Cori Bush demands death row inmate is spared

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

59% : Johnson´s attorney, Jeremy Weis, has said executing him would violate the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits executing intellectually disabled people.
41% : Johnson previously asked that his execution be carried out by firing squad, but Missouri doesn't allow that method of execution.
37% : Like slavery and lynching did before it, the death penalty perpetuates cycles of trauma, violence and state-sanctioned murder in Black and brown communitie.

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