Reposted by AndrewCoach Finstock @coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5hThis isn't gonna end at the ballot box. No one is quietly leaving. I hope everyone is prepared for that. It's gonna require people in positions of power with actual weapons to stop whatever is gonna happen. 620119
Reposted by AndrewAaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 12/10/2026She keeps shouting at the DOJ attorney for not immediately calling plaintiffs and notifying the court the MOMENT they found out what the NPS was going to do late on Oct 8. DOJ's attorney responds and says "we did our best" and Reyes responds: "You did not do your best. You did your absolute worst." 101134177
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 11/10/2026The best part about this is that I'm sure I was added for suggesting that Democratic politicians not decide who is "unfit for human society" by killing them, or supporting a system that does. I'm about done with this place for a while. 050
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 11/10/2026I got up early to watch more penalties than plays. 000
Reposted by AndrewGabrielle A. Perry, MPH @geauxgabrielle.blacksky.app · 11/10/2026People also cant believe there is such a thing as “cell rent.” 41 states have it & even if you leave early states like FL make you pay the TOTALITY of your original stay. One Black woman was billed $127,000 ($50 a day for 2,555 days) for the full 7 years of her sentence despite only staying 10 mos 22509269
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 11/10/2026Some of you need hobbies. Probably therapy. And to grow the fuck up. 020
Reposted by AndrewProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026Legal experts say Christa Pike is the first person in the United States to survive one dose — let alone two — of lethal injection drugs. “There is nothing in the execution process that states are incapable of getting wrong,” said one death penalty expert.propublica.orgWhy Tennessee’s Botched Death Row Execution Could Happen AnywhereThe complications behind Tennessee’s failed execution of Christa Pike aren’t uncommon — and show how easily another botched execution could occur, even as others are planned soon in Texas and Florida. 23301112
Reposted by Andrewryandevereaux.bsky.social @ryandevereaux.bsky.social · 10/10/2026In July, I took a ride through the Arizona desert with Verlon Jose, chairman of the Tohono O’odham Nation, a sprawling reservation on the U.S.-Mexico border that may soon be changed forever. It was the beginning of an investigation that ProPublica is publishing today. THREAD ⬇️ 10671282
Reposted by AndrewGhostly Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026You guys death penalty cases last decades. The reason people are talking about AEDPA and Dems’ central role in the modern death penalty is that 30 years ago isn’t a long time. There are people on death row right now whose original cases predated the Clinton-era law that now governs them. 2309
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Had to block this dummy when they said "Arizona SCOTUS." 000
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Thanks for confirming you have no idea what you're talking about. 000
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Notice the absence of funding for public defenders and staff to handle the presumed increase in arrests. I know it's hard because you'll never see it, so don't even think to look for it. But sure, they don't enable shitty systems. 011
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Do you think throwing millions into a multi agency task force designed to target one particular type of crime or offender is a new idea? Or is this some Tobias like thinking that maybe it'll work for us? 000
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Perfect timing for my argument. Thanks. Stop acting like the same shitty system will suddenly work if we just throw more money down its drain. 100
Reposted by AndrewJessica Pishko @jesspish.bsky.social · 10/10/2026This is a terror campaign against tribal sovereignty. www.propublica.org/article/toho...propublica.orgAs Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and DronesFor decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their... 316488
Reposted by AndrewNashville Banner @nashvillebanner.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital and brought back to the women’s prison in Nashville where she was incarcerated for more than 30 years before her failed execution. nashvillebanner.com/2026/10/10/c...nashvillebanner.comChrista Pike back in prison after failed lethal injection - Nashville BannerChrista Pike has left Nashville hospital and returned to prison, where she will continue to receive medical care, after surviving a lethal injection. 1106
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I was way too grumpy to get on the internet this morning. 000
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'll even show you all the "bad" shit about Ernesto. He has a violent history even incarcerated. And Arizona is still not any more safe, nor will crime be reduced in any way when we kill him. We just become killers. www.desertsun.com/story/news/c...desertsun.comDeadly inmate who has stabbed prison guards and his cell mate caught with a shank – againErnesto Salgado Martinez, a convicted cop killer, is one of Riverside County’s most dangerous prisoners. 000
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026None of these executions had to happen. Arizona isn't any safer because of them. Ernesto, a former client of mine, is next though. www.fox10phoenix.com/news/arizona...fox10phoenix.comArizona requests execution warrant for Ernesto Martinez in 1995 trooper murderAfter exhausting all appeals, death row inmate Ernesto Martinez could be executed as early as January 2027 for the 1995 murder of Arizona trooper Robert Martin. 100
Reposted by AndrewThe Associated Press @apnews.com · 10/10/2026BREAKING: Christa Pike has been discharged from the hospital and returned to the women’s prison where she spent 30 years, her attorney says.bit.lyChrista Pike, who survived an execution attempt, is discharged from hospital, attorney saysChrista Pike, who survived Tennessee’s attempt to execute her by lethal injection, has been moved back to prison. 108834
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026And I'm still going to vote for her. Because while this issue is important, I get that there are other things that are also important and letting fascists run the place would be worse. But that won't stop me from demanding better from the person who gets my vote. This isn't a hard concept. 010
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'm sorry if facts make you feel icky stalker dude. Yes, Hobbs came in blowing a bunch of smoke about a moratorium and studying the death penalty. Then she didn't like the answer she got and moved on. Gunches fucking volunteered for state assisted suicide and they said, "cool." 110
