The recent conviction of Lucy Letby for murdering seven babies led to some talk on local news sites of reintroducing the death penalty for murder. This is actually a perennial subject, one that is raised regularly when a serial killer is brought to book or some terrorist outrage is inflicted on innocent people. There are […]
The United States has executed a grand total of 18 people this year, all of them men. The last was Thomas Edwin Loden on December 14. According to the Death Penalty Information Center, two more were scheduled for this month, but both have been postponed and it appears unlikely they will ever be executed. All […]
There was never anything going for it, except political mileage and the desire for crude retribution. The putting to death of another human being by the legal sanction of a state has always been another way of justifying murder, effectively assassination by judicial fiat. Such policies remain terrifying features of a number of penal systems, […]
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The outgoing Governor of Oregon has commuted the sentences of all prisoners on death row. Kate Brown is a Democrat. Are you surprised? She was quoted by one news outlet as saying the death penalty “cannot be and never has been administered fairly and equitably.” Quite right, last year ten men but only one woman […]
In November last year, Darrell Brooks drove his car into a parade at Waukesha, Wisconsin killing 6 people and injuring 62 others. Waukesha is in the same state as Kenosha, around a fifty mile drive. Because of that and for other reasons, many people believed this to have been a revenge attack by a black […]
This new mural featuring Pam and Ramona Africa alongside other Black community activists was unveiled on May 11, 2021 directly across the street from Philadelphia City Hall, on the very same block where the infamous statue of Frank Rizzo once stood.–Photo: Jamal Journal staff photographer Joe Piette Mark Lewis Taylor has been a professor in […]
The church must be reminded that it is not the master or the servant of the state, but rather the conscience of the state. It must be the guide and the critic of the state, and never its tool. If the church does not recapture its prophetic zeal, it will become an irrelevant social club […]
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Missing from Trump's flurry of last-minute pardons were Snowden, Assange, or Reality Winner. Instead, the president will leave office with a record number of executions under his belt and a slew of pardons for political allies.
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Dustin Higgs proclaimed his innocence until the end, but neither his nor his lawyers' pleas for clemency were enough to overcome the three-hundred-year momentum of capitalism's most enduring tradition.
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President Trump is overseeing a barbaric federal killing spree on his way out of his office, executing more prisoners in 2020 than all states combined. Reporter George Hale of NPR takes us inside the death chamber. President Trump is leaving office by overseeing a record level of federal executions, with 10 prisoners killed in 2020 and three more slated for this month. George Hale, who has covered the executions for NPR, discusses Trump’s last-minute killing spree and witnessing the barbaric […]
