RT @EJUSA: #DominequeRay was sentenced to the #deathpenalty based on 1 witness's testimony: a man who claims Ray helped him co…

After massive public outcry, #SaudiArabia drops #deathpenalty charge against Israa. 25,000 of you made a stand agai…

RT @EJUSA: Momentum for #deathpenalty repeal is growing in Louisiana.

RT @EJUSA: Lawmakers have introduced a bill to repeal the #deathpenalty in Wyoming, where nobody has been executed in 27 years…

The #deathpenalty is rooted in our history of slavery and legacy of lynching. What's happening in Texas is indicati…

The #Pennsylvania Supreme Court could follow in the footsteps of Washington State's repeal of the #deathpenalty.

"I think this year is going to be the year." People in #Colorado are getting ready to repeal the #deathpenalty in t…

RT @EJUSA: Texas overwhelmingly only seeks the #deathpenalty for people of color. Now, Kwame Rockwell, a Black, disabled man,…

The statistics in Washington state told a story of the racist application of the #deathpenalty. Just wait to you he…

This harrowing saga has two main dimensions: Saudi brutality, certainly, but it also underscores the ways in which President Trump’s fawning dictator worship, his pervasive conflicts of interest and his attacks on the media have emboldened authoritarian regimes to viciously silence their critics.
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This is one of our closest allies. The stain is bipartisan: Democratic and Republican presidents have supported the Saudis, selling them hundreds of billions of dollars of weaponry – even as they slaughter civilians in their horrifying war in Yemen. Even if you’re a hard-nosed advocate of realpolitik, the cost to American soft power by being in bed with such barbarism creates greater long-term costs than the short-term gains are worth.

Since Trump took office, the Saudi regime has become more brazen. Khashoggi’s disappearance reflects a strategic calculation: They think they can abduct or murder a journalist working for an American news organization without facing serious consequences. So far, they’re right – Trump has only called on them to investigate the disappearance. That weak response comes despite new evidence that “before Khashoggi’s disappearance, U.S. intelligence intercepted communications of Saudi officials discussing a plan to capture him.”

Worse, it’s likely that Trump’s finances and his rhetoric contributed to Saudi Arabia’s decision to green-light their barefaced conspiracy to silence Khashoggi.

The US is one of just 13 countries to have voted against a United Nations resolution condemning the death penalty for having gay sex.

Although the vote passed, America joined countries such as China, Iraq and Saudi Arabia in opposing the move.

The Human Rights Council resolution condemned the “imposition of the death penalty as a sanction for specific forms of conduct, such as apostasy, blasphemy, adultery and consensual same-sex relations”.

It attacked the use of execution against persons with “mental or intellectual disabilities, persons below 18 years of age at the time of the commission of the crime, and pregnant women”.
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The US supported two failed amendments put forward by Russia, which stated the death penalty was not necessarily “a human rights violation” and that it is not a form of torture, but can lead to it “in some cases”.

This is great news. The #DeathPenalty is barbaric, applied in a systematically racist fashion and a stain on the na…

#Breaking: Washington officially becomes the 20th state to abolish the #DeathPenalty in the US! This is tremendous…

HUGE NEWS! "In 96% of states where there have been reviews of race & the #DeathPenalty, there was a pattern of eith…

The #deathpenalty is dying. It's broken beyond repair. It's fraught with Constitutional problems, and torturing peo…

RT @EJUSA: The #deathpenalty is dying. It's broken beyond repair. It's fraught with Constitutional problems, and torturing peo…

RT @AmnestyUK: BREAKING: #Egypt hand down 75 #deathpenalty sentences and 47 life sentences, in a mass trial related to the al-Raba…