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026There seems to be some idea that capital punishment is separate from the rest of the punishment we dole out and that the system supported by both parties my entire life has nothing to do with executions. It's the same system. 033
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026How's that moratorium going? Unlike you, I know the people she's executing and spent a good chunk of my life trying to prevent those things from happening and had to watch when I couldn't. Get the fuck off my feed. 110
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Then fired the guy who told her we couldn't do it right because she was afraid of losing a few votes and Arizona is about to execute the 4th person since her "moratorium." Fuck off. 000
Reposted by AndrewProPublica @propublica.org · 10/10/2026NEW: Early on Aug. 25, the Tohono O’odham Nation received a one-minute notice from Border Patrol. A convoy of contractors — guarded by masked agents — was en route to conduct testing for a coming border wall. The tribe was warned: Do not interfere.propublica.orgAs Trump’s Wall Closes in, DHS Intimidates a Border Tribe With Surveillance, Masked Agents and DronesFor decades, the Tohono O’odham Nation collaborated with DHS to stave off a border wall. Despite their cooperation, the Trump administration is barreling forward with a project that would divide their... 28754459
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026I'll say whatever the fuck I want about whoever kills my old clients, Matt. No matter which little letter they have next to their names. Grow the fuck up. 020
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026AEDPA rendered Barry's actual innocence of the crime for which the state sought to kill him, irrelevant. It didn't matter because the law said he didn't bring it up at the right time, and thus that argument was defaulted. 000
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Do you want to see how fucked up AEDPA is? As soon as I heard this guy say "innocence isn't enough," I knew we lost Barry's case. Because he was right. deathpenalty.org/innocence-is...deathpenalty.org“Innocence isn’t enough here,” Arizona tells SCOTUSLast month, the U.S. Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of Shinn v. Ramirez. It’s a complicated case, involving two respondents, David Ramirez 121
Reposted by AndrewCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026Sorry if you've done ANYTHING in the judicial space around AEDPA you know that shit is rank. It is STILL the law. If you're more interested in getting mad at people saying this than telling your Democratic rep to repeal AEDPA, that is a choice you can make, but it doesn't particularly impress me. 31159
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Lots of people I normally agree with and think they know what they're talking about are talking out of their asses right now and I'm just gonna stay on my page about it because I've been in 7/10 pain for 3 weeks straight and might become kind of an asshole about it all. 000
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026AEDPA is the reason Republicans get to kill so many people who have meritorious claims that get procedurally barred from federal review. You know, technicalities. 010
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026AEDPA was 30 years ago, it doesn't matter now..... 100
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Wake me when they actually put abolition in writing. 000
Reposted by AndrewPhoenix New Times @phoenixnewtimes.com · 10/10/2026“It was clearly rushed,” said Jonathan Nez in a phone interview with Phoenix New Times.phoenixnewtimes.comCandidate calls attack ad that misidentified him a "slap in the face."The Democratic candidate running for Arizona’s 2nd congressional district is making the MAGA machine sweat. 052
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026Catching blocks for noting that Arizona's current democratic governor and AG are executing people and the governor ignored a real easy way to not do that. Is reality too much for you? What a bunch of dorks. I'm still gonna vote for them, I'm just going to demand better from them. 011
Reposted by AndrewCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026People getting mad about this probably don’t remember AEDPA, the Anti-Terrorism and Effective Death Penalty Act, which passed the senate by 91-8, and the House 293-133, and was signed into law by Bill Clinton. 11608171
Reposted by AndrewCourtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · 10/10/2026AEDPA substantially limits—today, right now—the scope of judicial review available to prisoners, and is absolutely responsible for people being put to death at this moment. 320433
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 10/10/2026If while wearing socks you stepped into a puddle of dog piss, then took the sock off and put your hand in it and worked it like a puppet while telling this.... joke or whatever it is, that piss sock would have more charisma than JD Vance. 030
Reposted by AndrewNick Benson @ottergoose.net · 09/10/2026A shackled detainee was thrown to the ground, placed in a WRAP full-body restraint, and carried onto today's ICE Air flight at MSP. This is the first time we've seen the device used in Minnesota. If a loved one may have been aboard, full loading sequence is here: youtube.com/watch?v=MEMv2ngB1GI 26332209
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Meanwhile, someone close to me who works at CNN is waiting to see if they'll still have a job and might get a year's severance if they don't. Been there 20+ years. 110
Reposted by Andrewthereloadteam.bsky.social @thereloadteam.bsky.social · 09/10/2026ATF Gives Go Ahead for Unregistered Silencer, Short-Barrel Shotgun Purchases 152
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And no discussion on this topic would be complete without noting that AEDPA, the Anti-terrorism and EFFECTIVE DEATH PENALTY Act, signed by Bill Clinton, should be repealed. 0142
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 09/10/2026And Joe Biden did the right thing by clearing (mostly) federal death row. That shit brought me to tears. I know one of those guys. And I knew one of the ones Trump killed because Obama didn't. Overall, yes Dems are "better" and I'd rather deal with them on the issue, but I'll still be disappointed. 2231
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Arizona's dem governor had a capital punishment off ramp right in front of her (for at least as long as she was in office, maybe longer) by way of a recommendation from an expert she hired. So she fired him and has had 3 people executed in 3 years and currently seeking another warrant. 1214
Andrew @andrewhsowards.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Liliana seems to be getting shit for this, but she's not wrong. You don't need to be actively executing people like Arizona's current Dem gov and AG, to enable a system in which executions occur. Oh and Arizona's current Dem governor and AG have executed 3 people and are seeking a 4th warrant. 211131