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"The Jim Crow Laws of the 21st Century": Will New York Change?

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics


Odile Weissenborn

In New York, the 36-year-old Rockefeller Drug Laws may be massively overhauled.

US Executions, Death Sentences On Decline

AP | MATTHEW BARAKAT | Posted 01.10.2009 | Home


WASHINGTON — New death sentences in the United States were at or near a three-decade low this year and the number of people executed will be the...