themeatbridge@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agoMissouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his lifeapnews.comexternal-linkmessage-square36fedilinkarrow-up1462arrow-down16file-text
arrow-up1456arrow-down1external-linkMissouri executes a man for the 1998 killing of a woman despite her family’s calls to spare his lifeapnews.comthemeatbridge@lemmy.world to News@lemmy.world · 3 months agomessage-square36fedilinkfile-text
“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.
minus-squareTheTechnician27@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up44·3 months agoThis is also the case for all other executions – it’s just state-sanctioned murder – but this case is so clearly awful and a racist lynching that hopefully it starts waking up the people who defend the death penalty.
This is also the case for all other executions – it’s just state-sanctioned murder – but this case is so clearly awful and a racist lynching that hopefully it starts waking up the people who defend the death penalty.