Ayanna Pressley: “It is unconscionable, and our most-vulnerable workers and families cannot afford to wait for you to realize the harm…”

Todays ruling is lawless, unjust and should not stand.

This is cruelty, it is neglect, and it is a damning moral and legal failure.

Mahmoud Khalil has lived in Syria under [Bashar] Assad. He knows what an authoritarian regime looks like. And he says this is it.

The death penalty is a racist, discriminatory, and deeply flawed punishment and must be abolished once and for all.