‘Deaths, after deaths, after deaths’: Indigenous deaths in custody reach their highest level since 1980

https://quokk.au/c/world/p/501447/deaths-after-deaths-after-deaths-indigenous-deaths-in-custody-reach-their-highest-level-sinc

‘Deaths, after deaths, after deaths’: Indigenous deaths in custody reach their highest level since 1980

The widow of a Noongar man who died at a maximum security prison in Western Australia two years ago says “nothing has changed” for Aboriginal peopl…

Tennessee to execute Byron Black amid heart device, intellectual disability concerns

Byron Black is being executed despite intellectual disabilities and a heart device that attorneys said could cause complications. Black is being executed for killing his girlfriend and her daughters As Angela Clay and her two young daughters slept in their Nashville home, a killer approached. They …

USA TODAY - Amanda Lee Myers

It is hard to stomach the crimes committed by my state. A kanshi is almost the indicated and vindicable response, except that there is - among the criminals who head the state and the its various armed gangs - no hook to hang a rebuke on.

#icc #israel #warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity #extrajudicialexecution #statemurder

https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/2025-04-03/ty-article/.premium/00000195-fb50-d101-a7bd-fbfafbc80000

קשה לעמוד נפשית בפשעי המדינה שלי. כמעט מצריך ומצדיק קאנשי, אלא שלתוכחה כלפי הפושעים העומדים בראש המדינה ובראש הקלגסת על שלל זרועותיה אין... אין למי להפנותה.

#icc #israel #warcrimes #crimesagainsthumanity #extrajudicialexecution #statemurder

https://www.haaretz.co.il/news/law/2025-04-03/ty-article/.premium/00000195-fb50-d101-a7bd-fbfafbc80000

in the uk you are 4 times more likely to die in custody if you are Black

#TwoTierPolicing #TwoTier #StateMurder #UKRiots #UKPol

Alabama condemned for nitrogen gas execution: ‘They intended to torture him’

Lee Hedgepth, reporter: "I’ve been to four previous executions and I’ve never seen a condemned inmate thrash in the way that Kenneth Smith reacted to the nitrogen gas."

Jeff Hood, spiritual advisor: "I have never, ever seen anything like that. That was torture."

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/26/alabama-nitrogen-gas-execution-torture

#KennethSmith #Alabama #execution #stateMurder #deathPenalty #capitalPunishment #nitrogenGas #inhumane #torture #TheGuardian

Alabama condemned for nitrogen gas execution: ‘They intended to torture him’

State’s ‘slow and agonizing’ execution of Kenneth Smith using an untested method labeled as cruel by experts and advocates

The Guardian

Shame on everyone involved in Alabama's "justice" system. But most of all shame on the Pontius Pilates who comprise GOP's Supreme Court.

22 minutes of struggle.

22 minutes.

Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’ for 22 minutes.
#statemurder
#NeverVoteGOP
#ChristoFascists

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/alabama-executes-kenneth-smith-nitrogen-gas

Alabama inmate executed with nitrogen gas was ‘shaking violently’, witnesses say

White House calls death of Kenneth Smith, 58, executed via untested method lawyers say was cruel and unusual, ‘very troubling’

The Guardian
Greek shipwreck: hi-tech investigation suggests coastguard responsible for sinking

Research into loss of trawler with hundreds of deaths strongly contradicts official accounts – while finding a failure to mobilise help and evidence that survivor statements were tampered with

The Guardian