Capital punishment continues America's history of lynching, panelists say – Baptist News Global
“The mistake people sometimes make is to think about lynching and racial violence as ancient history."
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“The mistake people sometimes make is to think about lynching and racial violence as ancient history."
The US Supreme Court Tuesday declined to block the execution of Missouri inmate Leonard Taylor despite new evidence potentially proving a wrongful conviction. Taylor died by lethal injection at the st...
Biden has been mum on whether he would immediately enact a moratorium on executions upon inauguration or whether he would only seek abolition through Congress. His team did not respond to a request for comment. Either way, his posture is a radical departure from that of President Donald Trump, who has overseen the most federal executions in at least a century. Biden's history-making stance—a reversal of a position he appeared to hold as recently as his time in the Obama White House —is a product of the influence of the so-called criminal justice reform movement on him and senior member...