Tennessee: Bid to stop executions of intellectually disabled
KIMBERLEE KRUESI, Associated Press
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) Tennessee lawmakers are inching closer to advancing legislation designed to prevent death row inmates with an intellectual disability from being executed.
The proposal has gained a groundswell of support from disability advocates, legal experts and death penalty critics who argue Tennessee is long overdue in addressing the matter.
They point to death row inmate Pervis Payne, who defense attorneys argue is intellectually disabled as they fight to prevent the state from executing him.
In 2002, the United States Supreme Court ruled that executing a person with an intellectual disability violates the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on cruel and unusual punishment. However, Tennessee s Supreme Court later determined there was no procedure for death row inmates to reopen their cases to explore intellectual disability claims and encouraged the
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The current case stems out of Lithuania and its’ Genocide Center. The Genocide Center is not a Genocide Center at all which the name deceptively implies, but a propaganda center designed to exonerate the butchers of Jews.
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Lindsey Graham Slams Mondaire Jones for Suggesting Supreme Court Pushed U.S. Toward Capitol Riot
On 4/15/21 at 5:14 PM EDT
South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham criticized New York Democratic Representative Mondaire Jones on Thursday after Jones released a video suggesting that the Supreme Court pushed the U.S. toward the January 6 Capitol riot.
In the video, which was posted to Twitter by Jones, he can be heard saying, Our Democracy is in crisis. The insurrection on January 6 made that clear. This crisis didn t arrive overnight, or by accident. The Supreme Court helped bring us here. In fact, the Court has been actively dismantling our Democracy for years, Jones added in the video. It invited a torrent of dark money to flood our electoral process, and set the stage for billionaires and special interests to control our politics.