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May 7, 2021 · To commemorate the anniversary, Injustice Watch asked people whose lives were changed by the abolition of the death penalty in Illinois and those involved in the campaign to abolish it to reflect on the moment of abolition and what it means today.
- Juliet Sorensen
Capital punishment has been repealed in the U.S. state of Illinois since 2011. Illinois used death by hanging as a form of execution until 1928. The last person executed by this method was the public execution of Charles Birger the same year.
Dec 15, 2014 · They knew that they had incurred the law’s extreme penalty, and must suffer that penalty. There is a disposition on the part of doomed men to “die game;” and much of the apparent heartlessness is bravado only.
May 22, 2020 · William Fleming (1791 – 1866) was a British philosopher, and Professor of Moral Philosophy at the University of Glasgow, known from his 1857 Vocabulary of philosophy, mental, moral, and metaphysical.
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“Can we expect a decent society if the state is allowed to kill its own people?” — Coretta Scott King “The death penalty is not about whether people deserve to die for the crimes they commit. The real question of capital punishment in this country is: ‘Do we deserve to kill?’” — Bryan Stevenson, Just Mercy: A Story of Justice and Redemption “Capita...
“The State is not God. It has no right to take away that which it cannot give back, if it should so desire.” — Anton Pavlovich Chekhov, The Bet “Racial violence has been rationalized, legitimated, and channeled through our criminal justice system; it is expressed as police brutality, solitary confinement, and the discriminatory and arbitrary impos...
“True justice is restorative. It heals wounds. The death penalty only creates new wounds.” — Shane Claiborne, in a tweet “I can’t accept the judgment that killers need to be killed, a practice that merely perpetuates the cycle of violence.” — Bernice King “The death penalty, I think, is a terrible scar on American justice, especially the concept of...
“I learned the most important lesson of my life… I didn’t have to see somebody else die in order to bring healing.” — Bill Pelke, who lost his grandmother to murder by a group of teenagers “When Jeffrey was murdered, I wanted the men who killed him dead. I led the fight to reinstate the death penalty in Massachusetts in 1997. But time passes, and y...
“But secondly you say ‘society must exact vengeance, and society must punish’. Wrong on both counts. Vengeance comes from the individual and punishment from God.” ― Victor Hugo, The Last Day of a Condemned Man “The state should not be killing people. Not through militarism. Not by police. Not because of ICE. Not by medical negligence. And not by de...
Nov 19, 2021 · In his Glossip dissent, Justice Stephen Breyer, joined by the late Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, argued that the death penalty practice itself is unconstitutional. Justice Sonia Sotomayor filed...
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Feb 14, 2023 · The justices of the U.S. Supreme Court in 1972, the year the Court, in a 5-4 decision, struck down the death penalty. Four years later, the Court reinstated it. From left, front row: Potter Stewart, William O. Douglas, Chief Justice Warren E. Burger, William J. Brennan Jr. ’31, and Byron White.
