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Sister Helen Prejean, of Dead Man Walking fame, on a Kinder Christianity (Video)

Waylon Lewis | Posted 06.30.2009 | Living

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Waylon Lewis

The nun behind Dead Man Walking, the best-selling book and movie offers a Christianity that's about mercy, compassion, forgiveness, humor. "It's all about waking up," Sister Helen says.

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The Supreme Court, Empathy, and the Science of Decision Making

Kent Greenfield | Posted 06.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Supreme Court Justices, Empathy, Decision-Making, Behavioral Economics, David Souter Replacement, David Souter, Death Penalty, Diversity, Politics News
Kent Greenfield

In such a homogeneous group as our Supreme Court, a Justice's intellectual ability to appreciate the situation of someone from a different background or in a different situation is essential.

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Steven Green Spared Death Penalty For Iraqi Rape, Murders

AP | BRETT BARROUQUERE | Posted 06.21.2009 | World

Read More: Iraq, Foreign Affairs, Advocacy, Steven Green, Steve Green, Steven Green Life Sentence, Steve Green Life Sentence, Steven Green Trial, Steve Green Trial, Pfc. Steven Dale Green, Death Penalty, Iraq Green Rape Trial Death Penalty Blog, Steven Green Sentencing, Former Pfc. Steven Dale Green, Penalty for Rape, Baghdad-Iraq, World News

PADUCAH, Ky. — An ex-soldier convicted of raping and killing an Iraqi teen and murdering her family was spared the death penalty Thursday after ...

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Death Penalty Opposition Say Newspapers' Troubles Hurt Efforts

New York Times | TIM ARANGO | Posted 06.21.2009 | Media

Read More: Newspapers Death Penalty, Newspapers, Death Penalty, Innocence Project, Media News

Opponents of the death penalty looking to exonerate wrongly accused prisoners say their efforts have been hobbled by the dwindling size of America's n...

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Troy Davis is Still With Us

Allison Kilkenny | Posted 06.18.2009 | Politics

Read More: Troy Davis, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Human Rights, Amnesty International, Politics News
Allison Kilkenny

Excerpt from an article I originally posted back in September: Two hours before Troy Davis was scheduled to die, the U.S. Supreme Court granted him a...

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The 132nd Death Row Exoneree: Implications for the Troy Davis Case

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 06.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Troy Davis Execution, Death Penalty, Paul House, Troy Davis, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

One of the many disturbing aspects of capital punishment is that it has no guarantee against mistaken convictions and executions.

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Life after Death (Penalty): Ash Amador Goes to England

Dave Maass | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Texas, Death Penalty, Britain, Politics News
Dave Maass

John "Ash" Amador was the last man I interviewed on Texas death row. The documentary 402, is about his execution and subsequent efforts to cast his face in a death mask.

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If the Bible Were Law, Would You Qualify for the Death Penalty?

Valerie Tarico | Posted 05.25.2009 | Politics

Read More: Supreme Court, Thomas Jefferson, Jefferson Bible, Bible, Death Penalty, Christian Fundamentalism, Politics News
Valerie Tarico

When people put God's name on Bronze Age documents, and then make those documents a golden calf, they get stuck with Bronze Age moral thinking.

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Huckaby: Abuser Was Abused?

Deborah King | Posted 05.16.2009 | Living

Read More: Rihanna, Kidnapping, Chris Brown, Death Penalty, Sandra Cantu, Satanic Ritual Abuse, Tyra Banks, Sexual Abuse, Melissa Huckaby, Living News
Deborah King

As upsetting and shocking as the circumstances of the child's death are, it doesn't mean Huckaby is crazy. Emotionally traumatized, with no functional way to release her pain and anger, yes.

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A Month of Killing, More on the Way?

Norm Stamper | Posted 05.14.2009 | Politics

Read More: Capital Punishment, Prison System, Prison, Corrections, Somalian Pirates, Death Penalty, Pirates, Somalia, Jail, Politics News
Norm Stamper

Shooting an armed, hostage-holding assailant can be a life-saving act of heroism. But there's something fundamentally wrong with taking the life of someone in the state's custody.

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Reflections on Easter and the Death Penalty

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 05.10.2009 | Politics

Read More: Easter, Death Penalty, Repeal Death Penalty, Death Penalty Reform, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

Whether one views the accounts of Jesus' trial and execution as historical or allegorical there is a deep understanding that in this case the system is about to make a cruel and arbitrary mistake.

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Putting "Justice" Back Into D.O.J.

David O. Stewart | Posted 05.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Constitutional Amendment, Justice, Attorney General, Holder, Abortion, Pandering, Hot-Button-Issues, Atty General Eric Holder, Terrorism, Obama's Lawyers, Legald Advisors, Election Anxiety, Attorney General Eric Holder, Drug Enforcement, Eric-HOlder-Atty-General, Eric Holder, Fund-Raising, Obama Lawyers, Obama's Cabinet, Obama's Attorney Gneral, Death Penalty, Politics News
David O. Stewart

Why shouldn't the people also have their own lawyer?

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Wrongful Convictions Are Still Possible in New Mexico

John Terzano | Posted 04.29.2009 | Politics

Read More: Wrongful Conviction, The Justice Project, Death Penalty, New Mexico, Bill Richardson, Politics News
John Terzano

I applaud Governor Bill Richardson for his commitment to the fair administration of justice and hope that he continues to ensure that life and liberty are both protected in New Mexico.

