politics

Ohio Republican governor urges end to death penalty, saying it cannot be morally justified

Departing Mike DeWine, who co-wrote state’s death penalty bill, says ‘I no longer believe [it] is a deterrent to murder’

The Guardian
US news | The Guardian21h ago
Ohio Republican governor urges end to death penalty, saying it cannot be morally justified https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/16/ohio-governor-death-penalty-mike-dewine #UsNews #CapitalPunishment #WorldNews #Ohio #Republicans
Ohio Republican governor urges end to death penalty, saying it cannot be morally justified

Departing Mike DeWine, who co-wrote state’s death penalty bill, says ‘I no longer believe [it] is a deterrent to murder’

The Guardian
NYT > Politics1d ago

Justice Dept. Considering Death Penalty for Alleged National Guard Shooter

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/politics/doj-national-guard-shooting.html

#Politics #Justice #CapitalPunishment

Justice Dept. Considering Death Penalty for Alleged National Guard Shooter

Federal prosecutors told a judge that they were deciding whether to seek the death penalty if Rahmanullah Lakanwal is convicted of killing a National Guard specialist.

The New York Times
NYT > U.S.1d ago

Justice Dept. Considering Death Penalty for Alleged National Guard Shooter

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/16/us/politics/doj-national-guard-shooting.html

#USPolitics #Justice #CapitalPunishment

Justice Dept. Considering Death Penalty for Alleged National Guard Shooter

Federal prosecutors told a judge that they were deciding whether to seek the death penalty if Rahmanullah Lakanwal is convicted of killing a National Guard specialist.

The New York Times
Opinion | The Guardian US6d ago
Alabama wants to execute a man by nitrogen hypoxia. That is cruel | Austin Sarat https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jun/11/alabama-execution-nitrogen-hypoxia #CapitalPunishment #Alabama #ClarenceThomas #UsSupremeCourt #UsConstitutionAndCivilLiberties #LawUs #UsNews
Alabama wants to execute a man by nitrogen hypoxia. That is cruel

To put it plainly, nitrogen hypoxia kills by starving someone of the oxygen needed to sustain life

The Guardian
NYT > U.S.Jun 10

Federal Judge Blocks Alabama From Using Nitrogen Gas in Jeffrey Lee Execution

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/10/us/alabama-execution-nitrogen-gas.html

#USNews #CapitalPunishment #Law

Federal Judge Blocks Alabama From Using Nitrogen Gas in Jeffrey Lee Execution

The judge ordered the state to find an alternate method if it is going to move ahead with the execution of Jeffery Lee, who was convicted of murder.

The New York Times
BobJun 9

Cases like this, where *the prosecution withheld exculpatory evidence* are why we can no longer allow #capitalpunishment in this country. If we can't guarantee that the people running the system will always do so ethically, we can't allow states to kill people.

https://exonerationregistry.org/cases/19847

WIST QuotationsJun 3

A quotation from Thomas More

God has said, “Thou shalt not kill”; shall we kill so readily for the theft of a bit of small change? Perhaps it will be argued that God’s law against killing does not apply where human laws allow it. But then what prevents men from making other laws in the same way — perhaps even laws legalizing rape, adultery, and perjury? God has taken from each person the right not only to kill another, but even to kill himself. If mutual consent to human laws on manslaughter entitles men freely to exempt their agents from divine law and allows them to kill where he has given no example, what is this but preferring the law of man to the law of God?
 
[Deus uetuit occidi quenquam, & nos tam facile occidimus ob ademptam pecuniolam! Quod si quis interpretetur, illo dei iussu interdictam necis potestatem, nisi quatenus humana lex declaret occidendum, quid obstat quo minus homines eodem modo constituant inter se, quatenus stuprum admittendum sit, adulterandum, peierandum! Siquidem quum deus non alienae modo, uerum etiam suae cuique mortis ius ademerit, si hominum inter se consensus de mutua cede, certis placitis consentientium, adeo debet ualere, ut illius praecepti uinculis eximat suos satellites, qui sine ullo exemplo dei, eos interemerint, quos humana sanctio iussit occidi; an non hoc pacto praeceptum illud dei tantum iuris est habiturum, quantum humana iura permiserint!]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/84007/

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More, Thomas - Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 "Discourses of Raphael Hythloday" (1518 ed.) [tr. Adams (1992 ed.)] | WIST Quotations

God has said, "Thou shalt not kill"; shall we kill so readily for the theft of a bit of small change? Perhaps it will be argued that God's law against killing does not apply where human laws allow it. But then what prevents men from making other laws in the…

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