The Trump regime very nearly sank to a new low of barbarism recently: it planned to televise a convict’s execution by firing squad. This public execution,... The Trump regime very nearly sank to a new low of barbarism recently: it…
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Tremon Hill has been charged with murder over the fatal 2018 shooting. Tremon Hill stood trial for the 2018 killing of Dejanay Stanton, a Black trans woman, at the George N. Leighton Criminal Courthouse in Cook County, Illinois on Wednesday. More than eight…
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Secretary of War Pete Hegseth’s intention to publicly live-stream the military’s December execution of American Muslim Nidal Hasan by firing squad proved to be too much even for President Donald Trump. Hasan, an Army psychiatrist, gunned down 13 people and injured…
The case of William Reaves encapsulates the barbaric and reactionary character of capital punishment in America and in Florida in particular: the execution of an elderly man, a combat veteran whose service-related psychological injuries were never adequately presented to the…
The livestream is off, but the firing squad isn’t. Nidal Hasan, the Army soldier who killed 13 fellow troops at Fort Hood in 2009, will still be shot to death by Army riflemen on December 3. “Death penalty through firing squad, and he…
Hours before the president backed off of the plan, a poll found 8 in 10 Americans opposed it. As poll numbers showed the vast majority of Americans were repulsed by the idea of livestreaming the execution of Nidal Hasan, the former military…
President Donald Trump announced Thursday that the military firing squad execution of former Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, set for December 3 at Fort Hood, Texas, will not be livestreamed. The decision reverses a plan unveiled a week earlier by Secretary of…
Executions and the death penalty: the rise in executions, nitrogen gas and firing squads, botched executions, innocence cases and the push for abolition.
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