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High Court Delays Execution of Convicted Broward Killer (FL) |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
By Tonya Alanez
Sun Sentinel
The Florida Supreme Court Monday morning indefinitely postponed Wednesday's scheduled execution of convicted Broward County killer John Richard Marek. |
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Doctors and Executions (NC) |
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Monday, 11 May 2009 |
The Winston-Salem Journal
Journal Editorial Staff
A ruling from the N.C. Supreme Court brings the state a step closer to resuming executions. Other cases are still pending. Questions from legislators should be pending as well. The General Assembly needs to tackle the issue raised in the case: Should doctors participate in executions? And before it takes up that and other questions, it should impose an official moratorium on the death penalty. |
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Get Beyond Emotion and Put Death Penalty Under a Microscope |
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Friday, 08 May 2009 |
Asheville Citizen-Times
Philip Roth
There is the cliché, “Lock him up and throw away the key.” That’s the alternative to the death penalty in the state of North Carolina for the crime of first degree murder. Presumably, a life sentence with no possibility of parole is what Bob Terrell meant in his recent column, “Flogging, branding, hanging were justice in old Buncombe,” (AC-T, March 8), when he wrote that we “mollycoddle” criminals these days rather than flogging, branding and hanging them like in the “good ol’ days.” |
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Death Penalty Repeal Fails in Colorado |
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Tuesday, 05 May 2009 |
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By KIRK JOHNSON
Published: May 4, 2009
DENVER — An effort to repeal Colorado’s death penalty law stumbled Monday in the State Senate after two hours of sometimes anguished and angry debate, leaving the bill in limbo and supporters scrambling to find votes as the end of the session looms this week. |
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Doctors Won't Kill for the State (NC) |
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Tuesday, 05 May 2009 |
By Charles van der Horst
CHAPEL HILL - After North Carolina switched from hanging to electrocution to kill its prisoners, the legislature enacted regulations beginning in 1909 requiring that "at such execution there shall be present ... the surgeon or physician of the penitentiary" to "certify the fact of the execution of the condemned prisoner." |
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Despite NC Supreme Court Decision, Executions Still at Bay |
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Friday, 01 May 2009 |
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Despite today's ruling from the NC Supreme Court against the NC Medical Board in the case over physician participation in executions, the state's death penalty is still tied up in the Gordian knot that former Gov. Mike Easley once described. |
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