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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIt used to take days or weeks to execute an innocent black man. Now it can be done in a few minutes.
https://bluntandcranky.wordpress.com/2014/12/19/it-used-to-take-hours-or-days-to-execute-an-innocent-black-man-now-it-can-be-done-in-a-few-minutes/Source info at the link.
Back in 1944, a young black male named George Stinney, Jr. was accused, tried, convicted and executed in a matter of days for a crime he almost certainly did not commit. By white people. White people who hated black people:
It took less than a day for a jury to convict George Stinney Jr. and send him to the electric chair, NPRS Hansi Lo Wang reports. He was convicted of the deaths of 11-year-old Betty June Binnicker and 7-year-old Mary Emma Thames in deeply segregated Alcolu, S.C.
Matt Burgess, an attorney for the Stinney family, tells Hansi, There were no African-American people in that courthouse. It was a jury of 12 white men. Everyone in that courthouse was white.
George Stinney Jr. was executed less than three months after the two girls were murdered. His trial lasted just one day. After the jury needed less than 10 minutes to declare him guilty, no appeals were filed on his behalf.
His executioners noted the electric chair straps didnt fit him, and an electrode was too big for his leg, The State newspaper reports. The paper adds, It took Mullen nearly four times as long to issue her ruling as it took in 1944 to go from arrest to execution.
70 years later, in 2014, lots of black males were murdered by racist white government employees in Cleveland, Ferguson, Staten Island, and many other places across the country. The only difference? Time.
The 2014 cops didnt even pretend to bother with courts or silly things like due process: no, they arrested, accused, tried, judged, and killed, all in a matter of minutes. Or seconds, in the Cleveland case.
Those who say we have made progress in terms of equality are correct. However, that progress is NOT in a good direction. Its going backwards. Until we as a society admit that our institutions have been made into Ayn Randian, apartheid-esque, Teabagger havens for a load of Ted Nugent wannabees, things will only get worse.
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It used to take days or weeks to execute an innocent black man. Now it can be done in a few minutes. (Original Post)
riqster
Dec 2014
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It doesn't hurt these racist pigs to have the Supreme Court on their side too.
world wide wally
Dec 2014
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world wide wally
(21,744 posts)1. It doesn't hurt these racist pigs to have the Supreme Court on their side too.
Worst and most racist SC in history and supported by two Republican chambers of congress.
Not voting is allowing this to go on.
riqster
(13,986 posts)2. Yep. American non-voters have much to answer for.