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Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets to protest police violence and to demand criminal justice reform in the wake of too many cases of excessive violence, mass incarceration, and sentencing inequities toward people of color in this country, especially black men.
The protests have grown from primarily African-Americans to now include people of all races, backgrounds, and social-economic levels. From community activists to students to famous athletes and movie stars, this movement for social change has taken on a more urgent sense than most in recent years.
And for the first time in a long time, some positive steps have already been taken.
The Execution of Dustin Higgs and the Tradition of Capital Punishment Comments
Dustin Higgs, an African American man from Poughkeepsie, New York, became the thirteenth federal inmate to meet his end at the hands of the state in the span of one year since Trump’s Department of Justice directed the Federal Bureau of Prisons to resume federal executions in the summer of 2019.
The 48-year old father of one was pronounced dead at 1:23 am on Saturday, January 16 from lethal injection. A petition for clemency was signed by nearly 2 million people and Higgs’ lawyers argued that “there [was] no principled basis [on which] to execute” their client, given that another man is already serving a life sentence for the triple homicide for which he was convicted.
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