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Jeff Kirchmeier
@kirchmeier.bsky.social
Law professor, CUNY Law School. Author of "Imprisoned by the Past: Warren McClesky, Race, and the American Death Penalty" about the history of capital punishment. Criminal law, social justice, etc. he/him.
“Today I am acting on my long and deeply held conviction that individually and collectively we are stronger as a society when we reject state-sanctioned killing,” Gov. Newsom wrote when announcing he would commute the state's 548 death sentences.
Gov. Newsom Commutes All California Death Sentences
The governor announced he will commute all 548 California death sentences.
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Sometimes politicians have the courage to something just because it is morally right. Newsom commutes sentences of all California death row prisoners. www.cnn.com/2026/11/05/u...
Newsom commutes sentences of all California death row prisoners | CNN
California Gov. Gavin Newsom announced Thursday he is commuting every death sentence in his state to a sentence of life in prison without parole.
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Lawrence Wright came to believe that “redemption is possible" after interviewing women on death row for his new book, 'Redemption: Faith, Justice, and Sisterhood on Death Row.' More on his twelfth work of nonfiction here: https://www.texasmonthly.com/culture/lawrence-wright-new-book-death-row-nuns
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Newly Obtained Records Reveal Tennessee Spent $1.2 Million for Lethal Injection Drugs, Despite Failed Execution Attempts. #deathpenalty deathpenaltyinfo.org/newly-obtain...
Newly Obtained Records Reveal Tennessee Spent $1.2 Million for Lethal Injection Drugs, Despite Failed Execution Attempts | Death Penalty Information Center
Reporting from The Tennessean has revealed that since January 2023, Tennessee officials have spent nearly $1.2 million on drugs for lethal injection…
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Saudi Arabia executes man for crime committed when he was 14. The kingdom carried out 347 executions last year, a new high despite efforts to transform its image. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/m...
Saudi Arabia executes man for crime committed when he was 14
The kingdom carried out 347 executions last year, a new high despite efforts to transform its image
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Former Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch The Rule of Law Project ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...
Former Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch The Rule of Law Project
Former federal prosecutors and human rights leaders launch The Rule of Law Project to document and investigate public corruption and state violence.
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Breaking: President Trump canceled plans to livestream the execution of the Fort Hood shooter, reversing a decision by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth. on.wsj.com/3VQHL5J
Trump Cancels Plans for Livestreamed Execution of Fort Hood Shooter
The president reversed Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s decision after backlash.
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Whether Tennessee tries to execute Christa Pike again is an open question. Here’s why. . . www.cnn.com/2026/10/12/u... #deathpenalty
Whether Tennessee tries to execute Christa Pike again is an open question. Here’s why | CNN
The novel circumstances of Christa Pike’s case could help her attorneys make strong legal arguments to stave off a second execution attempt by Tennessee officials.
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JOHN CANDY took this picture of CONAN O’BRIEN while Conan was his tour guide at Harvard University in 1984.
Christa Gail Pike remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Nashville hospital, five days after the state of Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection on September 30. www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
Christa Pike remains intubated and unconscious as Tennessee prison chief resigns after failed execution
Christa Pike remains unconscious and on a ventilator in a Nashville hospital five days after the state of Tennessee’s failed attempt to execute her by lethal injection on September 30. She remains hos...
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"[T]he state loudly reclaimed killing from the zone of the extrajudicial, seeking to progress past the ghastly accessories of the rope and the tree, introducing instead a chemical cocktail and a needle" www.newyorker.com/news/the-led... via @newyorker.com
Christa Pike and the Absurdity of Humane Execution
Doctors in Tennessee are attempting to save the life of a woman whom the state just tried to kill.
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Nashville Banner reporter Steven Hale, describing how prison officials kept drawing the curtain to hide how badly they were botching this: “A lot of this execution — or attempted execution, whatever it was — happened when we could not see what was going on.”
Capital punishment doesn't benefit society. It's time we abolish it. 👀 deathpenaltyinfo.org/studies-deat...
Evidence Does Not Support the Use of the Death Penalty
Capital punishment must come to an end. It does not deter crime, is not humane and has no moral or medical basis
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The Associated Press@apnews.com · last mo.BREAKING: Tennessee governor puts a halt on executions after inmate Christa Gail Pike survives a lethal injection attempt.
New It Could Happen Here 🎤 Kevin Foster speaks with Mo Meltzer-Cohen, a law professor at CUNY School of Law, about Macklemore being booted from the Ed Sheeran tour and the First Amendment implications. linktr.ee/ICHHpod
Failed 'torturous' execution attempt on Christa Pike reignites death penalty debate: www.npr.org/2026/10/02/n...
