Blog from HumanS Remain – This is America in 2025

The catholic church in Texas recently declared that “Every execution should be stopped.”

It is, in my opinion, a little late in the day but they are here now urging clemency and calling for the abolition of the death penalty. We must celebrate that they have found the correct moral voice in this.

Many other faith leaders from differing churches and places of worship have found a path to this too and are in agreement that that the death penalty is barbaric, inhumane and not fitting in these modern times.

Executions have dwindled over the years throughout the US, President Trump has however expressed his desire on many occasions to see the death penalty reactivated and some State Governors, notably Ron DeSantis in Florida, has been delighted to pander to that desire. This year alone so far there have been 17 death warrants signed by RDS. It’s without doubt careerism on his part – who might have guessed that State sanctioned murder would offer a footing on the greasy Republican political pole.

Both Alabama and Mississippi have played into this too. Mississippi has resumed executions and this year they murdered Richard Jordan and Charles Crawford. The Attorney General for Mississippi, Lynn Fitch has an itchy palm for death warrants too which again, like RDS in Florida, may well have a careerist rooting to it as she is considered a likely candidate for the Republican nomination for State Governor in the 2027 election.

Alabama has shocked any person with a moral compass by using nitrogen hypoxia as a method of execution. The state chose to authorise gas as a method of execution due to the difficulties in obtaining the drugs for lethal injections. Both Mississippi and Oklahoma have also approved gas executions but to date only Alabama has used it.

The United Nations and many health experts have condemned the use of gas to execute as ‘experimental, could amount to torture or cruel and unusual punishment.’

Catholic bishops in Texas and many other states regularly write to petition State Government to offer clemency and urge powers that be to commute death penalty sentences to Life Without Parole.

Personally, I believe the sentence of Life Without Parole should be reserved for the most heinous of cases where perpetrators are a danger to others and themselves.

Clearly, those people should never be freed. I do however strongly believe that the vast majority of people are able to rehabilitate and recover from an all too frequent childhood of often trauma, addiction and violence.

This is America, 2025

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