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Castellucci urges death penalty ban

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German human rights commissioner Lars Castellucci urged abolition of the death penalty amid more than 2,700 executions worldwide last year and rising U.S. death sentences.

by Timothy Snyder Reposted by Stephan Lewandowsky, Brigitte Nerlich, Christina Pagel

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timothysnyder.bsky.social
If Americans view, clip, share, and permanently enshrine an American public killing in a million ways on the internet, we will move towards fascist rituals of violence.
snyder.substack.com/p/four-wrong...
Four Wrongs of a Public Execution
Psychological, Historical, Political, and Ethical (Video and Text)
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October 10, 2026 at 5:04 PM

Reposted by Alex Callinicos, Richard W. Painter

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by Richard W. Painter

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Reposted by Anne Norton

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Today is World Day Against the Death Penalty. Let us seek to end this inhumane and immoral practice around the world, especially here in America. It is so deplorable that in the 21st century this is going on in a modern democracy.
October 10, 2026 at 11:06 AM

Reposted by Aric Rindfleisch

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Reposted by Max Van Kleek

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Reposted by Mauro Gatti

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davidallengreen.bsky.social
All executions are barbaric.

The primary difference with a public execution is that the barbarism is made obvious.

Mankind cannot bear that reality.
October 10, 2026 at 11:59 AM

Reposted by Vincent Tiberj

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Live streaming executions—is America great again?
October 10, 2026 at 3:11 PM

by Eric Heinze

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This past week: first the botched lethal injection of Christa Pike, and then capital punishment as mass entertainment. Reposting my argument that the death penalty is by definition incompatible with democratic government -- even when a majority votes for it. theconversation.com/why-the-deat...
Why the death penalty is incompatible with democracy
A democracy must respect the right to life of all its citizens.
theconversation.com
October 10, 2026 at 6:18 AM

Reposted by Helen Clark

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by Dunlap

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redeyedjedi.bsky.social
Televised executions are the new lynching
October 10, 2026 at 1:13 PM

Reposted by David Darmofal

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richraho.bsky.social
Pope Leo XIV has posted on his official X account that the Catholic Church holds the death penalty to be “inadmissible because it is an attack on the inviolability and dignity of the person.” www.vaticannews.va/en/pope/news...
Pope Leo XIV rejects death penalty as attack on dignity of human person - Vatican News
Pope Leo XIV reaffirms the Catholic Church’s rejection of the death penalty, recalling that the common good can be “safeguarded and the requirements ...
www.vaticannews.va
October 10, 2026 at 12:51 PM

by Magda Teter

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Public executions are within living memory. Just look at the post-May 1945 LIFE magazine issues. After you get passed smiling women on the cover, the inside pages are filled with graphic images of public executions. One article even calls them "Yankee Justice"
October 10, 2026 at 1:02 PM

by Joanna Bryson

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"We hide our executions for the same reason we hide those we kill in war and the slaughter of animals; we want the glory of war…the taste of blood, but we recoil from the raw truth of our violence. Now we would broadcast the brutality at the core of the American project to the world." #giftArticle
Column | This 1814 painting captures the moral gravity of public executions
As most countries know, dramatizing the absolute power of the state almost always humanizes the condemned.
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October 10, 2026 at 7:18 AM

Reposted by Kathleen Kennedy

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kfduggan.bsky.social
For instance, in 1292 there are two instances from Lancashire in which people who were hanged eventually escape. Both times it seems the executioners left before the people hanging had died and, as the records tell us, the people were cut down. Not one saw &/or stopped them from saving these people.
An image from a medieval illuminated manuscript depicting a person in blue hanging on the gallows. The rope around his next is very loose and it appears as if his head is going to slip out. Reference: BL MS Royal 6 EVI fol.444.
October 10, 2026 at 1:14 PM

Reposted by Dunlap

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lisa8nicole.bsky.social
Teach!!!
redeyedjedi.bsky.social Jason E. Dunlap, Valeyard @redeyedjedi.bsky.social · 11h
Welcome to the killing fields...

Only Black & Brown people executions are planned and have picnics

As is American tradition

Whites will only be killed spontaneously if they should attempt to aid or see us as equals

#StayWoke
October 10, 2026 at 11:44 AM

Reposted by David Rosnick

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leftistlawyer.com
Whenever I say I am opposed to the death penalty - which I would argue is consistent with, not contradictory to, my abolitionist worldview - people say the death penalty is necessary to deal with fascists. And don't get me wrong, I get the appeal, at least on an intuitive or emotional level.
October 9, 2026 at 10:25 PM

Reposted by David Rosnick

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andrewhickey.500songs.com
Thread. I agree with all this. I will jokingly use "guillotine" rhetoric sometimes, and I will not personally be unhappy if certain well-known fascists got caught up in the machinery of death they operate. But it's still a death machine, and you don't throw *anyone* in the death machine. Ever.
leftistlawyer.com Sheryl Weikal says Prosecute ICE @leftistlawyer.com · 23h
Whenever I say I am opposed to the death penalty - which I would argue is consistent with, not contradictory to, my abolitionist worldview - people say the death penalty is necessary to deal with fascists. And don't get me wrong, I get the appeal, at least on an intuitive or emotional level.
October 9, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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