The death penalty, day by day. Guillotine image (cc) Gary Denness http://t.co/t6Lhdam2t9

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#Browns QB Baker Mayfield said he wore the name of Julius Jones on back of his helmet today Story about Mayfield joining athletes who are demanding justice for Jones, who's on death row in Oklahoma beaconjournal.com/sports/202…
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La Mulâtresse Solitude who in 1802 helped lead a slave revolt in Guadeloupe whilst 8 months pregnant, her last words before she was hanged: ‘Live free, or die’
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Found so many stories like this one when researching my first book, most now buried by history. But I can’t get over the detail in here that in 1970, a Boston judge ruled that being embarrassed by an unarmed black guy was legal justification for a cop to kill that black guy.
This week, my daughter is among the peaceful protesters seeking justice for George Floyd. Today, I'm telling her about Frank Lynch, a young black soul singer who was murdered by Boston police in 1970, and how Boston's black community invented a new idea for protesting injustice.
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9 June 1983: @MYANC ANC guerrillas The Moroka Three went to the gallows in Pretoria #SouthAfrica, @executedtoday for high treason and the killing of four black policemen executedtoday.com/2008/06/09…
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This is an incredible story. Whistleblower cop made recordings of superiors, colleagues framing innocent people. DA was made aware, but continued peosecuting cases. Only person punished was the whistleblower.
NEW: In secret recordings, police officers in Mount Vernon, NY say their colleagues framed innocent people again and again. The @WestchesterDA got these tapes last year but kept prosecuting people⁠—without disclosing the evidence. Here it is: gothamist.com/news/mount-ver…
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1923 Emilio Picariello & Florence Lassandro were @executedtoday by hanging at the Provincial Gaol, Fort Saskatchewan #OnThisDay for the murder of police officer Stephan Lawson in Coleman #Edmonton @crimemuseum executedtoday.com/2014/05/02…
29 April 1972- #Burundi Genocide: An uprising by Tutsi royalists and Hutus against Tutsi government led to the @executedtoday by firing squad of former King Ntare V and 120,000 dead by the end of May
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I am no less confident, that no learned lawyer will affirm that an impeachment can lie against the King, they all going in his name: and one of their maxims is that the King can do no wrong. - Charles I, about a week away from his execution.
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Wrongfully convicted of murdering his wife, CIP client William “Bill” Richards spent 23 years in prison for a crime he did not commit. Bill was one of the innocent individuals to fall victim to the faulty forensic science of bite mark evidence. #XONR8 californiainnocenceproject.o…
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1000s of Singaporean men, women & children are being shot, beheaded, or used for live bayonet practice by Japanese troops:
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1942 Murder Inc. hitman Frank Abbandando was executed in the electric chair at Sing Sing Prison in Ossining, New York @executedtoday @timesunion @TheBuffaloNews @WSYRNews @13WHAM @whec_nrudd @News_8 @SaratogianNews @dgazette @siadvance @syracusedotcom @troyrecord @lohud
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#OTD 1661, Oliver Cromwell's body was exhumed from his grave in Westminster Abbey and posthumously executed. Cromwell's time as Lord Protector will be explored in our upcoming House of Commons 1640-1660 volumes. Keep an eye on our feed for updates. ow.ly/O3ee50xTPSe
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As fewer American states are willing to carry out executions the number of death sentences is falling to all time lows. wsj.com/articles/use-of-deat…
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26 people tortured "very seriously" and @executedtoday 29 December 1992 by firing squad for an alleged attempted coup on a beach outside Freetown #SierraLeone, the ruling NPRC junta of Valentine Strasser finding the corpses guilty as charged
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1) This year, 2019, marks an important centennial anniversary in America—but it is one that not only are we not celebrating, it’s also a significant moment most of us aren’t even aware of: the 100th anniversary of the Red Summer of 1919.

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BIG: Republican House member who represents the community where the killing for which Rodney Reed faces the death penalty took place issues a strong letter calling for Reed’s scheduled execution to be delayed.
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