deathpenalty

In a three-day trial in 1995, Anthony Boyd was convicted of murder and sentenced to death, based solely on the word of a co-defendant who testified under the threat of capital punishment. No physical evidence connected him to the murder of Gregory "New York" Huguley. Boyd has been on death row ever since, and is due to be executed by the state of Alabama on Oct. 23. @bolts examines the reasons to doubt the conviction: Inadequate legal representation, conflicting witness reports, and a system that disproportionately sends Black people to death row.

https://flip.it/SknOyl

#USLaw #USNews #Alabama #DeathPenalty #DeathRow #JusticeSystem #Racism

The exonerated "Central Park Five", wrongly convicted of felony 35 years ago, took to the #DNC stage to testify Trump's cruel execution sprees and pursuit of the death penalty. Yusef Salaam, activist against the death penalty, was one of them.

Meanwhile Dems have re-popularized using "felon" as an insult and silently dropped opposition to the death penalty from their platform

https://theintercept.com/2024/08/23/dnc-democrats-death-penalty-executions

#uspol #deathpenalty #capitalpunishment #felon #dems #murder #crime #law #justice #execution

"#LuigiMangione defense asks judge to block #deathPenalty in #CEO murder case"

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/11/luigi-mangione-death-penalty-brian-thompson-case.html

The defense's basis in the filing (pdf file):

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.nysd.633811/gov.uscourts.nysd.633811.16.0.pdf

"The #AttorneyGeneral stated during her television appearance that a reason she ordered the #deathSentence was because the alleged victim was a CEO"

I am not going to presuppose a ruling in today's political environment, but when the prosecution seeks the death penality *because the victim is a CEO*, that's fucked