Dems Against the Death Penalty TN

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Texas executes John Henry Ramirez, who won religious rights Supreme Court case Ramirez was convicted in the 2004 fatal stabbing of a father of nine. His Supreme Court win allowed a pastor to lay hands on him during his lethal injection.

At heart, I am an optimist, but I sometimes think we'll be the last state in the South to abolish state killing. One thing is now, for sure. We won't be the 1st. Congratulations to everyone on Death Row in Virginia. Tennessee's 50 souls still await a grim fate.😞

Virginia Will Become First State In The South To Abolish The Death Penalty Gov. Ralph Northam (D) is expected to sign a bill banning capital punishment into law, making Virginia the 23rd state in the U.S. to abolish the death penalty.

Sick stuff. Literally.

They Have COVID. One Has an IQ of 69. Trump Is Still Killing Them. While Trump is planning pardons, the federal government will execute two sick men before Jan. 20—the culmination of a killing spree unparalleled since the 19th century.

Still hoping against hope that our sister state will relent before it is too late. I stand with Martin Luther King, III, in beseeching the Alabama governor to grant a stay. Pray for Nate, his family, the families of the slain men, and those with the power to stop this!

Family fighting to stop ex*****on of Alabama death row inmate Alabama family pleas with Alabama governor to grant clemency for death row inmate set to die Thursday.

In less than 1 hour, Stephen West will die in the electric chair, at Riverbend Correctional, in Nashville. It will not bring his victims back to life. It will not repay the extremely exorbitant cost of keeping a prisoner on Death Row, or cover the hours of court and legal expenses that are played out over decades.

It will end his having to awaken each day to face the horror of what he did. He will die, and his punishment will end, not when God wills it, but at the hands of the citizens of Tennessee, at an hour we've selected. West deserves long and impactful punishment, but today, he's being let off the hook. Where's the "tough justice" in that?

They did it again. In our names.

Tennessee executes Donnie Edward Johnson by lethal injection Tennessee death row inmate Donnie Edward Johnson's ex*****on was carried out by lethal injection on Thursday night.

A sad day for our state:

U.S. Supreme Court won't hear appeal from Tennessee's death row inmates The U.S. Supreme Court made its decision Monday, days before death row inmate Donnie Edward Johnson, 68, is scheduled to die. Had the high court agreed to hear the case, it might have delayed his ex*****on.

Cruel. Unusual. Unconstitutional.

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Doctor Affidavit Says Death Row Inmate Likely Suffered During Ex*****on It's a controversy with dozens of lives in the balance, with a central question: do death row inmates suffer pain when they die from lethal injection?

A truly shameful breach of the Founders' admonition about "cruel and unusual punishment". Inhuman treatment doesn't negate the humanity of even the most hardened criminal; we must be better than this!

Tennessee can use controversial lethal injection drugs to execute death row inmates, judge rules Tennessee death row inmates brought a court case to challenge the state's use of a controversial drug in lethal injections.

Watch this. Please. Where do we stand on this increasingly thorny problem, as a state? When is our "SELL BY DATE"?
(Ignore Tag On Video; It's About Dealth Penalty.)

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Disappointing.

Supreme Court Won’t Hear Challenges to Arizona’s Death Penalty Law The Supreme Court turned away requests that it reconsider the constitutionality of the death penalty and how Arizona applies it.

Do you see this as shades of the same lack of progressive prison policy reform that bedevils the U.S. in administration of the death penalty?

Frail, Old and Dying, but Their Only Way Out of Prison Is a Coffin Federal inmates who are aging or very sick can ask for “compassionate release.” Hundreds have died waiting for an answer.