Amnesty Int'l Canada Death Penalty Abolition

Amnesty International's Canadian Section (English), Coordinator: Campaign to Abolish the Death Penalty also now on Bluesky: @dpacoordinator-aic.bsky.social

[Amnesty Int'l Canada Death Penalty Abolition @AmnestyCanadaDP]

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[Texas Defender Service @TexDefender]

A federal judge compared the use of nitrogen hypoxia with barbaric execution methods that haunted the imagination of the framers of the constitution. Alabama wants to use it to execute Jeff Lee. @guardian   

Read more at:
https://t.co/b7vQuHfR1N

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Today, over the dissents of Justices Alito and Thomas, SCOTUS has denied the Alabama attorney general’s petition to review an Alabama Court of Criminal Appeals ruling that granted a new trial to death-row prisoner Michael Powell. https://t.co/2SPYk1Rhfp @uscedp @PHADP @eji_org

[United Nations @UN]

Human rights are at the core of dignity, equality & fair progress.

The new Global Alliance for Human Rights unites efforts to build a world where rights are protected, people are empowered & everyone, everywhere, can thrive.

More from @UNHumanRights: https://t.co/U3MWpTeQjP

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Supreme Court Blocks Alabama From Executing Prisoner Using Nitrogen Gas. https://t.co/X9XsYueThx @nytimes @RaR @AbbieVanSickle @uscedp @PHADP #JefferyLee #deathpenalty

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Just received word from Ohio that Governor @MikeDeWine has accepted the recommendation of the state parole board and commuted the death sentence of Gregory Lott. https://t.co/oXYSGWPY6J @statesnewsroom @karenkasler @OhStopExecution @uscedp #deathpenalty

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Days before Alabama execution, federal court orders new hearing. https://t.co/ot7bpkEYOq @ALReflector @rchapoco @PHADP @AlabamaArise @eji_org @uscedp #JefferyLee #deathpenalty

[Carol Rosenberg @carolrosenberg]

Updated... Our guide to Guantanamo's longest running capital case, with the latest jury selection date: Oct. 19. I'm hearing there's a plan to pick the jury by Thanksgiving and then start the trial in the new year. https://t.co/1zZrQRhlIz

[Texas Defender Service @TexDefender]

The men wrongfully convicted in the Yogurt Shop Murders have finally received financial compensation from the Austin City Council, which unanimously approved the settlement. 

https://t.co/2z2s7V1z60

[Capital Punishment Justice Project @cpjp_org_au]

🎬 Two people wrongly sentenced to death. One extraordinary story.
Stolen Lives – a @JWMFInc fundraising film screening in #Brisbane.
📅 Thu 25 June | 5:30–8pm
📍 New Farm Cinemas
🎟️ $40 → https://t.co/a7vrb9nekb
Supporting Australian lawyers fighting capital punishment globally

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Supreme Court Grants Mississippi Death Row Prisoner New Trial for Prosecution’s Exclusion of Black Jurors. https://t.co/7GGMfIICyL @nytimes @amarimow @ACLU @uscedp @NAACP_LDF @southerncenter @eji_org @justice4ms #TerryPitchford #PhillipsBlack

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Lawyers raise alarm on Tennessee executioners' medical qualifications. https://t.co/R8mXDhADXX @Tennessean @EvanMealins @Tndeathpenalty @ACLU @aclutn @uscedp #TonyCarruthers #deatahpenalty

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

There's No Good Way to Execute a Person. Imagine the horror of lying on a table for hours while poorly trained prison workers attempt to find a vein for the deadly poison. https://t.co/Hf7PqgB3f8 @YahooNews @Jezebel @JimVorel @uscedp @Tndeathpenalty #TonyCarruthers #deathpenalty

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

Responsible journalism would report that there is no possibility that this jury vote would be considered a "recommendation" for death anywhere else in the U.S. except Alabama. It would also report that if Florida were not an outlier, itwould have no death sentences this year.

[Death Penalty Research Unit, Oxford @DPRUOxford]

#ThrowbackThursday to Aimee Clesi's blog on Biden commuting 37 of 40 federal death row sentences and the possible strengthening of the logic of capital punishment by preserving it for the 'worst of the worst'.

Read it here: https://t.co/fRoVl3ZB8C

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

“With 18 exonerations from Texas death row, evidence of at least eight wrongful executions, millions of wasted taxpayer dollars, and countless grieving families torn apart, it is clear the death penalty is a failure both morally and systemically.” — @nantolson @WTIUSA

[Capital Punishment Justice Project @cpjp_org_au]

Join us at Bayside Church, Melbourne on Wed 10 June for a screening of GUILTY – a powerful film depicting Myuran Sukumaran's final 72 hours before his execution in Indonesia. Tickets from $18, all proceeds will support CPJP's work to end the death penalty. https://t.co/6umSQqmPgR

[Robert Dunham @RDunhamDP]

BREAKING — By a vote of 5-4, the U.S. Supreme Court has decided not to decide a death penalty case in which Alabama prosecutors attempted to make it easier to execute people who are intellectually disabled. https://t.co/fjn3gteEKV

[Amnesty Int'l Canada Death Penalty Abolition @AmnestyCanadaDP]

Our new report, Death Sentences and Executions 2025, out now: https://t.co/nOtObdnTOJ

[Amnesty Int'l Canada Death Penalty Abolition @AmnestyCanadaDP]

What happens when a handful of governments use the death penalty as a tactic for control and “tough on crime” narratives to score political points?

[Amnesty Int'l Canada Death Penalty Abolition @AmnestyCanadaDP]

We witness a staggering rise in executions and other flawed policies that set back the overall global progressive trend toward abolition.