[Peace] Executions

[John W.]

On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 1:21 PM Karen Aram <karenaram at hotmail.com> wrote:

Tragically, the two men also on death row will likely be executed as well
> within the next couple days.
>
> I’m glad to live in a state where such barbarism has been outlawed. Though
> the Federal gov., under the Trump administration over ruled and placed the
> death penalty on the table for a recent case.
> Thankfully, the good people of Illinois chose to ignore it, and gave the
> monster killer, life instead.
>
> As Margaret Kimberly of the Black Agenda report pointed out recently in
> respect to US electoral laws, we have so many laws, procedures, rules etc.
> within each state differing from one another, that keeps us separated
> within the nation, we need some uniformity.
>
> Not her exact words, but its obvious that these differing state laws of
> which the death penalty is one, make it extremely difficult to achieve
> progress when the battles must be continually fought and won over decades.
>

Well, it's interesting.  For every point of view, there's a countervailing
point of view.

As one who studied law formally, I absolutely hated the complexity of 50
different sets of state laws, overlaid and often contradicted by the
federal law.  It's a mess, and makes everything infinitely more
complicated, more labrynthine, ultimately more incomprehensible.

The idea originally was that the autonomy of the states would keep the
federal government from growing too all-powerful.  We've seen how the
states' autonomy has eroded over the years, both for good and ill.  (The
Civil Rights Movement wouldn't have been possible without
federal intervention.)  Sadly, the only people who are upset about it are
those still fighting on the losing side of the Civil War.

I honestly would have liked to see the South secede and become a separate
country, albeit without slavery.  The North would have done just fine
without them.  But that's a separate conversation.

John



>
>
> On Jan 13, 2021, at 05:15, Debra Schrishuhn <deb.pdamerica at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Sadly, tragically, no.
>
>
> https://www.indystar.com/story/news/crime/2021/01/12/lisa-montgomery-execution-once-again-set-take-place/6635726002/
>
> On Wed, Jan 13, 2021 at 12:40 AM John W. via Peace <
> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>
>>
>> Yay!!   We won!!  We did it!!!  By the time her competency hearing is
>> finished, Joe Biden will have hopefully suspended federal executions once
>> again!
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 12, 2021 at 7:19 PM C. G. Estabrook via Peace <
>> peace at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
>>
>>
>>> https://www.npr.org/2021/01/12/955984890/judge-blocks-execution-of-only-woman-on-federal-death-row
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