Luigi Mangione was indicted on federal murder charges in the shooting of a UnitedHealth Group executive, paving the way for U.S. prosecutors to pursue the death penalty against him. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/18/world/crime-legal/luigi-mangione-federal-indictment/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #luigimangione #us #deathpenalty
Corinna Lain: Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers: These are just the US executioners we know. But they are a chilling indication of the executioners we don’t know
#deathpenalty #prisons #doctor
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/death-row-executioners
#DeathPenalty #Missouri #Arizona #Incompetence #Prisons
Just horrible. I'm still unsure about the death penalty, overall, but can we just get it down, instead of all these mistakes and unprofessional people? If we are going to do this, freakin figure it out.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/death-row-executioners?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
#DeathPenalty for #Trump and his cronies. Nothing short of death is #justice against a #fascist.
Our northern neighbor was the first to adopt the plan to replace the spectacle of the electric chair with something more palatable for witnesses and the public. #Texas was just the first to test it out on a person.
https://www.texasobserver.org/sordid-story-behind-lethal-injection/
Poilievre says he'll use notwithstanding clause to ensure multiple-murderers die in prison
Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre says he’ll ensure multiple-murderers die in jail by becoming the first Canadian prime minister to override charter rights by invoking the notwithstanding clause.
#politics #law #deathpenalty #News
https://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/poilievre-notwithstanding-clause-multiple-murders-1.7509497?cmp=rss
Capital punishment in Japan is under scrutiny again after the world's longest-serving death row prisoner was recently awarded $1.4 million in compensation following his acquittal last year in a retrial. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/13/japan/crime-legal/death-penalty-scrutiny/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #deathpenalty
"#LuigiMangione defense asks judge to block #deathPenalty in #CEO murder case"
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/luigi-mangione-death-penalty-brian-thompson-case.html
The defense's basis in the filing (pdf file):
https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.633811/gov.uscourts.nysd.633811.16.0.pdf
"The #AttorneyGeneral stated during her television appearance that a reason she ordered the #deathSentence was because the alleged victim was a CEO"
I am not going to presuppose a ruling in today's political environment, but when the prosecution seeks the death penality *because the victim is a CEO*, that's fucked
Luigi Mangione's lawyers asked a judge to prevent the U.S. government from seeking the death penalty. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/04/12/world/crime-legal/mangione-death-penalty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #worldnews #crimelegal #luigimangione #courts #deathpenalty
#LuigiMangione may receive #deathpenalty, while #whitesupremacist who killed 23 at #TexasWalmart won't
Prosecutors' decision to forego seeking the death penalty in the #Texas case reportedly had to do with the #victims' families' wishes.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mangione-death-penalty-white-supremacist/
The three-drug protocol first used by states was intended to make sure the person on the gurney died. Extremely high doses of three drugs—each lethal in its own right—would ensure that if one drug failed, one of the other two would surely work. But this three-drug plan wasn’t reviewed by anyone before #Oklahoma adopted it, followed the next day by #Texas. https://www.texasobserver.org/sordid-story-behind-lethal-injection/
#DeathPenalty #politics #history #books #prison #CriminalJustice #law #medicine #USpol #bookstodon
Group’s reports
British Jews speak out about Israel
Board of Deputies of British Jews write open letter criticising Israel’s actions April 2025 This is a brave move by the Deputies. Around one in eight have written the letter published in the Financial Times on 15th. One of their number was interviewed on various channels today (16 April) and said they could no longer…
by welland2April 16, 2025Death penalty action: Oklahoma
Bizarre example of ‘slut shaming’ in a death penalty decision April 2025 This is an extraordinary case of ‘slut shaming’ where what a woman was wearing featured as a key part in the evidence against her. The prosecutors even produced into the court proceedings a suitcase of provocative clothing as part of their case. We…
by welland2April 15, 2025April 15, 202571st vigil in Salisbury April 2025 Fewer numbers this week partly because the events in Washington dominating the news and a number of our regulars away or ill. This week we had three sets of people variously upset with our presence. It would be difficult to summarise their arguments some of which were around the…
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>This is not to mention what happens when state agencies use the wrong amounts of these drugs, or in some cases, the wrong drugs altogether. Supply chain issues and pharmaceutical companies’ resistance to having their products used off-label in lethal injections have led states to buck regulations in order to get execution drugs. Some states, including Texas, have been caught trying to illegally import the drugs from sketchy sellers.
And yet Texas wants to ban #THC. Absolutely farcical.
>While the subject of the book is narrow, and often difficult to sit with, the author effectively provides entry points for people who might not normally wade into the death penalty debate. She dives into contract law, supply chains, off-the-books drug deals by state agents, and executions as currency in local politics, among other interesting roads that intersect with lethal injection.
Well, you're definitely selling the book well :) Makes me want to read it.
>“But the point is not the examples; it’s the patterns,” she writes. Here, she’s talking about state secrecy and obfuscation, but it really could be the thesis of the book. She provides a nearly overwhelming amount of evidence—the footnotes take up more than 70 pages—to back up her claim that lethal injection doesn’t provide the humane death it promises.
Devouring footnotes is a favorite pastime of mine.
Heard about this via @TexasObserver@texasobserver.social at:
www.texasobserver.org/sordid-story-behind-lethal-injection/
I've heard before about how lethal injection is pseudoscience. Perhaps a full treatment is given in this book. Now that I've decided to go into nursing, having a full understanding of the system could help to motivate healthcare to take a stronger stance against it.
#DeathPenalty #LethalInjection #CriminalJustice #TexasObserver
(comment on Secrets of the Killing State)
In explaining the legal and clinical aspects of lethal injections, “Secrets of the Killing State” is far from sterile. Corinna Barrett Lain lays out her fact-based narratives in stomach-churning detail, while also plainly sharing her analysis of the facts with readers, often bordering on righteous indignation. https://www.texasobserver.org/sordid-story-behind-lethal-injection/
DR Congo repatriates three US citizens convicted over failed coup | Politics News https://www.byteseu.com/904946/ #africa #Conflict #DeathPenalty #DemocraticRepublicOfTheCongo #News #Politics #UnitedStates #US&Canada
