User:Afddiary

Other Articles I Have Created (from Scratch)
Listed in chronological order.

Articles with a * by them are my proudest publications. I really hope you read them :)

FYI, "Post-Gregg" means the execution took place in the United States after the Gregg v. Georgia decision of 1976. Any American entry labeled "death penalty case" without that distinction took place between 1900–1967.

Major Contributions to Death Penalty Articles
''Essentially articles that I more or less rewrote or nearly constructed in their entirety. Usually, these were stubs that I fleshed out with in-text citations, more detail, and occasionally photos.''

Major Contributions to Non-Death Penalty Articles
Only counting edits where I more or less rewrote the article, and/or edits where I contributed to more than half of what was already there.

PLANNED Major Contributions
The current order in which these are listed is simply the order in which I added them to the table - i.e. the top ones were added earliest.

(For my own convenience, the format for the table above:


 * NAMEofSUBJECT || STATE || DOE || METHOD || SYNOPSIS || ISSUES

Potential Future Death Penalty-Related Articles
''Added in order of when I think to include them. I'll remove each name as they receive articles, or if I decide not to create one for that particular person. My priorities are cases with injustice, followed by serial killers (only because those tend to be noteworthy enough to resist challenges related to their notability - I personally don't have much of an interest in serial killers, but I want to help with the WikiProject for it).''

Top Priorities are marked with an asterisk.

Countries with No Death Penalty Articles (or Stubs)
''NOTE: I have a personal project to complete a  non-stub article for every country in Africa ! Africa is severely underrepresented when it comes to articles covering their countries' histories, particularly their histories with the death penalty. These topics deserve well-formatted, well-structured, and well-sourced articles that avoid resorting to a colonialist or condescending slant in their coverage. If anyone wants to help with this niche project, even if it's just sending me a link to a good source, or even if it's just encouraging me to get started on a particular country, I'd appreciate it greatly!''

After I finish Africa, my next priority is South America, followed by Oceania, and then Asia.

= Planned Contributions to Non-Death Penalty Stubs = Listed in order of priority.

Music-related articles

 * Retching Red
 * Fabulous Disaster (band)
 * The Rest Is Silence (Randy album)
 * Cheater (EP)

About Me
I'm AFDDiary. (The first 3 letters stand for Appetite for Destruction by Guns N' Roses, which was my all-time favorite album when I made this account. Not anymore—I still like it, but it's not anywhere near my #1. It isn't even in my current top 30. I'm very likely going to change my username at some point, but I don't know what I want to change it to, so I guess it'll stay for now.)

Main Interests:

WikiProjects and Editing:

Mental Health:

If you were to ask me today, Supporting Caste by Propagandhi is my current all-time favorite album. It bests every album in existence in the lyrical, political, and musical departments, hands down, in my opinion. It is the perfect punk rock album. Anyone with even the slightest interest in human rights, equality, animal rights, or just good music in general should listen to it. Ask me anytime for my other recommendations; it's a wide swath of more punk rock, with some hard rock, rap, and metal sprinkled within.

For some quick biographical information – I am in my 20s, I am a cisgender black woman, I am a leftist, and I live in the Deep South in the United States. I'm wildly neurodivergent in several ways (most prominently Au-DHD) and still trying to adjust to life. For one fun fact, I'm a sound-color synesthete born with absolute pitch, which I think explains why I love music so much: music is a vividly colorful experience for me.

Most of my contributions here will concern capital punishment and the death penalty, especially in the United States. That topic is my special interest, and I know way too much about it and individual cases within the subject. I will branch out to creating/editing articles on other countries on a case-by-case basis as I feel more comfortable discussing them and understanding them. I also like creating and editing articles about punk rock bands and albums, glam metal bands and albums, and hard rock bands and albums, although I do those far less frequently. (Music-wise, I think I personally prefer pages dedicated to albums over bands, but I like editing both.)

My position on capital punishment:
In case you must know, I am against the death penalty — a death penalty opponent in 100% of cases. It is unjust, unequal, excessively costly, and a waste of humanity. Every so-called "justified" execution is accompanied by one rife with problems. For my favorite example, the year after Florida executed notorious serial killer Ted Bundy, they executed an innocent man, Jesse Tafero - on top of botching it and setting his head and face on fire while he suffocated to death in the electric chair. His death was most likely agonizing and prolonged. Florida proudly did that to an innocent man.

I feel like the public has a right to know about the horrors done in their names. Wikipedia is scholarly and impartial, so I cannot show my true opinions through the articles - but I do implore you to look further into each active case you come across. (I used to have a long explanation of my position, but I don't really want that here anymore because I'd rather this page focus on my contributions here. But if you really want to know, feel free to ask, or check out the Death Penalty Information Center or the Equal Justice Initiative for some great learning resources.)