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There’s a firing squad execution planned in South Carolina on Friday. But firearms experts told me the setup isn’t safe for the shooters or witnesses. I didn’t talk to just anyone, either. This comes from a former SC executioner & an NRA-certified gun safety pro. Link here👇

I know there’s a firehose of wild news these days but… Tomorrow, America may see its first firing squad execution in years.

“The volunteers all fired at the same time through openings in a wall. They were not visible to about a dozen witnesses in a room separated from the chamber by bullet-resistant glass. Sigmon made several heavy breaths during the two minutes that elapsed from when the hood was…”

“A jagged red spot about the size of a small fist appeared where Sigmon was shot. His chest moved two or three times. Outside of the rifle crack, there was no sound.” On the first firing squad execution in 15 years: theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…

Marcia Fulton has waited 37 years for Thursday's execution, of David Wood, for killing her daughter Desiree Wheatley. Wood says he killed nobody. One DNA test excluded him in 2010, but the state has refused to test dozens more items since then. themarshallproject.org/2025/03/07/dav…

Death penalty update: On March 11, the Court of Criminal Appeals stayed David Wood’s execution. The court has not yet announced whether it will send the case back to the trial court to review the evidence of Wood’s innocence. texasobserver.org/david-wood-exe…

Two stays in a week is pretty rare, but lots of executions are coming.

In Tennessee, a 12-hour “blackout policy” before executions “bars the inmates from communicating with friends, family or spiritual advisors for the final 12 hours of their lives.” nashvillebanner.com/2025/03/14/ten…

"Patrick Crusius, who has admitted to killing 23 people and wounding 22 others in a racist mass shooting at an El Paso Walmart in 2019, will no longer face the death penalty" Scoop from Bob Moore: elpasomatters.org/2025/03/24/jam…

Since 2008, SCOTUS has said you can't execute someone for a crime less severe than murder. Idaho just joined Florida in passing a law to explicitly violate this precedent. But their goal is to get SCOTUS to overturn it — and expand the death penalty. idahocapitalsun.com/2025/03/27/ida…

A second South Carolina prisoner has "picked" firing squad over the electric chair or lethal injection. cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/… Here are some likely reasons why: themarshallproject.org/2025/02/04/exe…

"Mikal Mahdi has chosen the lesser of three evils,” one of his lawyers, David Weiss, said... “Mikal chose the firing squad instead of being burned and mutilated in the electric chair or suffering a lingering death on the lethal injection gurney.” cnn.com/2025/03/28/us/…

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Remember when the plan was to shut down Rikers Island by 2027? nytimes.com/2025/03/04/nyr…

Missouri is unique in that it only allows direct innocence claims for those serving a death sentence. Even after the judge’s order freeing Hemme, officials from the AG’s Office — known for aggressively opposing exonerations — fought to keep her imprisoned. themarshallproject.org/2025/04/03/mis…

Tomorrow, South Carolina plans to use the firing squad to execute Mikal Mahdi for the 2004 murders of a police officer and a store clerk. More and more states might start using the method. themarshallproject.org/2025/02/04/exe…

Last year, I wrote about efforts to make prisons less hellacious — not just for prisoners but for the people working there too. The DOJ just told Vera Institute of Justice it won't fund this work anymore. You could argue that makes law enforcement less safe. themarshallproject.org/2024/09/26/sou…

Woohoo! Welcome back to Texas, Keri Blakinger! And look out Texas prison system! houstonchronicle.com/about/newsroom…

"Peo­ple of col­or who are 18, 19 or 20 are twice as like­ly as white defen­dants in the same age range to be executed" (since 2005) New data from Death Penalty Information Center: deathpenaltyinfo.org/research/analy…

"A South Carolina firing squad botched the execution of Mikal Mahdi last month, with shooters missing the target area on the man’s heart, causing him to suffer a prolonged death, according to autopsy records and his attorneys" theguardian.com/us-news/2025/m…