AdamSep 18, 2024

The exonerated "Central Park Five", wrongly convicted of felony 35 years ago, took to the #DNC stage to testify Trump's cruel execution sprees and pursuit of the death penalty. Yusef Salaam, activist against the death penalty, was one of them.

Meanwhile Dems have re-popularized using "felon" as an insult and silently dropped opposition to the death penalty from their platform

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/23/dnc-democrats-death-penalty-executions

#uspol #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #felon #dems #murder #crime #law #justice #execution

Democrats Abandoned Their Anti-Death Penalty Stance. Those on Federal Death Row May Pay the Price.

Witnesses to Trump's execution spree are dismayed by Democrats' decision to remove death penalty opposition from their party platform.

The Intercept
Show threadAdamSep 18, 2024

A prosecutor contaminated key evidence before the trial and rejected multiple Black people from the jury pool, noting that one "looked very similar" to the defendant.

The judge, prosecutor, and victim's husband all agreed not to seek the death penalty

But the attorney general Andrew Bailey intervened to insure #MarcellusWilliams will be executed on September 24

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/12/marcellus-williams-missouri-conviction-innocence

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/31/marcellus-williams-murder-weapon-gloves-missouri-andrew-bailey

#innocenceproject #deathpenalty #Missouri #BLM #humanrights #capitalpunishment #law

A Prosecutor Wanted to Spare Marcellus Williams’s Life. Missouri’s Attorney General Got in the Way.

After meddling by Missouri's attorney general, a judge rejected Marcellus Williams’s innocence claim, even though prosecutors mishandled the murder weapon.

The Intercept
Show threadAdamSep 18, 2024

https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/call-gov-parson-to-stop-the-sept-24-execution-of-marcellus-williams-417-373-3400

#murder #crime #justice #execution

Call Gov. Parson to Stop the Sept. 24 Execution of Marcellus Williams

Help us stop Missouri from the irreparable mistake of executing an innocent person, Marcellus Williams on Sept. 24.

Innocence Project
Show threadAdamSep 18, 2024

Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah, previously known as Freddie Owens, is due to be executed in South Carolina this week despite an absence of forensic evidence and despite a key witness saying he made false remarks during the trial at the instruction of prosecutors

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/18/freddie-owens-south-carolina-execution

#deathpenalty #SouthCarolina #KhalilAllah #BLM #humanrights #capitalpunishment #law #murder #crime #justice #execution

‘He deserves to live’: South Carolina to execute first man in 13 years despite doubts raised by evidence

Khalil Allah is set to be killed by lethal injection despite a key witness saying last month he made false remarks at trial

The Guardian
AethyrSep 25, 2024
Show threadAdam

Texas will execute Robert Roberson on October 17 for a crime that never happened, based on discredited pseudo-science, and ignoring Texas' "junk science law" meant to prevent such use of flawed forensics and miscarriages of justice

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/17/robert-roberson-texas-death-penalty-john-grisham-innocent

https://undark.org/2024/08/06/texas-junk-science-law-not-keeping-up-with-science

#innocenceproject #deathpenalty #Texas #RobertRoberson #autistic #humanrights #capitalpunishment #TexasDefenderService #psuedoscience #junkscience #law #murder #crime #justice #execution

John Grisham on death row prisoner: ‘Texas is about to execute innocent man’

‘There was no crime,’ says author about Robert Roberson who was convicted of murder based on discredited science

The Guardian
Sep 18, 2024 at 4:44pmWeb
Show threadAdamSep 18, 2024
https://innocenceproject.org/petitions/call-on-gov-abbott-to-stop-robert-robersons-execution
Urge Gov. Abbott to Stop Robert Roberson’s Execution

Mr. Roberson would be first person in the U.S. executed based on the discredited shaken baby syndrome hypothesis. Act now.

Innocence Project
Show threadAdamSep 22, 2024

South Carolina carried out it's first execution in 13 years on Friday.

Khalil Allah's attorney said "the legal errors, hidden deals, and false evidence that made tonight possible should shame us all"

Five others remain on death row in South Carolina

https://www.newsweek.com/freddie-owens-south-carolina-execution-lethal-injection-final-words-1957285

#KhalilAllah #FreddieOwens #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #justice

Freddie Owen's final words before South Carolina execution

Freddie Owens was put to death by lethal injection at Broad River Correctional Institution in South Carolina on Friday.

