Texas Observer<p>Earlier: “We as a legislature actually created a way for people ... to challenge convictions based on <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> that later turns out to be wrong. As far as we can tell, though, the courts simply aren’t engaging in that process. So convictions are being allowed to stand on junk science.” <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/robert-roberson-new-execution-date/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/robert-rober</span><span class="invisible">son-new-execution-date/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/TXlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TXlege</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a></p>
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Texas Observer<p>Death penalty update, from Michelle Pitcher: “We as a legislature actually created a way for people like Mr. Roberson to challenge convictions based on science that later turns out to be wrong. ... The courts simply aren’t engaging in that process.” <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/robert-roberson-new-execution-date/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/robert-rober</span><span class="invisible">son-new-execution-date/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>“I’m very alarmed by some of the misinformation about the case that has been intentionally peddled in certain circles, and I think it’s emanating from elected officials. … It has to do with politics, which should have no place in this.” <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/robert-roberson-new-execution-date/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/robert-rober</span><span class="invisible">son-new-execution-date/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/TXlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TXlege</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a></p>
The Japan Times<p>A memorial was held in the city of Kyoto on Friday for victims of a deadly arson attack on Kyoto Animation's No. 1 studio six years ago. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/japan/kyoto-animation-ceremony/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/</span><span class="invisible">18/japan/kyoto-animation-ceremony/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>japan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kyotoanimation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kyotoanimation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kyoto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kyoto</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/anime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>anime</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/massmurder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>massmurder</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deathpenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deathpenalty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/shinjiaoba" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>shinjiaoba</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>Yesterday: “We as a legislature actually created a way for people like Mr. Roberson to challenge convictions based on science that later turns out to be wrong. As far as we can tell, though, the courts simply aren’t engaging in that process. So convictions are being allowed to stand on junk science.”<br><a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/robert-roberson-new-execution-date/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/robert-rober</span><span class="invisible">son-new-execution-date/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/science" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>science</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/TXlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TXlege</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>New from Michelle Pitcher: Attorneys for Robert Roberson and for the State of <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/Texas" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Texas</span></a> went toe-to-toe over the fate of the man whose 2024 execution date was halted in a dramatic eleventh-hour intervention by state legislators—and whose appeals have raised the question of whether a crime occurred at all. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/robert-roberson-new-execution-date/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/robert-rober</span><span class="invisible">son-new-execution-date/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/TXlege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TXlege</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
WIST Quotations<p><a href="https://wist.info/blackmun-harry/18649/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">A quotation from <b>Harry Blackmun</b></a></p><blockquote>From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death. For more than 20 years I have endeavored — indeed, I have struggled — along with a majority of this Court, to develop procedural and substantive rules that would lend more than the mere appearance of fairness to the death penalty endeavor. Rather than continue to coddle the Court’s delusion that the desired level of fairness has been achieved and the need for regulation eviscerated, I feel morally and intellectually obligated simply to concede that the death penalty experiment has failed. It is virtually self-evident to me now that no combination of procedural rules or substantive regulations ever can save the death penalty from its inherent constitutional deficiencies. The basic question — does the system accurately and consistently determine which defendants “deserve” to die? — cannot be answered in the affirmative. […] The problem is that the inevitability of factual, legal, and moral error gives us a system that we know must wrongly kill some defendants, a system that fails to deliver the fair, consistent, and reliable sentences of death required by the Constitution.</blockquote><p><b>Harry Blackmun</b> (1908-1999) US Supreme Court Associate Justice (1970-1994) [Harold Andrew Blackmun]<br><i>Callins v. Collins</i>, 510 U.S. 1141 (1994) [dissent from denial of certiori]</p> <p>Sourcing, notes: <a href="https://wist.info/blackmun-harry/18649/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">wist.info/blackmun-harry/18649…</a></p><p><a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quote" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quote</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotes" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotes</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=quotation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>quotation</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=qotd" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>qotd</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=scotus" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scotus</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=harryblackmun" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>harryblackmun</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=capitalpunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>capitalpunishment</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=Constitution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Constitution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=deathpenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deathpenalty</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=execution" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>execution</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=fairness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fairness</span></a> <a href="https://my-place.social/search?tag=justice" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justice</span></a></p>
