I can't find the tooted link, but I opened up this article yesterday to read today (as a post blood test reward) and it's beautifully written and heart-breaking. But also shows the power of D&D and TTRPGs to allow people to better understand themselves and offer the chance to grow and learn. It also demonstrates how inhuman prison systems are. What a waste.

https://www.themarshallproject.org/2023/08/31/dungeons-and-dragons-texas-death-row-tdcj

#DandD #TTRPG #DeathRow #MarshallProject #Prisons #Hope #Crime #Fantasy #Community

My Journey From #DeathRow to Becoming an #Advocate for #Justice

https://www.aclu.org/news/capital-punishment/my-journey-from-death-row-to-becoming-an-advocate-for-justice
After a #wrongfulconviction, I’ve dedicated my life to making #Florida a more #just, #fair, and #equal state.

A PRISON GUARD'S MURDER, AN INMATE'S DEATH SENTENCE AND A DECADES LONG BATTLE FOR FREEDOM

The murder of Sgt. Hal Burchfield in 1985 reshaped the lives of #JarvisJayMasters, an inmate at #SanQuentinStatePrison, and Burchfield’s five children, including then-14-year-old Marjorie. (Jon Stich / For #TheTimes)

#US #prison
#DeathRow
#JusticeForJarvis

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https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2022-10-24/life-and-death-row-a-california-prison-murder-and-inmates-conviction-ripple-through-time

Please sign the petition to demand #JusticeForJarvis and learn more and join the movement at freejarvis.org.          

#US
#California
#prison
#DeathRow

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https://www.change.org/p/justice-for-jarvis-dbe379ba-a04d-4f8e-b210-28e17a7acabb?recruiter=false&utm_source=share_petition&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=psf_combo_share_initial&utm_term=psf_combo_share_initial&recruited_by_id=701f7ca0-2ff8-11ed-a7c6-71afbdb43a4a&share_bandit_exp=initial-34387155-en-CA

After 29 Years on #DeathRow, Barry Jones Was Dumped at a Bus Station. But He Was Finally #Free.
https://theintercept.com/2023/06/17/barry-jones-released-arizona-death-row/

by #PemaLevy in #MotherJones:

"Owen, 62, endured years of abuse as a child, a brain injury, and mental illness, according to a 1999 court issued sentencing order. He has also been diagnosed with gender dysphoria. Until his parents’ deaths—his mother passed when Owen was 11, his father committed suicide when he was 13—he grew up in a home filled with sexual abuse. Owen then entered an orphanage where where sexual abuse was also rampant and he began using drugs and alcohol. The 1999 sentencing order notes that Owen had suffered 'one of the more horrific childhoods' the court had seen. In 1981, a jacked-up car fell on his head, causing brain damage. In 1984, he assaulted and killed two women. He has repeatedly told psychiatric experts examining his mental state that he thought the assaults would help him into a woman."

https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/06/ron-desantis-death-penalty/

#Florida #DeathPenalty #CapitalPunishment #LethalInjection #execution #DeathRow #MentalIllness #schizophrenia #insanity #BrainDamage #SexualAbuse #GenderDysphoria

Last words can’t kill, but sometimes last meals can…

#jollybiscuit #convict #prisoner #deathrow #execution #electricchair #serialkiller #murderer #death #afterlife #prison #humor #funny #comic #comics #webcomic #webcomics #comicstrip

Today it is Keith LaMar's 54th birthday: read the newsletter by his support organization here, and plz donate to his legal fund.

https://www.keithlamar.org/donate

Our Final Year to Fight for Keith LaMar
Sign the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-keith-lamar

https://www.keithlamar.org/so/fcOWYT7yQ?languageTag=en&cid=bebb1c68-c378-48ef-89dc-9faeb4ad73a5

#deathrow #Ohio #innocent #KeithLaMar #BomaniShakur #stopexecutions

Today it is Keith LaMar's 54th birthday: read the newsletter by his support organization here, and plz donate to his legal fund.

