Black-led organizations are leading charge in reform of prisons and the death penalty  ...Middle East

Black-led organizations are working to stop the spread of legislation reinstating the death penalty, citing the outsized impact the punishment would have on Black incarcerated Americans.  The effort is a response to a resurgence of legislation in states controlled by Republicans that seek to step up the use of the death penalty.  In Tennessee, a law that would require execution to be carried out within 30 days of sentencing, limiting the possibility for appeals, is in the docks. In Florida, SB450 would require only eight out of 12 jurors to agree to a death sentence for it to be carried out while SB1342 would prevent the judge from reducing a jury’s death sentence to life in prison.

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