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Governor Bill Lee, who ordered the suspension of executions in the state on Thursday and an independent investigation into the failure of Christa Pike's execution, announced on Saturday that he had accepted the resignation of the head of the Tennessee Department of Correction (TDOC). #ChristaPike #PeineDeMort #ExécutionRatée (translated)

Christa Pike, sentenced to death, survived two lethal injections in the United States and regained consciousness, raising questions about the application of the death penalty and leading to a suspension of executions in Tennessee. #ChristaPike #PeineDeMort #ExécutionRatée (translated)

Governor Bill Lee, who ordered the suspension of executions in the state on Thursday and an independent investigation into the failure of Christa Pike's execution, announced on Saturday that he had accepted the resignation of the head of the Tennessee Department of Corrections (TDOC). #ChristaPike #PeineDeMort #ExécutionRatée (translated)

The post drew a comparison between historical forms of autocratic intimidation and modern political repression, saying that rulers in parts of Ottoman history had used executions and the public display of enemies’ heads to instil fear and assert authority. https://t.co/eGW0DLIixc #Historia #Autoritarismo #Política #TR #RU

Following the damning report on the atrocities committed by #Rwanda and the M23 in the mining areas of Eastern #DRC (executions of minors, torture, looting of coltan from Rubaya and gold), the Minister of Communication, @PatrickMuyaya, received the delegation from @amnesty. ▪︎ Common priority: Intensify the fight against impunity, strengthen judicial mechanisms, and mobilize the international community for the victims. #RDC #DroitsHumains #Justice (translated)

Christa Pike, sentenced to death in Tennessee, is in critical condition after a botched execution, prompting the state government to suspend executions and open an investigation into this incident, reigniting the debate on the death penalty in the United States. #PeineCapitale #ChristaPike #ExécutionRatée (translated)

Lethal injection, although being the most commonly used method in the United States due to its supposed effectiveness and reduced cruelty, has a high failure rate of 7% between 1890 and 2010, which is twice that of other execution methods. #Exécutions #Justice #PeineDeMort (translated)

Christa Pike, who was to become the first woman executed in the United States since 2023, survived a botched execution by lethal injection, leading to an investigation by the governor and the suspension of future executions. #ChristaPike #JusticeAméricaine #ExécutionRatée (translated)

The article reviews several cases of failed executions of death row inmates in the United States, detailing the suffering endured by prisoners like Christa Pike, Tony Carruthers, Romell Broom, and Kenneth Eugene Smith, highlighting the problems and controversies surrounding the death penalty. #PeineDeMort #JusticePenale #ExecutionRatée (translated)

At least 64 failed executions have been documented in the United States since 1977, the most recent being that of Christa Pike, who survived a lethal injection, raising concerns about the effectiveness and humanity of this method of execution. #PeineCapitale #ExécutionsRatées #JusticeAméricaine (translated)

Christa Pike, sentenced to death in 1995 and having survived a lethal injection execution attempt in Tennessee, raises complex questions about the legality of repeated executions in American jurisprudence, which does not provide special protection for convicts who survive a first attempt. #Peinedemort #ChristaPike #ExécutionRatée (translated)

The governor of Tennessee has suspended executions after a botched execution attempt, highlighting the various methods of execution still in use around the world, including the electric chair, stoning, and beheading, practiced in about fifty countries. #Peinedemort #Condamnation #DroitsdelHomme (translated)

