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The US regime just executed another innocent black man. (innocenceproject.org)

submitted 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) by dessalines@lemmy.ml to c/usa@lemmy.ml

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https://innocenceproject.org/cases/marcellus-williams/

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[–] TheTechnician27@lemmy.world 1 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (1 children)

Ah, yep, I was too sleep-deprived to remember that proposal and ratification are separate processes. Still objectively represents a failure of the United States that they can't push this through. And of course that Congress could actually at any time ban it at the federal level with just a majority vote and haven't done so. Or that the SCOTUS could actually ban it unilaterally. Or that even just a successfully proposed constitutional amendment would represent taking a stand against it, but they haven't even done that.

[–] TrenchcoatFullofBats@belfry.rip 1 points 3 days ago

Roe v. Wade worked, until it didn't. Legalizing something via SCOTUS has lately proven to be as permanent as the political views of a majority of the justices on that bench.

The only correct way to fix this problem is via a Constitutional amendment, and that's never going to happen because Republicans have rage boners for state-sponsored killing, or in this case, murder.