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'Kill Me If You Can, Suckers': Death Row Inmate Taunts Victims' Families

Posted 01.26.2012 | Crime

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A North Carolina community is outraged by a death row inmate's public note outlining his life of "leisure" and mocking the families of his victims. ...

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Supreme Court: Death Row Inmate Should Not Die Due to Mailroom Mix-Up

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 01.18.2012 | Politics

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An Alabama death row inmate stymied by a law firm's egregious mail room mix-up will have the opportunity to appeal his death sentence, the Supreme Cou...

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Pardoning Criminals -- Appropriate Mercy or Perverting Justice?

Bennett L. Gershman | Posted 01.18.2012 | Crime

Read More: Murder, Presidential Pardons, Innocent, Clemency, Death Row, Nixon-Pardon, Crime News

In a day when so many miscarriages of justice have been exposed, particularly by way of indisputable proof of actual innocence, the guidelines for pardons should be far more stringent.

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Juror Tweet Wins Death Row Inmate New Trial

AP | JEANNIE NUSS | Posted 02.07.2012 | Crime

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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday tossed out a death row inmate's murder conviction and said he deserves a new trial be...

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N.C. Senate Votes To Revise Racial Justice Act

newsobserver.com | Posted 11.29.2011 | Black Voices

Read More: Video, Racial Justice Act, Death Penalty, Death Row, North Carolina Racial Justice Act, North Carolina Race, North Carolina, Black Voices News

North Carolina Governor Bev Purdue is a signature away from permanently changing the state's Racial Justice Act. On Nov. 28, the state Senate vote...

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Study Reveals Shocking Connection Between Race And Capital Punishment In Texas

www.chron.com | Posted 11.15.2011 | Black Voices

Read More: Texas Death Penalty, Video, Capital Punishment, Duane Buck, Death Row, Race-in-Sentencing, Harris County, Race in Capital Punishment, Harris Country Texas Death Penalty, Harris County Texas, Robert Murrow, Death Penalty, Troy Davis, Black Voices News

The connection between race and capital punishment has been a hot topic this year, and it's likely to remain one after a new study found a shocking pa...

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Capital Punishment: An Attack on Human Dignity

Human Rights Watch | Posted 12.10.2011 | Politics

Read More: Troy Davis, Death Row, Death Penalty, Capital Punishment, Politics News

The cornerstone of human rights is respect for the inherent dignity of all human beings and the inviolability of the human person. Human Rights Watch ...

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How California Could Save Millions By Ending The Death Penalty

| Will Evans | Posted 12.10.2011 | Los Angeles

Read More: California Death Penalty Ballot Initiative, Death Row, Death Penalty, California Death Penalty Repeal, California Capital Punishment, California Death Penalty, Los Angeles News

Story comes courtesy of California Watch By Will Evans A nonpartisan analysis of a California ballot initiative to abolish the death penalty fou...

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PHOTOS: Tennessee Prison Frees Former Death Row Inmate

AP | By TRAVIS LOLLER | Posted 12.07.2011 | Crime

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By TRAVIS LOLLER, Associated Press NASHVILLE, Tenn. -- A Memphis woman who spent 26 years on death row and came within two months of being executed...

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Ohio Muslim Inmates Sue Over Meal Preparation

AP | ANDREW WELSH-HUGGINS | Posted 12.03.2011 | Religion

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COLUMBUS, Ohio — A Muslim death row inmate says the Ohio prison system is denying him meals prepared according to Islamic law while at the same ...

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Medicaid, Death Row And Religion Cases Slated For Supreme Court's First Week Back

HuffingtonPost.com | Mike Sacks | Posted 12.03.2011 | Politics

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With the bang of a gavel at 10 sharp this morning, the nine justices of the United States Supreme Court will return to the bench to begin oral argumen...

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Former Texas Prison Cook Wants To Continue Last Meals

AP | By MICHAEL GRACZYK | Posted 11.26.2011 | Food

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HOUSTON -- A former Texas inmate who cooked the final meals for hundreds of condemned prisoners is offering to start doing it again at no cost to the ...

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Troy Davis Never Had a Chance

David Protess | Posted 11.26.2011 | Chicago

Read More: Capital Punishment, Death Row, George Ryan Pardon, Troy Davis Appeals, Wrongful Conviction, Troy Davis Execution, Death Penalty, Stay of Execution, Troy Davis, Mark MacPhail, Girvies Davis, Chicago News

"How could this happen in America?" was the question repeated on talk radio and around the water coolers. Now it's time for a postmortem, and the troubling answer is: it happens all the time.

