What the state has done and is doing to #RichardGlossip is the cruel and unusual.
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And yes, I know the case if filled with doubt. But even the most guilty among us don't deserve any of this. This is cruelty.
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Again: it's
#RichardGlossip's family that's being punished, for the rest of their lives, for something they didn't do. -
Reading that Gov Fallin has issued a stay for
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I can't imagine what every person connected to the
#RichardGlossip case is feeling. Again, it's cruelty. It's cruel and unusual punishment -
Yesterday,
#KellyGissendaner Today,#RichardGlossip Tomorrow,#AlfredoPrieto And October looks awful. -
#RichardGlossip's execution has been stayed again. And#AlfredoPrieto's is stayed, too. Wait... Have you heard of#AlfredoPrieto? -
#KellyGissendaner and#RichardGlossip's whiteness makes them more visible, more human. That's part of why we know about them. -
People on death row like
#AlfredoPrieto, who's latino and originally from El Salvador, are a lot less visible. -
You'd think latino advocacy organizations would back people like
#AlfredoPrieto and other latinos on death row. But they don't. -
Take Nebraska. Latinos: 10% of the pop, but made up 50% of death row. When lawmakers moved to abolish death penalty, latino orgs were mum.
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Organizations like MALDEF and NCLR don't only not advocate against the death penalty—they don't even have a POSITION on the death penalty.
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It was the latino evangelicals known as NALEC that took a position against the death penalty... they're beating the big latino orgs on this.
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Capital punishment is a latino issue—but it's not treated that way by latino orgs. The same could be said for criminal justice.
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But some of y'all get mad when I tweet this. Even tho you know it's true.
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This silence from many latinos also hinges on anti-blackness, and some convenient myths. But I don't think it can last too much longer.
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Just look at California, which has more than twice as many death row inmates than Texas and Florida combined. These are latino states....
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