South Carolina is set to approve the use of firing squads and the electric chair for death row inmates.
The bill is being lauded by Republicans who have been vexed by pharmaceutical companies’ refusal to sell states the drugs needed for lethal injections.
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The whole @RepLizCheney saga has been so clarifying. She’s as conservative as they come. Her only sin was to call BS on Trump’s election fraud. For that, she will be expelled as a @GOP leader. The party is branding itself.
The life of a firm lawyer, a play in two acts
Every time you're slammed: OMG. I will never complain about not being busy ever again. What was I thinking?
Every time you're slow: OMG. Will I ever have work again? Is this the end of my career?
Repeat.
DNA testing from a 1993 killing in Arkansas has revealed genetic material from a male other than the inmate executed for the murder 4 years ago https://t.co/LTp4me2vKx
Bruce Bartman, white guy in PA who illegally voted for Trump on behalf of his dead mother, gets 5 years probation
Crystal Mason, black woman in TX who voted on supervised release when she didn't know she was ineligible, gets 5 years in prison
Two justice systems in America
Liz Cheney doubles down: "We can't whitewash what happened on January 6 or perpetuate Trump's big lie. It is a threat to democracy. What he did on January 6 is a line that cannot be crossed." https://t.co/d6lHU3vWhr
Yes America is inherently racist. That doesn't mean every white person is Archie Bunker. It means America is run by a series of systems that reward whiteness and penalize Blackness. These systems exist in almost every major aspect of American life.
The number of unaccompanied migrant children held in jail-like conditions by US Customs and Border Protection dropped nearly 84% in the span of a month, according to a White House official https://t.co/P9Rz82VctB
Between 1910 and 1997, African Americans lost about 90% of their farmland. This problem is a major contributor to America’s racial wealth gap; the median wealth among black families is about a tenth that of white families. https://t.co/9OB368xrt0
President Biden called George Floyd's brother, Philonise Floyd, on Monday.
Floyd tells NBC that Biden "was just letting us know that he was praying for us and hoping that everything would come out to be OK."
"He knows how it is to lose a family member."
Boehner to NBC: "This so-called America First Caucus is one of the nuttiest things I've ever seen. Listen, America is a land of immigration. We've been the world's giant melting pot for 250 years. And we ought to celebrate the fact we're this giant melting pot." @MeetThePress
Jessie Hamilton cooked red beans and rice, hamburgers and fried chicken for the members of the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity at Louisiana State University for years. This month, members thanked her by paying off her mortgage. https://t.co/F6oPB5YeDc
Breaking News: The gunman in the FedEx shooting legally bought two semiautomatic rifles months after a gun was seized from him over his mental state, officials said. https://t.co/V1khDJ9JAL
Breaking News: The gunman in the FedEx shooting legally bought two semiautomatic rifles months after a gun was seized from him over his mental state, officials said. https://t.co/V1khDJ9JAL
Conspiracy-peddling Republican Marjorie Taylor Greene is scrapping the planned launch of her "America First" caucus after receiving blowback from leaders in her own party. https://t.co/bxTNEMd806