The complete text of Orationes Mortuorum: 40 guided meditations based on the last words of the last 40 people who've been executed in the United States
Reflections on the Federal Death Penalty and its Precursors counterpunch.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from counterpunch.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Daniel Lewis Lee, Lisa Montgomery: Federal executions under Trump indystar.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from indystar.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
Related Stories It was almost as if the administration was trying to set a perverse new benchmark in the “Guinness Book of World Records.” It carried out more executions in six months than any other administration had in six decades. These government killings gave new meaning to Operation Warp Speed: Instead of taking the necessary measures to protect millions of Americans from the physical and economic ravages of COVID-19, the “pro-life” federal government put work into carrying out 13 executions. I did not know the others who were executed well enough Daniel Lewis Lee, Wesley Purkey, Dustin Honken, Lezmond Mitchell, Keith Nelson, William LeCroy, Alfred Bourgeois and Lisa Montgomery to speak about them with authenticity. But I spent decades with Christopher, Orlando, Bernard, Corey and Dustin Higgs here on federal death row in Terre Haute, Indiana. I watched them grow into better men for themselves, their families and friends and in some cases on behalf of their victims’ families. They also helped me better myself. They are gone, but their impact lives on.
Squad members Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush urge Biden to commute the sentence of EVERY death row inmate as they rip Trump s cruel execution spree A group of 35 Democrats led by Congresswomen Ayanna Pressley and Cori Bush is urging President Biden to commute the sentence of death row inmates They wrote a letter to Biden on Friday in which they asked him to take all 49 federal inmates off death row You can ensure that there would be no one left on death row to kill, it said In the three-page letter, the group also blasted Trump s execution spree His administration lifted a moratorium on federal executions and 13 people were put to death while he was in office