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