The death penalty is a heinous, totalitarian practice often used against innocent people.
It is the very definition of "cruel and unusual punishment."
It has no place in 21st century America, or anywhere else in the world. https://t.co/wg8F0XiwnH
— Ilhan Omar (@IlhanMN) July 25, 2019
Lezmond Mitchell: stabbed to death a 63-year-old grandmother and forced her 9-year-old granddaughter to sit beside her lifeless body for a 40-mile drive. Mitchell then slit the girl's throat, crushed her head with 20-pound rocks, and severed and buried both victims' heads
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 26, 2019
Daniel Lewis Lee: a white supremacist who murdered a family of 3, including an 8-year-old girl. After robbing and shooting the victims with a stun gun, he covered their heads w/plastic bags, sealed the bags with duct tape, weighed them down w/rocks and threw them into a bayou
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 26, 2019
Dustin Lee Honken: shot and killed 5 people — 2 men who planned to testify against him and a single, working mother and her 10-year-old and 6-year-old daughters.
— Ryan Saavedra (@RealSaavedra) July 26, 2019