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The weakness of SCOTUS’s ineffective precedent and inaction: https://theintercept.com/2018/07/15/death-penalty-mental-illness/

Moving article by Texas legislator: https://www.tribtalk.org/2018/07/11/its-time-to-get-rid-of-the-death-penalty-in-texas/?utm_source=The+Appeal&utm_campaign=db15e8515e-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_07_03_03_52_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_72df992d84-db15e8515e-58401451

This New Yorker article is a personal account of a visit to the new museum in Montgomery, Alabama, a memorial to everyone who was lynched

Amazing memorial to those who were lynched. Amazing account of personal visit: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/a-visit-to-montgomerys-legacy-museum

The criminal justice system (including the imposition of the death penalty) is far worse than one can imagine: http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/oped/bs-ed-op-0713-curtis-flowers-20180711-story.html  

Timely intervention: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/31/opinion/capital-punishment-death-penalty.html  

The terrible story of a young man who has been on death row for 18 years in Pakistan: https://dailytimes.com.pk/255666/the-life-of-a-condemned-prisoner/ The President should act to commute

Amazing article: why Virginia’s former executioner works for repeal: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/nov/21/death-penalty-former-executioner-jerry-givens and amazing webinar: https://events.genndi.com/register/169105139238473655/ebfd864efa.