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Florida Has Never Executed a White Person for Killing a Black Person

Ezra Grant — Mon, 17 Mar 2014 16:00:16 +0000

ThinkProgress is reporting that Florida has executed 84 people since the Supreme Court announced the modern death penalty regime in 1976. Zero of them are white people sentenced to death for killing an African American. Indeed, according to the American Civil Liberties Union, “no white person has ever been executed for killing an African American” […]

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Killer’s Last Words Before Being Executed? “I Love you Momma!”

Ezra Grant — Wed, 18 Dec 2013 11:38:09 +0000

Oklahoma on Tuesday executed a 48-year-old man convicted of the 1998 stabbing death of a horse trainer from Ringling. Johnny Dale Black was pronounced dead at 6:08 p.m. Tuesday at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary in McAlester after telling his mother he loved her. He was the second inmate executed by the state in the past […]

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Kim Jong-un’s Ex Girlfriend Executed by Firing Squad in North Korea

Ezra Grant — Thu, 29 Aug 2013 20:05:25 +0000

Kim Jong-un’s ex-girlfriend was among a dozen well-known North Korean performers who were executed by firing squad on Aug. 20, reports said Wednesday. Sources in China said singer Hyon Song-wol as well as Mun Kyong-jin, head of the Unhasu Orchestra, were arrested on Aug. 17 for violating North Korean laws against pornography and were executed […]

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