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On Sept. 20, four days before the state-sanctioned killing of Khaliifah ibn Rayford Daniels ‘Abdul-Qudduus, a Black man from South Carolina who was also likely innocent, was executed by lethal injection. His name was Khalil Divine Black Sun Allah–previously known as Freddie Owens.
Do you see what’s happening here? There seems to be a renewed doubling down on executing Black men in America whose guilt is not just in reasonable doubt, but in entirely real doubt. We must say their names. We must take action.
Murder, Terror and Betrayal
On Nov. 1, 1997, Irene Graves, a 41-year-old mother of three, was working as the cashier at the Speedway Market in Greenville, South Carolina, when two armed, masked men entered the store and demanded all the money from the register and the safe…