Communications professional dedicated to criminal justice reform
Washington, D.C.
Joined on 18 May, 2012
Replying to @davidminpdx: Dozens of members of the United States Congress ask President Biden to commute the sentences of all of the people on feder…
Dozens of members of the United States Congress ask President Biden to commute the sentences of all of the people on federal death row.
Replying to @ColumbiaCCCT: "It's time to be bold. It's time to ask for #abolition, not just a moratorium. It's time to ask for @POTUS to clear the r…
"It's time to be bold. It's time to ask for #abolition, not just a moratorium. It's time to ask for @POTUS to clear the row."
-Lisa Montgomery's attorney, @kelleyjhenry
Replying to @memphisnews: The presence of an unknown man's DNA in the crime scene evidence comes as attorneys for Pervis Payne work to overturn his…
Atty Stmt Re: Pervis Payne DNA Testing Results Consistent with Innocence Claim. Read more here:
The presence of an unknown man's DNA in the crime scene evidence comes as attorneys for Pervis Payne work to overturn his conviction.
VA’s #deathpenalty is deeply intertwined with the state’s shameful history w/ Jim Crow laws & lynching. It’s time to end this racist practice. Sign the petition to lawmakers here: #nodeathpenaltyVA
#JusticeSotomayor: “Those whom the Government executed during this endeavor deserved more from this Court. I respectfully dissent.”
“Yet the Court has allowed the United States to execute thirteen people in six months under a statutory scheme and regulatory protocol that have received inadequate scrutiny, without resolving the serious claims the condemned individuals raised.”
Justice Sotomayor in #DustinHiggs dissent: “The Court has even intervened to lift stays of execution that lower courts put in place, thereby ensuring those prisoners’ challenges would never receive a meaningful airing.” Read more here:
Justice Sotomayor’s powerful dissent in #DustinHiggs: “Throughout this expedited spree of executions, this Court has consistently rejected inmates’ credible claims for relief.” Read more here:
Replying to @SCOTUSblog: BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows federal government to proceed with the execution of #DustinHiggs tonight, reversing lowe…
BREAKING: The Supreme Court allows federal government to proceed with the execution of #DustinHiggs tonight, reversing lower courts that had put the execution on hold. Breyer, Sotomayor & Kagan dissent.
Attorney statement on the execution of #CoreyJohnson can be read here:
Just In: Fourth Circuit Denies #CoreyJohnson Motion for Rehearing on his Claim of Intellectual Disability that No Court has Ever Heard. Attys to Appeal to SCOTUS before tonight’s scheduled execution. Read strong dissent here:
Breaking: Full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals Refuses to Reinstate “COVID” Stays of Execution for #CoreyJohnson and #DustinHiggs. Read order here:
“Let us move toward love, not hate. The government should not carry out any further executions.” Read powerful op-ed from @OfficialMLK3 in @washingtonpost. #DustinHiggs #CoreyJohnson
“The federal government should not be needlessly taking more Black lives, and to do so on my father’s birthday would be shameful.” Read powerful op-ed from @OfficialMLK3 in @washingtonpost. #DustinHiggs #CoreyJohnson
4/ .@ebruenig on #CoreyJohnson’s case and the government’s intent to execute him despite “strong and deep” evidence for his intellectual disability diagnosis.
3/ “ #CoreyJohnson’s unconstitutional and unlawful execution must not proceed,” writes Peter Burns, CEO of The Arc of the United States, in @RTDOpinions opinion piece.
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