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May 9, 1800 - Birthday of John Brown, revolutionary abolitionist who organized the 1859 raid on Harper’s Ferry.

05.09.13 ♥ 152
Mississippi death row inmate Manning gets reprieve

The Mississippi Supreme Court has issued a stay of execution for Willie Jerome Manning, set to be executed on Tuesday at 6 p.m.

The high court voted eight to one, with Justice Michael Randolph objecting.

Manning was given two death sentences for the 1992 slayings of Jon Steckler and Tiffany Miller, two college students. His attorneys had asked the state Supreme Court on Monday to stop his execution and allow him to seek DNA testing of evidence.

The U.S. Justice Department had sent letters saying FBI testimony on testing of bullet and hair evidence in the case had been overreaching for technology at the time.

Manning’s lawyers said in a filing with the Mississippi Supreme Court that the execution should be stopped based on the Justice Department’s admission and previous disclosures about testimony that it says exceeded the limits of science.

The letter, sent late Monday, said there was incorrect testimony related to tests on bullets found in a tree by Manning’s house that were compared to bullets found in the victims.

05.07.13 ♥ 7
Zoom People executed by South Korean military forces in the ‘Bodo League’ massacres, 1950. At least 100,000 (but by some estimates as many as 1.2 million) alleged communists and communist sympathizers were killed by the US-backed Rhee dictatorship before and during the Korean War.

People executed by South Korean military forces in the ‘Bodo League’ massacres, 1950. At least 100,000 (but by some estimates as many as 1.2 million) alleged communists and communist sympathizers were killed by the US-backed Rhee dictatorship before and during the Korean War.

04.01.13 ♥ 80
Zoom The Freikorps prepares to execute a young communist in Munich, Germany, 1919

The Freikorps prepares to execute a young communist in Munich, Germany, 1919

03.05.13 ♥ 155
District judge postpones Texas woman's execution

HUNTSVILLE, TX — A Dallas judge has halted the scheduled execution of a Texas woman that was set for Tuesday evening. She would have been the first woman put to death in the U.S. in three years.

The order from state District Judge Larry Mitchell moves the execution of 51-year-old Kimberly McCarthy to April 3.

It wasn’t immediately certain if the Dallas County District Attorney’s office will appeal the ruling.

Lawyers for McCarthy, who is Black, argued the jury that convicted and sentenced her to death was selected improperly based on race. It was made up of 11 white people and one black person.

01.29.13 ♥ 3
Three Kurdish women activists slain in Paris

PARIS — Three female Kurdish activists were found dead Thursday at an information center for Kurds in Paris, all of them shot in the head in what a French official described as execution-style killings.

The victims included Sakine Cansiz, a co-founder of the militant nationalist Kurdistan Workers’ Party, or PKK. Interior Minister Manuel Valls said the deaths were “no doubt executions” and called them “intolerable.”

The three women were last seen inside the information center of the Kurdish Institute in north Paris about noon Wednesday.

The alarm was raised by a member of the Kurdish community who became worried after failing to reach one of the women on her cellphone. Friends visited the center and, after seeing traces of blood on the locked door of the unmarked office on the first floor, broke in and found the three bodies in the early hours of Thursday.

Valls, visiting the center later Thursday morning, said France’s anti-terrorist brigade had been called to investigate and pledged that authorities would do all they could to “shed light on this act.”

The PKK, which demands greater autonomy for Turkish Kurds, is regarded by the U.S. and theEuropean Union as a terrorist organization.

In addition to Cansiz, the victims were identified as Fidan Dogan, 32, who worked in the information center and was Paris representative of the Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress, and Leyla Soylemez, described by the Kurdish center as “a young activist.”

01.10.13 ♥ 79
Zoom “American’s greatest mass hanging — the execution of 38 Sioux Indians — was personally ordered by the ‘Great Emancipator,’ President Abraham Lincoln.” Largest mass hanging in United States history38 Santee “Sioux” Indian menMankato, Minnesota, Dec. 16, 1862 What brought about the hanging of 38 Sioux Indians in Minnesota December 1862 was the failure “again” of the U.S. Government to honor it’s treaties with Indian Nations. Indians were not given the money or food set forth to them for signing a treaty to turn over more than a million acres of their land and be forced to live on a reservation. Indian agents keep the treaty money and food that was to go to the Indians, the food was sold to White settlers, food that was given to the Indians was spoiled and not fit for a dog to eat. Indian hunting parties went off the reservation land looking for food to feed their families, one hunting group took eggs from a White settlers land and the rest is history. Read more

“American’s greatest mass hanging — the execution of 38 Sioux Indians — was personally ordered by the ‘Great Emancipator,’ President Abraham Lincoln.”