Flipboard News Desk<p>A month before his murder trial for the 2022 killings of four Idaho college students was set to begin, Bryan Kohberger has pleaded guilty to avoid the death penalty. Read more from <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://flipboard.com/@CNN" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>CNN</span></a></span> about why the plea came now and why some family members of the victims are not happy.<br><a href="https://flip.it/6zc5B0" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">flip.it/6zc5B0</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Idaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Idaho</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Murder" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Murder</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Kohberger" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Kohberger</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/TrueCrime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>TrueCrime</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Plea" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Plea</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Guilty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Guilty</span></a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a></p>
Crooks&Liars<p>Brian Kohberger To Plead Guilty To Murder <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/Idaho" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Idaho</span></a> <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://crooklyn.social/tags/Court" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Court</span></a></p><p><a href="https://crooksandliars.com/2025/06/brian-kohberger-plead-guilty-murder?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_content=104181" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">crooksandliars.com/2025/06/bri</span><span class="invisible">an-kohberger-plead-guilty-murder?utm_source=social&amp;utm_medium=twitter&amp;utm_content=104181</span></a></p>
The Japan Times<p>A man on death row for killing nine people in Kanagawa Prefecture in 2017 was executed Friday, in the first execution in Japan since 2022. <a href="https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/27/japan/crime-legal/prisoner-on-death-row-executed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/</span><span class="invisible">27/japan/crime-legal/prisoner-on-death-row-executed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/japan" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>japan</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/crimelegal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>crimelegal</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/deathpenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>deathpenalty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/kanagawa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>kanagawa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/zama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>zama</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/justiceministry" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>justiceministry</span></a></p>
Firda<p>Þristapar in Northwest Iceland is the site of the last execution in Iceland, which took place on January 12,1830. Friðrik Sigurðsson and Agnes Magnúsdóttir were sentenced to death by beheading for the murder of Natan Ketilsson and Pétur Jónsson. The site is now a memorial that tells the story behind and of the execution as well as promotes the abolishment of death penalty all over.</p><p>The weather suit the mood of the place the day of our visit. All the photos were taken at the site except for the grave. They excavated Friðrik's and Agnès' bones 104 years after the execution and had them interned at a churchyard in Vatnsnes, which we visited the next day.</p><p>More info: <a href="https://www.northiceland.is/en/place/thristapar" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">northiceland.is/en/place/thris</span><span class="invisible">tapar</span></a></p><p><a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/PhotoMonday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PhotoMonday</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/FotoMontag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FotoMontag</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/Iceland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iceland</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>History</span></a> <a href="https://sunny.garden/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a></p>
Church of Jeff<p>Today is <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GeorgeStinneyJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeStinneyJr</span></a> Day.</p><p>If you don't know who George Stinney Jr. is, you don't know anything about segregation and discrimination in the United States.</p><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Stinney" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_S</span><span class="invisible">tinney</span></a></p><p><a href="https://eji.org/news/the-george-stinney-tragedy/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">eji.org/news/the-george-stinne</span><span class="invisible">y-tragedy/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://www.pbs.org/show/stinney-an-american-execution/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">pbs.org/show/stinney-an-americ</span><span class="invisible">an-execution/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/remembering-the-execution-of-14-year-old-george-stinney-80-years-later" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">deathpenaltyinfo.org/rememberi</span><span class="invisible">ng-the-execution-of-14-year-old-george-stinney-80-years-later</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/MAGA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>MAGA</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DEI</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Segregation" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Segregation</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CivilRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CivilRights</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GeorgeStinney" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeStinney</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/GeorgeStinneyJr" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GeorgeStinneyJr</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Racism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Racism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/USHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USHistory</span></a></p>
