This article which is about using the criminal justice system to create neo-slavery. It has close parallels to the links between the end of lynching
The Supreme Court ruled that ‘cruel and unusual punishment’ no longer precludes unusually cruel punishments
The highest criminal justice priority of the current Supreme Court majority is apparently to make the state’s machinery of death work as efficiently as possible
California’s Cost of Killing People
Four billion dollars that could have been spent on crime prevention policies and rebuilding society: https://thecrimereport.org/2019/03/14/death-penalty-another-failed-big-government-program-ca-conservative/
Malaysia moves to repeal: Singapore Executes
The island republic continues to use capital and corporal punishment executing a Malaysian man on 23 March 2019: https://www.nst.com.my/news/nation/2019/03/471832/despite-appeals-malaysian-michael-garing-executed-singapore
From the Chaplain at San Quentin
Amazing insight into life on death row in the light of the moratorium: https://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2019/03/19/san-quentins-chaplain-californias-death-penalty-moratorium-has-given-us-hope
Petition for a Federal Moratorium on Executions
Sign the petition calling for a federal moratorium on executions in the United States: https://www.dailykos.com/campaigns/petitions/sign-the-petition-we-must-have-a-federal-moratorium-on-the-death-penalty?one_click_ab_redirect=true&ab_page_name=massincarceration2019&ab_refcode=20190315deathpenalty&widget_style=1
Kamala Sanders calls for Federal Moratorium on Executions
Candidate for the Democratic nomination for President in 2020, Kamala Harris, called for a moratorium on executions at the Federal level in the wake of
California’s moritorium on the Death Penalty
This interesting article from the New Yorker looks at Governor Gavin Newsome’s act of imposing a moratorium on executions in California: https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/gavin-newsom-and-the-new-politics-of-the-death-penalty
