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'We Pray He Gains Peace': Over Objection of Victim's Family, Alabama Executes Geoffrey Todd West

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 4d

18 months after a fatal home atop a coal mine, Alabama says it no longer plans to require monitoring of explosive gases under homes. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/0310202...

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 12d

Will Berry opposed the execution of Geoffrey West, the man who took his mother's life. Alabama suffocated him anyway. Read the full story here.

Will Berry opposed the execution of his mother's murderer. Alabama suffocated him anyway.

www.treadbylee.com

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 13d

Please watch this

Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 13d

Will Berry is opposed to the execution of the man who took his mother’s life. Here’s what he told Alabama’s governor. www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 13d

Will Berry is opposed to the execution of the man who took his mother’s life. Here’s what he told Alabama’s governor. www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 14d

Yesterday, I watched as Will Berry, whose mother was murdered during a 1997 robbery, delivered a petition to Gov. Ivey asking that the man who took her life be spared. Alabama plans to suffocate him anyway. Read the full story here.

Where There's a Will: The Unwanted Execution of Geoffrey West

On Tuesday, Will Berry petitioned Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey to spare the life of Geoffrey West, the man convicted of killing his mother when he was 11. The state plans to proceed.

www.treadbylee.com

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 14d

More about my client’s pending execution and the courageous survivors who are speaking up for restorative justice, not murder, here from @leehedgepeth.bsky.social. It was a holy way to welcome the new year, I suppose. And heartbreaking.

www.treadbylee.com/p/where-ther...

Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 17d

This week, the state of Alabama plans to execute my client. My options are (a) truncate my observation the High Holidays or (b) truncate my support of the client & team. I will chose A, obviously. But it sucks and they would never set an execution on Dec 27.

Sheryl Weikal and the colorful Parrotlegals @leftistlawyer.com · 17d

In case you're wondering how it's going, I was just told that taking off for Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur is discriminating against Christian opposing counsel.

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Anthony—The Medicine & Justice Project @ajbsaysthings.bsky.social · 19d

The always stop-what-you're-doing-and-read-worthy Lee Hedgepeth drops another that might make my latest a little later-est today.

Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 19d

Alabama won't allow a victim's son to meet the person who took his mother's life before it suffocates the condemned man to death. But they've saved him a seat at the execution he opposes. Full story: www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...

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Spooky Anarchic Squid @leahanelson.bsky.social · 19d

The state of Alabama is hellbent on killing Geoff West. Will Berry, whose mother Maggie was West's victim, implores the state to call off the execution.
via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social
www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...

'Justice Denied' and the Crimson Tide

A condemned man and his victim's son are seeking reconciliation as the state prepares to gas him to death. Alabama has turned them down.

www.treadbylee.com

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · 19d

Alabama won't allow a victim's son to meet the person who took his mother's life before it suffocates the condemned man to death. But they've saved him a seat at the execution he opposes. Full story: www.treadbylee.com/p/justice-de...

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · Sep 7

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Those living and working in and around Remlap, about 20 miles northeast of Birmingham, have rallied in opposition to a proposed medical waste processing facility on Highway 75, a stone’s throw from the Jefferson County line.

Amid opposition to Blount County medical waste facility, a mysterious Facebook page weighs in | Alabama Reflector

Those living and working in and around Remlap, about 20 miles northeast of Birmingham, have rallied in opposition to Harvest Med Waste Disposal’s proposed medical waste processing facility on Highway ...

As Opposition to an Alabama Medical Waste Treatment Facility Boils Over, a Mysterious Facebook Page Weighs In - Inside Climate News

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UnmuteAlabama @alabamablueprint.bsky.social · Sep 6

In Remlap, Alabama, grandparents, firefighters, nurses, and farmers packed the courthouse to oppose a medical waste facility planned in a flood zone by Gurley Creek.

Their message speaks for all of us:
We are not a dumping ground.
@leehedgepeth.bsky.social
insideclimatenews.org/news/0409202...

ONEONTA, Ala.—The names echoed down the halls of the Blount County courthouse Thursday morning like a child’s game of telephone. “Darlene?” One of the county commissioners was reading from a list of ...

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Phil McKenna @mckennapr.bsky.social · Sep 1

"I decided that if we die, we’d die together." A harrowing first person account of surviving Hurricane Katrina by @insideclimatenews.org's @leehedgepeth.bsky.social insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

As 11-year-olds weathering poverty, we survived the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina along Alabama’s Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, we’re still wading through its wake.

