“Tonight, Missouri lynched another innocent Black man,” NAACP President Derrick Johnson said in a statement.

    • TheTechnician27
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      442 months ago

      This is also the case for all other executions – it’s just state-sanctioned murder – but this case is so clearly awful and a racist lynching that hopefully it starts waking up the people who defend the death penalty.

    • Tiefling IRL
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      162 months ago

      Any human who would willingly deliver the fatal cocktail needs to be locked away far from humanity.

      From what I hear, some people salivate over the opportunity

      • @ShepherdPie@midwest.social
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        282 months ago

        He did do something, which was to disband the committee investigating whether this man was wrongfully convicted or not and then later he denied a stay of execution.

        • themeatbridgeOP
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          152 months ago

          Yep, the governor went above and beyond to ensure an innocent man was lynched by the state.