Posted March 26, 2024: Citing a Lack of Evidence, Editors of the Scientific American Call for Abolition of the Death Penalty in New Op-Ed https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/citing-a-lack-of-evidence-editors-of-the-scientific-american-call-for-abolition-of-the-death-penalty-in-new-op-ed
I have been studying the death penalty extensively since 1987. Over and over again, we see that PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS are NOT seeking truth or justice. THEY JUST WANT TO WIN, so they commit cruel acts, such as suppressing evidence that the defendant is INNOCENT. Here is yet another case of this. It came from www.deathpenaltyaction.org April 25, 2024 will be two years since the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals stayed Melissa Lucio’s execution date and ordered an evidentiary hearing. Why has the evidentiary hearing not been held? We know why. There was never a murder, so they have no […]
Trump is in many kinds of legal trouble. He reacts in TWO basic ways. EACH of his behaviors PROVES that he is GUILTY! An innocent person would want a SPEEDY TRIAL in order to clear his good name. But Trump keeps delaying, delaying, delaying, delaying. This PROVES Trump knows he is GUILTY. He wants to avoid accountability for his crimes. That’s altogether different from an innocent person wanting a speedy trial to clear the defendant’s good name. An innocent person would want the judicial process to proceed fairly and honestly without unjust pressures and threats of violence. But Trump keeps […]
You can WATCH this through the blog link below and/or READ what we said during the interview at a different link below. The April 2024 interview on “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” TV series provides fresh information and insights into prison sentences. Besides discussing several problems about prison sentences, we will also discuss some solutions that deserve more public awareness, support and implementation. He said that every program in this TV series discusses problems – and also pivots toward solutions. He said today’s interview will pivot several times. Glen welcomed an expert guest who helped us explore this topic. Alexandra Bailey works […]
See many opportunities here to lobby the 2024 WA State Legislature and work with many excellent non-profit organizations to help them with their legislative goals: 2024 Legislative Session Opportunities for Important Issues and Great Non-Profit Orgs
The death penalty exists in federal law — and also under military law. More and more states have been abolishing it, but these states still have death penalty laws, but some of these states are not using it: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, and Wyoming. If you have family or friends in any of those states, you can help them abolish their states’ death penalty in THESE TWO smart ways: 1. Here is a […]
Very often, conservatives and complicit (negligent) mainstream media want to frighten us about something. Very often, the fears they are promoting are based on propaganda and lies. They want to frighten us and stampede us into bad “solutions” (more nuclear weapons, “tough-on-crime” laws, oppression of LGBTQ+ people, etc. Now the big new scary thing is a “crime wave.” Actually, this is bogus. See these sources of information: This was posted on October 17, 2023: https://popular.info/p/americas-zombie-crime-wave?publication_id=1664&post_id=138025852&isFreemail=true&r=2gj9g5 We need to reform and humanize our criminal justice system, but this was reported on May3, 2023: “Media Crime Hype Helps Roll Back […]
2021 was the 21st consecutive year of Death Row population decline: https://deathpenaltyinfo.org/news/new-resource-bureau-of-justice-statistics-reports-2021-showed-21st-consecutive-year-of-death-row-population-decline Virginia’s abolition of the death penalty seems so secure now that the abolitionist organization is shutting down. More than two years ago both bodies of Virginia’s legislature voted to abolish it, and the governor signed the abolition bill into law. The November 2023 election continued a comfortable majority of abolitionists in both bodies. The abolitionist organization feels so secure that the death penalty is gone that they are shutting down. POLL: For the First Time, More Americans Believe the Death Penalty Is Applied Unfairly in the […]
The U.S.’s people, government, and mainstream media like to think that the U.S. is the world’s greatest beacon of liberty — and the world’s greatest champion of human rights. The facts prove otherwise. See this article published November 9, 2023: UN Report Details Rampant US Human Rights Violations at Home and Abroad Two-thirds of U.S. breaches of the civil and political rights covenant involve racial discrimination. https://truthout.org/articles/un-report-details-rampant-us-human-rights-violations-at-home-and-abroad/?mc_cid=e95b7e2b5b&mc_eid=d635d5c1bf Also see this information posted Oct. 24, 2023, by the Center for Constitutional Rights: The U.S. is NEGLIGENT in protecting human rights in the U.S.: https://ccrjustice.org/us-government-and-compliance-iccpr The Center for Constitutional […]
Here are some very interesting psychological aspects related to people’s attitudes about guns (both pro and con). Let’s use these insights to help us reduce gun violence. This very interesting article that packs a lot into 7 pages: https://ernestbecker.org/this-mortal-life/death-anxiety-and-gun-violence/ A different link at the same website offers smart insights into how we might use the overall principles in our organizing about guns. See this fascinating, practical 5-page article about “Death Anxiety and Social Change”: https://ernestbecker.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/death-anxiety-and-social-change-ernest-becker-foundation.pdf Seven years ago I interviewed an expert about the topic for my November 2016 TV program. I titled that episode, “Social and Political Implications of […]
The September 2023 TV program in the “Glen’s Parallax Perspectives” series helps us understand how some big businesses are allowed to break federal laws – and get away with it. Big business corporations have enormous wealth – so they also have enormous power. The federal government should be making them obey the laws, but – instead – the government keeps refusing to hold them accountable. This hurts all of us – and our health – and our environment – and our sense of having an honest government. One expert guest helped us explore this topic. Rick Claypool is a research […]
This article provides a smart solution to serious problems: “https://truthout.org/articles/prison-cant-prevent-domestic-abuse-transformative-accountability-programs-can/?mc_cid=ea4c748959&mc_eid=adcfa6c84c”
Since 1987 I have invested a huge amount of time and effort into strengthening the movement to abolish the death penalty. I’m attaching something I wrote that directly addresses the concerns of people who support the death penalty and explains why we do not need it at all. Here is the document whose usefulness I explain below: Death Penalty Fails its Promises and Causes More Problems Instead I use a three-step process that I’ve used when devising outreach strategies for various issues: The current public policy fails to solve the problem it purports to solve. The current policy actually […]
This came on April 28, 2023 from the Grassroots Law Project, www.grassrootslaw.org For over 2 decades, Rodney Reed has been rotting in jail for a crime he did not commit with a death penalty looming over him. With a lot of effort, we were able to remove the death penalty for him — and now we have more good news on this case. With unbelievable support from you, Glen, this week the Supreme Court has cleared the way for Rodney Reed to use DNA evidence to prove his innocence. This is HUGE news! But we still have a long way […]
On May 8, 2023, Sister Helen Prejean was interviewed about a horrible decades-long case of Oklahoma’s mania to execute an innocent person. Now even Oklahoma’s Attorney General says Richard Glossip did not receive a fair trial. Even if you already know about Richard Glossip’s tragic situation, this interview will be interesting. If you do not already know, this information will be powerful. https://www.democracynow.org/2023/5/8/richard_glossip_prejean?utm_source=Democracy+Now%21&utm_campaign=171a29f9d3-Daily_Digest_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fa2346a853-171a29f9d3-191704661
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