1. As 40-year-old Brandon Bernard, a black man arrested in his teens, was rushed into execution by Trump and confirmed by an equally death-cult SCOTUS, I share a few resources from @PrisonPolicy .
2. These executions keep the fascist/trumpist base energized: they are death oriented.

https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/schr/vengeance3.pdf
3. Supporters and opponents of the death penalty agree that its application is racially discriminatory

https://www.prisonpolicy.org/scans/aclu_dp_factsheet4.pdf
4. DISCRIMINATION, DEATH AND DENIAL: THE TOLERANCE OF RACIAL DISCRIMINATION IN INFLICTION OF THE DEATH PENALTY

https://static.prisonpolicy.org/scans/schr/discrimination3.pdf
5. Black Man's Burden: Race and the Death Penalty in America

https://heinonline.org/HOL/LandingPage 
6. VALUING BLACK LIVES: A CASE FOR ENDING THE DEATH PENALTY

http://hrlr.law.columbia.edu/files/2020/05/51.3.4-Hoag_Final.pdf
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