Inside Georgia's Crusade to Make Bail Unpayable – Mother Jones
Rather than address its deadly jail system or predatory bail industry, the state has made mutual aid the enemy.
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Rather than address its deadly jail system or predatory bail industry, the state has made mutual aid the enemy.
As Georgia began a bench trial Monday against a death row inmate who is suing to be executed by firing squad, counsel for the state told a federal judge that she expected the inmate to have "a hard road to hoe" in disproving that the state's use of lethal injection is safe, effective and can be carried out with relative ease.
On Wednesday, Gov. Brian Kemp signed SB 63 into law, adding more than 30 crimes that require cash bail, like criminal trespass or possession of marijuana
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Willie James Pye was put to death by lethal injection in Georgia's first execution in over four years.