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The Next Golden Age of the #DeathPenalty Is Beginning

#Trump & the #Republican Party are bringing #CapitalPunishment back to the forefront of American #criminal justice.

#law #US
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/death-penalty-golden-age-trump/684691/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxUVtWoT14LPwwRDqhowRGMc

#Trump has been forthright about his intention to bring about a #DeathPenalty renaissance, & now his efforts are coming to fruition. This yr has been a particularly lethal one for the #US’ #DeathRow prisoners. Together, #Alabama, #Arizona, #Florida, #Indiana, #Louisiana, #Mississippi, #Missouri, #Oklahoma, #SouthCarolina, #Tennessee, & #Texas have executed a total of 40 people in the past 10 months by injection, nitrogen hypoxia, & firing squad, surpassing 2024’s total of 25—a significant spike…

#GiftArticle

The Next Golden Age of the #DeathPenalty Is Beginning

#Trump & the #Republican Party are bringing #CapitalPunishment back to the forefront of American #criminal justice.

#law #US
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/death-penalty-golden-age-trump/684691/?gift=guxsrl_dAdXUP9zqbQPWxUVtWoT14LPwwRDqhowRGMc

Public prosecutors have sought the death penalty for Hideaki Nozu, who has been charged with killing three members of his family with arrows fired from a crossbow in Hyogo Prefecture in June 2020. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/15/japan/crime-legal/death-penalty-sought-for-fatal-crossbow-attack/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #japanesecourts #hyogo #takarazuka #deathpenalty

The Nagano District Court has sentenced Masanori Aoki, 34, to death for the 2023 killings of four people in the city of Nakano, Nagano Prefecture. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/14/japan/crime-legal/japan-quadruple-murder-ruling-death-penalty/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #nagano #japanesecourts #deathpenalty

Iwao Hakamata, a former death row inmate who was acquitted in a retrial for the 1966 murder of a family in Shizuoka Prefecture, filed a damages lawsuit against the central and prefectural governments. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/10/09/japan/hakamata-files-suit-against-government/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #iwaohakamata #japanesecourts #deathpenalty

A memorial was held in the city of Kyoto on Friday for victims of a deadly arson attack on Kyoto Animation's No. 1 studio six years ago. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/07/18/japan/kyoto-animation-ceremony/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #kyotoanimation #kyoto #anime #massmurder #deathpenalty #shinjiaoba

A man on death row for killing nine people in Kanagawa Prefecture in 2017 was executed Friday, in the first execution in Japan since 2022. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2025/06/27/japan/crime-legal/prisoner-on-death-row-executed/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #japan #crimelegal #deathpenalty #kanagawa #zama #justiceministry

Today In Labor History May 1, 1886: The first nationwide General Strike for the 8-hour day occurred in Milwaukee and other U.S. cities. In Chicago, police killed four demonstrators and wounded over 200. This led to the mass meeting a Haymarket Square, where an unknown assailant threw a bomb, killing several cops. The authorities responded by rounding up all the city’s leading anarchists, and a kangaroo court which wrongfully convicted 8 of them, including Albert Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons, who would go on to cofound the IWW, along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, and others. Worldwide protests against the convictions and executions followed. To honor the wrongfully executed anarchists, and their struggle for the 8-hour day, May first has ever since been celebrated as International Workers Day in nearly every country in the world, except the U.S.

You can read my complete bio of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #haymarket #bombing #policebrutality #police #prison #execution #deathpenalty#GeneralStrike #IWW #lucyparsons #motherjones#EightHourDay #mayday

Today In Labor History May 1, 1886: The first nationwide General Strike for the 8-hour day occurred in Milwaukee and other U.S. cities. In Chicago, police killed four demonstrators and wounded over 200. This led to the mass meeting a Haymarket Square, where an unknown assailant threw a bomb, killing several cops. The authorities responded by rounding up all the city’s leading anarchists, and a kangaroo court which wrongfully convicted 8 of them, including Albert Parsons, husband of Lucy Parsons, who would go on to cofound the IWW, along with Mother Jones, Big Bill Haywood, Eugene Debs, and others. Worldwide protests against the convictions and executions followed. To honor the wrongfully executed anarchists, and their struggle for the 8-hour day, May first has ever since been celebrated as International Workers Day in nearly every country in the world, except the U.S.

You can read my complete bio of Lucy Parsons here: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2024/03/24/lucy-parsons/

#workingclass #LaborHistory #anarchism #haymarket #bombing #policebrutality #police #prison #execution #deathpenalty#GeneralStrike #IWW #lucyparsons #motherjones#EightHourDay #mayday