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COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — It's been more than a decade since Randy Gardner's brother was the last U.S. inmate executed by firing squad, years the Utah man says have been filled with nightmares about what he describes as his brother's “gruesome” death. Now, Gardner is among advocates spending time in South Carolina, speaking out about why he feels the method shouldn't be used here.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Its been more than a decade since Randy Gardners brother was...

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Ms. magazine and their podcast on Monday to promote her new book, Huddle: How Women Unlock Their Collective Power. Women need to huddle with each other to win over male-dominated spaces. Host Michele Goodwin asked Baldwin why she was leaving CNN, and the answer seemed to be, she couldnt be enough of an activist!  I actually think the biggest part of the answer is because of this book and because of these trailblazing women, who I have had the privilege of interviewing, kind of like when you ...

Joe Biden, Who Vowed to Abolish Executions, Urged to Commute Death Row Sentences On 3/4/21 at 6:36 AM EST As President Joe Biden approaches the mid-way point of his first 100 days in office, activists and civil rights groups are continuing to call on him to take action on ending the federal death penalty. Several were carried out during former president Donald Trumps lame duck months and the final three executions took place just days before Bidens inauguration. On a campaign website, Biden—a...

Dylann Roof Massacred Her Family—Heres Why She Wants Him Off Death Row On 3/1/21 at 7:28 AM EST The Reverend Sharon Risher had never dwelled much on the death penalty. That changed when her mother Ethel Lee Lance, two cousins and a childhood friend, along with six others, were shot dead at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina on June 17, 2015. Almost six years on, their killer—white supremacist Dylann Roof—is languishing on federal death row. But Re...

Oregon takes aim at state gun law Loophole allows sales without background checks By ANDREW SELSKY, Associated Press Published: February 20, 2021, 5:46pm Share: SALEM, Ore. — So many people are buying guns in Oregon these days that the state police are often unable to complete background checks in time, allowing the sales to proceed if the deadline isn’t met. A handful of Democratic lawmakers have now put forward a bill in the Oregon Legislature that would close this loophole...

Oregon lawmakers take aim at ‘Charleston’ loophole in state gun law Updated Feb 19, 2021; Facebook Share SALEM — So many people are buying guns in Oregon these days that the state police are often unable to complete background checks in time, allowing the sales to proceed if the deadline isn’t met. A handful of Democratic lawmakers have now put forward a bill in the Oregon Legislature that would close this loophole. It’s often called the Charleston loophole because Dylann Roof was ab...

On Thursday, Oregon representatives heard several public testimonies to why a federal gun loophole or the,

"The Charleston loophole": Purchases by people barred from buying guns skyrocketed in 2020 By Graham Kates Thousands of gun sales slip through loophole An unprecedented number of people who are legally barred from owning guns managed to buy them in 2020 through the so-called "Charleston loophole," according to data obtained by the advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety. The "loophole" allows gun dealers to complete sales after three days if a buyers background check has not...