All posts tagged "Histoire"

Washington (AFP) - There's the firing squad, the electric chair... and now, the gas chamber. Conservative US states, facing difficulties around lethal injections, are looking to the past for alternative ways to carry out executions of their death row inmates. On Tuesday, the Arizona state Supreme Court set June 8 for the execution of Frank Atwood, sentenced to death in 1987 for the murder of an eight-year-old girl. He was given two weeks to choose between lethal injection or being gassed with lethal chemicals. According to his lawyer, prison authorities in the southwestern state are considerin......

Houston (AFP) - Racist and offensive Texas place names are holdovers from a dark past, but they are poised to finally change as a reckoning on how white America treats Black people washes over the United States.  Though state lawmakers sought to officially rename a series of features in 1991, that change was stymied, and decades later places like "Negrohead Lake" or "Negro Creek" still carry their derogatory monikers. Yet the murder last year of African American George Floyd under a white police officer's knee has brought new impetus to confronting racism, including place names or statues hono......

Birmingham (United States) (AFP) - Poor and conservative, the state of Alabama seemed like the perfect place for companies to do business without having to deal with labor unions. That is, until a handful of Amazon employees stood up to the world's richest person and demanded representation at the bargaining table. It comes to a head this week: Monday is the deadline for employees at an Amazon warehouse in Alabama to vote on establishing the first union on US soil at the massive tech company. The case is being closely watched because it could pave the way for further unionization in the United......