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The system gets it wrong - "At least 189 people who were wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death have been exonerated since 1973. That is one person exonerated for every 8.2 people who are executed...The quality of counsel had a direct impact on sentencing outcomes. More than 200 death sentences were imposed in Philadelphia, PA in cases in which defendants were represented by poorly trained and underfunded court-appointed counsel. No one represented by the Philadelphia public defender's specialized homicide unit ever was sentenced to death."

The system is geographically biased - "Just 5 counties"Harris, TX; Dallas, TX; Bexar, TX; Tarrant, TX; and Oklahoma, OK"account for more than 1/5 of all executions in the U.S. in the past 50 years...Fewer than 2.4% of all counties in the U.S. (just 75 counties) account for half of all death sentences imposed in state courts in the past 50 years"

The system is racist - "60% of Black defendants who have been executed were sentenced to death for killing white victims. Just 34.4% of executions of African Americans were for killing Black victims."

deathpenaltyinfo.org

In PA "over 60% of all death sentences imposed in the state have been overturned by state or federal courts. If the pool of sentences is restricted to those that have completed all of their ordinary appeals, the state reversal rate has been over 90%"
deathpenaltyinfo.org

NC "Sixty-seven percent of all death sentences imposed in the modern era in North Carolina have subsequently been overturned on appeal."
fbaum.unc.edu

In Louisiana 82% of their resolved death sentences ended with a reversal.
www.sulc.edu

*** Dummkopf Trumpf: Pete Hegseth Enjoying the War Against the People of Iran ***

Source: Trumpf Juntists are All Bloodthirsty Barbarians

The diabolical Epstein Administration is populated with nothing but warmongers, psychopaths, Islamophobes, lickspittles, grifters, insider traders, pedophile protectors, and phony Christians-- all of whom are completely devoid of empathy, scruples, morals, or decency.

Thanks for bankrupting the US economy, Dotard and Bibi!

Oil-rich sh*thole Texas is a net recipient of federal money and automatically inflicts two good-for-nothing Republican US Senators on the rest of America every year.

Plus the Lone Star State has been poisoning our environment for decades: www.ecowatch.com

Ten-gallon hat Texas blowhards: "Watch out for the jihadists and Sharia law taking over America and never mind all the pollution we cause and our average 34 people getting gunned down every week!"

Trump OKs deployment of more than 1,000 soldiers to Middle East, sources say
www.nbcnews.com

... President Trump has approved the deployment of more than 1,000 soldiers from the 82nd Airborne Division to the Middle East, according to two sources familiar with the matter.

The deployment was approved last night and the orders are being written today for the headquarters, staff and some ground forces, but not the full brigade, the sources added.

The full brigade is over 3,000 troops, while this deployment will be fewer than half that " under 1,500 soldiers. They have not left the U.S. yet but could be sent overseas in the coming days.

The 82nd Airborne is an infantry division specializing in parachute assault. ...


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