Failed 'torturous' execution attempt on Christa Pike reignites death penalty debate
The botched execution in Tennessee of Christa Pike, who survived despite being subject to two doses of lethal injection on Wednesday, has reignited furious debate about the death penalty in the U.S.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... The Guardian view on the death penalty: Christa Pike’s execution was botched, but cruelty is inherent | Editorial
The Guardian view on the death penalty: Christa Pike’s execution was botched, but cruelty is inherent | Editorial
Editorial: Three-quarters of nations have rightly abolished capital punishment in law or practice, but killing by the state has surged in the US
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Pashukanis’ diagnosis of the practices of governments regarding asylum & criminal law remains strikingly relevant. We turn to contemporary analysis of the return of “alien enemies”, crimmigration and what Jakobs prominently described as “enemy criminal law”. criticallegalthinking.com/2026/08/11/t...
The Right of Asylum and the Return of “Enemy Criminal Law”
Konštantín Bauer, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons CLT recently featured a translation of E.B. Pashukanis’ 1929 article “The Right of Asylum and
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Klaas Müller@klaasmueller.bsky.social · 3mo agoEnde der 1920er Jahre beschrieb Eugen Paschukanis die Rechtswirklichkeit des Asyls - vieles erinnert an die Vorgänge in den USA und der EU der letzten Jahre. @dariabayer.bsky.social, Igor Shoikhedbrod und ich haben den Text übersetzt und Kontinuitäten im heutigen Asyl- und Strafrecht aufgezeigt.
ICYMI: Trump has escalated federal death penalty prosecutions in his second term, in large part due to his rage over Biden’s death row commutations (which robbed him of a chance to carry out another execution spree). A petty, violent man.
Liliana Segura@lilianasegura.bsky.social · 4mo agoI've been tracking the DOJ's death penalty authorizations since Trump retook office. There are more than people might realize. (How many actually lead to new death sentences is too soon to say.) New from me @theintercept.com
Michigan’s last execution happened 88 years ago: That man’s story and the death penalty today. www.clickondetroit.com/features/202...
Michigan’s last execution happened 88 years ago: That man’s story and the death penalty today
The last person to face the death penalty in Michigan was executed 88 years ago by the federal government.
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Discussing the death penalty with other people in my early teens was my first hint at something that would become very very obvious later: my instincts & values are not widely shared. Anyway, this is disgusting:
Why Is Florida Executing So Many Prisoners?
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King symbolically commutes death sentence for last British woman to be hanged. www.reuters.com/world/uk/kin...
King symbolically commutes death sentence for last British woman to be hanged
The last British woman to be hanged, executed in 1955 for murdering her partner, on Wednesday had her sentence symbolically commuted to life imprisonment by King Charles, on advice from the governme...
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We applaud Governor DeWine on this move that will bring Ohio more in line with national public sentiment. More and more Americans agree that the death penalty has no place in this country. Elected officials must call for an end to this cruel practice.
Ohio Republican governor urges end to death penalty, saying it cannot be morally justified
Departing Mike DeWine, who co-wrote state’s death penalty bill, says ‘I no longer believe [it] is a deterrent to murder’
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Juneteenth commemorates June 19, 1865, the day enslaved African Americans in Galveston, Texas, were finally informed of their freedom. This monumental news came two and a half years after the Emancipation Proclamation and effectively marked the end of slavery in the United States. #juneteenth
If you've seen the Juneteenth flag, but don't know its history or what it means, you can read about it in the words of Ben Haith, the man who designed it. Happy Emancipation Day! ✊🏽 #Juneteenth capitalbnews.org/juneteenth-f...
The Juneteenth flag, explained
The flag’s designer shares the story and inspiration for his design.
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Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine explains why he called for abolishing the state's death penalty". www.npr.org/2026/06/20/n...
Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine explains why he called for abolishing the state's death penalty"
Ohio's Governor says that his state should end the death penalty. NPR's Scott Simon talks to Gov. Mike DeWine, a Republican, about why he changed his mind on a practice he once supported.
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Mayor Mamdani speaks at Rikers Island high school graduation. ny1.com/nyc/all-boro...
Mamdani speaks at Rikers Island high school graduation
The school serves incarcerated people from ages 18 to 21, and they can earn GEDs or high school diplomas.
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Alabama's nitrogen gas executions constitute cruel and unusual punishment, judge rules. #deathpenalty www.cbsnews.com/news/alabama...
Alabama's nitrogen gas executions constitute cruel and unusual punishment, judge rules
A federal judge banned Alabama from executing an inmate by nitrogen hypoxia, calling the method unconstitutionally cruel.
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In a first, California Supreme Court reverses a death sentence under new racial justice law. calmatters.org/justice/2026...
In a first, California Supreme Court reverses a death sentence under new racial justice law
A prosecutor likened a Black murder suspect to a Bengal tiger. Decades later, the California Supreme Court found that trope showed unacceptable racial bias.
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