Last year, only six countries executed more people than the United States: China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Vietnam, Iraq, and Egypt, company we should not want to keep as we craft our policies.
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Capital punishment is cruel and unusual and has no place in modern, civilized society. Today, the United States is the only Western, industrialized nation that still kills its own citizens.https://twitter.com/AyannaPressley/status/1154514535300001792 …
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In 2007, while I was serving Majority Leader in the New Jersey General Assembly, NJ abolished the death penalty, becoming the first state to do so by legislative means.
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NJ made the decision, after a lengthy deliberative process, that the arbitrary and irrevocable nature of capital punishment made it incompatible with the concept of criminal justice, and we decided to move in a better direction. Our state is stronger for it.
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I am deeply disturbed that after 16 years without an execution, the federal government will resume state-authorized killings.
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@TheJusticeDept’s decision to resume executions is either a continuation of the Trump's campaign of chaos and distraction from his legal troubles or the result of a philosophy rooted in cruelty and division. Whatever the reason, the decision is wrong.https://watsoncoleman.house.gov/newsroom/documentsingle.aspx?DocumentID=1582 …Show this thread
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Case #2: stabbed a grandmother to death and forced her 8yr old granddaughter to watch
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I'm sure you are afraid for some of you colleagues. Alot of bad things being uncovered about them.
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But couldn't we hold off reversing Barr's policy, just until we're done with Trump and his cabinet?
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Case #4: sexual assaulted his 2.5 year old daughter then beat her to death
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Case #5: killed 5 witnesses
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