Tomorrow is World Day Against the Death Penalty, a global day of action to tell the truth that too often gets buried: the death penalty protects no one. It doesn’t make communities safer. It targets people living with trauma, mental illness, brain damage, and poverty. And it retraumatizes families — including those who oppose executions. …
“The boys could have been many things had they not been ruined by that place… they had been denied even the simple pleasure of being ordinary. Hobbled and handicapped before the race even began, never figuring out how to be normal.” – Colson Whitehead, The Nickel Boys (a novel based on the experiences of students…
Tonight, We The People of the State of Florida killed Victor Tony Jones, a man who just nine months ago the State recognized as a victim of abuse at the state-run Okeechobee School for Boys. We killed an intellectually disabled Black man with an IQ of under 75, whose execution should have been barred by…
