What the state has done and is doing to #RichardGlossip is the cruel and unusual.
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Reading that Gov Fallin has issued a stay for
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I can't imagine what every person connected to the
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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
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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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@aurabogado I think the excuse is, if they hadn't asked the others would be alive. This excuses the murderer for not knowing the word "no"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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