'If killing people and throwing money at prisons made us safer, wouldn’t we be the safest country in the world?' OpEd
Protesters who have stood up to the Iranian government and the “morality” police are being killed by the state., and two people were already hanged in December. That same month, at the United Nations General Assembly, a record high of 125 nations voted to support a global moratorium on the death penalty.
As a digital strategist and storyteller working within the movement to abolish the death penalty here in the United States, the recent vote comes as no surprise, sadly. I’ve seen over and over how our country touts the cruel, racist, inhumane, and ineffective use of death as punishment — rather, death as a form of justice.
Instead, disproportionately it is members of our country’s most vulnerable populations who are being executed:People with intellectual impairments, brain damage, and severe mental illness are also at greater risk of wrongful conviction because they are more likely to make a false confession, less able to aid in their own defense, and often make less compelling witnesses. These are the people being killed in our names.
It’s past time we reassess how we prioritize punishment over people in the United States and across the globe.The death penalty is inextricably linked to a not-so-distant past of public lynchings of Black people in the US. As public lynchings began to decline in the beginning of the 20th century,
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