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Death Penalty System 'Irretrievably Broken' |
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Monday, 11 January 2010 |
North Carolina should abandon a permanently flawed process.
The Charlotte Observer
Here's further reason North Carolina should abolish the death penalty: The prestigious American Law Institute, which provided the intellectual foundation for the restoration of the death penalty in a 1976 Supreme Court case, has abandoned the argument that executions can be carried out in a constitutional way. |
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PFADP Looking for a Helping Hand in Louisvile, KY This Week |
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Sunday, 10 January 2010 |
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PFADP will be selling our t-shirts and merchandise at a booth at the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty's annual conference this week. We would like to hire someone to work at our booth on Friday and Saturday. Contact us at 919-933-7567 if you are interested. |
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State Supreme Court Overturns Fort Smith Man’s Death Sentence (Arkansas) |
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Thursday, 07 January 2010 |
By John Lyon
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — A Fort Smith man sentenced to die for killing his girlfriend and her two children over the Christmas holiday in 2006 will get a new sentencing hearing.
The Arkansas Supreme Court today upheld James Aaron Miller’s conviction on three counts of capital murder but overturned his death sentence, ruling that errors occurred during the sentencing phase of Miller’s trial when witnesses told jurors they should impose the death penalty. |
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Group Gives Up Death Penalty Work in Frustration |
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Monday, 04 January 2010 |
By Adam Liptak
Last fall, the American Law Institute, which created the intellectual framework for the modern capital justice system almost 50 years ago, pronounced its project a failure and walked away from it.
There were other important death penalty developments last year: the number of death sentences continued to fall, Ohio switched to a single chemical for lethal injections and New Mexico repealed its death penalty entirely. But not one of them was as significant as the institute’s move, which represents a tectonic shift in legal theory. |
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Study: End Death Cases, Save Millions |
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Tuesday, 29 December 2009 |
News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)
If the state stopped trying to execute killers, it would free up $11 million a year, according to a study by a Duke University economist published this month. |
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There Is No ‘Humane’ Execution |
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Tuesday, 15 December 2009 |
Editorial, The New York Times
This is what passes for progress in the application of the death penalty: Kenneth Biros, a convicted murderer, was put to death in Ohio last week with one drug, instead of the more common three-drug cocktail. It took executioners 30 minutes to find a vein for the needle, compared with the two hours spent hunting for a vein on the last prisoner Ohio tried to kill, Romell Broom. Technicians tried about 18 times to get the needle into Mr. Broom’s arms and legs before they gave up trying to kill him. Mr. Biros was jabbed only a few times in each arm. |
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