Florida to execute murderer once scrutinized in OJ Simpson case https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/15/florida-execution-glen-rogers-oj-simpson-case #Capitalpunishment #OJSimpson #Florida #USnews
Revealed: Autopsy suggests South Carolina botched firing squad execution https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/south-carolina-firing-squad-execution #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #USprisons #USnews
Texas man executed for fatally stabbing and strangling young mother in 2004 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/texas-man-executed-moises-sandoval-mendoza #Capitalpunishment #USsupremecourt #UScrime #USnews #Texas
Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/death-row-executioners #Trumpadministration #Capitalpunishment #USjusticesystem #Deathanddying #USpolitics #USprisons #USnews
Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mikal-mahdi-execution-south-carolina #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
Lawyers fight to stop South Carolina man’s execution by firing squad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/south-carolina-execution-firing-squad-mikal-mahdi #Capitalpunishment #USsupremecourt #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
Jon Henley notes that an Amnesty International report documented at least 1,518 executions globally in 2024, the highest since 2015. Iraq executed 63 people, Saudi Arabia 345, Iran, 972, and the US 25. The real figure is likely much higher, with housands of suspected cases in countries including China, North Korea and Vietnam.
#CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #execution #AmnestyInternational
The alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer faces the death penalty. Will a jury impose that punishment? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/luigi-mangione-death-penalty-jury-unitedhealthcare-ceo #BrianThompsonshooting #Capitalpunishment #Healthinsurance #Guncrime #NewYork #UScrime #USnews
In general, I'm against capital punishment.
But I'm willing to make an exception for companies that re-add you to marketing mailing lists every time you make a purchase and claim you "opted in" to receive their spam.
Second South Carolina man chooses to die by firing squad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/second-south-carolina-firing-squad-execution #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
"Over 25 years on death row, Chris Duncan has relied on and benefited from the system Landry and his cohort are set to destroy."
Piper French for Bolts and Mother Jones: https://longreads.com/2025/03/26/the-human-cost-of-jeff-landrys-drive-to-resume-executions/
Florida man faces execution for killing girl, 8, and her grandmother https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/florida-execution #Capitalpunishment #Florida #USnews
Oklahoma prepares to execute man amid spate of judicial killings https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/oklahoma-execution-wendell-grissom #Capitalpunishment #USjusticesystem #Oklahoma #USnews
Louisiana uses nitrogen gas for first time in death row execution https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/louisiana-nitrogen-gas-execution-jessie-hoffman-jr #Capitalpunishment #Louisiana #USnews
Louisiana to use nitrogen execution method it bans for cats and dogs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/louisiana-jessie-hoffman-nitrogen-gas-execution #Capitalpunishment #Louisiana #USnews
"Both groups were surprised that they had so much in common. The condemned women were astonished that the nuns had chosen to live a life nearly as confined as their own, in rooms that they, too, called 'cells.'"
Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texass-death-row
Heute vor 50 Jahren starb die #Schauspielerin #SusanHayward in #Hollywood. 1959 hatte sie den #Oscar als beste Hauptdarstellerin für ihre Rolle in »Laßt mich leben« gewonnen. Mehr zum #Film:
Ulrike Weckel, Mit Mitteln des Spielfilms gegen die #Todesstrafe. I Want to Live! (1958), #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/
America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death-row prisoners set to die https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/executions-death-penalty-upcoming #Capitalpunishment #Worldnews #Louisiana #Oklahoma #Arizona #Florida #USnews #Texas
‘Etched in my mind’: witness to South Carolina firing squad execution describes killing https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/08/south-carolina-firing-squad #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #UScrime #USnews
Whatever the crime, this is absolutely barbaric.
We need to stop looking at the US as leaders in democracy because this is not the act of a modern society.
#Trump #Murder #CapitalPunishment
#US #BradSigmon