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Arthur Delaney

Osama Bin Laden Resurfaces In Congressional Race (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.27.2009 | Politics

Read More: Jim Tedisco, ny20, Death Penalty, Scott Murphy, Osama Bin Laden, Politics News

The National Republican Congressional Committee is poised to release a new ad for their man in the race to fill a vacant House seat in New York. The a...

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Death Penalty Repeal in the Land of Enchantment

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gail Chasey, Capital Punishment, Death-Penatly, Repeal Death Penalty, Thomas Jefferson, Georgia O'Keeffe, Murder, National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty, New Mexico, Prison, Electric Chair, New Mexico Governor Richardson, Death Penalty, New Mexico Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Land-of-Enchantment, Dna Evidence, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

New Mexico's lawmakers concluded that they'd had enough of a system that does not deter murders, is unfairly and unequally applied, risks wrongful convictions, and diverts resources.

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

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 04.26.2009 | Politics

Read More: Rockefeller Drug Laws, California Prison System, Drug Sentencing, Governor Paterson, Prison System, Economy, Prison Legal News, Drugs, Solomon Moore, War on Drugs, DOJ Prosecutor, Deficit, Death Penalty Information Center, Alternative to Incarceration, Low-Level Drug Offenders, Partnership for Responsible Drug Information, Paul Butler, Taxpayer Money, Bernard Madoff, Budget Deficit, Prison Reform, Prison Population, Drug Treatment, Incarceration, Crime, Budget, Incarceration Rates, Paul Wright, George Washington University Law School, Punishment, Sentencing, Jim Crow, New York Senate, Prison, California Commission on Fair Administration of Justice, Drug Offenders, New York Times, New York Budget, Nelson Rockefeller, Death Penalty, New York State Assembly, Richard Deiter, Madoff Jail, Errol Louis, Alternative Treatment Drug Offenders, Palladia, Politics News
Odile Weissenborn

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

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Arthur Delaney

Feingold To Death Penalty: Drop Dead

HuffingtonPost.com | Arthur Delaney | Posted 04.19.2009 | Politics

Read More: Russ Feingold, Capital Punishment, Abolition, Death Penalty, New Mexico, Bill Richardson, Politics News

Senator Russ Feingold (D-Wisc.) reintroduced legislation Thursday to abolish the death penalty at the federal level. The "Federal Death Penalty Abolit...

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New Mexico Bans Death Penalty

AP | DEBORAH BAKER | Posted 04.18.2009 | Politics

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SANTA FE, N.M. — Gov. Bill Richardson signed legislation Wednesday repealing New Mexico's death penalty, making it the second state to ban execu...

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Report on Forensic Science Challenges Accuracy of Evidence Analyses

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 04.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: Dna, Cameron Todd Willingham, Forensic Science, Death Penalty, Arson, Innocence Project, Death, Politics News
Diann Rust-Tierney

Many forensic methods such as hair samples and blood spatters, are often mishandled by poorly trained technicians. Thousands of people convicted on the basis of such evidence may actually be innocent.

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10 Years Since Illinois' Last Execution, Death Penalty Abolition Movement Fights On

Chicago Sun-Times | MAURICE POSSLEY | Posted 04.08.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Illinois Death Penalty Ban, Capital Punishment, Death Penalty, Illinois Death Penalty Moratorium, Illinois Death Penalty, Chicago News

No one has been put to death in this state in the decade since Kokoraleis died by lethal injection. On Thursday, death penalty opponents -- including ...

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Maryland Needs to Repeal the Death Penalty -- Now

Gov. Martin O'Malley | Posted 04.02.2009 | Politics

Read More: Governor Martin O'Malley, Capital Punishment, Baltimore, Martin O'Malley, Crime, Maryland, Punishment, Death Penalty, Politics News
Gov. Martin O'Malley

I've asked Marylanders to urge their state senators to end capital punishment in our state. I believe we will fail our children and ourselves if we allow these executions to continue.

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Texas Meets a Death Penalty it Dislikes

Christopher Brauchli | Posted 03.28.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, Texas, Lethal Injection, Euthanasia, Sleep, Sharon Keller, Politics News
Christopher Brauchli

There is no state in the United States that has proved itself a better friend to the death penalty. It has executed 431 people since the death penalty regained respectability in 1976.

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We, Too, Are Abolitionists: Black History Month, Slavery and the Death Penalty

Diann Rust-Tierney | Posted 03.27.2009 | Politics

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Diann Rust-Tierney

We Americans should honor abolitionists of the past and present not only by remembering them during Black History Month, but by working to repeal capital punishment throughout the USA.

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Eric Holder: Help Save 49 Lives, Please!

Claudia Ricci | Posted 03.07.2009 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, Criminal Justice System, Eric Holder, Senator Feingold, Death Row, Capital Punishment, Alberto Gonzalez, John Ashcroft, Texas Death Penalty, Attorney General Holder, Obama Death Penalty, Buddhism, Politics News
Claudia Ricci

If it were up to me, I would withdraw death penalty eligibility in all of the pending cases, and I would tell prosecutors never to seek the death penalty. There is the possibility of saving 49 lives.

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Mexico: Death Penalty Gaining Support

GlobalPost.com | Marion Lloyd | Posted 02.14.2009 | World

Read More: Mexico Death Penalty, Globalpost, Death Penalty Mexico, Mexico Violence, Mexico Crime, Mexico, Death Penalty, Mexico Drug Violence, Mexico Drug Wars, Mexico Kidnappings, World News

MEXICO CITY -- The street peddler's face darkened when asked how the Mexican government should deal with the rash of kidnappings and drug slayings t...

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