Texas man executed for fatally stabbing and strangling young mother in 2004 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/23/texas-man-executed-moises-sandoval-mendoza #Capitalpunishment #USsupremecourt #UScrime #USnews #Texas
"We do not, and for the most part cannot, know precisely who is under the executioner’s hood. State secrecy statutes put the equivalent of a Harry Potter cloak of invisibility over these state-sanctioned killers. But litigation files and investigative journalism have revealed a number of executioners’ identities, allowing us to peek behind the veil of secrecy for a glimpse of who these people are."
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/death-row-executioners
Who are the death row executioners? Disgraced doctors, suspended nurses and drunk drivers https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/17/death-row-executioners #Trumpadministration #Capitalpunishment #USjusticesystem #Deathanddying #USpolitics #USprisons #USnews
Mikal Mahdi killed by firing squad as South Carolina pushes execution spree https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/11/mikal-mahdi-execution-south-carolina #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
Lawyers fight to stop South Carolina man’s execution by firing squad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/10/south-carolina-execution-firing-squad-mikal-mahdi #Capitalpunishment #USsupremecourt #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
Armed robbers at a #Manhattan restaurant shot and killed #NYPD Detective Michael J. Foley #OTD in 1937. The incident leads to a wrongful conviction and nearly to the execution of Isidore Zimmerman.
Read about it:
https://www.writersofwrongs.com/2017/04/80-years-ago-nypd-detective-fatally-shot.html
Jon Henley notes that an Amnesty International report documented at least 1,518 executions globally in 2024, the highest since 2015. Iraq executed 63 people, Saudi Arabia 345, Iran, 972, and the US 25. The real figure is likely much higher, with housands of suspected cases in countries including China, North Korea and Vietnam.
#CapitalPunishment #DeathPenalty #execution #AmnestyInternational
The alleged UnitedHealthcare CEO killer faces the death penalty. Will a jury impose that punishment? https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/apr/06/luigi-mangione-death-penalty-jury-unitedhealthcare-ceo #BrianThompsonshooting #Capitalpunishment #Healthinsurance #Guncrime #NewYork #UScrime #USnews
In general, I'm against capital punishment.
But I'm willing to make an exception for companies that re-add you to marketing mailing lists every time you make a purchase and claim you "opted in" to receive their spam.
"Attorney General Pam Bondi said on Tuesday that she would seek the death penalty for Luigi Mangione, who was charged with murdering a UnitedHealthcare executive in Manhattan last year, part of a push to revive the widespread use of capital punishment in federal cases.
In a statement, one of Mr. Mangione’s defense lawyers, Karen Friedman Agnifilo, said that seeking the death penalty in the case amounted to “premeditated, state-sponsored murder” intended to protect the “immoral” health care industry."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/01/us/politics/luigi-mangione-death-penalty.html
Second South Carolina man chooses to die by firing squad https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/28/second-south-carolina-firing-squad-execution #Capitalpunishment #SouthCarolina #USprisons #UScrime #USnews
"Over 25 years on death row, Chris Duncan has relied on and benefited from the system Landry and his cohort are set to destroy."
Piper French for Bolts and Mother Jones: https://longreads.com/2025/03/26/the-human-cost-of-jeff-landrys-drive-to-resume-executions/
Canada says China executed four Canadians earlier this year https://www.byteseu.com/846629/ #America #ASIA #AsiaPacific #Beijing #Canada #CanadaGovernment #CapitalPunishment #CharlotteMacLeod #China #ChinaGovernment #Crime #DrugCrimes #GeneralNews #GuySaintJacques #IanBrodie #JustinTrudeau #LegalProceedings #MengWanzhou #MichaelChong #ottawa #RobertSchellenberg #StephenHarper #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #US #USNews #USA #USANews #WashingtonNews #WorldNews
Florida man faces execution for killing girl, 8, and her grandmother https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/florida-execution #Capitalpunishment #Florida #USnews
Oklahoma prepares to execute man amid spate of judicial killings https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/20/oklahoma-execution-wendell-grissom #Capitalpunishment #USjusticesystem #Oklahoma #USnews
Louisiana uses nitrogen gas for first time in death row execution https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/18/louisiana-nitrogen-gas-execution-jessie-hoffman-jr #Capitalpunishment #Louisiana #USnews
Louisiana to use nitrogen execution method it bans for cats and dogs https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/17/louisiana-jessie-hoffman-nitrogen-gas-execution #Capitalpunishment #Louisiana #USnews
"Both groups were surprised that they had so much in common. The condemned women were astonished that the nuns had chosen to live a life nearly as confined as their own, in rooms that they, too, called 'cells.'"
Lawrence Wright for The New Yorker: https://longreads.com/2025/03/13/the-nuns-trying-to-save-the-women-on-texass-death-row
Heute vor 50 Jahren starb die #Schauspielerin #SusanHayward in #Hollywood. 1959 hatte sie den #Oscar als beste Hauptdarstellerin für ihre Rolle in »Laßt mich leben« gewonnen. Mehr zum #Film:
Ulrike Weckel, Mit Mitteln des Spielfilms gegen die #Todesstrafe. I Want to Live! (1958), #WerkstattGeschichte 85/2022, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/muell/
America’s next killing spree: 10 days, five states, six death-row prisoners set to die https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/11/executions-death-penalty-upcoming #Capitalpunishment #Worldnews #Louisiana #Oklahoma #Arizona #Florida #USnews #Texas