https://www.keithlamar.org/donate

Our Final Year to Fight for Keith LaMar
Sign the petition: https://actionnetwork.org/petitions/free-keith-lamar

https://www.keithlamar.org/so/fcOWYT7yQ?languageTag=en&cid=bebb1c68-c378-48ef-89dc-9faeb4ad73a5

#deathrow #Ohio #innocent #KeithLaMar #BomaniShakur #stopexecutions

En 2004 Richard #Glossip a été condamné à mort par un tribunal de l'Oklahoma, tous ses recours ayant été épuisés, il est sensé être exécuté le 18 mai prochain.

Son dossier et sa condamnation ont été tellement bâclés que le Procureur Général de l'état, un républicain pourtant favorable à la peine de mort, a fait un courrier à la cour suprême des USA pour la supplier (beg) de surseoir à l'exécution, le gouverneur étant le seul a pouvoir intervenir au niveau local.

"The State of Oklahoma recently made the difficult decision to confess error and support vacating the conviction of Richard Glossip,” the document reads, referring to a death row inmate scheduled to be executed on May 18.
But because other parts of the state government don’t agree, and Oklahoma’s attorney general does not have the power to lift Glossip’s death sentence on his own, #Drummond is now begging the Supreme Court of the United States to save Glossip’s life.

#PeineDeMort #USA #DeathPenalty #DeathRow #FreeThemAll

https://www.vox.com/politics/2023/5/3/23708045/supreme-court-richard-glossip-execution-gentner-drummond-stay-oklahoma

#Oklahoma Parole Board Denies #Clemency for Richard #Glossip, Rejecting Plea from State Attorney General

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/27/richard_glossip

#DeathRow

Oklahoma death row inmate loses clemency bid despite attorney general appeal

Only Republican governor Kevin Stitt stands between Richard Glossip and the death chamber, with lethal injection set for 18 May

#Oklahoma #DeathPenalty #DeathRow #CapitalPunishment

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/26/richard-glossip-death-row-clemency-oklahoma

Cost to keep 128 #Ohio #inmates on #deathrow tops $100 million
https://www.cleveland.com/open/2023/04/rip-firstenergy-stadium-capitol-letter.html

My review of the book Change of Heart by Jodi Picoult – The Green Mile With a Twist #bookreview #crime #crimefiction #deathrow #hearttransplant #JodiPicoult #miracles #TheGreenMile

https://thoughtsfromthemountaintop.com/2023/04/13/book-review-change-of-heart-by-jodi-picoult-the-green-mile-with-a-twist/

#deathrow #deathrowBookClub #deathpenalty
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m000ldfl?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile

Japan to Hold Retrial for Decades-Old Death Sentence. Case Highlights Cruelty of ‘Hostage Justice System,’ Capital Punishment

This month, public #prosecutors in #Japan said they would not appeal the #Tokyo High Court’s decision to hold a retrial for Iwao #Hakamada, an 87-year-old former professional #boxer arrested in August 1966 and sentenced to death for the murder of a family of four. This is the 5th time a #deathpenalty case will be retried in Japan. In earlier cases, the defendants were all acquitted.

Hakamada’s case is just one of countless examples of Japan’s so-called “hostage justice system,” in which suspects are frequently detained prior to #judgement for long and arbitrary periods – sometimes up to several months or years – to obtain their confessions. According to his legal team, in 1966 #police interrogated Hakamada for an average of 12 hours a day, with some interrogations running as long as 17 hours. He was questioned without his #lawyer, as permitted under Japanese law, and denied water and restroom breaks. In a letter recalling his experience, Hakamada said authorities threatened him, saying, “if we report your cause of death as an illness, that’s the end of it,” before beating him with a police baton.

