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U.S. Rep. Cori Bush (D-Mo.) speaks at the National Council for Incarcerated Women and Girls "100 Women for 100 Women" rally in Black Lives Matter Plaza near the White House on March 12, 2021. (Photo: Paul Morigi/Getty Images)
\u201cErnest Johnson is facing execution in Missouri next week.\n\nNo human being deserves to be killed by the state. He is also intellectually disabled \u2014 missing 20% of his brain tissue.\n\nHis execution would not just be morally wrong. It'd be unconstitutional.\u201d— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@Congresswoman Cori Bush) 1633030742
"Like slavery and lynching did before it, the death penalty perpetuates cycles of trauma, violence, and state-sanctioned murder in Black and brown communities."
--Reps. Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)
\u201cCall to Action: Clemency for Ernest Johnson https://t.co/D7is1i23Zl via @Change \n\nThe state of Missouri intends to unconstitutionally execute #ErnestJohnson TOMORROW, at 6:00 PM in Bonne Terre, MO for the murders of Mable Scruggs, Fred Jones, and Mary Bratcher in 1994.\u201d— Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (@Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty) 1633356037
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\u201cErnest Johnson is facing execution in Missouri next week.\n\nNo human being deserves to be killed by the state. He is also intellectually disabled \u2014 missing 20% of his brain tissue.\n\nHis execution would not just be morally wrong. It'd be unconstitutional.\u201d— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@Congresswoman Cori Bush) 1633030742
"Like slavery and lynching did before it, the death penalty perpetuates cycles of trauma, violence, and state-sanctioned murder in Black and brown communities."
--Reps. Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)
\u201cCall to Action: Clemency for Ernest Johnson https://t.co/D7is1i23Zl via @Change \n\nThe state of Missouri intends to unconstitutionally execute #ErnestJohnson TOMORROW, at 6:00 PM in Bonne Terre, MO for the murders of Mable Scruggs, Fred Jones, and Mary Bratcher in 1994.\u201d— Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (@Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty) 1633356037
\u201cErnest Johnson is facing execution in Missouri next week.\n\nNo human being deserves to be killed by the state. He is also intellectually disabled \u2014 missing 20% of his brain tissue.\n\nHis execution would not just be morally wrong. It'd be unconstitutional.\u201d— Congresswoman Cori Bush (@Congresswoman Cori Bush) 1633030742
"Like slavery and lynching did before it, the death penalty perpetuates cycles of trauma, violence, and state-sanctioned murder in Black and brown communities."
--Reps. Cori Bush and Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.)
\u201cCall to Action: Clemency for Ernest Johnson https://t.co/D7is1i23Zl via @Change \n\nThe state of Missouri intends to unconstitutionally execute #ErnestJohnson TOMORROW, at 6:00 PM in Bonne Terre, MO for the murders of Mable Scruggs, Fred Jones, and Mary Bratcher in 1994.\u201d— Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty (@Missourians for Alternatives to the Death Penalty) 1633356037