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Pt. 2
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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An important message from Ant Boyd to @governorkayivey.bsky.social pt. 1
October 21, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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September 24, 2025 at 10:22 PM
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Fully aware of the irony of posting this on a social media account with 12 followers

www.patheos.com/blogs/jeffho...
Why the Death Penalty Still Persists in America On a quiet evening in America, somewhere behind prison walls, a clock approaches the predetermined hour. A man waits in a cell, counting breaths, knowing each one may be his last. Down the hall, technicians check the lines and guards prepare the straps, rehearsing the ritual they will call “justice.” Outside, a handful of protesters clutch candles, whisper prayers, shout pleas, and bear witness. And most of the nation sleeps, unaware, unmoved, indifferent.
August 29, 2025 at 2:43 AM
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There is a reason executions are hidden from public view. If people saw what I have seen, this system would collapse under its own shame. If people stood in that chamber, heard the struggle for breath, smelled the air, and watched the life drain out of another human being, they would know: this is not who we want to be.
August 20, 2025 at 2:01 AM
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"We are now over forty-five years into the lethal injection era, and most Americans still have no idea what states are doing in their name. It’s time they found out."

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The irony is thick. What was supposed to be a kinder, gentler, more humane way to die at the hands of the state is now responsible for more torturous deaths than any other execution method in our nation’s history. And what was supposed to be a way to make executions easier to carry out has now made them infinitely harder.
April 22, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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One thing that reasonable people CAN all agree on is that forcing an inmate to prove a less barbaric method of execution circumvents his ability to challenge the current method the government is planning to torture them with.

This ruling says so much.

www.ca5.uscourts.gov/opinions/pub...
In sum, the district court didn’t just get the legal analysis wrong—it turned the Constitution on its head, by relying on an indisputably more painful method of execution as its proposed alternative. Reasonable minds can differ on the proper understanding of the Eighth Amendment in certain cases, but surely we can all agree that it does not require State officials to favor more painful methods of execution over less painful ones.
March 15, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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BREAKING: Alabama Gov. Ivey has commuted the death sentence of Robin “Rocky” Myers. He will remain in prison for the rest of his life without a chance for parole, she said. Story coming.
February 28, 2025 at 10:36 PM
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Do it not bother your soul that the state of Alabama is torturing people 2 DEATH🤔
February 6, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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The fact that Alabama set the first nitrogen suffocation execution of a black man (Demetrius Frazier) during Black History Month shouldn't surprise anyone given Alabama's track record. “The Nazi legacy of experimentation to find the most expeditious way to rid our community of undesirable prisoners is an undercurrent for anyone who is aware of that history. It is a history that should not be repeated in Alabama, or anywhere,” says Abe Bonowitz of Death Penalty Action. Protests are beginning around the country against the racist policies of the president, but remember, Trump didn't invent racism, he simply rose to power by appealing to the racism and xenophobia of his base. To paraphrase Dr. King, fighting racism anywhere is fighting racism everywhere (Flyer for r/50501 protest Wednesday 2/5/35 at the bottom)
February 3, 2025 at 5:43 AM
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www.wvtm13.com/article/alab...
In 2020 the Wolverine Watchmen plotted to kidnap Gov. Gretchen Whitmer, take her to another state, and have her executed. So it would make sense that she would sympathize with Frazier who is facing the same fate. The Alabama Governor, Robert Bentley, who brokered the deal with then Michigan Governor Robert Snyder has seen the error of his ways, writing in an op-ed with former Alabama Governor Don Siegelman in the Washington Post “We have come over time to see the flaws in our nation’s jus­tice sys­tem and to view the state’s death penal­ty laws in par­tic­u­lar as legal­ly and moral­ly trou­bling… We missed our chance to con­front the death penal­ty and have lived to regret it, but it is not too late for today’s elect­ed offi­cials to do the moral­ly right thing.” Governor Whitmer has an opportunity now to do just that.
February 2, 2025 at 3:13 AM