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David Protess: Meet the Exonerated

2012-05-22T11:38:27Z

The next time you see an exoneree take his first steps to freedom, look past their smiles. Get pissed. Get involved. Make a difference.

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Jess Coleman: Is the Death Penalty Ever Justified?

2012-05-18T08:40:53Z

The only thing being accomplished by the death penalty is death itself. A country that brutally murders its citizens seems as far from developed or democratic as it can possibly be.

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Franky Carrillo: Innocent & Executed: It Could Have Been Me

2012-05-17T15:51:49Z

I was wrongfully convicted when I was 16 years old and served 20 years in prison before proving my innocence. That mistake took two decades from me, but it took Carlos DeLuna's life.

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David A. Love: The Death Penalty is the Tip of America's Human Rights Iceberg

2012-05-16T13:46:27Z

There's a buzz about the death penalty in America these days and nearly all of the conversation focuses not on how to maintain the practice, but on abolition. Faced with the high cost, lack of deterrent effect and the inevitability of executing innocent people, some states are taking another look.

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Ty Alper: Since When Don't We Put a Price Tag on Justice?

2012-05-16T19:54:18Z

Faced with unassailable evidence that the death penalty in California costs hundreds of millions of dollars per year, supporters tend to respond with what is intended to be a conversation stopper: "You can't put a price tag on justice."

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Carlos DeLuna And Cameron Todd Willingham: The Sad Similarities

2012-05-16T14:40:03Z

During the Supreme Court's 2006 adjudication of Cameron v. Marsh, Justice Antonin Scalia had this to say about what would happen if an innocent person...

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Texas Executed An Innocent Man, Columbia University Team Says

2012-05-15T00:01:00Z

One of the strongest arguments against the death penalty is the frightening chance of executing an innocent person. Columbia University law professor ...

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Kirsten Han: The Mandatory Death Penalty: A Blinkered Policy

2012-05-11T11:59:52Z

The mandatory death penalty is far too simplistic a solution for a problem as big as drug trafficking and abuse. Unless we can shake off this penchant for knee-jerk responses, we'll find ourselves continually plagued with the same problem and never understanding why.

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David Protess: Texas Lawman to High Court: DNA Testing "Frivolous" in Death Penalty Case

2012-05-04T11:00:32Z

If the Texas Court of Criminal Appeals grants the motion for DNA testing, a little blood and sweat on a jacket may be the difference between life and death for Hank Skinner. Could anything be less frivolous?

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Man Who Killed Neighbor Over Motorcycle Wants Stay Of Execution

2012-05-02T16:12:34Z

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man was spared from the death chamber Wednesday after a federal appeals court refused to overturn a district judge's...

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Ed Koch: The Death Penalty Option: I Support It

2012-05-01T11:02:07Z

I support having the penalty available as an option in particularly heinous murders. The reason being that many more innocent lives would be saved because of the deterrence factor.

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Did This Man Suffer Cruel And Unusual Pain During Execution?

2012-04-27T09:01:23Z

(Reuters) - A Kentucky judge ordered state officials to consider using a single drug to carry out executions instead of a series of three drugs used b...

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Death Row Prisoner's Last Words: 'I Messed Up And Can't Take That Back'

2012-04-27T08:40:16Z

HUNTSVILLE, Texas — A Texas man condemned for a robbery in which three people were shot, one fatally, apologized to a woman who survived the 200...

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Jonathan Kim: ReThink Review: Bernie -- Murder on Ice

2012-04-27T08:19:21Z

Why would a small town in East Texas claim that one of its residents, an assumedly gay man, should be given a lenient sentence for shooting an old woman in the back? That's a question that's only partially answered by Richard Linklater's dark comedy, Bernie.

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Suzanne Langlois: Connecticut Repeals the Death Penalty

2012-04-26T13:56:41Z

The Nutmeg State has become the 17th state to abolish capital punishment, replacing it with life in prison without the possibility of parole.

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Shifts Seen In Support For Death Penalty Around The Country

2012-04-25T21:53:45Z

By Kevin Johnson
USA Today

WASHINGTON (RNS) The campaign to abolish the death penalty has been freshly invigorated this month in a series of actio...

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Lawyer Is 'Very Disturbed' By What Happened To Inmate At Execution

2012-04-25T20:07:36Z

FLORENCE, Ariz. -- The attorney for an Arizona death-row inmate executed Wednesday said he was "very disturbed" after seeing his client shake for seve...

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Connecticut Repeals Death Penalty

2012-04-25T16:08:33Z

Connecticut Gov. Dannel Malloy (D) signed a bill into law on Wednesday that repeals the death penalty, making Connecticut the 17th state to do so. The...

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Jeanne Woodford: Epic Win: SAFE California Act to Replace the Death Penalty Will Be on the November

2012-04-25T10:45:29Z

The tide is rapidly turning on the death penalty across the United States. The wave has washed over five states in the last five years, and California could be next.

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Another State Could Ban Death Penalty In November

2012-04-24T13:22:49Z

SAN FRANCISCO -- California voters will soon get a chance to decide whether to replace the death penalty with life in prison without the possibility o...

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California May Ban Death Penalty

2012-04-23T20:10:11Z

SAN FRANCISCO — A measure to abolish California's death penalty qualified for the November ballot on Monday.

If it passes, the 725 California i...

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Eva Paterson: 25 Years Later, McCleskey Decision Still Fosters Racism by Ignoring It

2012-04-23T11:18:48Z

Few cases involving the intersection of race, criminal law, and procedure have had the reach and impact of McCleskey v. Kemp, a United States Supreme Court decision decided 25 years ago, on April 22, 1987.

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Amnesty International: Families of Murder Victims Key to Victory in Repeal of Death Penalty in Connecticut

2012-04-23T11:41:09Z

These spouses, siblings, and parents told legislators that exacting revenge would not help them heal, nor end their pain. They were adamant that countering one murder with a state-sanctioned killing would prolong and exacerbate their suffering.

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Nebraska Defies Order To Surrender Controversial Execution Drug

2012-04-20T15:13:36Z

OMAHA, Neb. — Nebraska will not surrender its supply of a controversial execution drug to the Food and Drug Administration because it believes t...

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Does Death Penalty Deters Murder? Experts Can't Tell

2012-04-19T09:56:18Z

Many Americans support capital punishment, but researchers can't tell whether it deters murder since the studies being used are badly flawed.

That'...

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