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Opening Your Eyes to the Death Penalty in America and Exploring Mass Incarceration
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We Have a Punishment Department. Where Is the Prevention Department? (opens the original)
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Let us begin with some wonderful news: Christa Pike’s execution was stayed.Of course, that is a TEMPORARY sigh of relief. Hopefully, I can get this article finished and published before any further action.Death Penalty Corner is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="button p
THE KILLING CALENDAR (opens the original)
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Governor Bill Lee had a choice.He could acknowledge the horror of what Christa Pike did without adding another killing to it.He could acknowledge the suffering of 19-year-old Colleen Slemmer and her family while also acknowledging something the jury that sentenced Pike to death never fully heard: the terrible story of the child Christa Pike had been. He could commute her sentence to life without parole (LWOP).On Monday, September 28, Governor Lee said no.After what he described as a “thorough re
THE KILLING CALENDAR (opens the original)
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I am confused tonight so I shall ramble - possibly incoherently - as I lay out some facts for you. I am confused because Cornell University has just been found to have hidden the fact that 7 of their male students committed a horrible act of drugging and repeatedly raping a young woman - even going so far as to have a group chat over it - and then Cornell hid it. 2 of the men were expelled from school - and the rest were required to write an essay saying why what they did was wrong. I understand
Almost 6:00... (opens the original)
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The Hours Between Noon and SixA week ago Wednesday, Texas executed his partner, LeJames Norman, 40. Now, it is Ker’sean Olajuwa Ramey’s turn. He is here because of a small town tragedy.Unless the courts intervene, noon on Wednesday, September 23, will become the hour Ker’Sean’s family remembers as the beginning of the last journey.Before noon, there will still be the distance between Polunsky and the Walls. There will still be somewhere he has not yet been taken, a departure that has not yet occ
A Name Is Just A Name - The Government Excels At This Game (opens the original)
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I’m going to take a brief detour from my anti-death penalty rantings and ravings to tell you a little about my former home: Florida. Governor Ron DeSantis - “DeSatan,” as I call him - likes to call it the “Free State of Florida.” This from a man intent upon breaking even his own record-setting execution pace of 2025. Free? Hardly. Florida much prefers fences, walls, and even “cages”—anything to spare the hoi polloi the sight of the top five percent living their lives.Recently, I received a ChatG
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