Kim Kardashian is applauding Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro‘s name to abolish capital punishment in his state.
Gov. Shapiro urged state lawmakers to finish the dying penalty in Pennsylvania in a Thursday announcement, with Kim quote tweeting the Governor’s social media publish on the topic and including a trio of applause emojis.
In the thread, Gov. Shapiro says he will not permit Pennsylvania to execute any inmates throughout his time period. He goes even additional, calling for the dying penalty to be repealed in Pennsylvania.
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There hasn’t been an execution in Pennsylvania since 1999, however Gov. Shapiro says an execution warrant landed on his desk final week … and he is the primary Pennsylvania Governor to formally ask the State Assembly to abolish the dying penalty.
Kim’s obtained a protracted historical past of combating for inmates on dying row all throughout the nation … working to cease their executions. There are 27 states with the dying penalty on the books, together with, at the least for now, Pennsylvania.
Remember … Kim went to bat for Oklahoma dying row inmate Julius Jones in 2020, and the next 12 months Jones had his life spared and as a substitute noticed his dying sentence commuted to life with out parole.
Previously, Kim lobbied Texas to remain the execution of inmate Rodney Reed … visiting him behind bars in 2019 earlier than he was going to be executed. Reed’s execution was delayed and he not has an execution date as his case is reviewed.