Aug 10 2012

From My Collection #9: End the Death Penalty

On Tuesday, the state of Texas executed Marvin Wilson, a man who still sucked his thumb at 54 years old. The state did this in all of our names…

I bought a set of negatives at a flea market about 10 years ago. They were photographs of anti-death penalty protestors at San Quentin Prison on May 13, 1960. Looking at these images actually gives me hope because they remind me that people have always been organizing against the death penalty. It means that some of us aren’t blind to the barbarity and brutality of state-sanctioned murder.

Anti-Death Penalty Protestors at San Quentin Prison (5/13/60) – Prison Culture collection

Anti-Death Penalty Protestors at San Quentin Prison (5/13/60) — Prison Culture Collection

Anti-Death Penalty Protestors at San Quentin Prison (5/13/60) – Prison Culture Collection