'This Wasn't Justice. This Was Cruelty': Calls to Abolish Death Penalty Follow Ernest Lee Johnson Execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : The Eighth Amendment prohibits the execution of intellectually disabled people, according to a 2002 Supreme Court ruling.
40% : "We must abolish the death penalty in this country," former federal prosecutor Elizabeth de la Vega tweeted following Johnson's death.
37% : According to the most recently available figures from the Death Penalty Information Center, only China, Iran, Saudi Arabia, Iraq, and Egypt executed more people than the United States in 2019.
34% : Human rights defenders renewed calls for the abolition of capital punishment in the United States after the state of Missouri on Tuesday executed Ernest Lee Johnson, an intellectually disabled man.
34% : Despite a campaign promise by President Joe Biden to "work to pass legislation to eliminate the death penalty at the federal level," his administration earlier this year asked the Supreme Court to reinstate the death sentence of Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

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