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These commutations cap a troubling year of executions in the US with a moment of common sense. The death penalty is a costly, ineffective punishment that merely perpetuates a cycle of violence 🧵
1/ Five reasons we agree:
➡️ Capital punishment does not deter crime
➡️ It risks fatal miscarriages of justice,
➡️ It targets the most vulnerable
➡️ It is racially discriminatory.
➡️ Executions regularly go wrong causing horrific suffering 🧵
If you care about racial justice and you stand against the death penalty, you need to watch this video. secure.reprieve.org/page/148…
🚨BREAKING: Black people horrifyingly had a 220% higher chance of suffering a botched execution than white people in the modern era of the US death penalty.
Reprieve's ground-breaking report shows that racism extends all the way into the execution chamber 🧵
Reprieve US statement on the aborted execution of Thomas Creech. @mayafoa: “The butchery witnessed in Idaho today is yet another demonstration that, however much states try to hide it, the death penalty is inherently brutal. 🧵
If today's execution in Alabama goes ahead, witnesses will not be able to tell how much Kenneth Smith is suffering as the nitrogen kills him: like the lethal injection protocol before it, the nitrogen protocol is specifically designed to hide pain 🧵
Alabama’s Supreme Court has greenlighted execution by nitrogen gas.
For decades, Alabama has tortured people in the execution chamber by lethal injection.
Execution by nitrogen gas promises the same.
Reprieve’s Maya Foa speaks to @MirrorUSNews about this human experimentation.
A U.S. drone strike in Yemen targeted 5 innocent men: 4 were killed and Adel was left with severe injuries.
The U.S. is refusing to answer Adel's questions about the devastating attack, let alone provide compensation.
