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The Death Penalty - A Quick Primer

Malcolm Friedberg | Posted 07.03.2008 | Politics

Read More: Coker v. Georgia, Death Penalty Debate, Kennedy v. Louisiana, Death Penalty, Supreme Court and Child Rape, Scotus Blog, Scotus, United State Supreme Court, Politics News
Malcolm Friedberg

The Supreme Court's decision this morning to ban use of the death penalty in cases of child rape is consistent with its historical position on the issue.

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From Draconian Drug Laws to Life Without Parole -- Join the Movement Against Harsh Sentencing

Anthony Papa | Posted 06.20.2008 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, War on Drugs, Drug Sentencing, Mandatory Minimums, Politics News
Anthony Papa

Now is the time to question what it means for society to turn from state-sanctioned executions to punishments that impose what many prisoners describe as "in-house death sentences."

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Wasting Money on a Ineffectual Policy

Byron Williams | Posted 04.29.2008 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, Supreme Court Lethal Injections, Politics News
Byron Williams

The Supreme Court this week upheld Kentucky's use of lethal injection, rejecting the claim that it violates the Eighth Amendment's cruel and unusual punishment clause.

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Masking Justice, Supreme Court Style

Andrew Gumbel | Posted 04.24.2008 | Politics

Read More: Kentucky Executions Moratorium, Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts, Execution, Supreme Court Death Penalty, Supreme Court Executions, Kentucky, Death Penalty, Lethal Injection, John Roberts, Cruel and Unusual Punishment, Supreme Court Lethal Injections, Politics News
Andrew Gumbel

Shame on the Supreme Court for preferring to inhabit their cocoon of respectability on lethal injections -- justice masked by legalese -- than to face the facts.

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China Defends High Death Penalty Use As Olympics Approaches

AP | Posted 04.23.2008 | Home

Read More: China Executions, Executions, China Defends Death Penalty, Death Penalty, Beijing Olympics, Olympics, Amnest International, China, Home News

China limits the death penalty to a small number of serious criminals and does not have any plans to abolish it, the Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. T...

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Focus Of Detainee Trial Is Likely To Suit Bush

NY Times | Steven Lee Myers | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: Khalid Shaikh Mohammed, Warwire, Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, War on Terror, Guantanamo Detainee Trial, Guantanamo Detainees, Death Penalty, Guantanamo Death Penalty, Politics News

Harsh interrogations and Guantánamo Bay, secret prisons and warrantless eavesdropping, the war against Al Qaeda and the one in Iraq. On issue after i...

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Supreme Court To Decide: Can Death Penalty Be Imposed On People Who Rape Children?

Washington Post | Robert Barnes | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: US Supreme Court, Death Penalty, Rape, Politics News

The Supreme Court said yesterday that it will decide whether the death penalty may be imposed on someone who rapes a child, reopening the issue of whi...

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New Jersey Set To Ban Death Penalty, First State Since 1965

AP | TOM HESTER Jr. | Posted 03.28.2008 | Politics

Read More: 1965, Death Penalty, New Jersey Death Penalty Vote, Politics News

With New Jersey on the cusp of abolishing capital punishment, death penalty foes are hoping the move will inspire other states to do the same. New Je...

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