Mastodawn

"Council of Europe president says Israel risks losing observer status over new capital punishment #law after passing the execution law for Palestinian detainees"

#genocideconvention #genocide #deathpenalty #ethniccleansing
#strasbourg #PACE #shame !
#nurnbergtrials #humanrights #genevaconvention #prisonersrights
#palestine #gaza #westbank #europe #EU

Susan Ville 22m ago

🗨️ What's in the bottle the woman brings? Kosher champagne to toast #ethniccleansing?

How can the #CouncilofEurope still debate whether Israel should be granted observer status?

I think if #europe is so determined to honor #warcriminals within its ranks through legal rulings, then it should indeed bury the entire construct of humanitarian jurisprudence with dignity -

#law #internationallaw #deathpenalty #genocide #palestine #gaza #lebanon #iran #syria 👇🏽
#PACE

https://english.almayadeen.net/news/politics/council-of-europe-may-suspend--israel--over-death-penalty-la

Headlines Africa 2h ago

Death sentences soar in DR Congo after moratorium lifted, report warns http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TS99Sn #DeathPenalty #DRCongo #HumanRights #Justice #CapitalPunishment

WIST Quotations 12h ago

A quotation from Thomas More

Well, those are my objections on moral grounds. From a practical point of view, surely it’s obvious that to punish thieves and murderers in precisely the same way is not only absurd but also highly dangerous for the public.
   If a thief knows that a conviction for murder will get him into no more trouble than a conviction for theft, he’s naturally impelled to kill the person that he’d otherwise merely have robbed. It’s no worse for him if he’s caught, and it gives him a better chance of not being caught, and of concealing the crime altogether by eliminating the only witness.
   So in our efforts to terrorize thieves we’re actually encouraging them to murder innocent people.

   [Non licere putem. Quam uero sit absurdum, atque etiam perniciosum reipublicae furem, atque homicidam ex aequo puniri, nemo est, opinor, qui nesciat.
   Nempe quum latro conspiciat non minus imminere discriminis duntaxat furti damnato, quam si praeterea conuincatur homicidij, hac una cogitatione impellitur in caedem eius, quem alioqui fuerat tantum spoliaturus. quippe praeterquam quod deprehenso nihil sit plus periculi, est etiam in caede securitas maior, & maior caelandi spes sublato facinoris indice.
   Itaque dum fures nimis atrociter studemus perterrefacere, in bonorum incitamus perniciem.]

Thomas More (1478-1535) English lawyer, social philosopher, statesman, humanist, Christian martyr
Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 “Discourses of Raphael Hythloday” (1518 ed.) [tr. Turner (1965 ed.)]

More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/more-thomas/83554/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #thomasmore #utopia #penalsystem #capitalpunishment #crime #criminal #cruelty #deathpenalty #execution #hanging #killing #nothingtolose #punishment #severity #stealing #theft #thief #thievery #unintendedconsequences

More, Thomas - Utopia, Book 1, ch. 1 "Discourses of Raphael Hythloday" (1518 ed.) [tr. Turner (1965 ed.)] | WIST Quotations

Well, those are my objections on moral grounds. From a practical point of view, surely it's obvious that to punish thieves and murderers in precisely the same way is not only absurd but also highly dangerous for the public. If a thief knows that a conviction for murder will get…

WIST Quotations

Farhad A.21h ago

Where the hell do they get those images from?

I've read news from Iran and opposition, but this is the first time I've seen these photos.

#iran #propagqnda #israel #Trump #Deathpenalty #iranriots

Home • Missouri Independent 2d ago

Missouri bid to end judge-imposed death sentences faces Senate roadblock

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://missouriindependent.com/2026/04/20/missouri-bid-to-end-judge-imposed-death-sentences-faces-senate-roadblock/

Missouri bid to end judge-imposed death sentences faces Senate roadblock • Missouri Independent

A Senate leader says a measure requiring a jury's unanimity to impose the death penalty won't pass, despite bipartisan support.

Missouri Independent

David on Formosa 1d ago

Amnesty International's annual report, The State of the World’s Human Rights, has just been released.

It raised concerns about several issues in Taiwan including continued use of the death penalty, lack of protections for asylum seekers and problems with the Constitutional Court.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/pol10/0320/2026/en/

#HumanRights #AmnestyInternational #Taiwan #DeathPenalty #台灣 #人權

Bob 1d ago

"I read a story about how the attorney general in my former home state disagreed with the governor’s ongoing reprieves for condemned inmates, calling it “a mockery of the justice system and of the dead.”" https://bit.ly/4mpsdza

#DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #JusticeSystem

Arbitrary Justice: Who Lives and Who Dies Under the Death Penalty – Bob Mueller

The death penalty claims to deliver justice but its reality is shaped by arbitrariness, unequal standards, & whose lives society values most.

Bob Mueller

Texas Observer 1d ago

Episode 5 of "The Unforgotten: Riding Shotgun," featuring the Texas Observer's Michelle Pitcher, is out today wherever you get podcasts.

Read our preview of the series here: https://www.texasobserver.org/riding-shotgun-the-unforgotten-podcast/

#podcast #audio #law #DeathPenalty #TrueCrime

'Riding Shotgun': New Observer True Crime Podcast Explores Death Row Case of Charles Flores

With Free Range Productions, Michelle Pitcher digs deep into a conviction involving a dubious hypnosis technique.

The Texas Observer

Regendans 2d ago

"Israel’s chilling new death penalty is as racist as it is abhorrent

Israel’s new 90-day capital sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal terrorism is the kind of targeted execution we in the Jewish community have seen before, says Eric Lewis

Sunday 19 April 2026 14:55 BST

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"Right-wing extremist national security minister Itamar Ben-Gvir invoked the United States as a model, asserting that the bill was modelled on the “correct and just” US model for the death penalty. And, of course, the Trump administration quickly seconded that sentiment, with the state department issuing a statement that it “trust[ed]” there would be “fair trial[s]” and that Israel had a “sovereign right” to determine laws and penalties applying to terrorism.

Ben-Gvir is flatly wrong. The United States death penalty process, whatever its flaws, prohibits the automatic imposition of the death penalty and requires consideration of mitigating circumstances and consideration of proportionality. And no death sentence could ever be carried out in 90 days, allowing an appeals process that permits consideration of whether the death penalty was properly imposed."

https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/israel-palestine-death-penalty-terrorist-b2959136.html

#palestine #israel #USA #deathpenalty #humanrights

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Israel’s chilling new death penalty law is as racist as it is abhorrent

Israel’s new 90-day capital sentence for Palestinians convicted of lethal terrorism is the kind of targeted execution we in the Jewish community have seen before, says Eric Lewis

The Independent