It’s now rare for Japanese police to physically abuse suspects during interrogation. But authorities still coerce confessions during the pre-indictment detention period. Suspects can’t apply for bail before being indicted, and courts routinely deny bail during trial for those who do not confess. Most detainees are held in #cells located inside police stations and placed under constant #surveillance, including during mealtimes and in bathrooms. Courts often issue restrictions on communications, denying the accused permission to meet, call, or write letters to anyone other than their lawyers. More than 99 percent of Japanese trials result in #convictions.

For decades, Hakamada has claimed his #innocence. If he is found not #guilty, his case will be another stark reminder not just of the flawed justice process in Japan, but that the death penalty should be abolished because it is a cruel, irreversible and irreparable form of #punishment. Activists have long raised concerns that #deathrow inmates are notified of their #execution only the day it occurs. For years, Hakamada lived in fear of being executed on any given day.

Japan should urgently reform its justice system by eliminating the “hostage justice system” and abolishing the death penalty.

(via HRW: https://www.hrw.org/news/2023/03/29/japan-hold-retrial-decades-old-death-sentence)

The blood must flow.

So, if #Idaho hasn't been able to kill their #DeathRow inmates for a while because they've not been able to come up with a reliable injection method ... has violent crime that would incur the #DeathPenalty spiked in the state?

Or is it just a demand from some folk for mortal vengeance with the veneer of state sanction?

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-news/idaho-death-firing-squad-1234701499/

Neue Gesetzgebung könnte die Schwelle für die Todesstrafe senken

Der #Gesetzentwurf würde das Erfordernis einer einstimmigen Empfehlung der Geschworenen abschaffen, bevor ein #Todesurteil verhängt werden kann.

Ein Ausschuss des Repräsentantenhaus|es von #Florida befürwortet eine Senkung der Schwelle für die Verhängung der #Todesstrafe.

Die #Gesetzesvorlage würde das Erfordernis einstimmiger Empfehlungen der #Geschworene|n aufheben, bevor ein Todesurteil verhängt werden kann.

Die #Richter könnten dann auf der Grundlage der Empfehlungen von 8 der 12 Geschworenen ein Todesurteil fällen.

Das Thema ist wieder aufgetaucht, nachdem der #Parkland-Schütze Nikolas Cruz zu lebenslanger #Haft verurteilt wurde, weil die #Jury nicht einstimmig war.

Der Abgeordnete Berny Jacques sagte: "Dieses #Gesetz wird einen Fehler in unseren Gesetzen korrigieren, ein Gesetz, das auf einem fehlerhaften Urteil des Obersten Gerichtshofs basierte, das vor drei Jahren aufgehoben wurde."

Die Gegner des Gesetzes verweisen auf die Insassen der #Todeszellen in Florida, die entlastet wurden.

Der Abgeordnete Daryl Campbell sagte: "Unser System ist fehlerhaft. Ich halte es für ungeheuerlich, dass wir von einer einstimmigen Entscheidung zu einer acht zu vier Entscheidung über die Todesstrafe übergehen."

Der Vorschlag würde sich nur auf das #Urteilsverfahren auswirken und nicht auf die so genannte #Schuldphase in #Mordfälle|n. Die Geschworenen müssten die #Angeklagten nach wie vor einstimmig für schuldig befinden, bevor die #Verurteilung beginnen kann.

Quelle: https://www.wcjb.com/2023/03/16/new-legislation-could-lower-death-penalty-threshold/

#DeathRow #Abolish! #DeathPenalty

Japan orders retrial of man sentenced to death in 1968

https://www.dw.com/en/japan-orders-retrial-of-man-sentenced-to-death-in-1968/a-64965741?maca=en-dipa_news_mstdn-34613-xml-mrss

#Japan #HighCourt #IwaoHakamada #murder #retrial #deathrow

Death Row pipeline in Harris County Texas for those with no money…https://apple.news/AZyKj8w_iTJSmcwyjoVC0sg
#DeathRow #poor