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Slain Officer's Mom Agonizes Over Troy Davis Execution Wait

AP | Posted 11.21.2011 | Home

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COLUMBUS, Ga. — The mother of a slain Georgia police officer says she is agonizing over the wait while the U.S. Supreme Court decides whether to...

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Why Are We Killing Troy Davis?

Kevin Powell | Posted 11.20.2011 | Politics

Read More: Death Penalty, Troy Davis, Black Males, Executions, Prison Population, Capital Punishment, Death Row, Troy Davis Death Penalty, Racial Injustice, Troy Davis Execution, Troy Davis Clemency, Politics News

We are a nation of an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth, a life for a life. Spiraling so far out of control that we are going to execute someone who may actually be innocent tomorrow.

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Nellie McKay Sings Out For Troy Davis

Michael Giltz | Posted 11.16.2011 | Crime

Read More: Troy Davis Execution, Death Penalty, Death Row, Capital Punishment, Troy Davis Trial, Troy Davis, Crime News

Singer, songwriter, actress, activist and all around delightful talent Nellie McKay has just released a haunting video to bring attention to the case of Troy Davis.

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Herzog's 'Into The Abyss' At Toronto

latimes.com | Posted 11.10.2011 | Arts

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Since the premiere of his new documentary last weekend at the Telluride Film Festival, filmmaker Werner Herzog has been saying that "Into the Abyss" ...

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Cory Maye Chats With HuffPost Readers About His Release From Prison

Posted 09.21.2011 | Politics

Read More: Radley Balko, Death Row, Live Chat, Mississippi, Drug War, Racism, Cory Maye, Death Penalty, Police Militarization, Race, Innocence, Swat Teams, Politics News

Cory Maye served 10 years in prison for killing a Mississippi police officer during a mistaken raid on his home. Maye, who had no prior criminal recor...

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Georgia Inmate Dies In Video-Recorded Execution

AP | By SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 09.20.2011 | Crime

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JACKSON, Ga. (Associated Press) — A Georgia man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed Thursday after the courts allowed what expe...

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Georgia Delays First Videotaped Execution In Nearly Two Decades

AP | SHANNON McCAFFREY | Posted 09.20.2011 | Crime

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JACKSON, Ga. (Associated Press) -- A Georgia man convicted of killing his parents and sister was executed Thursday after the courts allowed what exper...

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The Myth of California's Death Penalty

James Clark | Posted 09.12.2011 | Los Angeles

Read More: California Budget, Death Penalty, California Death Penalty, California Budget Crisis, Sb 490, Life Without Parole, Death Row, Loni Hancock, Court of Appeals, Los Angeles News

California's sudden drop in death sentences and the momentum to replace the death penalty with a real public safety solution didn't just crop up out of nowhere. They're the result of the death penalty's myths being exposed.

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Ten Years In The Making: How Cory Maye Was Freed

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 09.05.2011 | Politics

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MONTICELLO, Miss. -- It's Friday, July 1, 2011, a little past 8:15 a.m. when I arrive at the Lawrence County, Mississippi, courthouse. As I walk towar...

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A Letter Of Thanks From Cory Maye

HuffingtonPost.com | Radley Balko | Posted 09.01.2011 | Politics

Read More: Criminal Defense, Death Row, Mississippi, Drug War, Criminal Justice System, Cory Maye, Racism, Criminal Justice, Death Penalty, Politics News

Cory Maye, the man sentenced to death in 2004 for shooting and killing a police officer during a during a botched drug raid in 2001, agreed to a plea ...

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Illinois Shuts Down Death Row

AP | DON BABWIN | Posted 08.31.2011 | Politics

Read More: Murder, Death Row, Capital Punishment, Serial Killer, Pat Quinn, Crime, Prison, Criminal, Illinois, Death Penalty, Inmates, George Ryan, Politics News

CHICAGO — After spending years at the center of heated national debate over capital punishment, Illinois' death row officially died Friday when ...

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Exonerated Man Sues Scandal-Plagued North Carolina Crime Lab

HuffingtonPost.com | John Rudolf | Posted 08.30.2011 | Crime

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NEW YORK -- North Carolina's criminal justice system remains beset by scandal almost a year after an independent audit revealed that state crime lab t...

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