Largest mass hanging in United States history
38 Santee “Sioux” Indian men
Mankato, Minnesota, Dec. 16, 1862

What brought about the hanging of 38 Sioux Indians in Minnesota December 1862 was the failure “again” of the U.S. Government to honor it’s treaties with Indian Nations. Indians were not given the money or food set forth to them for signing a treaty to turn over more than a million acres of their land and be forced to live on a reservation. 

Indian agents keep the treaty money and food that was to go to the Indians, the food was sold to White settlers, food that was given to the Indians was spoiled and not fit for a dog to eat. Indian hunting parties went off the reservation land looking for food to feed their families, one hunting group took eggs from a White settlers land and the rest is history.

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11.22.12 ♥ 2125
Zoom ‘I never killed anyone’: Death Row inmate scheduled to die Thursday offers medical proof police lied about key evidence A Texas death row inmate set to die Thursday is pinning his final hopes on convincing people that his victim’s dying words never happened.  When police found La Shandra Charles bleeding from neck wounds in a west Houston filed in 1988, they claimed she whispered the name of her assailant, ‘Preston,’ before dying.  That evidence, along with the police assertion that the girl said her attacker lived nearby, were key bits of evidence in convicting Preston Hughes III, a New York-born warehouse worker. But Hughes attorney now says it would be medically impossible for the girl to tell police anything about her attacker and he’s got medical testimony to prove it, theHouston Chronicle reports. ‘It is simply not medically feasible that this young woman, particularly given the fact that one’s heart rate accelerates during stress, and thus blood loss occurs more rapidly, could have spoken to the officers as they claimed,’ wrote Dr. Robert White, Dr. Robert White, who was chief medical examiner in Nueces County before joining the Fort Worth forensics department.

‘I never killed anyone’: Death Row inmate scheduled to die Thursday offers medical proof police lied about key evidence

A Texas death row inmate set to die Thursday is pinning his final hopes on convincing people that his victim’s dying words never happened. 

When police found La Shandra Charles bleeding from neck wounds in a west Houston filed in 1988, they claimed she whispered the name of her assailant, ‘Preston,’ before dying. 

That evidence, along with the police assertion that the girl said her attacker lived nearby, were key bits of evidence in convicting Preston Hughes III, a New York-born warehouse worker.

But Hughes attorney now says it would be medically impossible for the girl to tell police anything about her attacker and he’s got medical testimony to prove it, theHouston Chronicle reports.

‘It is simply not medically feasible that this young woman, particularly given the fact that one’s heart rate accelerates during stress, and thus blood loss occurs more rapidly, could have spoken to the officers as they claimed,’ wrote Dr. Robert White, Dr. Robert White, who was chief medical examiner in Nueces County before joining the Fort Worth forensics department.

11.14.12 ♥ 35

Houston, Texas: After Gov. Rick Perry carried out his 250th execution, supporters of the Texas Death Penalty Abolition Movement protested at Houston’s Old Hanging Oak Tree and smashed a Perry piñata, October 31, 2012.

Photos by Gloria Rubac

11.02.12 ♥ 8
Zoom Bamako, Mali: Protesters mourn Libyan leader Col. Gadhafi and protest U.S./NATO intervention in Africa, October 2011. “Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s death last week prompted an outpouring of sympathy from African countries that he has funded billions of dollars with during his 42-year rule.” “The Associated Press reported that many in Africa are remembering the Libyan dictator as a man willing to give his money away to help others, especially in Mali’s capital city Bamako.” “Other heads of state just drive past here in their limousines. Gadhafi stopped, pushed away his bodyguards and shook our hands,” said bird-seller Cherno Diallo, standing Monday near a Libyan-funded hotel as quoted by the Associated Press. “Gadhafi’s death has touched every Malian, every single one of us. We’re all upset.” “Many in Africa who gathered at Gaddafi-funded mosques remembered him as a man who was an anti-Imperialist martyr and benefactor. Analysts estimated that Gaddafi had invested more than $150 billion in foreign aid, mainly to impoverished African nations.”

Bamako, Mali: Protesters mourn Libyan leader Col. Gadhafi and protest U.S./NATO intervention in Africa, October 2011.

“Muammar Al-Gaddafi’s death last week prompted an outpouring of sympathy from African countries that he has funded billions of dollars with during his 42-year rule.”

“The Associated Press reported that many in Africa are remembering the Libyan dictator as a man willing to give his money away to help others, especially in Mali’s capital city Bamako.”

“Other heads of state just drive past here in their limousines. Gadhafi stopped, pushed away his bodyguards and shook our hands,” said bird-seller Cherno Diallo, standing Monday near a Libyan-funded hotel as quoted by the Associated Press. “Gadhafi’s death has touched every Malian, every single one of us. We’re all upset.”

“Many in Africa who gathered at Gaddafi-funded mosques remembered him as a man who was an anti-Imperialist martyr and benefactor. Analysts estimated that Gaddafi had invested more than $150 billion in foreign aid, mainly to impoverished African nations.”

10.20.12 ♥ 16