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On April 14, state Judge Wendell Griffen issued a temporary restraining order that effectively halted six of the executions over concerns the state used false pretenses to obtain a key drug slated to be used in the executions.
Death and the instruments of death must be eliminated from our criminal justice system. Our historic struggle against state-sanctioned terror requires it.
Racial bias has no place in the administration of justice – tell that to Harris County, Texas. Duane Buck, sentenced to death in Harris County in 1997, may soon be at risk of execution despite the fact that his death sentence is the clear product of racial discrimination.
Mr. Buck’s death sentence is an unconstitutional product of racial discrimination. He is entitled to a new, fair sentencing hearing free of racial bias.
by Yoland Pierce, Ph.D One might have hoped that, by this hour, the very sight of chains on black flesh, or the very sight of chains, would be so intolerable a sight for the American people, and so unbearable a memory, that they would themselves spontaneously rise up and strike off the manacles. But no,...
