Texas ObserverFrom Michelle Pitcher: If the U.S. Supreme Court renders a decision in favor of Charles Flores and others, it would likely force the Court of Criminal Appeals to relax its extremely strict handling of appeals based on shoddy and outdated science. https://www.texasobserver.org/allred-johnson-33rd-congress-runoff-dallas/
Keith 🏳️🌈I've never supported the #DeathPenalty for so many reasons. There are so many things wrong with Isreal's application of it. Specifically for "terrorists"? Anyone with a mean-spirited opinion of the Israili state could be branded as a terrorist. Disgusting attack on freedoms
Israel’s discriminatory death penalty law marks grave human rights retrogression, UN anti-racism committee warns
GENEVA – Israel’s newly adopted “Death Penalty for Terrorists Law” perpetuates racial discrimination against Palestinians and amounts to a grave erosion of human rights, the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination warned today, urging Israel to immediately repeal the law.
The #Texas Legislature created a path to relief for people convicted by "junk science" like hypnosis and faulty forensics.
But the state Court of Criminal Appeals has created an impossible bar to pass in order to use the law. Could SCOTUS offer relief? https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-top-criminal-court-junk-science-law-supreme-court/
Texas' Top Criminal Court Has Stymied the State's 'Junk Science' Law. Will SCOTUS Intervene?
If the U.S. Supreme Court renders a decision in favor of Charles Flores and others, it would likely force the Court of Criminal Appeals to relax its extremely strict handling of appeals based on shoddy and outdated science.
MikeDunnAuthorToday In Labor History May 1, 1886: The first nationwide General Strike for the 8-hour day occurred in Milwaukee and other U.S. cities. In Chicago, police killed four demonstrators and wounded over 200. This led to the mass meeting a Haymarket Square, where an unknown assailant threw a bomb, killing several cops. The authorities responded by rounding up all the city’s leading anarchists, and a kangaroo court which wrongfully convicted 8 of them, including Albert Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons, who would go on to cofound the IWW, along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, and others. Worldwide protests against the convictions and executions followed. To honor the wrongfully executed anarchists, and their struggle for the 8-hour day, May first has ever since been celebrated as International Workers Day in nearly every country in the world, except the U.S.
You can read my complete bio of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #haymarket #bombing #policebrutality #police #prison #execution #deathpenalty #GeneralStrike #IWW #lucyparsons #motherjones #EightHourDay #mayday
Headlines AfricaUganda kindergarten attacker sentenced to death http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TSK6nV #Uganda #JusticeForChildren #Kindergarten #CrimeNews #DeathPenalty
Ben! (Boo!)People sometimes are real surprise when I am actually fully opposed to all state uses of capital punishment and that there no exceptions for people I personally despise, I simply don't believe in it in ANY case.
Vibewire MagazineDeath penalty for accused rapist if found guilty? http://dlvr.it/TSJrcn #BreakingNews #AboriginalAffairs #DeathPenalty #NorthernTerritory
History of May Day, or International Workers’ Day: the Haymarket Affair, Chicago.
Today in labor history April 30 1886: 50,000 workers in Chicago were on strike. 30,000 more joined in the next day. The strike halted most of Chicago’s manufacturing. On May 3rd, the Chicago cops killed four unionists. Activists organized a mass public meeting and demonstration in Haymarket Square on May 4. During the meeting, somebody threw a bomb at the cops. The explosion and subsequent gunfire killed seven cops and four civilians, many likely from “friendly” fire from the cops themselves. Nobody ever identified the bomber. None of the killer cops was charged. However, the authorities started arresting anarchists throughout Chicago.
Ultimately, they tried and convicted eight anarchist leaders in a kangaroo court. The men were: August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fisher, George Engel, Louis Lingg, Michael Schwab, Samuel Felden and Oscar Neebe. Only two of the men were even present when the bomb was thrown. The court convicted seven of murder and sentenced them to death. Neebe was give fifteen years. Parson’s brother testified at the trial that the real bomb thrower was a Pinkerton agent provocateur. This was entirely consistent with the Pinkertons modus operandi. They used the agent provocateur, James McParland, to entrap, convict and execute 20 Irish labor leaders (the so-called Molly Maguires) in Pennsylvania just a few years earlier. McParland also tried to entrap WFM leader, Big Bill Haywood, for the murder of Idaho Governor Frank Steunenberg. Steunenberg had crushed the WFM strike in 1899, the same one in which the WFM had blown up a colliery. However, Haywood had Clarence Darrow representing him. And Darrow proved his innocence.
On November 11, 1887, they executed Spies, Parson, Fisher and Engel. They sang the Marseillaise, the revolutionary anthem, as they marched to the gallows. The authorities arrested family members who attempted to see them one last time. This included Parson’s wife, Lucy, who was also a significant anarchist organizer and orator. In 1905, she helped cofound the IWW, along with Big Bill Haywood, and others. Moments before he died, Spies shouted, "The time will come when our silence will be more powerful than the voices you strangle today." And Engel and Fischer called out, "Hurrah for anarchism!" Parsons tried to speak, but was cut off by the trap door opening beneath him.
Workers throughout the world protested the trial, conviction and executions. Prominent people spoke out against it, including Clarence Darrow, Oscar Wilde, George Bernard Shaw, and William Morris. The Haymarket Affair inspired thousands to join the anarchist movement, including Emma Goldman. And it is the inspiration for International Workers’ Day, which is celebrated on May 1st in nearly every country in the world except the U.S.
You can read my complete bio of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/
You can read my article on the Pinkertons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/04/union-busting-by-the-pinkertons/
And my article on the Molly Maguires Here:
https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/04/13/the-myth-of-the-molly-maguires/
#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #haymarket #lucyparsons #IWW #emmagoldman #strike #union #EightHourDay #PoliceBrutality #killercops #prison #deathpenalty #Pinkertons #police #mayday #generalstrike
“When the (junk science) law came into effect, people were hopeful. It turned out to not actually provide relief to very meritorious cases ... We’re still hopeful that … there may be fresh eyes taking a look at this law and the text of this law once more.” https://www.texasobserver.org/texas-top-criminal-court-junk-science-law-supreme-court/
#law #SCOTUS #science #DeathPenalty #HumanRights #politics #news #USpol
Texas' Top Criminal Court Has Stymied the State's 'Junk Science' Law. Will SCOTUS Intervene?
If the U.S. Supreme Court renders a decision in favor of Charles Flores and others, it would likely force the Court of Criminal Appeals to relax its extremely strict handling of appeals based on shoddy and outdated science.
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Epstein victims aren not being treated like they are more valuable than the perpetrators.
Take out the pedos.
#DeathPenalty
#Now
#StopWaiting
#JusticeForAll