Tagged: death penalty

Federal death penalty in New York? 0

Is the death penalty ever appropriate punishment?

The death penalty remains a looming question for Payton Gendron, the man responsible for the tragic mass shooting at a Buffalo Tops grocery store on May 14, 2022. This heinous attack, deliberately targeting and resulting in the tragic loss of ten Black lives, could result in the death penalty for the Buffalo shooter. New York State, having abolished the death penalty in 2004 after the New York Court of Appeals deemed it unconstitutional, still faces the prospect of federal capital punishment in cases like Gendron’s. In a status conference Tuesday morning, prosecutors said the question of the death penalty has...

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TV’s Judge Mathis Weighs in on the execution of Troy Davis

The world watched as the United States of America, land of the free, home of the brave, murdered a man against the very principles it tries to spread militarily to other nations. All while President Obama kept silent, who even though he had no jurisdiction in the case allowed what might not be appropriate be more important than wrongful execution of man. The amount of doubt in the Troy Davis case was more than enough to warrant a stay of execution and grant a new trial. “Georgia has blood on its hands” “Dating back to his time in the Illinois...