No victims in any category below have been double-counted. Outside Peru, no war-related deaths or imprisonments have been included. Communism vs. Villagers 400,000 dead — Cambodian rural (1) 19.5 million dead — Chinese peasants (2) 250,000 dead — Ethiopian nomads (3) 5 million dead — Soviet peasants (4) 340,000 dead — Tibetan rural (5) Communism vs. Landowners 3 million dead — Chinese landowners (6) 100,000 dead — Vietnamese landowners (8) Note: Soviet kulaks are counted among the villagers. Communism vs. Religion 47,000 dead — Cambodian Buddhists (9) 13,000 imprisoned — Czech priests / religious (10) 7,000 imprisoned — Mozambican Jehovah’s Witnesses (11) 100,000 imprisoned — North Korean Christians (12) 2,100 imprisoned — Polish priests & Jehovah’s Witnesses (13) 200,000 dead — Soviet clergy (15) 2,000 dead — Tibetan monks & pilgrims (18) 400 dead — Romanian Christians (14) Moreover, Christians suffered the following in Romanian prison: In a “baptism of immersion,” inmates’ heads were plunged into buckets of urine and feces, while guards chanted baptismal rites. Near the point of drowning the Christian’s head was let up for air and then plunged back into the sewage (65). Communism vs. Cossacks 400,000 dead or deported ethnics (20) Photo: Bolshevik instructions on “the need to do away with the cossacks.” (21) “Order no.7: In the event of an unauthorized exit of a registered [Cossack] family, the family shall be shot.” “Order no. 8: This execution shall be carried out among every family member.” “Order no. 9: All property of the executed [Cossack] shall be confiscated and given to the poor.” Communism vs. Native Americans 6,000 dead — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 5,000 imprisoned — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 10,000 forcibly relocated — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 35 destroyed — Ashaninka communities (Peru/luminoso-22) 35,000 imprisoned or forcibly relocated — Nicaraguan tribesmen (Sandinistas-23) Communism vs. Unclassified Dissidents* 5,000 dead — Albanian dissidents (24) 10,000 dead — Angolan dissidents (25) 29,000 dead — Bulgarian dissidents (26) 1 million dead — Cambodian dissidents (27) 43 million dead — Chinese dissidents (28) 16,000 dead — Cuban dissidents (29) Moreover, in Cuba’s concentration camps, inmates faced the following “punishments.” They were forced to “cut grass with their teeth,” endure “mock executions,” live in iron cages “1 meter wide, 1.8 meters high,” sit for hours in toilet ditches, withstand shock treatment, die by the hundreds from starvation and lack of medical attention (30). 44,000 dead — East German dissidents (31) 10,000 dead — Ethiopian dissidents (32) 50,000 dead — Hungarian dissidents (33) 3,000 dead — Nicaraguan dissidents (34) Moreover, 11,000 Nicaraguans were tortured at the hands of the Sandinistas. This included their being skinned alive & then executed; drawn & quartered; forced to watch wives and daughters sexually assaulted; caged in cubicles less than a square meter; “punished” via electric shock; deprived food and water (35). 1.6 million dead — North Korean dissidents (36) 21,857 dead — Polish dissidents (37) 120,000 dead — Romanian dissidents (38) 8 million dead — Soviet dissidents (39) 425,000 dead — Tibetan dissidents (40) Moreover, Tibetans suffered the following atrocities at the hands of the Chinese. They faced: crucifixion drowning beheading boiling alive burying alive mutilation (41) Communism vs. Gay Rights 25,000 imprisoned — Cuban gays and other “deviants” (42) 500 dead — Peruvian gays, bisexuals, and transgendered (43) 11,000 arrested — Polish gays (44) 100,000s imprisoned — Soviet gays in slave labor camps (45) Moreover, Chinese gays were targeted for persecution although numbers are impossible to quantify (46). Communism vs. Collective Laborers 160 dead — East German strikers (47) demonstrators killed after protesting a 10% increase in work quotas. 110 dead — Nicaraguan strikers executed by the Sandinistas after demanding back pay (48). 31 dead — Novocherkassk strikers (Kruschev) 24 killed on the spot; 7 later executed; over 100 workers arrested. (49) 51 dead — Peruvian union leaders (50) 106 dead — Polish strikers Poznan demonstrators killed after protesting working conditions & pay issues; others killed in later strikes; thousands attacked by military (51). 3,000 dead — Soviet strikers (Lenin / Trotsky) some shot / others, as N. Werth describes, “loaded onto barges and then thrown by the hundreds into the Volga with stones around their necks” (52). Moreover; Massive factory protests in China — strikers beaten back by 30,000 red soldiers after disputing wages (53). Striking outlawed in Cuba (54). Organizers sentenced to as many as 26 years in prison (55).

"Un massacre en Kabylie. Algérie, 1956" de Safia Kessas et Fabrice Riceputi dévoile l’assassinat par trois compagnies de l’armée française de 75 Algériens et, concomitamment à ces exécutions, des violences sexuelles infligées à de nombreuses femmes. https://t.co/5twHDvlZ0C #Kabylie #Algérie #Histoire #DZ #FR

Amnesty International accuse le M23, soutenu par le Rwanda, de graves violations des droits humains, y compris des exécutions et des travaux forcés de mineurs, tout en évoquant un trafic d'or et de coltan vers le Rwanda dans son rapport intitulé « We didn’t come to play ». #DroitsHumains #RDC #M23

