T.I. blasts the State of Alabama for executing Nathaniel Woods
Written by Site Hub on March 10, 2020
T.I. joins many celebrities and non-celebrities who have spoken out against the State of Alabama and, in fact, the entire justice system. After Nathaniel Woods was executed this week by lethal injection in Alabama for the murders of three Birmingham police officers, the backlash has been profound. Even though the U.S. Supreme Court initially ordered a temporary halt of the execution, it then denied a last-minute stay. Following suit, Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey did not stop the execution.
Rap artist T.I. said on Instagram that “the state of Alabama has blood on its hands.” He also noted that white supremacist Thomas Edward Blanton Jr., the 1963 Birmingham church bomber responsible for killing four black people in 1963, is up for parole in 2021, but Woods was executed.
Pivotal to this highly charged and controversial case is that Woods didn’t actually commit any of the murders, a fact that the man who did pull the trigger upheld. Kerry Spencer, the self-confessed trigger man, told CNN that he was the one who shot all three of the police officers in 2004. Even though Woods was present at the shooting, Spencer said that Woods ran when the gunfire started, and he further said that Woods didn’t even know that Spencer was going to shoot the officers.
