The DOJ's push to reinstate firing squad executions isn't a logistical workaround for drug shortages. It's a deliberate choice to make state killing more visible — and to normalize the idea that government violence should look like punishment.
James Broadnax has spent more than 16 years on Texas death row after prosecutors used his rap lyrics to prove 'future dangerousness.' The practice has a name, a pattern, and an almost exclusively Black target list.
Hugo Holland withheld evidence in death penalty cases and compared a Black child to a dog in court filings. Now he's running for judge in Louisiana.
Sonny Burton discovered his death sentence was commuted while standing in Alabama's execution chamber, where condemned prisoners say their final goodbyes — a scene that exposes the arbitrary cruelty of American capital punishment.