LHcpdm<p><a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/GregoryHunt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GregoryHunt</span></a>, <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/AnthonyWainwright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AnthonyWainwright</span></a>, <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/StopExecutionsAlabama" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopExecutionsAlabama</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/EndTheDeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>EndTheDeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/StopExecutions" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>StopExecutions</span></a> <a href="https://piaille.fr/tags/AbolishTheDeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AbolishTheDeathPenalty</span></a> <br>Deux hommes ont été exécutés le 10 juin. La Floride a pris la vie d'Anthony Wainwright, et l'Alabama a pris la vie de Gregory Hunt.<br>Anthony F. Wainwright Repose en paix.<br>Repose en paix Gregory Hunt<br>Que les familles trouvent la paix.<br>Merci à celles et ceux qui s’étaient mobilisé.e.s pour stopper ces exécutions.<br>Aucun Etat ne peut tuer un être humain au nom du peuple et appeler cela la justice !<br><a href="https://www.lefigaro.fr/international/etats-unis-deux-condamnes-a-mort-executes-dans-le-sud-du-pays-20250611" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">lefigaro.fr/international/etat</span><span class="invisible">s-unis-deux-condamnes-a-mort-executes-dans-le-sud-du-pays-20250611</span></a></p>
Longreads<p>"These questions, combined with a murder that tore into my own family, inspired me, several years ago, to volunteer to witness an execution—one of 13 carried out at the federal penitentiary in Terre Haute, Indiana, during the final six months of Donald Trump’s first term." —Elizabeth Bruenig for The Atlantic</p><p><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2025/07/death-row-executions-witness/682891/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">theatlantic.com/magazine/archi</span><span class="invisible">ve/2025/07/death-row-executions-witness/682891/</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/CapitalPunishment" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>CapitalPunishment</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Mercy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mercy</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Forgiveness" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Forgiveness</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Incarceration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Incarceration</span></a></p>
ProPublica<p>Maricopa County’s and Arizona’s handling of the death penalty have been questioned for years. A 2016 report cited the county as one place with a history of “overzealous prosecutors, inadequate defense and a pattern of racial bias and exclusion.”<br><a href="https://www.propublica.org/article/maricopa-county-death-penalty-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">propublica.org/article/maricop</span><span class="invisible">a-county-death-penalty-arizona?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=mastodon-post</span></a></p><p><a href="https://newsie.social/tags/News" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>News</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Arizona" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Arizona</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Crime" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Crime</span></a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/Law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Law</span></a></p>
Europe Says<p><a href="https://www.europesays.com/2145402/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">europesays.com/2145402/</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> Iran rapper Tataloo, Amir Hossein Maghsoudloo, faces death penalty <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Conflicts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Conflicts</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Iran</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/rappers" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>rappers</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/Tattoos" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Tattoos</span></a> <a href="https://pubeurope.com/tags/WorldNews" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WorldNews</span></a></p>
Texas Observer<p>Featured story: When Clinton Young exited the building, he hugged his little sister—now a woman in her 30s—for the first time since she was 11. Their last hug had taken place when Young was 19 years old, and on trial for capital murder. <a href="https://www.texasobserver.org/life-after-death-row-clinton-young-profile/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">texasobserver.org/life-after-d</span><span class="invisible">eath-row-clinton-young-profile/</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/prison" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>prison</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/HumanRights" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>HumanRights</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/DeathPenalty" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>DeathPenalty</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/politics" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>politics</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/USpol" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>USpol</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/news" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>news</span></a> <a href="https://texasobserver.social/tags/law" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>law</span></a></p>
Featured story: during his time as a free man, Clinton Young hoped could demonstrate he’d changed. He aimed to prove he no longer presented the threat of “future dangerousness,” a legal requirement for the Texas death penalty. He wanted to establish that he wouldn’t squander his second chance at life. https://www.texasobserver.org/life-after-death-row-clinton-young-profile/
#BritneySpears: "I am for the #deathpenalty. Who commits terrible acts must get a fitting #punishment. That way he learns the lesson for the next time."
The closest I found as references is this Wikiquote discussion:
https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Talk:Britney_Spears
en.wikiquote.orgTalk:Britney Spears - Wikiquote
Our top story: “Death row becomes what prison is supposed to be but often isn’t. Death row is a place of reformation, rehabilitation, and correction. Ironically the one place where it matters the least.” https://www.texasobserver.org/life-after-death-row-clinton-young-profile/
The Texas Observer · Life After Death RowClinton Young spent nearly two decades condemned to die. His peaceful, productive time out on bond poses questions about how Texas decides who lives long enough to get another chance.
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