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The Plank (Free subscription) | 11/06/2009
At Doublethink, Sonny Bunch cites the horrifying murders committed by Steven Hayes and Joshua Komisarjevsky in Cheshire, CT in 2007, and concludes : As far as I am concerned, those two have made their lives forfeit. I want the state to take vengeance upon them for the evil that they have done. If they were to be drawn and quartered and their remains were scattered to the four corners of the continental...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 11/04/2009
Recognizing the difficulty that death row inmates have in bringing innocence claims before the court, Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) has introduced H.R. 3986, "The Effective Death Penalty Appeals Act." (Received by e-mail from Amnesty International USA , no link yet:) When a person facing execution has strong evidence of his innocence, he should have ample opportunity to bring those claims back...
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Blogcritics: Politics (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The death penalty is a very controversial subject. It's questionable if the method being used it appropriate.
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Blogcritics: Politics (Free subscription) | 11/03/2009
The death penalty is a very controversial subject. It's questionable if the method being used it appropriate.
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
President Obama signed the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA)into law today. While it contains improvements to trial by military commission, the procedures are still flawed and should have been scrapped in favor of federal criminal trials. From the ACLU : The NDAA makes improvements to the military commissions but fails to bring those tribunals in line with the U.S. Constitution and international...
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Foreign Policy (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
A Ugandan Parliamentarian wants to outlaw homosexuality and prescribe the death penalty for having sex while HIV positive. The worse news is, he might actually get what he wants.
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DownWithTyranny! (Free subscription) | 10/24/2009
"As many states face further deficits, it is an appropriate time to consider whether maintaining the costly death penalty is being smart on crime." "The death penalty may serve some politicians as a rhetorical scare tactic, but it is not a wise use of scarce criminal justice funding." -- from the Executive Summary of the report "Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty...
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American Power (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Mark McClain, the so-called "Pizza Store Killer," was put to death by lethal injection Tuesday evening. The Georgia Department of Corrections issued a pre-execution press release, " McClain Execution Media Advisory ." And the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a report, " State Executes Pizza Store Killer ": Condemned inmate Mark McClain was killed by lethal injection at...
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AMERICAblog (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
For those who can't put aside the moral issues related to the death penalty or the problem of killing innocent people from time to time or the disproportionate percentages related to race, maybe the budget problems will have an impact. Let the far right defend breaking the budget and siding with the death penalty rather than something far more valuable or effective. CNN : At 678, California has the...
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TalkLeft (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
The Death Penalty Information Center released a new study today (pdf) showing that states could save millions by ending the death penalty. A poll of police chiefs across the country was released with the report, Smart on Crime: Reconsidering the Death Penalty in a Time of Economic Crisis (pdf). [The poll] found that they ranked the death penalty last among their priorities for crime-fighting, do not...
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Bare Naked Islam (Free subscription) | 10/20/2009
“We Muslims believe in capital punishment for homosexuality. And by the way, we would like to have Shari’a Law in the United States.” Does the best friend of CAIR and Muslim-defender, lesbian MSNBC host, Rachel Maddow, say a word about this? Don’t hold your breath. Look out Elton Johm, Ellen Degeneres, Barney Frank, Lily Tomlin, David [...]
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Gay Patriot (Free subscription) | 10/16/2009
Already “subject to persecution and arbitrary arrest in Uganda,” gays could see their freedoms even further curtailed if a new bill becomes law. Uganda’s Anti-Homosexuality Bill, “includes a section that would introduce the death penalty for the offence of ‘aggravated homosexuality’“: The bill proposes stricter penalties for homosexual acts, already illegal...
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Bench Memos (Free subscription) | 10/14/2009
1983 —When a state carries out capital punishment by lethal injection, must the drugs used have been deemed “safe and effective” for that use by the Food and Drug Administration? Writing for the majority on a divided D.C. Circuit panel (in Chaney v. Heckler ), Judge J. Skelly Wright rules that the FDA arbitrarily and capriciously refused to exercise its regulatory jurisdiction over...
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Counterterrorism Blog (Free subscription) | 10/09/2009
The Senate Judiciary Committee has passed legislation extending the Patriot Act without a proposal by Senator Feingold that would, in effect, eviscerate an important 13-year old-statute that makes it illegal to provide material support to foreign terrorist organizations. The committee yesterday approved by an 11-8 vote and sent to the floor a compromise bill that extends, with modifications, Patriot...
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Texas Moratorium Network (Free subscription) | 10/06/2009
CNN is reporting that the Governor of Ohio has stayed Thursday's scheduled execution in his state and won't reschedule it until March, which means that Ohio has a de facto moratorium on executions. Meanwhile Texas plans to continue executions even though it has become known that Texas executed an innocent person in 2004. The Governor of Ohio is acting sensibly in response to a death penalty crisis...
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patrickguillard | 10/10/2008
October, 10th is the World-wide and European Day against Death Penalty. For this occasion, a joint declaration was signed by the Presidents of EU and Council of Europe Institutions
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i think that the death penalty should be abolished be cause the 10 commandments declare that "thou shall not take life from another"
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shugaray | 08/30/2008
Woman Convicted Of Microwaving Child To Death
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gumir | 03/28/2008
“Theoretically I do not rule out the possibility that Sarsenbaiuly and Nurkadilov’s murder cases will be revisited,” Marat Kolkobaev, head of the investigation department of the Kazakh National Security Committee (KNB) told a Thursday press conference. One can conclude from the press conference that these cases may be revisited in the light of the new facts about Rakhat Aliev’s planning a coup for
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