Pleas for clemency grow ahead of Ernest Lee Johnson's execution

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

39% : But last month, the Missouri sSupreme court ruled that Johnson is not, as he claims, intellectually disabled and denied his request for execution by firing squad based on his claim that death by lethal injection would cause severe pain.
38% : "Like slavery and lynching did before it, the death penalty perpetuates cycles of trauma, violence and state-sanctioned murder in Black and brown communities."

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