Newsweek
Show threadAdamSep 24, 2024

Marcellus Williams condemned to die today despite serious flaws in trial

"The execution is opposed both by Gayle’s family and the prosecutor’s office that put Williams on death row — an unprecedented combination"

https://apnews.com/article/missouri-execution-marcellus-williams-8be20e2f252992610a30fa0cfef4185a

#MarcellusWilliams #innocenceproject #deathpenalty #Missouri #BLM #humanrights #capitalpunishment #stopexecutions

Missouri executes Marcellus Williams, despite victim's family pleas

A Missouri man has been executed for the 1998 fatal stabbing of a woman despite calls by her family and the prosecutor’s office that put him on death row to let him serve out the rest of his life in prison. Marcellus Williams was executed Tuesday. He became the third Missouri inmate put to death this year and the 100th since the state resumed use of the death penalty in 1989. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to intervene on his behalf Tuesday, a day after Republican Gov. Mike Parson denied Williams clemency and the state Supreme Court refused to halt the execution.

AP News
Show threadAdamSep 24, 2024

Alabama's execution team includes men accused of violently abusing and mistreating prisoners, misconduct, domestic violence, and submitting dubious testimony suggesting painless executions which contradict statements from media witnesses. A federal magistrate judge found it plausible that the execution team leader maliciously and sadistically harmed a prisoner

https://theintercept.com/2024/09/24/alabama-execution-team-misconduct-death-row

#deathpenalty #Alabama #humanrights #justice #capitalpunishment #stopexecutions

In Alabama, Officers Accused of Violence and Misconduct Carry Out Secretive Executions

As Alabama keeps details around the death penalty hidden, an investigation raises questions about how prisoners are treated in their final moments.

The Intercept
Show threadAdamSep 25, 2024

Blood on their hands

A.G. Andrew Bailey and Governor Mike Parson pushed to execute a wrongly convicted man, going against the explicit wishes of the victim's family, jurors, and even the prosecutor's office

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/sep/24/missouri-executes-marcellus-williams

#MarcellusWilliams #deathpenalty #Missouri #justice #humanrights #BLM #stopexecutions

Missouri executes Marcellus Williams despite prosecutors’ push to overturn conviction

Williams long maintained his innocence and the killing was opposed by victim’s family, jurors and office that tried him

The Guardian
Show threadAdamSep 25, 2024

“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 [and with Williams' execution] 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”

-Tricia Rojo Bushnell, Williams’ attorney

#MarcellusWilliams #deathpenalty #Missouri #justice

Show threadAdamSep 25, 2024

“I know people who say: ‘We shouldn’t kill innocent people, but other than that, I believe in the death penalty.’ But if you believe in the system at all, that means you’re OK with innocent people being killed, because the system isn’t perfect. It is going to kill innocent people.”

-Michelle Smith, co-director of Missourians to Abolish the Death Penalty

Show threadAdamOct 18, 2024

Reprieve

https://theintercept.com/2024/10/18/texas-execution-robert-roberson-shaken-baby

#RobertRoberson #innocenceproject #deathpenalty #Texas #justice

Texas Lawmakers’ Unprecedented Actions Halt Robert Roberson’s Execution — For Now

Following the state Supreme Court’s last-minute intervention, Roberson is expected to testify at a legislative hearing on Texas’s junk science law.

The Intercept
Show threadAdamNov 24, 2024

“Innocent until proven guilty” is the ideal. The reality— for far too many judges, prosecutors, and jurors— is the opposite: an indictment or arrest makes a person guilty and places the burden on them to prove their innocence. When the system gets rigged through police or prosecutorial misconduct, it’s almost impossible to overturn this presumption of guilt [like in] the case of Richard Glossip"

https://www.techdirt.com/2024/10/17/justice-thomas-seems-more-willing-to-kill-a-possibly-innocent-person-than-mildly-impugn-the-reputations-of-prosecutors

#RichardGlossip #Oklahoma #deathpenalty #supremecourt #justice #humanrights

Justice Thomas Seems More Willing To Kill A Possibly Innocent Person Than Mildly Impugn The Reputations Of Prosecutors

There are few things the government loves less than admitting wrongdoing, especially when the admission might affect multiple levels of government. That’s why nearly every settlement paid out…

Techdirt
Show threadAdamMar 18, 2025

The latest State killing spree has begun, including new experimental execution methods, and at least one conviction secured with a bribed witness.

"Prejean [refers to] three pillars of the death penalty [and says] those three factors – slavery, religion, poverty – have recently all combined to generate a fourth pillar [which is] a culture in which a strong man, a politician, can come along and say, ‘We’re going to execute people to show we’re really tough on crime’.”

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/executions-death-penalty-upcoming

America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death-row prisoners set to die

Desolate spectacle of executions ramps up as the landscape of states’ laws on capital punishment is as riven as the US itself

The Guardian