The state of Missouri is set to execute Marcellus, even though literally NO ONE with a stake in the outcome of the case—not even the prosecutor nor the victim's family— wants him to die. Learn More Here

  • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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    2 months ago

    This is devastating. Reminder that Dems took abolishing the death penalty off their part platform. Literally every single day there is another horror that convinces me that the America of 2024 is no different to the America of the Trail of Tears.

    • anarcho_blinkenist [none/use name]
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      2 months ago

      one of Clinton's political moves during his 92 campaign was to go back to his home state to sit and watch a mentally-disabled man be executed to show he was "tough on crime."

    • AmericaDelendaEst [comrade/them]
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      2 months ago

      Reminder that Dems took abolishing the death penalty off their part platform.

      I mean yeah otherwise it might beg the question of why didn't Biden/Harris do literally anything

      • FunkyStuff [he/him]
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        2 months ago

        It still begs the question of how much longer they think they can keep murdering innocent folk, this is one of the most unambigiously ghoulish things the US has done domestically in recent memory. There is literally nothing that justifies this. No amount of concern trolling or formalism can take away from the fact that an innocent man, with DNA evidence already available that proved his innocence, was murdered for no other reason than being black.

        • frauddogg [they/them, null/void]
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          2 months ago

          No amount of concern trolling or formalism can take away from the fact that an innocent man, with DNA evidence already available that proved his innocence, was murdered for no other reason than being Black.

          This is why I keep hoping someone generates the intestinal fortitude to actually start slapping this country in the face again. I'd betray these crackers so fucking fast... Sell 'em all out to whoever wants their blood the most, and then I'll watch what happens to 'em.