As right-wing legislators push for violent measures like banning abortion, outlawing trans health care and shutting down racial justice curricula, they’re also advocating for another type of institutional violence: reinstating the death penalty.
by the Delaware Supreme Court in 2016, leaving the state no route to impose the death penalty. As Kristin Froehlich, a member of Delaware Citizens Opposed to the Death Penalty, toldin an email, “For the last seven years since Delaware’s death penalty has been inactive, we have had the opportunity to be free of the pretense that the death penalty improves public safety, supports victims’ family members, uses taxpayer money wisely, and is applied fairly.
But the new bill’s advocates want to bring back executions — against the wishes of activists who, like Froehlich, are family members of murder victims. The bill’s sponsor, Sen. Eric Buckson, defended the bill at a hearing on June 14, insisting that he was doing so “on behalf of victims.
about a change from “woman” to “person” in a bill about postpartum mental health. On his campaign site, he stated that “school boards need to be empowered to push back on a WOKE mentality.”last year, right-wing actions to preserve the death penalty are happening against the backdrop of President Joe Biden’s failure to fully end the federal death penalty, which was one of his campaign promises.
As lawmakers push for expansions and reinstatements of the death penalty, they’re also shaping laws that could potentially subject growing numbers of people to it. For example, right-wing legislators have proposed bills that could allow people to beMost bills to reinstate the death penalty, and many of the bills aimed at making it more widely used, aren’t likely to pass.
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