Doodstraf U.S.A. (43x)

Vandaag is de 11de World Day Against the Death Penalty (Anti-Doodstrafdag). De Verenigde Staten staan in de top-5 landen die het afgelopen jaar de meeste executies hebben uitgevoerd naast Iran, Irak, Saudi-Arabie en China. 43x werd de doodstraf voltrokken waarvan 15x in Texas.

“In Louisiana’s notorious Angola prison, home to all men on death row in the state, those sentenced to death spend their final years locked in their cells alone for 23 hours each day. During summer, death row inmates are kept in their cells even though the heat index regularly exceeds 110 degrees. The prison does not provide them with clean ice or cool showers, but it does provide the public with tours of death row and the lethal injection table. 

At night, in an effort to keep cool, the men at Angola sleep on the floor where they are exposed to fire ants. When they “misbehave,” they are moved to cells in the hottest tiers. Men have lived up to 28 years on Louisiana’s death row, and most spend at least a decade in these dehumanizing conditions waiting for court appeals to go through. That is their due process.”

Woorden voor de doodstraf. 

NSFW : doodstraffen ‘back in the days’.