Thread by @AGHamilton29

These people weren't murdered. They were legally executed after convictions for horrendous crimes, being sentenced to the death penalty, and going through countless appeals.

https://twitter.com/CoriBush/status/1350615832657862659

You can oppose the death penalty as a punishment without pretending that the people executed were victims or that carrying out those executions is comparable to murder.

As an example: Daniel Lee was a white supremacist who murdered a family (including an 8-year-old girl) by suffocating them with bags and then dumping their bodies in a swamp.

That's whose name @CoriBush wants you to remember.

Wesley Purkey admitted to kidnapping, raping, and then murdering a 16-year-old girl named Jennifer Long. He then dismembered her body. He also beat an 80-year-old woman to death.

Maybe we should learn the names of his victims instead, @CoriBush?

Dustin Honken was a meth dealer that murdered 5 people, including 2 girls under the age of 11, because their dad was set to testify against him on drug charges. He was specifically sentenced to death for killing the 2 kids.

Lezmong Mitchell murdered a 63-year-old and her 9-year-old grandaughter so that he could steal the woman's truck to use it in an armed robbery.

Keith Nelson was convicted for kidnapping, raping, and strangling a 10 year-old girl named Pamela Butler.

William Lecroy Jr. broke into the home of Joann Lee Tiesler. After she came home, he tied her up, beat her, raped her, and then cut her throat.

Christopher Vialva and his accomplices kidnapped and robbed a young couple. After trying to pawn their stuff, they put the couple in the trunk. Vialva shot Todd and Stacey Bagley while they were in the trunk, then they set the car on fire. Stacey Bagley was still alive.

Orlando Hall was a drug dealer mad about a bad deal with 2 brothers so he kidnapped their 16-year-old sister Lisa Rene, raped her for several days, then dragged her to a burial site where he and his accomplices covered her with gasoline and buried her alive.

Brandon Bernard was also convicted of the same murders as Vialva. He didn't fire the shots, but he did help kidnap them and then lit the car on fire while Stacie Bagley was still alive.

Alfred Bourgeois was a truck driver that would regularly beat and sexually abuse his own 2-year-old daughter, which culminated in him murdering her by slamming her head into the window and dashboard.

Lisa Montgomery got into the home of a pregnant Bobbie Joe Stinnett, strangled her, and then cut her unborn child out of Stinnett. She then tried to pretend the baby was her own.

Corey Johnson was a drug trafficker that was convicted for participating in 7 murders as part of a gang killing spree.

Finally, Dustin Higgs kidnapped and murdered 3 women.

These are the people @CoriBush believes we should remember.