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Executing The Innocent
Tue May 15, 2012 2:46 PM EDT
Originally published at Fair and Unbalanced "No one can ever say again with a straight face that America doesn't execute innocent men. No one." -- Andrew Rosenthal, The Atlantic Carlos DeLuna was executed in 1989 for the 1983 stabbing death of a gas station clerk in Corpu …
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A look at the Guantanamo military commission
Fri May 4, 2012 3:00 AM EDT
Here is a look at the military commission system that will be used to prosecute five Guantanamo Bay prisoners charged in the Sept. 11 attacks:
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More Than One-Third Of All U.S. Executions Since 1976 Took Place In Texas
Seeded on Sun Apr 22, 2012 1:55 PM EDT (Think Progress)
The Economist maps out every American execution since 1976, when the Supreme Court announced the modern constitutional regime governing death penalty cases after effectively suspending all executions nationwide for four years.
Death Penalty Proponents Lose Another Argument
Thu Apr 19, 2012 2:43 PM EDT
Originally posted at Fair and Unbalanced Those of us representing defendants who have killed understand the utter fallacy of the argument that the death penalty deters killing. It is nonsensical to think that when one is suffering from whatever disturbed state of mind th …
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More Evidence Against the Death Penalty
Seeded on Sat Apr 14, 2012 8:44 AM EDT (The New York Times)
In Connecticut, a powerful, comprehensive study provided evidence that state death sentences are haphazardly meted out, with virtually no connection to the heinousness of the crime. In California, two former death penalty proponents — a prosecutor who drafted the 1978 ballot …
Executioners are state sanctioned serial killers
Fri Apr 6, 2012 8:17 AM EDT
In March 2012 6 people were executed in the United States. That means 6 execution teams committed state sanctioned murder. Think about it. I mean really think about it. You have to have something missing in your heart and head to willingly participate in the ta …
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Texas attacks anti-death penalty charity, comparing it to prison gangs and accusing it of fomenting violence
Seeded on Wed Mar 28, 2012 2:42 PM EDT (Guardian Unlimited)
Texas, America's most prolific practitioner of the death penalty, has launched an extraordinary attack on the international anti-death penalty charity Reprieve, accusing it of intimidating and harassing drug companies and likening the group to violent prison gangs responsible f …
State Supreme Court Approves 2 More Executions
Seeded on Tue Mar 20, 2012 8:03 PM EDT (ABC15.com - Phoenix News Headlines)
PHOENIX - The Arizona Supreme Court on Tuesday approved the executions of two more death-row inmates, one for the brutal rape and murder of a Phoenix woman and the other for killing a Tucson college student after robbing him.
Happy Birthday To Me - and Five Years/500 Articles for Newsvine!
Sat Mar 17, 2012 5:38 AM EDT
St. Patrick's Day: Happy Birthday to me, but that's not why I'm here. It was five years ago this month when I used a published letter I sent to the Seattle Times editor to create my first illustrated article at Newsvine. I spoke out against the Iraq War, and to this day I'm stil …
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40 Years and $4 Billion After People v. Anderson Struck Down California's Death Penalty
Wed Feb 22, 2012 11:54 AM EST
Originally posted on Fair and Unbalanced "We cannot assume that capital punishment is not so cruel as to offend contemporary standards of decency . . . It degrades and dehumanizes all who participate in its processes.
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