No victims in any category below have been double-counted. Outside Peru, no war-related deaths or imprisonments have been included. Communism vs. Villagers 400,000 dead — Cambodian rural (1) 19.5 million dead — Chinese peasants (2) 250,000 dead — Ethiopian nomads (3) 5 million dead — Soviet peasants (4) 340,000 dead — Tibetan rural (5) Communism vs. Landowners 3 million dead — Chinese landowners (6) 100,000 dead — Vietnamese landowners (8) Note: Soviet kulaks are counted among the villagers. Communism vs. Religion 47,000 dead — Cambodian Buddhists (9) 13,000 imprisoned — Czech priests / religious (10) 7,000 imprisoned — Mozambican Jehovah’s Witnesses (11) 100,000 imprisoned — North Korean Christians (12) 2,100 imprisoned — Polish priests & Jehovah’s Witnesses (13) 200,000 dead — Soviet clergy (15) 2,000 dead — Tibetan monks & pilgrims (18) 400 dead — Romanian Christians (14) Moreover, Christians suffered the following in Romanian prison: In a “baptism of immersion,” inmates’ heads were plunged into buckets of urine and feces, while guards chanted baptismal rites. Near the point of drowning the Christian’s head was let up for air and then plunged back into the sewage (65). Communism vs. Cossacks 400,000 dead or deported ethnics (20) Photo: Bolshevik instructions on “the need to do away with the cossacks.” (21) “Order no.7: In the event of an unauthorized exit of a registered [Cossack] family, the family shall be shot.” “Order no. 8: This execution shall be carried out among every family member.” “Order no. 9: All property of the executed [Cossack] shall be confiscated and given to the poor.” Communism vs. Native Americans 6,000 dead — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 5,000 imprisoned — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 10,000 forcibly relocated — Ashaninka (Peru/luminoso-22) 35 destroyed — Ashaninka communities (Peru/luminoso-22) 35,000 imprisoned or forcibly relocated — Nicaraguan tribesmen (Sandinistas-23) Communism vs. Unclassified Dissidents* 5,000 dead — Albanian dissidents (24) 10,000 dead — Angolan dissidents (25) 29,000 dead — Bulgarian dissidents (26) 1 million dead — Cambodian dissidents (27) 43 million dead — Chinese dissidents (28) 16,000 dead — Cuban dissidents (29) Moreover, in Cuba’s concentration camps, inmates faced the following “punishments.” They were forced to “cut grass with their teeth,” endure “mock executions,” live in iron cages “1 meter wide, 1.8 meters high,” sit for hours in toilet ditches, withstand shock treatment, die by the hundreds from starvation and lack of medical attention (30). 44,000 dead — East German dissidents (31) 10,000 dead — Ethiopian dissidents (32) 50,000 dead — Hungarian dissidents (33) 3,000 dead — Nicaraguan dissidents (34) Moreover, 11,000 Nicaraguans were tortured at the hands of the Sandinistas. This included their being skinned alive & then executed; drawn & quartered; forced to watch wives and daughters sexually assaulted; caged in cubicles less than a square meter; “punished” via electric shock; deprived food and water (35). 1.6 million dead — North Korean dissidents (36) 21,857 dead — Polish dissidents (37) 120,000 dead — Romanian dissidents (38) 8 million dead — Soviet dissidents (39) 425,000 dead — Tibetan dissidents (40) Moreover, Tibetans suffered the following atrocities at the hands of the Chinese. They faced: crucifixion drowning beheading boiling alive burying alive mutilation (41) Communism vs. Gay Rights 25,000 imprisoned — Cuban gays and other “deviants” (42) 500 dead — Peruvian gays, bisexuals, and transgendered (43) 11,000 arrested — Polish gays (44) 100,000s imprisoned — Soviet gays in slave labor camps (45) Moreover, Chinese gays were targeted for persecution although numbers are impossible to quantify (46). Communism vs. Collective Laborers 160 dead — East German strikers (47) demonstrators killed after protesting a 10% increase in work quotas. 110 dead — Nicaraguan strikers executed by the Sandinistas after demanding back pay (48). 31 dead — Novocherkassk strikers (Kruschev) 24 killed on the spot; 7 later executed; over 100 workers arrested. (49) 51 dead — Peruvian union leaders (50) 106 dead — Polish strikers Poznan demonstrators killed after protesting working conditions & pay issues; others killed in later strikes; thousands attacked by military (51). 3,000 dead — Soviet strikers (Lenin / Trotsky) some shot / others, as N. Werth describes, “loaded onto barges and then thrown by the hundreds into the Volga with stones around their necks” (52). Moreover; Massive factory protests in China — strikers beaten back by 30,000 red soldiers after disputing wages (53). Striking outlawed in Cuba (54). Organizers sentenced to as many as 26 years in prison (55).

I ACCUSE PUTIN OF GENOCIDE IN UKRAINE. Bucha. Izium. Mariupol. Torture chambers. Executions. Deportations. The forced transfer of Ukrainian children. The destruction of cities, communities, culture and identity. This is why I reject every so-called “peace plan” that would reward https://t.co/5KoeBaDLoJ #Putin #Genocide #Ukraine #UA #RU