Six days of horror: America's thirst for executions returns with a vengeance

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

65% : The federal courts, which Trump transformed by appointing more than 200 judges during his presidency, have also changed their tune.
59% : "For a Black defendant to be tried by a nearly all-white jury in a county with a substantial Black population, and have the courts look the other way, that's the shadow, the pollution, that the history of lynching and segregation and punitive enslavement has created.
44% : Republican prosecutors, many of whom pay lip service to Trump and his Maga values, have become increasingly aggressive in pushing capital cases to finality.
44% : Yet again, he was sent to death row on the testimony of a self-interested party, in this case his co-defendant who last week came forward and gave sworn testimony that Allah had not been present at the robbery.
43% : Despite such misgivings, Henry McMaster, the Republican governor of South Carolina, who has called Trump "the face of America's strength", declined to grant Allah clemency.
42% : "There's been a radical shift in the legal culture as it relates to the death penalty in the past six years," said Bryan Stevenson, founder of the Equal Justice Initiative, who perhaps more than anyone has alerted Americans to the inequities of death row.
41% : Williams was executed by lethal injection and pronounced dead at 6.10pm on Tuesday.
39% : Other forensic evidence had been destroyed or contaminated by prosecutors, leaving the defendant to be sent to death row on the basis of two witnesses with incentives to testify against him including leniency in their own criminal cases and a $10,000 reward.
39% : They were Williams and Allah, and a third man on death row, Emmanuel Littlejohn, 52.Littlejohn was executed by Oklahoma on Thursday for the 1992 murder of a convenience store owner, Kenneth Meers.
33% : Trump has indicated that if he wins in November, he will pursue the federal death penalty with even more gusto than he did when he was last in office.

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