USA: PROTESTS AGAINST
THE DEATH PENALTY
Not even in the United States is everyone in agreement with the death penalty. In fact, in various states and on number occasions, protests have been held against the death penalty, against the cruel treatments inflicted on the sentenced, and against the inherent racism in the death sentences that strike in large majority the ethnic minorities and those of color.
If you want to see other photographs of the protest against the death penalty carried out in the Polunsky Unit, where Eugene Broxton is being held, and a lot of photographic documentation regarding various other protests carried out in other American states, go to this address.
If you want to have more information on the conditions in which the condemned live in the Polunsky Unit in Texas, go to
this address. If instead you want to read the letters of the condemned regarding the conditions in which they are obliged to live, go to this address.
The photographs that follow are taken from the Texas Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty.
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 In the background the Polunksky Unit prison close to where the protest is held.
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 Under the rain the demonstrators show posters of protest against the inhumane conditions imposed on the condemned. |
 Pepper spray kills! No sooner than the condemneds refuse to follow orders of the jailors, pepper gases are sprayed on them. These gases can kill! |
 We demand humane conditions! , says the poster of the demonstrator.
Men not animals, says the other sign.. |
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In front of the seat of the Supreme Court the protestors have held up a poster with the script: Stop Executions!
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A group of protestors near the Supreme Court. |
 Austin: Protest against the death penalty. |
Texas: Protests against the murder of the 250th person sentenced to the death penalty. |
 Austin: Manifestation in favor of a moratorium of the death penalty. |
 Dallas: Protest against the death penalty in front of the Olympic Building. |
 Huntsville, Texas: Manifestation of the Texan Coalition for the Abolition of the Death Penalty. |
Huntsville, Texas: Protest of the Texan Coalition for the abolition of the death penalty in the city streets. |
 Stop the death penalty. |
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