June 29: Double Day of Death Dealing at the Supreme Court
Compiled by Rachel MacNair and Bill Samuel Original content by Rachel MacNair In June Medical Services vs. Russo, the Court upheld a ghastly precedent – yet again – by declaring a specific safety regulation unconstitutional. In Bourgeois v. Barr, the Court turned down even hearing a case challenging the lethal injection protocol for federal…
“Millions Who Are Already Hanging by a Thread”: The Global Repercussions of Covid-19
by John Whitehead The Covid-19 pandemic threatens life in multiple ways. The virus not only has killed people directly—more than 400,000 to date—but has also worsened poverty and inequality. By disrupting the world economy, the pandemic has taken away many people’s livelihoods and harmed the poor. The illness and the resulting economic hardships don’t fall…
Justice Littered with Injustice: Viewing Just Mercy in a Charged Moment
Editor’s note: to see this movie free in the month of June, 2020, go to Just Mercy – Watch for Free by Julia Smucker The film Just Mercy (Warner Brothers, 2019) follows attorney Bryan Stevenson’s early career as founding director of the Equal Justice Initiative, providing legal counsel to inmates on Alabama’s death row. In…
Post-pandemic: What Worries Me
by Lois Kerschen We have a long way to go before the Covid-19 pandemic is at an end. Nonetheless, people are already speculating about what kind of world we will have afterwards. Case in point, the May 22 edition of Peace & Life Connections, the Consistent Life Network (CLN) newsletter.. The feature article of that…
Voices on Police Brutality in the Aftermath of the Murder of George Floyd
compiled by Rachel MacNair See the Consistent Life Network’s official statement. See tweet and comments here. + + + U.S. police have attacked journalists more than 110 times since May 28 by Laura Hazard Owen, June 1, 2020. As Black Lives Matter protests spread across the country one week after…