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BhamBlues 🦋🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️❌👑❤️🧡💛💚🩵💙💜 @bhamblues.bsky.social · Aug 30

This is a brilliant and touching remembrance of living through Hurricane Katrina, written by @leehedgepeth.bsky.social.

Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · Aug 28

As an 11-year-old, I lived through #HurricaneKatrina in a trailer park a few miles from the coast. Here's a remembrance featuring my story and the story of David Dai, one of my closest friends. Just out from @insideclimatenews.org.

As 11-year-olds weathering poverty, we survived the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina along Alabama’s Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, we’re still wading through its wake.

Children of the storm | Alabama Reflector

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · Aug 29

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: What it was like to be 11 years old and to face the full fury of Hurricane Katrina.

This is what it was like to be an 11-year-old in a trailer as one of the most devastating storms in American history roared outside.

Children of the storm | Alabama Reflector

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Brian Lyman @brianlyman.bsky.social · Aug 29

This is a hell of a piece from @leehedgepeth.bsky.social. One of the very best Katrina-related stories I've read.

Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · Aug 29

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: What it was like to be 11 years old and to face the full fury of Hurricane Katrina.

This is what it was like to be an 11-year-old in a trailer as one of the most devastating storms in American history roared outside.

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Christine Spolar @cspolar.bsky.social · Aug 29

Terrific/tough personal account of living through Katrina and its legacy...must read @leehedgepeth.bsky.social @insideclimatenews.org insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

As 11-year-olds weathering poverty, we survived the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina along Alabama’s Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, we’re still wading through its wake.

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · Aug 29

20 years ago, when I was just 11 years old, my family hunkered down for Hurricane Katrina in a trailer in south Mobile County, just a few miles from the Gulf. Read my latest, a #HurricaneKatrina remembrance, in @insideclimatenews.org. insideclimatenews.org/news/2808202...

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · Aug 28

As an 11-year-old, I lived through #HurricaneKatrina in a trailer park a few miles from the coast. Here's a remembrance featuring my story and the story of David Dai, one of my closest friends. Just out from @insideclimatenews.org.

As 11-year-olds weathering poverty, we survived the winds and water of Hurricane Katrina along Alabama’s Gulf Coast. Twenty years later, we’re still wading through its wake.

Alabama coal company accused of breaking Colombian ban on coal shipments to Israel | Alabama Reflector

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · Aug 25

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Colombian President Gustavo Petro singled out Drummond and Glencore, a Switzerland-based coal producer, for potentially violating the presidential decree, according to a translation of the speech by Radio Nacional de Colombia.

An August 2024 decree by Colombia’s government ordered the halt of coal shipments to Israel in the wake of the ongoing Israeli occupation of Gaza.

Amid community opposition, Bessemer hyperscale data center project hits a speed bump | Alabama Reflector

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · Aug 22

"[Drummond] shouldn’t be shipping coal to the state of Israel in the first place, given Israel’s persistent human rights record,” one protester told @insideclimatenews.org near the company's corporate campus on Friday. Full story: insideclimatenews.org/news/2208202...

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Alabama Reflector @alabamareflector.com · Aug 21

Via @leehedgepeth.bsky.social and @insideclimatenews.org: Bessemer City Council members voted unanimously on Tuesday to send a recommendation to approve rezoning and a development plan for a 4.5 million square foot data center back to its planning and zoning commission for further consideration.

The city council Tuesday voted to send the project back to Bessemer’s planning and zoning commission for further consideration, a move that is likely to delay a final vote on the project for weeks.

After Turmoil and No-Confidence Votes, Sierra Club Terminates Ben Jealous - Inside Climate News

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · Aug 21

The latest from Bessemer, @insideclimatenews.org's seventh story on the proposed hyperscale data center slated to use more electricity than 90 times the power consumed by every home in the city combined. insideclimatenews.org/news/2108202...

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Vernon Loeb @vernonloeb.bsky.social · Aug 12

Breaking news: After Turmoil and No-Confidence Votes, Sierra Club Terminates Ben Jealous insideclimatenews.org/news/1108202...

Ben Jealous’ tenure at the Sierra Club has come to an end. Leadership at the environmental organization announced the executive director’s firing to staff in an email Monday evening. “Following an e...

After Turmoil and No-Confidence Votes, Sierra Club Terminates Ben Jealous - Inside Climate News

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Lee Hedgepeth @leehedgepeth.bsky.social · Aug 12

Breaking from me @insideclimate: Ben Jealous is out at Sierra Club. insideclimatenews.org/news/1108202...

Ben Jealous’ tenure at the Sierra Club has come to an end. Leadership at the environmental organization announced Jealous’ firing to staff in an email Monday evening. “Following an extensive evaluat...